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  • Fallbrook receives 2.36 inches of rain today

    Julie Reeder|Updated Mar 15, 2023

    Fallbrook has received about 2 1/2 inches of rain since midnight, causing flooding around town, swollen creeks and several car crashes. There is more rain on and off forecast the rest of the day today, Wednesday, March 15, however, the rain is expected to decrease tonight. Thursday and Friday are expected to be dry with rain returning possibly over the weekend. Our normal rainfall this season so far is about 12 inches and we have received 20 inches so far.... Full story

  • Wanted Fugitive

    Southern California Wanted Fugitives|Updated Mar 10, 2023

    Southern California Wanted Fugitives released the following information below. Reward for information leading to the arrest of: Miriam Paola Arredondo DOB: 07/31/1996 Desc: F/H/ Height 5'0" Weight: 114lbs. Charges: Grand Theft Auto, Possession of Narcotics Last Seen: Fallbrook, CA Reference #2460092 Please contact investigators at: (619) 513-9186 Anonymous Tip Line: (951) 218-7799 Call, Text, or Message with any information regarding the location of this Fugitive. All...

  • Betty Rockwell celebrates 103 years

    Updated Mar 9, 2023

    Julie Reeder and Debbie Ramsey Betty Mae Rockwell, better known as “Kewpie” was born in 1920 in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in the small town of Elgin, Illinois. She said her father nicknamed her “Kewpie” as a baby because she looked like the little Kewpie dolls that were sold at the fair. At some point she worked in the Elgin watch factory and she remembered growing up in a middle class home with modern amenities at the time, including electricity. She said she met her husband George on a blind date. Vickie Bartlet...

  • Fallbrook Library welcomes 2 new art exhibitions

    Updated Mar 9, 2023

    FALLBROOK – Two new art shows, “Engaging Trees” by multiple artists and “Metamorphosis in Stone” by Eileen Sprague, are being hosted by the Friends of the Fallbrook Library from Monday, March 13, to Friday, April 28. “Engaging Trees” shows how trees in art are not “accessories” or background props in landscapes, but they are the main focus of the works. Conjured from imagination or plein-air realism, the artists show a reverence for trees as fascinating objects by themselves, alive, emotional, renewing, engaging, communi...

  • Fish fry satisfies a Friday night appetite

    Updated Mar 9, 2023

    Lucette Moramarco Associate Editor The Knights of Columbus at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church are back in the kitchen for their Lenten Friday Fish Fry which started March 3. Only 166 people showed up for that first dinner, but the word was slow to get out this year. Nonetheless, the knights were prepared for a bigger crowd this second Friday. They bought about 100 pounds of cod, 20 pounds of shrimp, 40 pounds of salmon and 300 pounds of potatoes. A team of at least 12 me...

  • FUESD board wants new superintendent by July 1

    Updated Mar 9, 2023

    Rick Monroe Special to the Village News The process for selecting a new superintendent for the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District is beginning. Following board direction at its Feb. 6 meeting, Interim Superintendent Cindi Martin selected two search firms to make presentations at its Feb. 27 meeting. The board will likely decide between those companies – McPherson & Jacobson and Leadership Associates – at its March 13 meeting. The former superintendent, Dr. Candace Singh, resigned in November. Suzanne Lundin, then boa...

  • Parents want election, not appointment, to high school board

    Updated Mar 9, 2023

    Rick Monroe Special to the Village News There’s controversy brewing with school board politics, once again, in Fallbrook. While things have calmed in the elementary district, some parents in the Fallbrook Union High School District are unhappy over the appointment of Jim Dooley, who placed second in the November election to the seat vacated by the winner. Conservative Courtney Hilborn won the Area 1 contest but resigned a week after being sworn in. Paul Christensen, on a conservative slate with Hilborn, was elected to represe...

  • Students of Month recognized at breakfast

    Updated Mar 9, 2023

    Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Comments from school administrators, sheriff deputies and other community members in attendance all seem to agree: the Student of the Month awards breakfast is their favorite event of the month. It's when the village comes together to recognize exceptional students in the Fallbrook Union High School District. Once again, four students were honored March 2 at North Coast Church in Fallbrook. Students were nominated by school staff and...