Hundreds attend latest meeting regarding proposed Gregory Canyon landfill

Another round in a decades-long fight over a landfill proposed near Pala drew sharp-edged comments and more than 300 people to an environmental planning meeting held last week.

The jammed hearing at the San Marcos Senior Center on June 3 marked another chapter in a long and bruising saga that has included numerous protests, environmental reviews, lawsuits, costly ballot measures, full-page advertisements and written exchanges on newspaper editorial pages.

It centers on Gregory Mountain, which the Pala Indian tribe considers a sacred site west of its reservation. That Luiseno band and others co...