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Basketball

Nine Metro teams represented at annual Sweetwater boys hoops tourney

Phillip Brents - 12/18/2025

Chula Vista

Artist’s photographs start as ‘moment of inspiration’

Chula Vista

Award recognizes Chula Vista woman as catalyst, mentor

Football

One for four: Jaguars lead San Diego Section teams at state bowl football championships

DON'T MISS

’Tis the season to have a plan in place

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 10/21/2017 0

Headlines and images of the wildfires in Northern California stoke a pungent memory. For a time in late October 2003 there were days when you could not step outside without noticing what...

Teachers ready to move on

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 05/22/2014 0

The Sweetwater Education Association can close one of the most strenuous bargaining chapters in its history after the teachers’ union on May 2 ratified a tentative agreement with the Sweetwater Union...

It won’t be the same

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 12/01/2011 0

It was along about this time of year in 1961 that I joined a group of Pearl Harbor Survivors and wrote short stories in The Star-News, explaining our adventures—or misadventures— of that...

Getting what you pay for?

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 09/19/2015 0

The Chula Vista mayor and City Council this week voted to give themselves raises. If we’re nakedly honest with ourselves, we would have done the same. Especially if we had the law...

Esoteric Astrology as news for October 24 – November 3, 2020

Horoscope Risa DAngeles - 10/30/2020 0

From the Battle We Emerge Triumphant Every year at this time, around Halloween, the veils between the worlds become transparent and spirits return to Earth for a visit. This occurs during Scorpio, sign...

That’ll be all, thank you

Columns Carlos Davalos - 08/06/2010 0

Sometimes a man's got to be smacked upside the head if there's going to be any hope of his ever learning his lesson. Call it tough love for the tonto, but after the...

Ex board member gets jail time

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 06/28/2014 0

A corruption case that involved contractors and school officials across three South Bay school districts had its first defendant receive jail time. Gregorio Sandoval, a former Sweetwater Union High School District board...

Students learn there’s science to crime solving

Chula Vista Jon Campbell - 04/30/2010 0

Chula Vista Crime Lab Manager Craig Ogino turned to a room full of students and posed the following question: "When someone gets shot in the head, where does the blood go?" "Everywhere!" was...

Boxing center strikes up partnership with Southwestern

Chula Vista admin - 03/22/2025 0

Southwestern College Jaguar Aquatics Wellness and Sports (JAWS) held a ribbon-cutting and grand opening on March 15 to celebrate the college’s partnership with Two Hands Boxing. JAWS Boxing Center is the...

Band teacher jailed for acts with student

Uncategorized Carlos Davalos - 03/04/2017 0

“All this love ever really was—was sex, deceit, manipulation.” That’s what a young man angrily told a judge Feb. 24, that his band teacher at Bonita Vista High School had seduced him...

Scary reality isn’t fun

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 10/12/2013 0

A man not more than five feet away from me and dressed in tattered clothes revved the chainsaw he was holding and waved it menacingly over his head. A girl, probably...

$6 million in grants help South Bay senior services

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 08/27/2022 0

On Aug. 11, the Community Congregational Development Corporation announced in a press release that it reached a $6 million grant milestone. These grants support the mission of the CCDC in serving...

Living quotidian lives

Letters to the editor Deuel Woodward - 05/04/2023 0

People need a lot of faith to carry on with the process of living despite any difficulties in their path. Beliefs and eloquence unite a congregation. Architects design all the buildings,...

Stuff and things we need for next year

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 12/27/2014 0

It's within the last decade that, around this time of year, I’ve hearkened back to the words of George Carlin. The comedian of 7-Dirty-Words infamy had a bit about stuff. And the...

Wear badge, fight fires

Behind Police Lines Tom Basinski - 05/14/2010 0

Cost cutting plan had Chula Vista cops fighting fires, too In the early 1980s I was involved in contract negotiations between the Chula Vista Police Officers' Association and the city. Lane Cole was...

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THIS WEEK

Chula Vista

Nine Metro teams represented at annual Sweetwater boys hoops tourney

Artist’s photographs start as ‘moment of inspiration’

Award recognizes Chula Vista woman as catalyst, mentor

One for four: Jaguars lead San Diego Section teams at state bowl football championships

DON'T MISS

’Tis the season to have a plan in place

Teachers ready to move on

It won’t be the same

Getting what you pay for?

Esoteric Astrology as news for October 24 – November 3, 2020

That’ll be all, thank you

Ex board member gets jail time

Students learn there’s science to crime solving

Boxing center strikes up partnership with Southwestern

Band teacher jailed for acts with student

Scary reality isn’t fun

$6 million in grants help South Bay senior services

Living quotidian lives

Stuff and things we need for next year

Wear badge, fight fires

WEATHER

COMMUNITY POLL

THIS WEEK

Cops clear firearms off...

Artist’s photographs start as...

Lady Lancers bound out...

Esoteric Astrology as news...

Award recognizes Chula Vista...

One for four: Jaguars...

Nine Metro teams represented...

Williams paces San Diego...