Sunday, February 1, 2026
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League realignment promotes balance for local prep soccer teams

The local high school soccer season has kicked off with some decidedly different league pairings. It’s part of the Metro Conference’s overall league realignment based on the San Diego Section’s power...

Legacy of Pride: SuHi be-Devils Spartans in 17-7 win

Last Friday’s annual Legacy of Pride gridiron match-up between longtime rivals Chula Vista and Sweetwater high schools had all the intensity of a playoff game. But nothing less would be expected...

Scotties, Saints brace for CIF Open Division pigskin title tilt

The high school football season is about to get very interesting indeed for the winners of this weekend’s San Diego Section divisional championships at Southwestern College. Starting this year, all division...

Raids prompt interest in immigration seminars

As federal immigration raids recently made national headlines, South Bay residents gathered to educate themselves on immigration law and how to protect themselves. Together nonprofits Community Through Hope, Love Thy Neighbor Movement...

Proposal to track who comes and goes at City Hall gets support

When William Richter served on the Chula Vista Districting Commission last year, he helped create the commission’s bylaws, a set of guidelines that would govern the advisory group. A portion of those...

Teens accused of brutal beat down plead not guilty

Six teen-agers have denied felony assault charges they beat up a 16-year-old boy at a Chula Vista taco shop on April 11. Four teen-agers between the ages of 15-17 appeared in Juvenile...

Olympian’s Leal leads South County mat women at state meet

The 2022 California high school state wrestling championships wrapped up Feb. 24-26 in Bakersfield. The San Diego Section posted some encouraging results: 13 medalists in the boys field and 10 medalists...

Bonitafest marches on, even without parade

I am one of those who always wonders where time has gone. It seems that we hardly get into summer and here it is, winter. We just had lunch and it...

Looking to police for answers

On Monday, April 4, I watched a friend assaulted in the parking lot of the Chula Vista Public Library Civic Center branch. Assault and battery. It happened two feet from where...

Man guilty in death of strangled female

A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Oct. 16 to voluntary manslaughter in the strangulation of his girlfriend who died in her own apartment in Paradise Hills. An 11-year state prison term is...

New season, new beginning for Padres fans

Fans flocked to Petco Park last weekend for the return of the Padres, the city of San Diego’s loveable, if not underwhelming, Major League Baseball team. The Padres have not made the...

Pardee Homes’ Parkview now selling; offering remarkable affordability in Ocean View Hills

Parkview by Pardee Homes is now open after a very successful grand opening weekend that attracted more than 300 savvy home shoppers. This exciting collection of 73 detached, two-story homes offers...

Quite a summer in National City

Now that we’re turning not just the page on the calendar but also the season, it is time to reflect on the summer just past and the fall ahead. In my mind...

The world is a connected place

No matter how hard we try, we really can’t avoid one another. We live in a world where what takes place somewhere else on the globe has a very good chance...

Recovery plan includes support, data gathering

There are 180 days of learning in the National School District each year, with 302 average minutes of instruction per day. How does National School District Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services...

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THIS WEEK

Emilio’s Dream Sundae to...

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She believes: Jordyn Bugg...

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Health center consolidates services...

National City residents now have access to a wide range of healthcare services in one location with the opening of the Macias Family Health...

In search of a...

The shame of the Trump administration’s immigration policy is all too apparent in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s unjustified raids across the nation. As...

County seeks pollution chief

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday voted to put someone in charge of coordination and accountability in addressing the Tijuana River...

Slam dunk! Barons win...

Bonita Vista and Eastlake high schools have been rivals since the 1990s. The schools’ annual Battle for the Boot football game has become the...

Aztec round-ballers keep up...

SDSU men start MW play 9-1, SDSU women roll a perfect 10-0 Viejas Arena is regularly filled whenever the San Diego State University men’s basketball...

Shining brightly decades later

In January 1989, George Bush the elder was elected the 41st president of the United States, convicted serial killer Ted Bundy was put to...

It’s time for paying...

Enough time has passed since the last of the major holidays that it seems an acceptable time to hop back on the soapbox without...