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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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SAN DIEGO - The SDSU West initiative to redevelop the Mission Valley stadium site appears headed for the November ballot, along with a competing measure. Petitioners associated with FS Investors, the group backing the competing SoccerCity proposal, filed an appeal last week contending that Friends of SDSU, not formally affiliated with San Diego State University, had misused the university's name, deceived voters and violated election law with the SDSU West proposal. On Wednesd... Full story
FALLBROOK – Kevin Garcia, Tyler Dean and Ryan Valdez, the three Fallbrook gang members that in December were convicted of murder in the death Hugh Pettigrew III, received their prison sentences Friday at the North County Superior Court in Vista. The trio was found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of the 33-year-old Pettigrew, who was attacked while walking along the 400 block of Ammunition Road at approximately 10:45 p.m. Jan. 22, 2016. The a...
The Fallbrook Girls Rugby season concluded with the June 1-3 USA Sevens Girls High School Rugby Challenge tournament in Philadelphia. The Warriors finished fourth in the tournament after winning three matches and losing three games. The 12 high school girls teams were divided into three pools of four squads each. Sevens rugby has seven players for each team on the field at one time and it also utilizes seven-minute halves, or 14-minute games. Fallbrook's three pool games were all played June 1. Fallbrook began the tournament...
The 44th annual Fallbrook Open tournament at the Fallbrook Tennis Club included Bonsall's Dale Greene and Fallbrook's Steve Sippola winning the Men's 4.0 Doubles championship. Greene and Sippola faced the Fallbrook duo of Glenn Matayoshi and Dale Miller in the championship match. Greene and Sippola won the 6-3 first set. The second set was tied at six games apiece, triggering a tiebreaking game to seven points with a requirement to win by at least two points. Greene and Sippola won the tiebreaker 9-7. "That was a good...
Fallbrook High School is in danger of not being able to field a freshman football team. "Right now our numbers are low for the freshman team so that's definitely a possibility this year," said Fallbrook High varsity head football coach Darius Pickett of not having a freshman squad. Pickett said only 15 incoming freshmen participated in the five-week summer football camp that wrapped up July 12. "Honestly, I'm just hoping they didn't want to do summer (camp)," said Pickett. "I'...
Steve Jebert, age 91, passed peacefully while resting on Saturday, June 2, 2018. He was born December 9, 1926 in Abony, Hungary and was the second oldest of 10 children. There he completed university, married and started his family. Steve was a Freedom Fighter during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. At this time, he and his wife decided to escape with their young children and in the middle of the night they left everything behind in search of freedom. Carrying only five dolla... Full story
A party that was started in 1997 by the Downtown Merchants will resume for the 22nd straight year Friday, July 20, when the Fallbrook Village Association presents the first of its three Fallbrook Summer Nights events for 2018. "What's really fun is just the camaraderie, everybody talking, having fun and just getting along," said Manny Gratz, a FVA director who has been involved with Fallbrook Summer Nights since 1999. "It's truly a block party." Fallbrook Summer Nights offer...
November's election may seem a ways away but anyone planning on running for a seat on any of the local boards needs to submit their application for candidacy to the Registrar of Voters by Aug. 10. According to the registrar's website, "It is the candidate’s responsibility to be certain he/she meets the qualifications for holding a particular office." Many districts are divided into smaller areas with a seat assigned to each area and so the candidate for that seat needs to live in that specific area. The guidelines also say t...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors' allocation of Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grants June 19 included funding for Camp Pendleton's Devil Pups program, the Fallbrook Child Development Center, Fallbrook Youth Baseball, the Fallbrook Village Association, Friends of the Fallbrook Community Center, Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs and Strengths, and Support the Enlisted Project. The supervisors' 5-0 vote approved grants of: $27,500 to Devil Pups, Inc., for the purchase of uniforms and challenge coins; $19,250 to th...
Jason Fowler has become the Bonsall High School principal. Fowler, who replaces Lee Fleming, was chosen for the position by a 5-0 Bonsall Unified School District board vote July 12. "I'm just very pleased to be selected and excited to take on the challenge," Fowler said. "We are very excited to have him," said BUSD superintendent David Jones. "I think he's going to be a positive influence and impact." Fleming accepted an offer to become the head of school, which is the equivalent of a principal, at Samueli Academy in Santa...
Two Fallbrook businesses were broken into and burglarized in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 17, according to owners and representatives of the businesses. According to reports, Fallbrook Coffee Company and Brooktown Kitchen and Coffee confirmed they had been burglarized. San Diego County Sheriff's department officers were unavailable for comment by late Tuesday. News spread quickly through town as someone representing Fallbrook Coffee Company posted on its Facebook...
FALLBROOK – A red pickup truck collided with a silver Chevy Tahoe at the intersection of Alvarado Street and Main Avenue at approximately 4:50 p.m. July 15, witnesses reported. A portion of Main Avenue was closed for approximately 90 minutes while officers investigated the incident. According to the driver of the Tahoe, who did not wish to be identified, he was driving westbound on Alvarado Street when the red truck collided with him. Witnesses said one fire truck, one a...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Beautification Alliance recently announced that the next phase of work on the South Mission Road medians will take place on two consecutive Saturdays. Work will commence on the last and largest middle "median island" when FBA contractor Landscape One, along with the sheriff's Fallbrook substation's Senior Volunteer Patrol, will close the one northbound lane, adjacent to the center median. Residents should expect possible delays from 7 a.m. onward o...
The 2018-19 budget for the Fallbrook Public Utility District has been approved. A 5-0 FPUD board vote June 19 passed the budget which includes $36,697,309 in revenue, $27,619,407 for operating expenses, $2,760,020 of debt service payments, and $19,894,888 for capital expenditures. "For the most part it's held the operating expenses," said FPUD acting general manager Jack Bebee. "We're trying really hard to hold down our operating expenses." FPUD's 2017-18 budget included $27,357,950 of operating expenses. The 2018-19 budget...
VISTA – Sentencing is scheduled for Friday, July 20, for Kevin Garcia, Tyler James Dean and Ryan Thomas Valdez, the trio convicted of murder in the January 2016 gang-related stabbing of a man outside a supermarket in Fallbrook. Garcia, Dean and Valdez were all found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 33-year-old Hugh Pettigrew III as he walked home from McDonald’s along Ammunition Road. Last December, the jury found that the three defendants had committed the attack as part of their affiliation with a F...
FALLBROOK – The North County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) reunion and barbecue potluck will be held Saturday, July 21, at Live Oak Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CERT members are invited to bring the kids, friends and anyone that might be interested in joining the CERT program. To RSVP contact Carl at [email protected] or North County Fire at (760) 723-2010.... Full story
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Library will host its annual back-to-school resource fair for families, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, July 26. More than 20 community groups be in attendance to provide information regarding health, dental hygiene, nutrition, voting and more. In addition to information tables, there will be a Party Puppet People show, 10:30 a.m., followed by refreshments, face painting and balloon animals. The Vista Community Clinic will offer free dental screenings from its mobile Dental Van until 3 p.m. Fallbrook L... Full story
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Land Conservancy is holding a “Go Wild” photo contest, and the community is invited to participate. Photos must taken at one of the FLC’s preserves that is accessible to the public and can be submitted in one of five categories: habitat, birds, wildlife, scenic and family. A maximum 10 entries total in one or more categories may be submitted by a photographer. Photos must be submitted with a title, description and location, and entries will only be accepted in digital format. Photos should be unal... Full story
VISTA – North County Aviculturists, for pet bird owners and breeders, presents: Mary C. Arunski leading a basic behavior training workshop. The workshop will address behaviors ranging from target training to moving objects. The presentation will be held Saturday, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. at Vista Masonic Lodge, 761 Eucalyptus Ave., Vista 92084. Refreshments will be available for a small donation. Find more information on this event, including information on precautions against Exotic Newcastle Disease, at www.ncab... Full story
Though California is the world’s fifth-largest economy, we must expand economic prosperity. With over 20 percent of our population living below the poverty line, we have the nation’s highest poverty rate. Our skilled labor shortage means that high-paying jobs often go unfilled and our job creation infrastructure, including career tech education, is lacking. Bi-partisan legislation, Assembly Bill 2596, will require the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GoBiz) to produce an Economic Development Strat... Full story
With the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination, Trump just dealt a crippling blow to American liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism or whatever they want to call anti-Americanism now. Darn! Reality and fact check: What Trump with his orange hair, tactless tweets, boorish behavior, etc. etc. is doing and will continue unmercifully to do to Obama’s depressing liberal “new normal” over the next 2.5 years and maybe 6.5 years is to reduce America’s national misery: one less regulation, one added point of GDP, one lower t... Full story
A couple observations on the insanity gripping the political scene this week: 1) The attacks on Trump for simply meeting with Putin are absurd. Obama not only met with the Russians but told its foreign minister he “will be more flexible with them after the election.” He was referring to stripping our nuclear deterrence. He should have been impeached for that alone, but there was silence. Obama also met with numerous Islamic leaders who support and fund terrorism. Indeed, he gave billions to Iran which is now being used to... Full story
I was totally surprised Thursday (July 5) when I tried to park behind the Fallbrook Art Center. There was almost zero parking available (the few spaces available were taken) as the majority of lot was taped off to serve a carnival. This was the week of temperatures well over 100 degrees (and there was) no (available) parking on Main Avenue. I’m not certain who thought of having a carnival downtown. Those of us trying to see the current art show and have lunch had to leave. One woman parked on the side of the lot to get to h... Full story
Are you familiar with the “Blue Zone” project that is marching forward in our community? The “Blue Zones” are a waste of taxpayer money. The Minnesota-based Blue Zones company finds communities like ours, who have a hospital district but no hospital. They toss around the term “evidence based” with no peer reviewed, double-blind or controlled studies, and cite gerrymandered communities with long-living residents as “proof.” Their process is not based upon medical science or outcome analysis – just a book by a National Geograph... Full story
