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Mar Vista claims first-ever boys CIF water polo championship

Phillip Brents - 11/21/2025

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Gulls stirring AHL pot with six-game points streak

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Foundation awards $250,000 to protect children’s vision Care and Refugee Health Services

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Drone show debuts in Chula Vista

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Police in distress

Uncategorized Allison Sampite - 11/06/2010 0

The Chula Vista Police Officer's Association is doing what they can to save a total of 44 police positions, but it may not be enough. According to Chula Vista City Manager Jim...

Metro athletes chase state track berths

High School Phillip Brents - 04/23/2010 0

A number of South County athletes are strong contenders to qualify for this year's state track and field finals. The top three place-finishers at the section championship advance to the state...

Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 2 – 8, 2023

Horoscope legals - 08/03/2023 0

The Rising of Sirius & the Light of Leo In ancient Egypt the annual flooding of the Nile occurred as Sirius, the blue-white star left of Orion, became visible in the skies...

Time flies when you’re not around

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 04/29/2017 0

Go ahead, ask me. Ask me the name of the girl who sat in front of me the entire year I spent in sixth grade multiple decades ago. Couldn’t tell you! Want to...

Duo targeted mourners’ home

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 10/24/2015 0

Two people pleaded guilty Oct. 14 to burglarizing a Paradise Hills house while the occupants were attending the funeral of a loved one. Additionally, David Andrew Valenzuela, 34, of El Cajon, and...

Water rates won’t rise for now

Chula Vista Allison Sampite - 09/03/2011 0

The Sweetwater Authority water board of directors changed direction after voting in June to include a 2.5 percent water rate increase on South Bay irrigation customers who live in National City,...

Preparing for the storms ahead

Chula Vista Carl Robinette - 01/09/2016 0

El Niño is poised to hit Southern California this year with the National Weather Service calling for above average rainfall that will last into spring, possibly even early summer. As drought-weary Chula...

Ex-border agent sent to prison

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 09/27/2018 0

A former Border Patrol agent from Chula Vista was sentenced Sept. 18 to two years in federal prison for illegal transportation of firearms across state lines and a concurrent one-year term...

Brothers face murder charges

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 07/08/2010 0

Two brothers will stand trial for murder on Aug. 19 in the 2009 shooting death of a young man on Paradise Valley Road. Darren Roy Martinez, 21, and Hector Martinez, 18, waived...

Mariachi’s evolving influence

Chula Vista Brooke Binkowski - 01/31/2015 0

Mariachi is a distinctly Mexican scene: musicians, replete with embroidered vests and hats, their rhythmic strumming and singing punctuated by staccato bursts of horns and violins, augmented by a happily dancing...

FIRST to be wowed by students

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 04/04/2015 0

Teens have an innate way of humbling adults. Ask them a question about social media, music, technology, sports, pop culture, the weather, food, their friends, their teachers, their lives — to...

Fire dept. preps for CPR week

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 05/20/2017 0

According to the American Heart Association, about 350,000 people a year go into sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital. From that, only about 46 percent of those people who experience...

Report is misleading

Chula Vista Allison Sampite - 01/01/2011 0

Responding to a report by economist Peter Donohue suggesting Chula Vista has more than $154 million in unrestricted net assets, which can legally be used to avoid layoffs and save public...

Love for wrestling unmasked

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 07/03/2014 0

Jose Alaniz has always loved wrestling. Not the watered-down American wrestling though. While its cartoonish storylines and histrionic characters can be entertaining, it is the frenetic, athletic and often bloody style of...

Fear comes in all shapes and horrors

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 10/31/2015 0

I miss being scared. I miss that adrenaline surge I used to get watching scary movies, especially during Halloween. The tongue scene in "Nightmare on Elm Street," while campy, elicited a genuine...

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THIS WEEK

Columnists

Mar Vista claims first-ever boys CIF water polo championship

Gulls stirring AHL pot with six-game points streak

Foundation awards $250,000 to protect children’s vision Care and Refugee Health Services

Drone show debuts in Chula Vista

DON'T MISS

Police in distress

Metro athletes chase state track berths

Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 2 – 8, 2023

Time flies when you’re not around

Duo targeted mourners’ home

Water rates won’t rise for now

Preparing for the storms ahead

Ex-border agent sent to prison

Brothers face murder charges

Mariachi’s evolving influence

FIRST to be wowed by students

Fire dept. preps for CPR week

Report is misleading

Love for wrestling unmasked

Fear comes in all shapes and horrors

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