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Defending league champ Hilltop excels in girls field hockey season once again

The Hilltop High School girls field hockey team is off to a 5-0 start in league play and a strong 9-4 start overall to the 2015 season. The Lady Lancers defeated Otay...

Changes coming to Third

The proposed facelift for Third Avenue's downtown village is a done deal. The City Council on Tuesday approved the final design for changes to the heart of the city's downtown area. Consultants Howard...

The season of giving: Know your charity before you give

As your District Attorney, I’m committed to increasing communication and accessibility between the DA’s Office and you, the community. One way I have been doing that is through this monthly column,...

Not tracing guns is a crime

I'm not one for jumping on the bandwagon and weighing in right away on some current "hot" topic. Stirring the pot after things have subsided is what I like best; having...

Civilized adaptation

What do human beings take from planet Earth? Everything they can. What do they give back in return? Garbage, sewage, concrete, carbon dioxide, and plastic. 7.7 billion homo sapiens live in...

The seasons have arrived, be prepared

Halloween costumes are on display, holiday recipes are increasingly available online and people are sipping on their pumpkin spiced lattes as they jauntily make their way down the street — it...

Olympian boys water polo team looking for productive finish in rebuilding year

The Olympian High School boys water polo team finished runner-up to the San Ysidro Cougars in last season's South Bay Legue standings. Both the Eagles and Cougars could be the teams...

Westling resigns as head football coach at Chula Vista High School

Chula Vista head football coach Drew Westling announced in an email Saturday that he has resigned his position at the school. The Spartans concluded the season Friday with a 2-8 record...

Good, bad and annoying

Good and bad are relative. Punching someone in the face: bad. Punching someone who is attacking you or a loved one: good. Notable and annoying also posses a hint of duality (what is...

Summer must reads

If anyone has advice, '’d be willing to consider it. In my home there is a pile of reading material that doesn’t dwindle. The problem compounds in the summer when a...

Chargers provide grant to build new weight room at Sweetwater High School

Dignitaries from Sweetwater High School and the San Diego Chargers gathered Tuesday morning in National City to cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the school’s new weight room. The new facility replaces...

Bird is the word on power outage

A bird that got tangled in power lines was the source of an electrical outage on Thursday that caused more than 1,200 Chula Vista and Bonita residents to lose power between 7:47 a.m. and...

Metro Conference all-league football teams named

  Metro-Mesa League All-League Football Team First Team Offense Dominic Nankil (Mater Dei Catholic) Caleb Addleman (Eastlake) Surahz Buncom (Mater Dei Catholic) Jerry McClure (Mater Dei Catholic) Osvaldo Avila (Otay Ranch) Rollin George (Mater Dei Catholic) William Schmitz (Eastlake) Josh Glanz...

Four Metro teams advance to Lions tourney semis

The 60th San Diego Lions tournament featured 112 teams from both coasts of the United States and though no Metro Conference team played for a championship, four area squads did earn...

Year off to an unsteady start

So this is how the year will progress, is it? As December 2022 morphed into January 2023 news that the U.S. unemployment rate reached an all-time low of 3.5 percent seemed to...

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THIS WEEK

Titans complete the job:...

The Eastlake Titans, unable to complete the prospect of an undefeated 20-0 season last year with a loss in the championship game to the...

Actions may need to...

It is a gesture, a simple and symbolic one. But it is the right one. When most of the Chula Vista City Council during a...

Bonita Vista Barons are...

By all accounts, it was supposed to be a killer season for the Bonita Vista High School boys wrestling team, perhaps even topping last...

Esoteric Astrology as news...

Festivals – Rare Ones – Saturn/Neptune Aries & the Fire Horse The months, January, February and March, can seem cold and empty without preparing for...

Lady Eagles, Lady Crusaders...

Girls wrestling made its debut on the mat two decades ago. The first girls section championship tournament was approved in October 2011.The sport has...

Gulls gear up for...

The San Diego Gulls are now in the second half of their 2025-26 American Hockey League schedule following this week’s AHL All-Star Classic in...

SWC opens Spring semester...

Southwestern College welcomed more than 18,000 students this week as the Spring 2026 semester got underway, marking a lively and energized return to campus....

E-vehicle chargers coming

Chula Vista is preparing to open a new Tesla Supercharger station that will significantly expand electric vehicle charging options in the community. The site, located...

Creating opportunity, one scholarship...

At Southwestern College, we believe talent is everywhere and opportunity must be made accessible. One of the most powerful ways we achieve that is...

Crusader alum Myers is...

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold and New England Patriots signal-caller Drake Maye each predictably received significant face time during Sunday’s broadcast of Super Bowl...

Chair of California Transportation...

Clarissa Reyes Falcon has been elected Chair of the California Transportation Commission, with Joseph Cruz serving as Vice Chair, which the Commission announced at...

Students take stop sewage...

When students from across South Bay boarded buses and an airplane for Sacramento in January, they weren’t heading on a typical field trip. They were going to...