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Slam dunk! Barons win battle of the hoop

Phillip Brents - 01/29/2026

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Epic win catapults Gulls past first place Reign

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Metro roller hockey season rolls to 12-0 finish for Titans

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Aztec round-ballers keep up the heat in MW play

DON'T MISS

Tunnel leads to prison

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 03/02/2012 0

A Chula Vista man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for a marijuana conspiracy that involved the discovery of a narcotics tunnel in an Otay Mesa warehouse in...

Village beer and music festival slated for pre- Mother’s Day

Chula Vista Rebecca Williamson - 05/09/2019 0

Chula Vista’s Third Avenue Village Association will be hosting the Avenue Amps & Ales celebration from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on May 11 at Memorial Park. “This is our fourth Avenue...

Tinseltown, tonic and entertainment

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 03/07/2015 0

Of all the reasons to avoid a movie theatre, the sale of alcohol seems like one of the least compelling. Twenty minutes before the start of the featured attraction viewers are bombarded...

Water park will change identity in 2021

Chula Vista Isabel Hughes - 11/01/2019 0

The first Sesame Place theme park on the West Coast is set to open in spring 2021 and replace Aquatica, both of which are owned by SeaWorld — but the waterslides...

Basketball clinic

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 06/13/2013 0

Learn basketball from the legendary Harlem Globetrotters. Like The Star-News Facebook page between now and June 17 and you will be entered to win a spot at the Harlem Globetrotters Summer Skills Clinic...

Tragic event leads to self reflection

Around The South Bay Richard Pena - 07/28/2012 0

When one reads this piece he is apt to classify it as yesterday’s news. And he would be right. I am writing about an earth-shaking incident that happened more than a...

Red Devils fall one win short in quest for Division IV baseball title

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 06/17/2016 0

Sweetwater High School baseball coach Paul Wapnowski has a fairly good idea of school history where the sport is concerned, and he can’t think of a time when another Red Devil...

Airing beef over menudo

Chula Vista Carl Robinette - 02/27/2014 0

They say it is a perfect cure for a hangover or a head cold, but not all menudo is created equal. So, when National City council member Luis Natividad told Chula...

Scholarships program supports careers in the water industry

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 08/11/2022 0

The Sweetwater Authority recently launched its Work for Water Scholarship, which is available to anyone living in the Authority’s service area. The Authority is a public water agency that provides water...

Visions of graduations become a reality

Chula Vista Rebecca Williamson - 05/30/2019 0

Forty-one students in the South County Economic Development Council’s Optical Training program, titled I Can See My Future, graduated in early May using Southwestern College’s facility for the ceremony. The training program...

Jury convinced man tortured, killed his brother

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 02/14/2015 0

Following six hours of deliberations, a jury Monday convicted an Eastlake man of first-degree murder and torture in the 2013 slaying of his younger brother, who was stabbed 38 times with...

Writer looking for her place in journalism

Opinion Esmeralda F. Ramirez - 06/25/2010 0

My life took a drastic change when I stepped foot in a newsroom August 2006. I was a student at Southwestern College and a couple semesters away from transferring to San Diego...

Is this country what they died for?

Columns Carlos Davalos - 05/24/2018 0

Cassie Bernall, 17; Steven Curnow, 14; Corey Depooter, 17; Kelly Fleming, 16; Matthew Kechter, 16; Daniel Mauser, 15; Daniel Rohrbough, 15; Rachel Scott, 17; Isaiah Shoels, 18; John Tomlin, 16; Lauren...

Lady Barons battling lacrosse foes for league championship, CIF playoff berth

High School admin - 04/24/2025 0

The Bonita Vista High School girls lacrosse team, knock on wood and fingers crossed, could be looking at another league championship in 2025. The Lady Barons tied Mar Vista with 7-1 league...

Melodrama takes to new stage

Chula Vista Staff - 09/18/2025 0

The annual Bonitafest Melodrama has taken a detour. Typically staged at the Sweetwater Community Church, the theatre production this year will perform its three-day run at Southwestern College Performing Arts Center. Organizers said...

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