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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The Fallbrook Regional Health District Board of Directors will consider next month how to award more than a million dollars in grant money. The health district provides grant funding through its Community Health Contracts program. According to the district's website, Community Health Contract funds must benefit the residents of the communities served by the Fallbrook Regional Health District, which has a 110-square mile service area and sphere of influence covering Fallbrook as well as Bonsall, De Luz and Rainbow. To...
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unclear impact on the number of crimes local law enforcement officers are seeing in North County and the Fallbrook area. The California Highway Patrol, which oversees highways and all roads in unincorporated areas, has reported issuing far more tickets for speeding over 100 mph amid pandemic-related stay-at-home orders which have resulted in less traffic. According to preliminary data from the agency’s traffic records, 4,000 tickets for speeding over 100 mph were issued between March 19 a...
The North County Fire Protection District has extended its weed abatement deadline from May 15 to June 1, the fire district announced last week. The fire district requires local property owners to remove excessive weeds from their land and create "defensible space" in case of a wildfire. Property owners who do not comply can be subject to cost recovery fees from the fire district. The fire district began notifying property owners of the May 15 deadline back in March. The origi...
FALLBROOK – A fire in a Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton training area scorched more than 100 acres and caused an obvious smell of smoke in Fallbrook and other parts of North County as far south as Escondido before firefighters were able to stop its spread early Tuesday morning, May 19. Camp Pendleton officials first reported the fire at 7:50 p.m. Monday. At the time, it was described as having burned roughly eight acres in a training area of the Marine Corps base. Base officials tweeted the fire had grown to 35 acres as o...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors was scheduled on May 19 to discuss measures related to reopening the region’s economy, including a $34 million economic stimulus package designed to aid local businesses The Economic and Humanitarian Stimulus Package, proposed by Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Diane Jacob, includes $17 million “for implementing economic stimulus programs for restaurants and small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,” $15 million for behavioral health services and $2 million for child welfare...
FALLBROOK - A fire in a Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton training area scorched more than 100 acres and caused an obvious smell of smoke in Fallbrook and other parts of North County as far south as Escondido before firefighters were able to stop its spread early Tuesday morning. Camp Pendleton officials first reported the fire at 7:50 p.m. Monday. At the time, it was described as having burned roughly eight acres in a training area of the Marine Corps base. Base officials...
A new member of the board of directors for the nonprofit that operates the Fallbrook Senior Center has resigned after complaints that she was not old enough to serve on the board. Robyn Dahlson, who is in her 30s, was appointed to the senior center's board of directors in April and had not yet met all the board members, board president Jack Schirner said. But although at least one contender for the seat Dahlson was appointed to claimed that her selection violated the senior...
The North County Fire Protection District is warning residents of the Fallbrook, Bonsall and Rainbow areas to exercise extra caution while out and about on foot and to watch for pedestrians while driving after two back-to-back accidents. Two crashes involving pedestrians occurred on South Mission Road in Fallbrook in recent weeks, and with many people out walking amid pandemic-related stay-at-home orders, North County Fire Capt. John Choi said the fire district wanted to get ahead of the problem by getting the word out to...
All North County Fire Protection District firefighters who previously tested positive for the coronavirus are now healthy and have returned to work, the fire district said. The fire district announced the firefighters were back on duty in a Facebook post Wednesday, May 6. The firefighters who have recovered from coronavirus are now trying to give back to the community by donating their plasma, and the antibodies that come with it. "The silver lining in our firefighters...
Village News Inc., the company that owns the Fallbrook/Bonsall Village News, Valley News and Anza Valley Outlook, has received a $75,000 grant from a project supporting local journalism and operated by Facebook. Village News Inc. joins other California news organizations including Voice of San Diego, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Spotlight, in receiving money through the Facebook Journalism Project’s COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program. Twenty-six newsrooms in California were s...
Fallbrook has consistently been one of the communities least affected by coronavirus in San Diego County, according to data released by the county. Fallbrook, with a population of around 30,000, had 18 coronavirus cases as of May 11. It translates to just 37.3 cases per 100,000 – while Fallbrook's position has fluctuated over the course of the coronavirus outbreak, that means it currently has the second-lowest number of per capita coronavirus cases in San Diego County, b...
FALLBROOK - Seven people had to be taken to local hospitals, some of them with life-threatening injuries, after the car they were riding in crashed off the side of a road Saturday afternoon on the northern edge of Fallbrook. The crash, which happened in the 1100 block of De Luz Road, was reported to firefighters at 2:07 p.m., according to North County Fire Department spokesman John Choi. Fire crews responded to find one person still trapped inside the car. The crews were able to rescue that person — who did not suffer any l...
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, local school districts are increasingly turning to virtual graduations to honor seniors who won't be able to receive their diplomas in person due to orders banning public gatherings. When public health orders forced schools to close in March, many districts did not commit one way or the other on when and how graduations would take place. Some districts are still weighing the decision, but as of the beginning of May, many have come to the...
The driver of a vehicle reported stolen out of Riverside County led California Highway Patrol officers on a chase through Fallbrook before crashing in Oceanside Tuesday morning, a CHP spokesman said. The California Highway Patrol got word shortly after 10 a.m. that Riverside County sheriff's deputies were chasing Rollin Cyrus Wilkerson, 33, toward the San Diego area, CHP spokesman Mark Latulippe said. Around 10:20 a.m., an officer with CHP's Oceanside division happened to be...
Village News Inc., the company that owns the Fallbrook/Bonsall Village News, Valley News and Anza Valley Outlook, has received a $75,000 grant from a local journalism project operated by Facebook. Village News Inc. joins other California news organizations including Voice of San Diego, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Spotlight, in receiving money through the Facebook Journalism Project's COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program. Twenty-six...
A rollover crash in Fallbrook Friday night, May 1, sent two people to a hospital, but neither had serious injuries, a fire official said Saturday. The crash was reported at 10:22 p.m. Friday on southbound Mission Road just south of Mission Oaks Road, according to North County Fire Department Capt. John Choi. The driver of a sedan apparently lost control of the vehicle and rolled several times before striking a tree Choi said. The driver and one passenger, both described as being young adults in their late teens, were the...
A big rig fire shut down lanes of southbound Interstate 15 near Fallbrook Monday afternoon, May 4, a fire official said. It all began a little before 1:25 p.m., when the big rig's driver realized a rear tire was on fire and pulled over on southbound I-15 just north of Mission Road, according to North County Fire Department Capt. John Choi. After the rig came to a stop, the entire trailer became engulfed in flames. The driver was able to safely exit the rig, and North County...
A big rig fire shut down lanes of southbound Interstate 15 near Fallbrook Monday afternoon, a fire official said. It all began a little before 1:25 p.m., when the big rig's driver realized a rear tire was on fire and pulled over on southbound I-15 just north of Mission Road, according to North County FIre Department Capt. John Choi. After the rig came to a stop, the entire trailer became engulfed in flames. The driver was able to safely exit the rig, and North County fire...
A rollover crash in Fallbrook Friday night sent two people to a hospital, but neither had serious injuries, a fire official said Saturday. The crash was reported at 10:22 p.m. Friday on southbound Mission Road just south of Mission Oaks Road, according to North County Fire Department Capt. John Choi. The driver of a sedan apparently lost control of the vehicle and rolled several times before striking a tree Choi said. The driver and one passenger, both described as being...
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to cause a huge budgetary problem for California school districts. The problem is, no one knows for sure how bad things could end up looking. School districts in California get most of their funding from the state, through something called the Local Control Funding Formula. The state gives each district the same level of base funding per student, depending on grade level, and it can grant more depending on levels of high-need populations like...
Larry Reynolds said he was confused when he went by the Fallbrook Tennis Club. It was mid-April, long after residents were given orders to stay at home except for essential needs or work and to avoid gatherings of any size. And yet, he saw what he described as large numbers of people utilizing the tennis club. "There was probably six, 10 cars in the parking lot. All of the courts were being used and the pros are out there teaching, and they're hanging onto their clients and...
A Fallbrook man ran a traffic break on a San Diego freeway, starting a pursuit and firing at California Highway Patrol officers along the way before his vehicle was eventually stopped by spike strips. It all began just before 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, when CHP officers responded to a call about a pedestrian on eastbound Interstate 8 just before state Route 163 in Mission Valley, according to CHP San Diego representative Salvador Castro. While a CHP officer was trying to stop traffic in the area, a Toyota 4Runner blew by ...
A Fallbrookian is helping with the state of California’s efforts to increase coronavirus testing and get the outbreak under control. Rick Greenwood, an epidemiology and environmental health sciences adjunct professor at UCLA, is a part of a new coronavirus testing task force announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month. Greenwood, who splits his time between UCLA and his avocado farm in Fallbrook, is tasked with acting as a liaison between the state and its 29 county and city public health labs. The task force, according...
As though Californians needed more natural disasters to contend with on top of an ongoing pandemic, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake centered near rural Anza rattled much of the southern part of the state Friday, April 3. While the quake was not powerful enough to cause any damage, mild-to-moderate shaking could be felt across a wide swath of Southern California, not just in Riverside County but in heavily populated Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties as well. Many Californians have probably heard about the San Andreas...
Coronavirus may be having an unintended effect on the number of reported instances of child abuse in the region. Calls to San Diego County’s Child Welfare Services Child Abuse hotline dropped in as mandatory stay-at-home orders started to take effect in March. On Wednesday, March 12, there were 402 calls to the hotline. The next day, Thursday, March 13, the hotline saw 243 calls. Local school districts began to announce school closures that day, virtually all of which took effect the following Monday. The hotline has a...
