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Basketball

Slam dunk! Barons win battle of the hoop

Phillip Brents - 01/29/2026

Gulls

Epic win catapults Gulls past first place Reign

High School

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

Basketball

Aztec round-ballers keep up the heat in MW play

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Eastlake Titans sweep Aztecs to claim this year’s Metro-Mesa League baseball title

Baseball Phillip Brents - 06/01/2023 0

Metro-Mesa League teams played three games against each league opponent this season. The Eastlake Titans needed all three games against the Montgomery Aztecs to win this year’s league championship. The Titans defeated...

May Krampus visit the deserving

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 12/24/2016 0

Call me petty, vindictive, small-minded or even mean (just don’t call me late to the table for Christmas tamales and empanadas) but over time I’ve developed a greater affinity for Krampus...

National City hoists welcome symbols for diverse community

Latest News Jessica Brodkin Webb - 06/25/2021 0

At a June 15 City Council meeting, elected leaders approved flying the Juneteenth, LGBTQ, Kumeyaay-Digueno and Fire Fighter Mourning flags above government buildings as a visual indication that the local municipality...

New beginnings come courtesy Humble Designs

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 09/10/2022 0

Karay Smith found herself unemployed at the beginning the COVID-19 pandemic. A single mother of four small boys ages 1 to 6 -years-old, they spent nearly a six months homeless, moving...

Some of what we learned recently

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 04/30/2021 0

Gradually the rhythms and routines of life pre-pandemic are returning. (But, let’s be clear. While the United States appears to be rebounding and businesses are resuming some normalcy, the COVID-19 virus and...

New GM for water district

National City Robert Moreno - 07/15/2017 0

Tish Berge, former director of finance and administration at the Rincon del Diablo Municipal Water District, is the Sweetwater Authority’s new general manager. As part of her job, Berge will carry out...

Time to cheer in the coming year

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 01/16/2014 0

When I turn on the evening news and see the trials and tribulations of those folks on the Eastern seaboard it is hard to imagine that I live in the same...

Mesa League 2010 football preview: Eastlake Titans

Football Phillip Brents - 09/02/2010 0

After surveying a recent practice session in Eastlake High School’s Stan Canaris Stadium, Titan head football coach John McFadden wore a satisfied smile. “We have a good group of kids — a...

Rent won’t be raised-for now

Chula Vista Jon Campbell - 06/18/2010 0

More than 80 people filled the seats at Chula Vista City Hall Wednesday for a meeting of the Mobile Home Rent Review Commission, where the board considered allowing a rent increase...

Five tips to fight back against springtime allergies

Health Katharine Woessner M.D. - 05/09/2015 0

San Diego is known for consistent sunshine and a mild climate, but our wonderful weather also means that allergy season lasts all year long. May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness...

City officials and cabaret operators square off in court

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 06/13/2015 0

San Diego Superior Court Judge Richard E.L. Strauss heard opening statements Monday morning in the civil trial between the city of Chula Vista and Eyecandy Showgirls. The city sued Eyecandy in June...

Metro cross country dual meet season steps off: Barons, Titans, Mustangs sweep Mesa League openers

High School Phillip Brents - 10/05/2011 0

The Metro Conference cross country dual meet season stepped off on Friday, Sept. 30, with the Sweetwater Red Devils recording a varsity sweep of the Montgomery Aztecs in the South Bay...

Revenue collection could always be worse

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 04/13/2013 0

There are few, if any, Americans who enjoy writing a check during the annual spring slaughter known as Tax Day. I’m not the exception. Fortunately there have been few occasions in which...

A little of this, a little of that gives readers plenty to read

Around The South Bay Richard Pena - 07/26/2014 0

On going through past columns I see where it is almost time to do another one of those olio type columns, you know, the kind that has a number of subjects....

Solace in numbers

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 01/05/2012 0

In October 2006, Guadalupe Moreno was taken to the emergency room for severe bone and kidney pain and a fever. During the second day of her one-week stay at Scripps Hospital in...

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