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Spartans claim 17-10 Kiwanis Bowl cliff-hanger victory over Lancers

Football Phillip Brents - 0
The Chula Vista Kiwanis Bowl football series between Chula Vista and Hilltop high schools has generally produced a feast or famine outcome in its 10 years. Host Chula Vista’s 17-10 non-league...
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Lancers hope strong summer showing translates to wins on the gridiron

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 0
The Hilltop Lancers had quite a bit of success during summer passing tournaments. Whether that translates directly into success on the gridiron this fall remains to be seen. “We had a great...
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Man and wife sentenced for selling girls for sex

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 0
A nine-year federal prison term was handed down June 30 to a man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of two 15-year-old girls in National City. Robert Darryl...
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Two chambers go about their business

Uncategorized Ernesto Lopez - 0
There are two chambers of commerce in Chula Vista serving the business community. Chief operations officer of the recently established San Diego South County Chamber of Commerce, Ed Herrera, who at one...
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‘Strap’ suspect faces trial

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 0
A 20-year-old man was ordered to stand trial on 14 counts of robbery and attempted robbery in the Cover My Strap theft series in which a robber held a weapon underneath...
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Fall sports preview: Girls golf at Sweetwater High School

Golf Phillip Brents - 0
The high school girls golf season is now in swing and that includes Sweetwater High School in National City. The Lady Red Devils are hoping to find success in a rebuilding season,...
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Comparing and contrasting decisions

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 0
Politics, like sports, can lend itself some to interesting, lively replay and debate seasoned with second-guessing and Monday morning quarterbacking. How useful the chatter is, is ultimately up to those who...
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New look, name for water park

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 0
A new and improved water park is slated to open in southern Chula Vista on June 1. SeaWorld’s Aquatica San Diego will replace Knott’s Soak City, which opened in 2000, transforming the...
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Kicking and screaming into the 2000s

Columnists Nancy Alvarado - 0
My phone died this week. No miracles, no resets, and no taking out the battery and blowing the dust out of the nooks and crannies could revive it. People’s Merry Christmas and Happy...
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Write what you know while you can

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 0
Write it down. It is at once a self-admonition and gentle suggestion. For now. In time it may become a frantic plea. With each passing day the act of memorializing the mundane and...
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Barons advance in girls volleyball playoffs

High School Phillip Brents - 0
Jenelle Hudson had 10 kills and 17 digs, Meagan Wright had 11 kills and seven digs and Cari Hudson had 36 assists as the host Bonita Vista Barons swept the West...
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A new generation of firefighters

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 0
On July 13, Southwestern College graduated the next generation of firefighters from the Fire Technology program at the SWC Public Safety Training Center. Lorraine Hutchinson, retired deputy chief of the San...
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Teacher-coach icon dead at 50

Chula Vista Phillip Brents - 0
The South County sports community lost a beloved friend earlier this week with the untimely passing of Robert Blas, a teacher and coach at Eastlake High School. Blas, 50, died Monday night...
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CVESD exploring merits of grade expansion

Chula Vista Isabel Hughes - 0
On Jan. 22, Chula Vista Elementary School District Superintendent Francisco Escobedo introduced the possibility for middle school expansion to the CVESD Board of Education, marking the beginning of the process to...
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Titans, Aztecs complete league championship seasons

Football Phillip Brents - 0
Over so soon?! The 2020-21 high school football season came to a premature end last weekend but that the season happened at all might be construed as a minor miracle. While no CIF...
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THIS WEEK

College

If it’s December, it’s...

AZTECS, LADEN WITH MW HONOREES, PRIMED FOR NEW MEXICO BOWL MATCHUP AGAINST MEAN GREEN From staff reports The Mountain West has announced its 2025 all-conference football...
Croaa country

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...
Basketball

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...
Chula Vista

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,...
Horoscope

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....
Chula Vista

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...
Chula Vista

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...
Basketball

Barons keep reeling in...

Fans got their money’s worth at this year’s Frank Pekarek National City Host Lions boys basketball tournament at Sweetwater High School. “We had all five...
High School

Castle Park Trojans finally...

It took two years, but the wait is finally over … and worth it. Castle Park High School held an official ribbon-cutting ceremony for its...
Basketball

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...
Football

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...