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
Sorted by date Results 51 - 75 of 595
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Charley Toscano of Bonsall, an accomplished 10-year-old ballet student who recently placed in the top-six of the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix finals in Florida, has been dancing for a little more than two years There were 18 boys in the precompetitive finals including numerous international competitors. Charley has an experienced coach who knows him well, his mother. Cody Toscano heads the pre-professional ballet training...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News What's it like to be principal at two high schools – at the same time – that are as different as black and white? Mike Gray has the perfect last name as well as the perfect personality to handle the jobs. The Menifee resident is the top man at Ivy and Oasis high schools in the Fallbrook Union High School District. Ivy is the district's continuation school. Oasis is the independent study option for students. The student population at Oas...
Julie Reeder Publisher I believe people are tired of being bullied in politics, government at all levels, school boards, and media. I think this is why parents have been rising up too. And this is why some people are becoming bullies in response. I believe this is why there’s so much interest in Elon Musk making moves to buy Twitter. Free speech advocates are hopeful while others are afraid. Especially the managers, board members and fact checkers that may lose their jobs. The stockholders would make money, which is supposed... Full story
VISTA – On a bright, sunny day at the beginning of March, Soroptimist Vista and North County Inland hosted a Live Your Dream Awards Picnic at Alamosa Park in Oceanside to announce four recipients of the 2022 Soroptimist Live Your Dream Award. These awards are given each year to qualifying women who have faced obstacles such as violence, poverty, and teen pregnancy and are attending college or trade school to achieve economic empowerment and provide a better life for t...
Yes! America is in its final days, but we still have time to save the greatest nation on earth. California is another story. With the theft of Newsom's recall election, we are all doomed. A few weeks ago, The Village News printed a large size "wake-up" call of what Sacramento is trying to pass in congress, titled Sacramento "Vaccine Work Group" Bills. You need to read this Nazi propaganda. SB 871 would mandate the CCP vaccine for all kids, in school or child care, so basically regardless of age. So even if I home school or... Full story
Karen M. Ossenfort Special to the Village News Day One: Patriotism was alive and well at Clay Clark's Time to Free America Tour during its San Marcos stop at Awaken Church, March 11 and 12. Over 1500 attendants, from all over, decked out in red, white and blue, heard from dozens of nationally known speakers. Vendor booths were all about saving the environment, saving people, and saving America. Clay Clark, who runs the Thrivetime Business School back east, and has a popular...
Lucette Moramarco Associate Editor It had been almost two years since the last Knights of Columbus Fish Fry when they opened the doors of St. Peter's Parish Hall Friday night, March 4. Despite the gap in service, due to the pandemic, people were lined up out the door waiting to buy their tickets when I got there just after 5:30 p.m. And despite the extra fryer, which was bought two years ago before COVID shut down the Lenten dinners, the volunteers in the kitchen couldn't keep...
Elizabeth Aguilera CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom is easing mask restrictions and declaring that the pandemic is moving into a less critical phase. Yet an aggressive slate of COVID-19-related bills – to mandate vaccines for children and workers, to allow 12 to 17 year-olds to get the vaccine without parental consent and more – remain in play under the Capitol dome. The vaccine working group of Democratic legislators behind the proposals say their aim is to increase vaccination r...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Had Bonsall High School’s soccer team defeated High Tech Mesa in those two teams’ Feb. 8 match in Bonsall, the Legionnaires would have won the Pioneer League championship. A 2-0 High Tech Mesa victory gave the Thunder a 5-0-1 final league record and the league championship while Bonsall settled for a 4-1-1 league record and second place. Bonsall’s overall record for the season was 6-7-2; the Legionnaires closed out play with a 2-2 tie Feb. 9 at home against Guajome Park Academy and a 3-2 home...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News The hopes of parents wanting to see trustees of the Fallbrook Union High School District support their concerns about COVID-19 mandates were dashed at the Feb. 7 board meeting. At the district’s prior board meeting on Jan. 24, Diane Summers, vice president, suggested the board consider writing a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom about the concerns of parents. She also said she wanted legal advice from an attorney. There is a mandate that all students and staff wear masks while on campus. M...
Julie Reeder Publisher Last week, in protest, 45 students refused to wear their masks at Sullivan Middle School in Bonsall. Thirteen year old Harrison Jones decided not to continue wearing his mask after seeing Governor Newsom at the televised basketball game maskless, in a stadium with tens of thousands of maskless people, including immunocompromised person Magic Johnson. Harrison has already had Covid, according to his mom, so he’s one of the safest people to be around with his natural immunity. According to Lindsey J... Full story
For years now and especially in the past two, I have heard many caring people express great concern for the quality of education of the children of current and future generations. While most teachers are doing a phenomenal job with the limited resources and overwhelming challenges they face today, when it comes to educating our kids, the system in which they work is often broken. This is not a Democrat or Republican party issue. This is a parent issue that crosses all party lines. Many people are now aware of this and asking... Full story
SAN DIEGO - A group of female student-athletes filed a sex discrimination class action lawsuit today against San Diego State University that alleges the school has deprived female athletes of equal athletic financial aid in violation of Title IX. The complaint filed in San Diego federal court alleges SDSU has not paid female varsity-student athletes equal financial aid in more than a decade and illegally denied female athletes more than $1.2 million in aid over the last two academic years. The suit, which attorneys say is... Full story
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Fallbrook High School has begun the search for a new head football coach. Troy Everhart, who coached the Warriors for the past three seasons, accepted a position as head coach at Troy High School in Troy, Ohio. Everhart had been a head coach in Ohio for 14 years before accepting the Fallbrook position. “This is a personal choice based upon the mandates that all educators in California will be facing next fall. This has nothing to do with Fallbrook Union High School District or the o...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter Fallbrook High School has begun the search for a new head football coach. Troy Everhart, who coached the Warriors for the past three seasons, accepted a position as head coach at Troy High School in Troy, Ohio. Everhart had been a head coach in Ohio for 14 years before accepting the Fallbrook position. “This is a personal choice based upon the mandates that all educators in California will be facing next fall. This has nothing to do with Fallbrook Union High School District or the o...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Girls Rugby Club continues to find success on and off the field. The 2022 rugby class has two of its members with commitments to the Ivy League ranks, one to Harvard University and one to Dartmouth College. The girls program continues to be a catalyst for extending the rugby experience, and a means to pursue higher education. Tiahna Padilla has committed to Harvard with a major in engineering. The captain of the girls high school rugby team, she has been...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Numerous parents once again spoke out against proposed student COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the school board meeting of the Fallbrook Unified High School District Monday, Jan. 24. There were so many parents wishing to address the board that President Eddie Jones made a motion to allow three additional speakers during the public comments after the allocated time limit was exceeded. One of the things parents opposed to the mandates wanted was for the district to send a resolution to the...
Lucette Moramarco Associate Editor Cadance Ewig, Tianha Padilla and Chloe Shaver were the three Fallbrook High School students who were honored at the fourth Student of the Month breakfast of the school year, Jan. 6, at North Coast Church. About the first student honored, FHS Principal Lauren Jones said Ewig "is Fallbrook, involved in everything under the sun – Ag, ASB and cheer." Ewig was nominated by social studies teacher Alana Milton who has taught at the high school f...
Many of us have regularly attended Fallbrook Unified HIgh School Board meetings, particularly since they started meeting in person toward the end of last year's school year. There have been multiple issues discussed during the public comment segment of the board meetings. The comments made have been fact based, emotional and respectful communications made by our community parents and residents. Cumulatively, there have been well over 1,000 people attending and 100's of people speaking. Through this time, I am only aware of... Full story
SAN DIEGO - A judge ruled against the San Diego Unified School District today in a lawsuit challenging its vaccine mandate for students. San Diego Superior Court Judge John Meyer said the district's mandate, which does not permit religious or personal belief exemptions, contradicts state law, because only the state legislature has the authority to implement such mandates without exemptions. Meyer also ruled that while students are required to receive some vaccinations in order to attend in-person school, adding COVID-19 to... Full story
I will refer to Benson as the author. The author purports to have “read the science of COVID-19.” However, there’s no indication of that in her letter. For instance, the author begins by incorrectly stating that prior vaccines were well tested for years before use. The Salk polio vaccine certainly was not. It did take them over a year, but it wasn’t because they were more meticulous. That was in 1953: their problem was they didn’t have the computers and specialized software to rapidly collate and analyze their test data like... Full story
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News The Fallbrook Freedom Fighters' second monthly anti-mandate rally on Friday afternoon, Nov. 19, attracted about half the crowd that attended the first event Oct. 15, but organizers say they were not disappointed. Courtney Stevens said the crowd of about 100 people was smaller because the location changed, darkness comes earlier each evening, and the start-time of 3:30 p.m. is when many people were still at work. In addition, there was a...
NEW YORK – The nomination of Terry Gilmore, dealer principal at Paradise Chevrolet Cadillac in Temecula, California, for the 2022 TIME Dealer of the Year award was announced today by TIME. Gilmore is one of a select group of 47 dealer nominees from across the country who will be honored at the 105th annual National Automobile Dealers Association Show in Las Vegas on March 11, 2022. The announcement of this year’s annual award was made by Viktoria Degtar, Global Chief Revenue Officer, TIME, and Doug Timmerman, president of... Full story
Sarah Nagle Senior Advisor Californians for School Choice The California public school system is currently sinking like the Titanic. A couple of decades ago California public schools were some of the best in the country. But those days are long gone. The last two years have been a wakeup call for parents, and a disaster for children. In Sacramento when politicians talk about school choice, they are usually talking about money. But when parents talk about school choice, they are talking about something far more personal and fa... Full story
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News A motion to return to virtual board meetings was unanimously rejected by trustees of the Fallbrook Union High School District at their regular board session Monday evening, Nov. 8. The meeting followed the recent pattern of an increasing number of vocal parents coming to urge the board to align with their position of not forcing students to vaccinate for COVID-19. Again, the board took no position. The large contingent of activists may have felt some victory with the board’s decision n...
