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Chula Vista

No. 14 Crusaders get company in Metro-Mesa League football race

The Metro-Mesa League football season is two weeks old and the defending league champion Mater Dei Catholic Crusaders have quickly established themselves as the team to beat once again with a...

Failure is a good teacher

My high school days were taken up with sports and socializing. The grades weren’t great, but good enough. I’m ashamed that I studied only enough to get by and keep my...

Title showdowns set in Metro-South Bay League, Pacific League

The Hilltop Lancers earned no worse than a share of this year’s Metro-South Bay League title by defeating the Sweetwater Red Devils, 28-6, in a game played last Friday at Chula...

Eastlake Titans roll to 3-0 start to CIF-Metro Conference season

The Eastlake High School roller hockey team is off to a 3-0 start to the 2023-24 season. While fashioning their winning streak, the Titans snapped a longer one by defending league...

Tax increase headed for November vote

The Chula Vista City Council on Tuesday voted in support of city staff to draft  language for a half-cent sales tax measure to appear on the November ballot with an accompanying...

Metro-Mesa champ Titans advance to CIF boys water polo semifinals

This year’s San Diego Section boys water polo playoffs conclude Saturday, Nov. 11, at La Jolla High School with five games: Open Division final, Open Division state play-in game and Division...

Lemon celebration comes to Third

Third Avenue Village Association’s juiciest  street faire is coming to downtown Chula Vista. The 17th annual Lemon Festival is celebrating a time when Chula Vista was once California’s lemon capital. “Years ago the...

#FoodieNews: Bonita beckons a Mexiterranean cuisine rendezvous

Tucked away on Bonita Road is Romesco, a Mexiterranean bistro. Baja and Spanish flavors are intertwined here and the influence spawns beautiful delicious Mediterranean-inspired food with a Baja twist. This is a...

The familiar sound of mariachi

Mariachi music is embedded in Mexican culture and, to a degree, American culture. It’s an instantly recognizable form of music—all bright brass and rhythmic guitar in three-quarter time. But what is this...

South County mat women dominate CIF girls wrestling finals

It was a spectacular showing by South County participants at last weekend’s eighth annual San Diego Section girls wrestling tournament at Sweetwater High School. All tallied up, five Metro Conference mat...

Bank robber gets almost five years

A National City man has been sentenced to 55 months in federal prison for robbing a North Island Credit Union branch in Imperial Beach. A prosecutor recommended a 77-month sentence for Tulio...

Mayor hosts district conversation

In her final State of the City address on Feb. 25, Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox, put the problems that have plagued the Sweetwater District at the forefront of her speech. Nearly...

Complaint goes nowhere

A complaint filed with the Chula Vista Board of Ethics against councilwoman Pat Aguilar was recently dismissed by the seven-member panel. During the board's Jan. 19 meeting, the Chula Vista Ethics Committee...

Check out living books at library

Instead of picking out hardcover books, the Chula Vista Public Library is presenting its Library of Us, where you check out people of other cultures, backgrounds, religion, and freely ask the...

Mustangs win OT battle against Lancers in early match-up of Mesa League unbeatens

Who says that boys basketball in the Metro Conference can't be exciting? Certainly, the packed stands Friday night at Hilltop High School gave a hint that something electric was in the...

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THIS WEEK

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....