Sunday, December 21, 2025
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Chula Vista

Grad rates climb

More high school seniors from the Sweetwater Union High School District completed their high school education in the 2011-2012 school year than in 2010-2011, according to data released by the California...

Singing her heart out

Imagine a world with virtually no cars on the road, no television sets and no radios. Mary Barton, 98, doesn't have to imagine it, she remembers it. Barton, who was born two...

Warrior Bowl to pit Aztecs, Trojans

It’s called the Warrior Bowl and for the winner of Friday’s Castle Park-Montgomery football game, it likely signifies a trip to the San Diego Section Division III playoffs this season. Both teams...

Southwest, San Ysidro high schools are latest beneficiaries of Spanos family, Chargers champions

For the 17th consecutive year, the Spanos family and the San Diego Chargers have continued their support for youth health and fitness by awarding more than $250,000 in Chargers Champions grants...

ACLU offers insight

While a seven-member panel is in charge of mapping out Chula Vista’s first voting districts, a constitutional rights organization is educating residents about the districting process. The American Civil Liberties Union has...

U.S. champion Eastlake to play for Little League World Series title

They have gone as far as they can, and it isn’t over yet for the boys from Eastlake Little League’s memory-making 12-under all-star team. The east side Chula Vista team earned the...

COVID cases climb

The new Eris COVID variant—EG.5— is spreading globally and what we are seeing in San Diego County is mirroring what is happening across the country and across the state. Sharp Rees-Steely...

Injured? Don’t ‘tough it out’ or risk long recovery

It's been a few days since your last run, and that twinge in your knee still hasn’t gone away. Or maybe you took a blow to the head while surfing, but...

Remarks reveal who surrounds us

In the same way I appreciate bald white men with swastikas tattooed on their faces and dirty, gnarled-haired women standing on sidewalks yelling at no one I can see, I appreciate...

Promotion comes without compensation

I really don't remember the first time I started attending graduations, or sixth grade promotions by choice.  I had attended them many times before but those were of the mandatory type. ...

Hilltop spikers sweep Sweetwater to finish as Metro-Pacific League co-champions

The Hilltop High School boys volleyball team captured its second consecutive Metro-Pacific League championship by sweeping host Sweetwater Friday afternoon 25-13, 25-15, 25-21. The Lancers won last year’s title outright and share...

No early release for volunteer coach

A former volunteer hockey coach at Bonita Vista High School has 11 more months to go before finishing his jail term for having sex with a teenage girl he supervised. A judge...

South Bay gathers donations for Ukraine

Bohdan Kniahynyckyj and Vera Skop Kniahynyckyj stood among boxes neatly labeled ‘Medical Supplies’ in large black letters with accompanying Cyrillic handwritten on each box in a La Mesa storehouse. “There is a...

Lancers shout for joy after winning league baseball title

After the final out was recorded in Thursday’s Metro-Pacific League baseball game at Hilltop High School, a loud hoot went up from the victorious team – and with good reason. The...

Chula Vista’s Third Avenue buzzes with family cafes

Downtown Chula Vista Third Avenue continues to evolve as a center of culture and community, with family-owned coffee houses playing a key role in that transformation. Following part one’s spotlight on...

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THIS WEEK

Artist’s photographs start as...

Fine-art photographer Victoria Amelina opened her new exhibition, “Poetry of Vintage Nostalgia,” at the Mission Hills Branch Library this week, offering visitors a gentle,...

Lady Lancers bound out...

B.J. Hunt ranks second all-time in the boys discus throw in Hilltop High School track and field history with a mark of 143-9 (set...

Award recognizes Chula Vista...

Chula Vista resident Amalia Zimmerman-Lommel still remembers the early days at GoodFarms, answering phones at the front desk while juggling life as a young...

Williams paces San Diego...

It was a scene right out of a post-apocalyptic film: shadowy figures running around in dense fog.It could easily have taken place somewhere in...

Survey delivers a dose...

One morning eons ago I trudged into my cousin’s garage. The fluorescent lamps hummed and flickered. The cold of the slick, cement floor stung my...

Cops clear firearms off...

Nearly 140 unwanted firearms were turned in by residents at a South Bay gun safety event on Dec. 13, reflecting strong community participation in...

Esoteric Astrology as news...

Hanukkah, Mourner’s Kaddish, Fourth Advent Candle & Winter Solstice This is the week leading up to Winter Solstice and Hanukkah - eight-day Hebrew festival of Light....

Nine Metro teams represented...

The Frank Pekarek National City Host Lions Club boys basketball tournament has faced off for another year. The 21-team tournament tipped off Saturday with...

One for four: Jaguars...

Aside from all-star games, the high school football season wrapped up last weekend with 15 state bowl championship games.Four teams represented the San Diego...