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Basketball

Slam dunk! Barons win battle of the hoop

Phillip Brents - 01/29/2026

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

Basketball

Aztec round-ballers keep up the heat in MW play

Lancers out-duel Barons, 2-1, in battle of early season Mesa League unbeatens

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 01/28/2011 0

The Hilltop High School girls soccer team keeps on winning and that’s a must for the defending Mesa League champion Lancers in a league loaded with challengers this season. Hilltop ran its...

SWC to finally open long-awaited wellness center

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 01/25/2018 1

For half a century, Southwestern College’s dirt lot at the corner of H Street and Otay Lakes Road was a pumpkin patch and a Christmas tree farm. Outside of the holiday season,...

Man accused in groping case pleads not guilty to domestic violence

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 02/25/2011 0

A Chula Vista man believed by police to be the suspect behind a series of groping incidents was arraigned today in South Bay Superior Court on three unrelated domestic violence charges. Miguel...

New districts approved

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 12/10/2021 0

Chula Vista City Council unanimously approved the Chula Vista Redistricting Commissions final map on Dec. 7, with council member John McCann absent. The City hired two major consultants in redistricting the city’s...

Mixed showing for local prep pigskin teams in season openers

Football Phillip Brents - 09/09/2011 0

It was a mixed bag for last weekend’s high school football season openers. Twelve of the Metro Conference’s 13 teams saw action last Friday, and six came away victorious. Two of...

Best dreams may be ones that don’t come true

Behind Police Lines Tom Basinski - 03/16/2013 0

As we advance in years reality sets in and we conclude most things are not as they originally seemed. Movie stars appear to have a glamorous existence until we learn many...

Bonitafest returns in time to usher in autumn

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 09/19/2024 0

The 51st Bonitafest Twilight Trail Parade and Performing Arts Festival is back this year on Sept. 21, with the Bonitafest Melodrama following beginning on Sept. 25. This year’s Bonitafest Pioneer Award for...

List keeps growing for Titans playing at the next level

College Phillip Brents - 01/04/2018 0

Eastlake High School assistant football coach Mark Mendillo has been compiling an annual list of former Titans playing at the next level for several years now. It’s become very popular reading...

Veteran spent time in internment camp

Chula Vista Tom Basinski - 11/12/2011 0

When Henry "Hank" Wada was growing up in Redlands in the '30s and '40s, the second youngest of nine children of Japanese immigrants never thought he'd be able to go to...

MLS arrives amid a crowded menu

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 05/26/2023 0

Major League Soccer is coming to San Diego. After years of shutting its eyes, crossing its fingers and hoping to be chosen the way a desperately eager bachelorette dreams of being “The...

Recruiting recognition

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 04/11/2013 0

Duane Curato has served his country for the U.S. Navy in a variety of aspects. He served in Operation Iraqi Freedom where he was responsible for counter terrorism measures in the Gulf...

Mesa League boys water polo season filled with intrigue in 2015

High School Phillip Brents - 09/25/2015 0

Mesa League play in boys water polo faces off Tuesday, Sept. 29, when the Bonita Vista Barons host the Otay Ranch Mustangs in a key league and divisional match at 7:30...

Plenty of room on board

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 08/10/2013 0

No matter how many people are on board, there is always, always room on the bandwagon. I should know, I hop on enough of them. It’s well-documented I’m not a fan of...

‘Play It Again, Sam’ is laugh out loud comedy at CV’s OnStage Playhouse

Uncategorized admin - 01/20/2017 0

In “Play It Again, Sam,” OnStage Playhouse's current offering, film-lover Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart’s technique. After his wife leaves him...

Soccer rivals pay respect to former mentor

High School Phillip Brents - 02/13/2020 0

The San Diego Section girls soccer playoffs are gearing up to start but the outcome of Monday’s Mesa League game between the front-running Eastlake Titans and host Bonita Vista Barons was...

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THIS WEEK

Basketball

Slam dunk! Barons win battle of the hoop

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

Aztec round-ballers keep up the heat in MW play

In search of a humane policy

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Lancers out-duel Barons, 2-1, in battle of early season Mesa League unbeatens

SWC to finally open long-awaited wellness center

Man accused in groping case pleads not guilty to domestic violence

New districts approved

Mixed showing for local prep pigskin teams in season openers

Best dreams may be ones that don’t come true

Bonitafest returns in time to usher in autumn

List keeps growing for Titans playing at the next level

Veteran spent time in internment camp

MLS arrives amid a crowded menu

Recruiting recognition

Mesa League boys water polo season filled with intrigue in 2015

Plenty of room on board

‘Play It Again, Sam’ is laugh out loud comedy at CV’s OnStage Playhouse

Soccer rivals pay respect to former mentor

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