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  • Writer ponders public transit services, city mouse vs country mouse dilemma

    Tim O'Leary, Special to the Village News|Updated Jan 22, 2024

    Because I have more time on my hands than money, I read a lot, attend many meetings and interact with passels of people. Sometimes I listen to them. As a result, of late I've found myself pondering public transit services and wondering whether I am a country mouse or a city mouse. I decided to do a deep dive on both. Please tag along, kind readers, if your wandering eyes have led you astray to these woebegone words. Everyone recalls the Aesop's Fable of the sophisticated city...

  • Bach to Beatles concert at Mission Theater fills every seat, despite rainy weather

    Updated Jan 22, 2024

    UPDATE: Despite the heavy rain on Sunday afternoon, the Mission Theater was packed and standing room only for the Bach to Beatles show, featuring Fred Benedetti, Peter Sprague and Mackenzie Leighton. The show was free of charge and sponsored by the Fallbrook Music Society. The talent of the trio was much appreciated by the crowd. ____________________________________________________________ FALLBROOK – Having changed the world with their musical talents and innovative s... Full story

  • Traffic collision takes down Horse Creek/Pala Rd signal

    Village News Staff|Updated Jan 21, 2024

    At Pala Rd and Horse Creek Ranch Rd, there was a traffic collision reported at 1:46 pm today, Sunday, that resulted in a portion of the traffic signal crashing to the ground. The incident lasted 1 hour and 28 minutes. Pala Fire Department and CHP responded to the incident. More information will be reported as information becomes available.... Full story

  • Warriors grapple with Cougars

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

  • Fallbrook Food Pantry begins work on a community garden

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Food Pantry is building a new Education Community Garden at the Community Health & Wellness Center, 1636 E Mission Road. Volunteers started building the garden plots at the pantry's gardening site, Saturday, Jan. 13. The beds are being out of concrete pavers and then will be filled with gardening soil. Several more work days will be held to finish construction before any planting can be done. Volunteers will be working outside and will need to d...

  • Gardening in the New Year of 2024

    Roger Boddaert, Special to the Village News|Updated Jan 18, 2024

    As the world turns, so are the global weather patterns, and you should prepare yourself and your gardens and your habits by working with a new wave of horticulture around your homes. It is important how we have practiced working in our gardens over the years, and now that is about to change with our warming climate and the unpredictable weather, we need to be in more harmony with the change. Last winter's rainfall was a much-needed welcome for the parched earth, and the rains...

  • Linda Traut

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    Linda Traut lived March 9, 1944, to Dec. 25, 2023. On Christmas morning, we lost the matriarch of our family. Linda was beautiful, loving and kind to the people in her life. She loved to entertain and get together with her friends at her home. Her love for her family was paramount. If her family needed help, she was right there by their side, wherever, doing whatever was needed. Linda moved to Fallbrook when she was 10 years old. She grew up loving horses and always ready to... Full story

  • Radoslav "Roy" Hromin

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    Radoslav "Roy" Hromin went home to be with the Lord on Dec. 28, 2023. The third of 10 siblings, Roy was born on a small island in Croatia on Feb. 25, 1928 He became a proud American citizen in 1964. He moved to Fallbrook in 1984. Roy was a loving and generous man. He made a lot of friends everywhere he went and he will be greatly missed by his surviving family: his devoted wife, Margrit; his three children, Stella, Rosie, and John; his son-in-law Tim, daughter-in-law Whitney,... Full story

  • Professional golf tournament to benefit Drew Mings Foundation

    Village Staff|Updated Jan 18, 2024

    The 2024 Fallbrook Open, a professional golf tournament, returns to the Golf Club of California, March 18-21. Hosted by the Asher Tour, the event brings a talented group of professional golfers to compete for a $20,000 first prize. The event debuted in 2019 and, this year, proceeds will benefit a noble cause with a local impact, The Drew Mings Foundation. Andrew "Drew" Mings passed away in a tragic car accident on Aug. 24, 2023, at the young age of 23. This foundation is...

  • Local residents now represented on SANDAG

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

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  • New NCFPD response standards classify Fallbrook and Bonsall as suburban

    Joe Naiman, Village News Reporter|Updated Jan 18, 2024

    The National Fire Protection Association has response time standards based on population density and a community's expectations. Although density would classify Fallbrook and Bonsall as urban areas, the road network which affects travel time is more appropriate for a suburban area and the Dec. 12 North County Fire Protection District board meeting included adopting an updated Effective Response Force Standard which classifies Fallbrook and Bonsall as suburban. The board’s 5-0 vote adopted the standard which increases the t...

  • Senior center is adding activities to its offerings

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Senior Center Executive Director Susie Gonsalves said, "We are delighted to unveil changes to our lunch program that we hope will enhance your lunch time at the Fallbrook Senior Center. "We are broadening our range of social, educational, and entertainment activities to ensure that your time with us is not only enjoyable but also enriching. As part of this initiative, we will now feature Lunch and Learn sessions twice a month on Tuesdays, where guest spea...

  • Vintage Car Club donates to Fallbrook Food Pantry

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    FALLBROOK –The Fallbrook Vintage Car Club uses proceeds from its annual car show to support local groups and programs such as schools, senior community outreach programs, sports programs, military families, and other worthy local causes that work to keep their community thriving. FVCC also has a scholarship program for seniors at Fallbrook High which donates funds to selected individuals by semester as they progress to their selected post-high school education. All d...

  • Leap into love this Leap Day

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    SAN DIEGO – San Diego Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk Jordan Marks will offer more love on Leap Day this year and welcome walk-in weddings across San Diego County for couples seeking to “take the leap” and be married on this unique day. A leap year is a calendar year that contains an additional day and only occurs every four years. This year, Leap Day falls on Thursday, Feb. 29 and four County Clerk offices offering marriage license and civil ceremony services will welcome walk-ins and waive the appointment requirement for cou...

  • Free chipping day set for Jan. 27

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Fire Safe Council is sponsoring another free "Chipping Day" event Saturday, Jan. 27, from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the North County Fire Station 4, 4375 Pala Mesa Drive, off of Old Hwy 395 in Fallbrook. This event is open to all residents in the Fallbrook, Bonsall, Rainbow and De Luz communities. Material that will be accepted for chipping include branches, less than six inches in diameter, trimmed brush, palm branches and other cut vegetation. B... Full story

  • 'Do it For Her 5K' offers beautiful course, wine tasting, great prizes

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    TEMECULA – The Do it For Her 5K, sponsored by the Heather Janikowski Foundation, will take place at the Mount Palomar Winery on Sunday, Jan. 21. Race Organizer Kevin Murphy wrote, "A fantastic race, and the hospitality of the Mount Palomar Winery offers Breakfast Burritos and wine tasting. Also many (over 50 prizes to be raffled off) from places like Bath and Body Works, Road Runner Sports, Spuntino Italian Restaurant, Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden and Lazy Dog R... Full story

  • Temecula museum to feature 'Black and White in Black and White: Images of Dignity, Hope and Diversity in America' exhibit

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    TEMECULA – The Temecula Valley Museum will feature the photographic exhibit, "Black and White in Black and White," which reveals dignity, hope of African Americans in early 20th century America, until Sunday, March 24. In 1965, 16-year-old Doug Keister acquired 280 glass plate negatives, originally found at a local garage sale. He immediately made prints from some of the plates, revealing powerful, early 20th-century portraits of African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska. T...

  • D'Vine Path takes root

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    FALLBROOK – Established in 2019, D'Vine Path Farm and Vineyards has been continuing to expand and educate a wide variety of neurodiverse individuals, while also providing a safe space for growth and self-realization. Based in agricultural tourism, D'Vine Path aims to educate students as well as the surrounding community. Looking back on the year 2023, D'Vine Path made monumental steps and achieved many goals leading into the new year. From expanding the program to hosting m...

  • Innovative sparks: Potter Junior High team wins 2nd annual FUESD Robotics Tournament

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    FALLBROOK – Potter Junior High School hosted the second annual Fallbrook Union Elementary School District Robotics Tournament, showcasing the ingenuity and talent of young minds in the field of robotics Friday, Dec. 15. Potter Junior High School announced that amidst the fierce competition, their own team, the Ladies of Lego, emerged in the first-place position. Teams from Mary Fay Pendleton and San Onofre elementary schools, both K-8 schools, attended, creating an a...

  • How can you build up your home equity?

    Jane Kepley, Special to the Village News|Updated Jan 18, 2024

    As a homeowner, you have the opportunity to build equity, which is the financial interest you have in your home. When your equity grows, it can mean bigger profits once you sell your house. Your equity can also be borrowed against using home equity loans or lines of credit and cash-out refinances, which you can then use to cover the costs of home repairs, pay off debt or achieve other financial goals. But how exactly do you build up equity? Here are four strategies: 1. Make a... Full story

  • Review of all things Real Estate: What real estate market are we in right now?

    Bob Hillery, CR Properties|Updated Jan 18, 2024

    For starters, the market activity indicator remains at 46. To refresh, 30 is the threshold from buyer’s market to neutral market and 48 is the threshold from neutral market to seller’s market so we’re in a neutral to slight seller’s market. And what are we seeing at ground level? All of the listings in our office are getting showings; lots of showings and properties are going into escrow, and mostly they are closing, if the buyers are properly vetted. We are also seeing... Full story

  • County program helps qualifying first-time homebuyers

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    Cassie N. Saunders County of San Diego Communications Office The County of San Diego's Down Payment and Closing Cost Assistance Program helps first-time home buyers whose income is 80% or less than the annual area median income, which ranges from $77,200 or less for a single adult, to $110,250 for a family of four and $145,550 for a family of eight. The program offers low interest loans with deferred payments. The loans may be as much as 22% of the sales price for the down pay... Full story

  • Air quality complaint data is now more accessible

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    SAN DIEGO – The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District made air quality complaints data more accessible to the public by publishing an interactive mapping tool with public information related to air quality complaints on its website. "Over the past few years we have made many improvements to the agency and increasing public engagement, as well as access to information is at the top of our list," Paula Forbis, director of SDAPCD said. "Our goals are to be t...

  • New pilot program for seniors approved by County Board of Supervisors

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

    Cassie N. Saunders County of San Diego Communications Office The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a pilot program to create housemate matches between lower-income older adults and locals with a spare bedroom, Jan. 9. The two-year pilot program was created to address growing homelessness among older adults. The 2023 Point-in-Time Count revealed the number of older adults aged 55 and older experiencing homelessness increased by 29% from the previous year. The...

  • Fun loving trickster is looking for a family

    Updated Jan 18, 2024

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