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 Biden administration, Friday, Feb. 12, announced plans for tens of thousands of people who are seeking asylum and have been forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era policy to be allowed into the U.S. while their cases wind through immigration courts. The first wave of an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers with active cases in the "Remain in Mexico" program will be allowed into the United States on Feb. 19, authorities said. They plan to start slowly, with two border...
A $49 million project to expand Route 74, the Ortega Highway, between Lake Elsinore and the Orange County line is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 22, and motorists were advised to expect delays as the work progresses. The State Route 74 Widening Project will consist of Watsonville-based Granite Construction Inc. making a series of modifications intended to enhance safety along the two-lane corridor, according to Kim Cherry, public information officer of Caltrans District 8. The work will begin with excavation in preparation...
The County of San Diego is working with the University of California San Diego on a pilot program that may provide a roadmap for schools to safely reopen while our community gets vaccinated. The Safer at School Early Alert system, or “Sassy” as it is called by participants, is an evidence-based program to detect SARS-CoV-2 at schools and child care centers. The project began with technology launched as part of UC San Diego’s Return to Learn program which collects daily wastewater samples that are tested for shed coron...
SAN DIEGO – San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister announced bidder registration is now open for the 2021 online property tax auction. A total of 695 properties will be up for sale. “These properties have been in tax default for five or more years, so it’s time we get them into the hands of new owners and back on the tax roll,” said McAllister. “Our online system makes it simple to research and bid on a variety of properties across San Diego County.” Anyone around the world can bid during the online prop...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved the replacement of Live Oak Park Bridge. The supervisors' 5-0 vote Feb. 10 authorized the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of a construction contract for the new bridge, established $4,072,280 of new appropriations for the bridge replacement project, and found that no new circumstances required changes to the environmental Mitigated Negative Declaration adopted in April 2018. The existing 25 foot long triple arch...
The County Board of Supervisors decided on how the County will distribute pending emergency rental assistance funds allocated to the region by the state, Feb. 9. The County will administer a single program, overseeing the distribution of an estimated $52.5 million in state funding and the $49 million in funding from the federal government the County received in January. These funds will assist San Diegans who have been economically impacted by COVID-19 in paying for housing expenses. The program will serve people who reside...
ESCONDIDO – A big decision, a major life choice for your most important asset – selling your house at the wrong time will haunt you down the road. We'll share with you the things you need to consider so you can have full confidence that you are indeed ready to enter the real estate game. These signs will tell you, and your home, are ready to sell: Your family is outgrowing your current home Maybe you feel like it's time to upgrade to a bigger and better home. Or you're yearnin...
The economic fallout from the pandemic has made it difficult for thousands of Californians to keep a roof over their heads. Early on, federal funding provided some assistance to renters and landlords alike, but many were unable to access that aid. More needed to be done. That’s why I joined my colleagues to pass Senate Bill 91, bipartisan legislation that was signed into law by Governor Newsom. The bill, which became effective Feb. 1, provides assistance to qualified landlords...
SACRAMENTO – Senator Brian W. Jones (R-Santee) introduced Senate Bill 397‚ a measure which would classify religious services as an essential activity during a declared state of emergency and ensure that the government does not take any discriminatory actions against religious organizations. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees religious freedom and the right to peaceably assemble. However, since Governor Newsom first declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19, many of his executive actions have con...
San Diego County has administered over 500,000 vaccines and that number continues to climb. While we are limited on supply, San Diego County has the infrastructure ready for when we receive more vaccines. I know it may seem slow, but San Diego County is well ahead of many others in the State, and we are ready for the next doses to arrive! Also, Operation Collaboration (a collection of fire agencies) have been going out to the unincorporated areas and administering vaccines....
I would like to thank Michelle Turley and her sister, Laura Denny, for their tireless efforts that went into making the Fallbrook Animal Sanctuary Christmas Store a huge success. I know Michelle personally collected and stored donations for the store, a year in advance. Throughout November and December, even with the challenges brought on with COVID-19, Michelle and Laura, with the help of volunteers, kept the store open in the safest manner possible. Michelle and Laura’s mother was a huge supporter of animal rescue, and i...
When you say the election was fair and refuse to even look at all the mountains of evidence, it’s all I need to know about you. When a mother hangs a sign on her White child reading “White Privilege” and makes them wear this “scarlet letter,” it’s all I need to know about you. When you try to cancel my voice, my ideas and opinions, it’s all I need to know about you. When we watched for over 10 months as the domestic terrorist Antifa and BLM burn and riot our cities, infiltrate a peaceful demonstration and hijack it wit...
We have a republican form of government in this nation where we the people elect our leaders; therefore the integrity of our elections is fundamentally important. Most of the elections during my long life have been accomplished manually. It took some time to count the ballots and the election results weren't known for many days, but we had confidence in the integrity of our elections then. Now faith in the integrity of our elections has eroded substantially. Can our voting machines be manipulated to change votes once they are...
Some lawmakers’ push to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour is “truly maddening,” small business owner Stuart Hornsby says. Hornsby owns a frozen yogurt shop, a business he built from the ground up in 2013, in a small city in northwest Georgia. With the exception of the manager and a few other employees, Hornsby employs primarily high school students. While he enjoys being able to provide so many young people with what is often their first job, he says he simply couldn’t afford to pay all his employees $15 an hour...
Carrie Lynn Ybarra passed away Jan. 17, 2021 at age 59 in Bonsall, California. She was born March 20,1961 to Mary Liston and James Russell in Santa Monica, California. Carrie spent her early years in the Pacific Palisades until moving to Carlsbad with her father. She attended Catholic school through middle school then attended San Marcos High School. Carrie passed the G.E.D. and entered community college at age 16. She worked at several health food stores until she was hired a... Full story
I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth. My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country. Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the indispensable safeguard for our liberties, our rights and our freedoms. It is a sad commentary on our times that one...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration reached a milestone Friday, Feb. 12, in the success of the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, which has provided U.S. small businesses, nonprofits and agricultural businesses $200 billion in emergency funding. “Following the enactment of COVID-19 emergency legislation, the SBA has now provided more than 3.7 million small businesses employing more than 20 million people with $200 billion through the unprecedented COVID-19 EIDL loan program,” acting admin...
SACRAMENTO – Senator Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) announced Feb. 12 that she has introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 12 to designate a portion of State Route 15 near the community of Rainbow in San Diego County as the “Cal Fire Chief William R. Clayton Memorial Highway.” Chief Clayton, who passed away in 2018 at his home in Carlsbad, helped rescue hundreds of people during his career and twice received California’s highest honor for valor. Senator Bates introduced SCR 12 on behalf of his family to help ensure his leg...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 in favor of supporting a set of policies intended to improve access and “social equity” in the cannabis industry. If you’re like me, you’re asking yourself, what in the world does “social equity” have to do with cannabis? Let’s start with the Wikipedia definition of “social equity.” Social equity is concerned with justice and fairness of social policy. Since the 1960s, the concept of social equity has been used in a va...
The number of new coronavirus cases is continuing to drop in San Diego County, though the county was facing a vaccine shortage as of press time Feb. 15 due to a delayed Moderna shipment. The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 13,700 tests Sunday, Feb. 14. The 14-day rolling average of positive tests was 4%. The total number of cases was reported to be 252,250 on Feb. 14 and the death toll rose to 3,037. Eight community outbreaks were reported Feb. 14, bringing the total over the past week to 62. There...
A variety of produce and other products can be found at the Fallbrook Main Avenue Farmers Market every Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Alvarado Street....
One person was seriously hurt in a crash on South Mission Road in Fallbrook Saturday morning, Feb. 13. A full-size van and a minivan struck each other in a partial head-on collision a little before 9:15 a.m. on South Mission Road at Green Canyon Road, according to North County Fire Protection District spokesperson Capt. John Choi. One of the vehicles sustained "major damage" in the crash, and one of the drivers had to be taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido with injuries that were described as "not life threatening,...
FALLBROOK – While only 10% of the general public in the United States has received a first-round COVID-19 vaccine shot, 93% of the residents, caregivers and staff at Silvergate Retirement Residence, operator of three senior living communities in north county San Diego, now have successfully received both rounds of the Pfizer vaccination. “When you’re a local operator, you can take more decisive action to protect your residents and employees,” said David Petree, chief executive officer of AmeriCare Health & Retirem...
NEW YORK CITY – When a new year comes around, many people assess their health and vow to improve their well-being. Resolving to take better care of their skin is a great place to start: After all, it is the body’s largest organ. Skin cancer is the world’s most common cancer, but changing their habits can both significantly lower the risk of the disease and help people identify any suspicious spots before they become dangerous. “Skin cancer is highly preventable, and the vast majority of cases are curable if they are diagnos...
