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Frosh phenoms are lacing up their skates in 2025-26 Metro Conference roller hockey season

Phillip Brents - 01/16/2026

Basketball

Girls hoops teams tip off new season

Alumni

Gulls start climb up Pacific Division standings

Basketball

Above the rim: SDSU tips off MW play on winning note

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Going for all that glitters

Football Phillip Brents - 11/12/2010 0

The Eastlake Titans, Olympian Eagles and Mar Vista Mariners each have won no worse than a share of their respective league titles after recording key victories last Friday. All three teams...

Taking stock of people, pets and their health

Pets Special to The Star-News - 05/26/2010 0

According to a recent Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) study, almost half of the dogs in the United States are overweight or obese. With so much attention being paid to...

School a backdrop to mixed message

Columnists admin - 02/15/2025 0

It could have been any generic Hollywood set but the fact that it was Chula Vista High School serving as the backdrop in a nationally broadcast commercial made the NFL ad...

Hilltop Lancers get into the swim

High School Phillip Brents - 04/16/2010 0

Make no mistake, the Hilltop High School swim team is making a return to its former glory past in the Mesa League. The Lancers improved to 5-1 on the season following...

NFL Star Watch: Smith leads Kansas City Chiefs to 10-3 win over Chargers

Alumni Phillip Brents - 12/18/2015 0

Bonita Vista Middle School alumnus Alex Smith and his current Kansas City Chiefs teammates appear to be putting things together at the right time of the NFL season. It wasn't a...

Skin doctor fined

Uncategorized Neal Putnam - 04/30/2016 0

A National City dermatologist has been sentenced to time served and fined $1,000 for his guilty plea to conspiracy to obtain prescription drugs by fraud that included tranquilizers and pain killers...

Otay Ranch track team: how high is up?

High School Phillip Brents - 04/23/2010 0

While coaches rankings for the 2009-10 high school track and field season have yet to be posted, the Otay Ranch Mustangs boys and girls squads got an inkling they have to...

What’s worthless may be worthwhile

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 04/18/2015 0

As with most things, "it" is in the eye of the beholder. "It" can be anything: beauty, truth, justice, utility. For this particular exercise, it is worthless, as in: the gesture...

Zeros’ European tour a smash despite weather

Arts John Philip Wyllie - 04/16/2010 0

Back in the late 1970s when a quartet of local kids from Sweetwater and Chula Vista high schools formed a punk band called the Zeros, they had no idea that they...

NC looks at plans for Fed funds

Latest News Jessica Brodkin Webb - 05/06/2022 0

National City Council heard how the city intends to spend an estimated $744,200 in federal Community Development Block Grant funding along with $470,687 in federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program entitlement funds...

Ex-sub goes to jail for sex with minor

Uncategorized Carlos Davalos - 10/01/2016 0

A former substitute teacher for the Sweetwater Union High School District was sentenced Sept. 23 to one year in jail after earlier pleading guilty to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a...

COVID-19 in South County

Chula Vista Staff - 04/27/2020 0

In March 2020 state and local authorities issued stay-at-homes directives telling people to stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19, a coronavirus that has reached pandemic proportions and infected nearly...

Lancers get their kicks with 12-2 soccer start

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 12/29/2010 0

The word “impressive” might be too soft a word to describe the start to the 2010-11 high school boys soccer season for the Hilltop Lancers, who sport a 12-2 record after...

Half enough is good enough here

Letters to the editor Peter Watry - 06/21/2018 0

I knew it would come to this: Chula Vista is now the home of “half enough is good enough!” Case 1: In the original design of Otay Ranch, there was to be...

SWC Jaguars end winless JC season with a win

College Phillip Brents - 01/01/2024 0

In a twist of fate, Grossmont College hosted Southwestern College on Nov. 11 in the regular season finale for both teams. Neither team was heading to a post-season bowl game. It...

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Chula Vista

Frosh phenoms are lacing up their skates in 2025-26 Metro Conference roller hockey season

Girls hoops teams tip off new season

Gulls start climb up Pacific Division standings

Above the rim: SDSU tips off MW play on winning note

DON'T MISS

Going for all that glitters

Taking stock of people, pets and their health

School a backdrop to mixed message

Hilltop Lancers get into the swim

NFL Star Watch: Smith leads Kansas City Chiefs to 10-3 win over Chargers

Skin doctor fined

Otay Ranch track team: how high is up?

What’s worthless may be worthwhile

Zeros’ European tour a smash despite weather

NC looks at plans for Fed funds

Ex-sub goes to jail for sex with minor

COVID-19 in South County

Lancers get their kicks with 12-2 soccer start

Half enough is good enough here

SWC Jaguars end winless JC season with a win

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