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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

DON'T MISS

Gypsies in the city

Columnists Susan Walter - 09/29/2012 0

Probably everyone has been curious about prognostication – telling the future. Ouija boards, tea leaves, palm reading, tarot cards, crystal balls, astronomy. I dabbled in these during college; the results made...

Amazing Metro track and field finals sets stage for grand finish

Sports Phillip Brents - 05/14/2011 0

The stage appears to be set for something potentially grand after last Friday's Metro Conference finals concluded at Otay Ranch High School. Not everything went as it did in the regular...

No wall can contain planet Earth

Letters to the editor Deuel Woodward - 01/17/2019 0

Donald Trump professed a belief many times that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. He said it in public many times. Did he ever really believe it? Did part of...

NHL legend Willie O’Ree honored by Gulls on his 90th birthday

Alumni Phillip Brents - 10/16/2025 0

La Mesan Willie O’Ree never led the National Hockey League in scoring but he dazzled a legion of fans with his speed for the original San Diego Gulls in the Western...

Wait until next year

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 12/22/2011 0

A Jan. 30 preliminary hearing has been set for Jesus Arteaga Garcia, who is charged with the 2009 murder of his pregnant wife who was fatally stabbed in front of her...

Cop mellows as runners round third

Behind Police Lines Tom Basinski - 05/07/2011 0

I met rookie cop John Carlson 25 years ago. We both played on the CVPD softball team. I was near the end of my athletic career and John was a hard-charger,...

National City event celebrates Healthy Aging Month

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 09/17/2023 0

In celebration of Healthy Aging Month in September, JAR Senior Club, the first senior club dedicated to bringing seniors and local community resources to persons 64 and older at no cost,...

Fast lane: league swim finals coming up next week

High School Phillip Brents - 04/18/2019 0

The Mesa League will hold its prelim meet on Tuesday, April 23, followed by the league finals on Thursday, April 25. The South Bay League will hold timed finals on Friday,...

Third Avenue mural a sign of community partnership

Chula Vista admin - 02/09/2025 0

A freshly painted mural sits on Third Avenue in Chula Vista. The newest display of public art adorns the walls of cThru Media’s headquarters at 460 Third Ave., Suite B, and is...

Boys soccer preview: South County kickers piling up victories

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 01/14/2011 0

The wins keep piling up for the South County’s complement of boys high school soccer teams, and so has the recognition. Hilltop reached the finals of two tournaments over the holiday break,...

Call to a Ball

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 10/26/2012 0

All Navy and Marine Corps personnel are invited to “have a ball” with Scuttlebutt Det. #886 on Nov. 10 when they celebrate the 237th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps at...

Conversation can be had any time

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 07/09/2016 0

You see that video of that guy getting shot by police?” “Which one?” “The black guy.” “Yeah...which one? The one in South Carolina?” “Which one was that?” “Dude who was running away.” “No.” “The one in Dallas?” “Dallas?” “Yeah. Think...

Fight lands two women in prison

Uncategorized Neal Putnam - 12/04/2010 0

Two South Bay women have been found guilty of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter in the 2009 fatal stabbing of Justine Brown, 18, of National City, in a dispute over a...

Taste of Italy: Filippi’s Pizza Grotto comes to Eastlake

Arts & Eats Phillip Brents - 10/03/2014 0

Filippi’s Pizza Grotto is all about family. In fact, the DePhilippis family can be enumerated on the large framed family tree in the lobby of the new Eastlake restaurant. It includes six...

Meetings to be held on rec center’s new look

Chula Vista Abraham Jewett - 06/13/2019 0

Chula Vista’s Loma Verde Recreation Center is about to get a new look. The nearly 50-year-old center was built in 1971 and, after years of minor fixes and improvements, has been slated...

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