Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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A former California police officer, dubbed the Golden State Killer, told victims Friday, Aug. 21, he was "truly sorry" before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decadeslong string of rapes and murders that terrorized a wide swath of the state. Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges under a plea deal that avoided a possible death sentence. The punishment imposed by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge...
Gary Dale East, 74, died March 30, 2020, after having a stroke. Gary was born Feb. 5, 1946, in Whittier. Gary spent his life loving his children, working hard, helping others and always being ready to make others smile with a good joke to tell. Gary spent many of his young years in California. He lived in La Habra with his family in an avocado grove until sixth grade, when he moved to Fallbrook. He remained there throughout high school. He worked several jobs until eventually...
A rising generation of Republican stars offered an optimistic view of President Donald Trump's leadership on the opening night of the Republican Party's scaled-back convention Monday, Aug. 24. As Trump faces pressure to expand his appeal beyond his loyal supporters, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate's sole Black Republican, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, sought to cast the Republican Party as welcoming to Americans of colo...
Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom – the video-conferencing service that powers everything from distance learning to business meetings to casual, socially distant get-togethers – abruptly went dead. For roughly two-and-a-half hours Monday morning, many users were unable to load the Zoom website; others could neither host nor join scheduled meetings. Zoom fixed the problem by 11:30 a.m. ET, the company said on its status page. The timing was less than ideal, sin...
A Pearl Harbor ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II – possibly the last opportunity for many aging U.S. veterans to commemorate the day – will be limited to survivors of the war living in Hawaii because of coronavirus concerns. The plan had been to allow about 200 people, mostly World War II veterans, their families and government officials, to gather on the battleship USS Missouri, which hosted the Japanese surrender Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay...
Richard Martinez and his family decided to open up a sporting goods store in Fallbrook. Fallbrook Sporting Goods came by its name after Martinez discovered how much the community loved their village’s name. “It’s the friendliest town out here,” Martinez said. “We could have named it tons of different things, but we went with the basic Fallbrook Sporting Goods – our biggest focus was to have the name in our business.” During their grand opening Saturday, Aug. 22, Fallbrook residents, friends and family stopped by to see the...
Richard Martinez and his family decided to open up a sporting goods store in Fallbrook. Fallbrook Sporting Goods came by its name after Martinez discovered how much the community loved their village's name. "It's the friendliest town out here," Martinez said. "We could have named it tons of different things, but we went with the basic Fallbrook Sporting Goods – our biggest focus was to have the name in our business." During their grand opening Saturday, Aug. 22, Fallbrook r...
When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park recently, it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed. But a reporter and photographer with The Associated Press hiked the renowned Redwood Trail at Big Basin Redwoods State Park Monday, Aug. 24, and confirmed most of the ancient redwoods had withstood the blaze. Among the survivors is one...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly handed part of his authority to his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, and some close aides, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday, Aug. 20. The National Intelligence Service said during a closed-door briefing to South Korean lawmakers Thursday that the dictator is delegating responsibilities to officials including his sister, who is now involved in leading dealings with Washington and Seoul. “Currently, Kim Yo Jong, the first vice department director of the Workers’ Party Centr...
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Fallbrook Revitalization Committee held a virtual meeting Aug. 18, and the virtual meeting allowed additional San Diego County staff members to participate without making the physical trip to Fallbrook. The meeting was hosted by county Supervisor Jim Desmond and also included Murali Pasumarthi, traffic engineering manager of county Department of Public Works; Eric Lardy, advance planning division chief of county Department of Planning and Development Services; planning manager Ashley...
A 47-year-old Fallbrook woman was arrested on suspicion of DUI after allegedly crashing head-on into a pickup in Fallbrook, killing the truck’s driver, authorities said. The crash happened around 1:15 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, on East Mission Road west of Red Mountain Dam Drive, Officer Mark Latulippe of the California Highway Patrol said. A 47-year-old woman was driving a Ford Mustang westbound when the vehicle began to veer left into the opposite lane of traffic, where it collided head-on with a Toyota Tacoma driven by a 5...
When amateur radio operators Bob Gonsett (W6VR) and Kerry Banke (N6IZW) shot a red laser beam to have a conversation over 12.7 miles just longer than 20 years ago during an Amateur Radio Field Day, oddly enough, they didn't have much to say to each other. "Trivial matters, you know, just amateur radio talk," Gonsett said. "We probably talked to each other using our amateur radio call signs, even though we weren't legally obligated to do it because we were talking over a light...
Kindergarten teacher Genevieve Kim teaches her students as school begins at Zion Christian Preschool and Kindergarten in Fallbrook, Aug. 25....
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Woman's Club is complying with the governor's mandate, as well as the California Federation of Women's Clubs, by not holding regular in-person monthly meetings. The club's board members are meeting regularly online via Zoom. The board members continue to make plans for the upcoming year. Monthly newsletters are sent to members to keep them informed of upcoming plans. The entire membership of FWC will be invited to join in a Zoom "Meet and Greet" in th...
Longtime Fallbrook Union Elementary School District governing board member Patty de Jong announced she is stepping down from her position after more than 24 years. "I turned 65 this year, which is the age at which a lot of people retire, and I cannot retire from my regular job – I don't want to. But I can retire from this job," De Jong said. "My dad always told me, 'You'll know when you've had enough.' I've had enough. So effective tonight, I am resigning, or the word I p...
FALLBROOK – The newly installed Fallbrook Encore Club's executive board is preparing for a new season, consistent with the current health orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Board members and activity chairs are planning creative ways to have fun together and still be safe. Fallbrook Encore Club is a social club enjoying a wide variety of activities and special events throughout the year. Members are drawn from the communities of Fallbrook, De Luz, Rainbow and Bonsall. N...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook School of the Arts welcomes Christine Vanni as its new director, effective Aug. 3. A Fallbrook resident, Vanni brings a diverse set of managerial, administrative and marketing skills to her new role. While both her parents were artists and met in art school, Vanni studied business at Boise State University. Her career has included executive recruiting, multi-office administration for a wholesale bakery and a global propane distributor, federal g...
Students at D'Vine Path are adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic through the vocational education they receive at the ranch. The pandemic has caused many businesses and programs to shut down, but D'Vine Path has remained open. D'Vine Path, a program created by Lenila Batali, focuses on helping special needs adults. Special education ends when the student turns 22, but D'Vine Path continues to educate these students through vocational and life skills training after their...
Fallbrook is reporting an increase of a few dozen more coronavirus cases recently, according to County data, while San Diego County was taken off the state of California’s coronavirus watchlist, Aug. 18. A week after San Diego County was removed from the state of California’s coronavirus watchlist, Fallbrook reported an increase of about two dozen coronavirus cases or 26 more, 415, 846.8 per 100,000. The 92028 ZIP code, which also includes the communities of De Luz and Rainbow, now has 415 total coronavirus cases as of Mon...
University of California San Diego scientists have created the first visualizations of a protein that has been linked to genetic neurological disorder Parkinson’s disease, which could pave the way for drug development to treat the disease. Parkinson’s progressively attacks motor functions, leading to lasting damage in movement and coordination. Researchers studying the primary causes of the disease have focused on mutations of the protein known as leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or LRRK2. Understanding how the protein dis...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital welcomes Dave Lawson as the new chief operating officer. Lawson will oversee laboratory, pharmacy, cardiac services, radiology and surgical services at Temecula Valley Hospital. Most recently, Lawson served as associate administrator of Summerlin Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he helped plan and complete multiple capital projects including a 36-bed medical/surgical and oncology unit expansion, labor and delivery, n...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital has received two awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, highlighting heart and stroke care. The Lifeline Silver Plus Receiving Quality Achievement Award is for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks. Every year, more than 250,000 people experience an ST-elevation myocardial infarction, the d...
OAKLAND – The California Department of Health Care Services announced. $20 million in funding will be awarded to two-thirds, 212, of the hospitals in California to treat people with opioid and other substance use disorders. The Behavioral Health Pilot Project is based on the California Bridge program that combines medication for addiction treatment in hospital emergency departments with support from a substance use counselor to help people get into ongoing substance use treatment. “People seeking help with their drug use sho...
An increasing number of San Diego County children have been rescued from private pools after nearly drowning, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced recently. Local data shows that 49 rescues occurred in private pools, beaches and bays from March through July 2020 compared to 37 in the same time period of 2019 and 33 the year before that. Nearly all those rescued needed to be taken to local hospitals for treatment. Of the 49 near-drowning incidents reported...
With the San Diego County’s COVID-19 case rate continuing to decline, local health officials are urging San Diegans to keep taking measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The county’s case rate is now at 85.2 and below the state watchlist threshold of 100 cases per every 100,000 residents. Because of that, the region is now in the second day of the 14-day period before all K-12 schools can reopen, if they choose to do so. To make sure the region gets to that point, it’s important that all San Diegans keep taking th...