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Some Fallbrook and Bonsall eateries are shifting to take-out, curbside pickup and delivery options amid the rapidly-changing coronavirus pandemic. Last week, businesses were operating normally and many had no plans to shut down in the face of the pandemic. But by Monday, San Diego County health officials had mandated all bars that do not serve food and all dine-in restaurants to shut down, with restaurants limited to only serving food via drive-thru or pick-up. Restaurants in the Fallbrook-Bonsall area moved quickly to adjust...
A Fallbrook man is recovering after being attacked during a robbery at his home earlier this month. Noel Flynn, 82, said he was standing on his patio when he was surprised by a man who threatened him with a knife and demanded his money. “I was, at the time, on the patio which was right outside my living room door,” Flynn said. “Basically, after probably less than two to three minutes, he tackled me, smashed me into the cement, dragged me into the cement, and rolled me feet over head into the house. I could hardly stand up fr...
Authorities were responding to reports of a single-vehicle crash on South Mission Road in Fallbrook Friday evening. The car involved in the crash is believed to have careened off the roadway near Mission Creek Road just after 5:15 p.m. North County Fire Protection District Capt. John Choi said the driver was trapped in the car, which came to rest about 25 feet off the side of the road, and the person had to be extricated. Paramedics took the driver to Palomar Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries....
FALLBROOK - Four more North County Fire Protection District employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the district announced on Friday. The positive tests come after the district's announcement on Saturday, March 14, that one firefighter had tested positive for the virus. All the four new cases come from employees who "had close and prolonged contact with an employee who later tested positive for COVID-19," North County Fire said in a statement. The four employees are all quarantined at home and report mild sy... Full story
It would be very easy to panic right now. Schools and businesses are closing down. People are staying home from work. Things that felt certain just a week ago are now completely unmoored. Daily life has been drastically upended in a way we have not seen in our lifetimes. Even 9/11, which represented an immense paradigm shift in our worldview, did not have the potential for so much direct disruption to everyone. I’m 22 years old, and my only memory of that historic event is seeing something scary on my grandparents’ giant Tos... Full story
A North County Fire Protection District firefighter has tested positive for COVID-19, the district announced late Saturday, March 14. The unidentified firefighter was asymptomatic before developing a fever Saturday and notifying his captain, then was tested for the virus, according to North County Fire representative John Choi. The firefighter will self-quarantine for a minimum of 14 days, Choi said. The fire district would not disclose which station the infected firefighter...
Fallbrook Union High School District’s governing board held a special teleconference meeting in the morning Monday, March 16, to grant emergency powers to the district’s superintendent amid the ongoing worldwide novel coronavirus pandemic. While some staff members were present at the district’s board room, the superintendent and board members all called into the emergency meeting remotely to avoid contact during the outbreak. With board members Caron Lieber and Patty De Jong unable to call in, the board voted 3-0 to appro...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors and county staff are working to find solutions for homelessness in unincorporated areas, which could include supportive housing in North County, although Supervisor Jim Desmond stressed this would not include new homeless shelters. Desmond, whose district covers North County and Fallbrook, said he and Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who represents much of East County, met with county staff in January to put together “an aggressive strategy focusing on homelessness in the unincorporated a...
Fallbrook Union High School District’s governing board held a special teleconference meeting the morning of Monday, March 16, to grant emergency powers to the district’s superintendent amid the ongoing worldwide novel coronavirus pandemic. While some staff members were present at the district’s board room, the superintendent and board members all called into the emergency meeting remotely to avoid contact during the outbreak. With board members Caron Lieber and Patty de Jong unable to call in, the board voted 3-0 to appro...
Some Fallbrook and Bonsall eateries are shifting to take-out, curbside pickup and delivery options amid the rapidly-changing coronavirus pandemic. Last week, businesses were operating normally and many had no plans to shut down in the face of the pandemic. But by Monday, San Diego County health officials had mandated all bars that do not serve food and all dine-in restaurants to shut down, with restaurants limited to only serving food via drive-thru or pick-up. Restaurants in the Fallbrook-Bonsall area moved quickly to...
FALLBROOK - A Murrieta man was killed in a head-on crash in Fallbrook Wednesday afternoon. The crash was reported just after 1 p.m. on East Mission Road near Fallen Leaf Lane, according to North County Fire Department Capt. John Choi A 62-year-old Murrieta man was traveling eastbound on East Mission in a white Nissan boxvan, while a 62-year-old Lake Forest man was approaching from the opposite direction in an Isuzu commercial truck, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe said. When the two both came to a curve, the... Full story
San Diego County sheriff’s deputies have arrested eight people in an operation targeted at stopping price-gouging during the coronavirus pandemic, a sheriff’s lieutenant said Wednesday. California state law prohibits increases in prices of many essential goods and services by more than 10% during a declared state of emergency — a declaration Gov. Gavin Newsom made two weeks ago. Sheriff’s deputies monitored multiple websites and apps involving peer-to-peer sales and discovered a large number of people selling things like hy...
Investigators are seeking the public's help in locating a man suspected of stealing a loaded gun during a home burglary in Rainbow, it was announced Wednesday. The burglary took place on Feb. 10 at a home located on Rice Canyon Road, according to San Diego County Crime Stoppers. Surveillance cameras documented the entire incident, in which the man is believed to have taken a loaded, semi-automatic firearm. Authorities did not say what else the man may have stolen from the home...
The Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce will cancel the upcoming 34th Avocado Festival amid coronavirus fears, the organization announced Friday. The festival, scheduled for April 19 this year, regularly attracts as many as 100,000 attendees. The chamber's announcement comes as area school districts declare their intention to shutter schools through next month and many other local organizations cancel upcoming events. On Thursday, San Diego County health officials declared a ban on all public gatherings of more than 250 people.... Full story
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday, March 10, to continue a recently-declared local health emergency in response to the novel coronavirus as the county recorded its first case of the illness. The board of supervisors also voted to form a subcommittee to handle coronavirus-related challenges. County health officials on Monday, March 9, confirmed the county’s first presumptive positive case of coronavirus in a local resident, who is being treated at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla. The c... Full story
Fallbrook locals met with San Diego County officials Thursday, March 5, to discuss proposed updates to county rules regarding special events. The county has been working to get feedback on new ordinance governing regulations for event permits since last year. At the Thursday meeting, which was held at 10:30 a.m. at the Fallbrook Regional Health District’s boardroom and included members of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group and local organizations and nonprofits, Murali Pasumarthi, traffic engineering manager for the c...
Fallbrook locals met with San Diego County officials Thursday, March 5, to discuss proposed updates to county rules regarding special events. The county has been working to get feedback on new ordinance governing regulations for event permits since last year. At the Thursday meeting, which was held at 10:30 a.m. at the Fallbrook Regional Health District’s boardroom and included members of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group and local organizations and nonprofits, Murali Pasumarthi, traffic engineering manager for the c...
A recently-completed park will remain closed to the public until ownership is turned over to the San Diego County Parks and Recreation Department. The 396-acre master-planned community of Horse Creek Ridge, located east of Interstate 15 and north of state Route 76, has been constructed over the last few years, and an approximately-eight-acre sports park was completed in the community last year. The park includes active play areas, a soccer field, picnic and barbecue areas...
While concerts, sporting events and other large public gatherings were beginning to be cancelled across the country Thursday amid concerns that COVID-19 has begun to spread in the community, Fallbrook-area schools had no immediate plans to cancel classes — yet. No school districts in San Diego County had announced school closures as of Thursday, but other school systems across the country, including all schools in the states of Maine and Ohio, were beginning to announce shutdowns. Meanwhile, San Diego County health officials...
The family of a young woman from Fallbrook who lost her life in a car accident almost five years ago will honor her memory with a scholarship to allow children to take classes at the same martial arts academy she once attended. Valerie King was at the Saturday, Feb. 29, grand re-opening of Martial Art Concepts on Brandon Road – the school recently came under new ownership – to present the first scholarship, covering half a year's worth of classes, and receive an honorary bla...
Temecula Valley Unified School District Superintendent Tim Ritter will retire later this year, it was announced at Tuesday night's school board meeting. The board received Ritter's retirement notice in closed session, and moved to appoint Jodi McClay, Temecula Valley Unified's current deputy superintendent, to fill Ritter's position, according to TVUSD spokeswoman Laura Boss. Ritter has served as superintendent since 2010. “We want to first thank Mr. Ritter for his nineteen y... Full story
WEDNESDAY March 4, 2020 UPDATE: As of noon. with 100% of the ballots counted, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is the clear winner of the California primary. Proposition 13 lost in San Diego County as well as statewide. Measure A, which would have required voter approval for amendments to the San Diego County general plan, failed with 51% voting aainst. Measure B, which would have authorized changes to the general plan to allow the Newland Sierra housing development to be constructed north of Escondido, also f...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District’s superintendent is one of two candidates running to become the next president of a national school administrators’ organization. The American Association of School Administrators includes superintendents and other administrative officials from across the country among its members and, according to its website, “serves as the national voice for public education and district leadership on Capitol Hill.” Singh is campaigning to become president of the organization in 2021. Her only ot...
San Diego County’s Department of Public Works is working on an update to the county’s special events ordinance – and whatever changes are ultimately made will likely impact community events in unincorporated areas like Fallbrook. The county has been working to get feedback on the new ordinance, which covers rules for event permits, since 2019. County officials said in the draft ordinance that it costs hundreds of dollars to issue permits for events in the county right of way that blocks normal traffic flow – $423 for a stand...
Some Rancho Monserate Country Club residents are worried about the effect a proposed park will have on traffic in their community. Members of the senior community’s homeowners organization have expressed concerns that the proposed Rio Prado Park, which will only be accessible via a road that cuts through their neighborhood, will create dangerous situations for seniors who need to cross that road to access amenities on the other side. San Diego County officials have planned to develop San Luis Rey River Park along an eight- a...
