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Crusaders end run in state regional basketball playoffs

Basketball Phillip Brents - 0
The high school winter sports season finally closed for South County teams after the Mater Dei Catholic girls basketball team suffered elimination in last Saturday’s Southern California regional championship game. The ninth-seeded...
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Lady Barons get it done, win inaugural girls flag football title

Football Phillip Brents - 0
Trend setting seems to be in vogue in today’s world of social media. The Bonita Vista High School girls flag football team definitely has set the standard from which all other...
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‘Spring Awakening’ stirring up teenage emotions in potent OnStage production

Arts Jeanne Becijos - 0
The powerful multiple Tony Award-winning “Spring Awakening” is stirring up emotions at Chula Vista’s OnStage Playhouse. Though the musical is set in conservative Germany during the 1890s, the musical reflects the lack...
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It’s time to bring it on in CIF baseball playoffs

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 0
Five South County teams survived Tuesday’s play-in round to advance to double-elimination bracket play in this year’s San Diego Section baseball playoffs. Now the chase is on to win a CIF championship. In...
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Trojan ladies make their mark on the lacrosse pitch

High School Phillip Brents - 0
Though the Castle Park High School girls lacrosse team narrowly missed out on being included in this year’s San Diego Section divisional playoffs, the ladies from Troy did manage to set...
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Meth smuggler out in ’26

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 0
A National City man who was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for smuggling methamphetamine will be released in 2026, according to a federal prison agency. David “Woody” Valencia, 45, received...
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More of the same in changing times

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 0
The bills kept coming. The days got shorter, then longer and are getting shorter again. The weight yo-yo’d, arguments were lost, bets won, bad news kept rolling in and good news continued...
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Bensoussan, Sotelo-Solis return

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 0
Chula Vista City Council Seat 3 Pamela Bensoussan 29, 056 votes Larry Breitfelder 19,477 votes Chula Vista City Council Seat 4 Mary Salas 28,117 votes Linda Wagner 19,477 votes Proposition B Should Chula Vista implement district elections? Yes 31,556 No...
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Visions of graduations become a reality

Chula Vista Rebecca Williamson - 0
Forty-one students in the South County Economic Development Council’s Optical Training program, titled I Can See My Future, graduated in early May using Southwestern College’s facility for the ceremony. The training program...
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Hilltop’s Fune scores points on the rink as scholar-athlete

High School Phillip Brents - 0
Hilltop High School senior Trevor Fune uses three words to describe himself: humble, dedicated and hardworking. One might also add caring, compassionate and intelligent. “I would say teachers would say that I’m responsible,...
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CHULA VISTA CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES

Chula Vista Albert Fulcher - 0
Carolina Chavez is running for City Council District 1 being vacated by Council member John McCann. Chavez, 38, and a Democrat, said she grew up in the region, knows Chula Vista...
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War-torn El Salvador is setting for CV novelist

Arts Jeanne Becijos - 0
Chula Vista author Sherrie Miranda has recently released a historical novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador.” It is the story of an American girl who goes to war-torn El Salvador...
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Estevez’s vision quest includes CIF mat title

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 0
Otay Ranch senior Eddie Estevez has seen California high school wrestling’s “big show” and wants to return there — that being, of course, the state championship tournament. Estevez qualified for the elite...
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Enjoying life on the run

Around The South Bay Richard Pena - 0
It has been sometime since I have written one of those “such interesting people” type columns.  I, therefore, would be utterly remiss if I passed up this opportunity that is staring...
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Opportunity knocks for Hilltop football team

Football Phillip Brents - 0
The Hilltop High School football team still has to nail down one more win to make it official, but the Lancers took the high road to claiming this year’s Metro-South Bay...
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