Residents in Escondido will begin paying the new one cent sales tax that the voters approved last November on April 1 (and that’s not an April fool!) The one cent tax was approved through Measure I ...

Dorothy Mary Greenwood Hall died peacefully on March 5, 2025, at age 97 years at home in Escondido, California. Dorothy was born in the small town of Clayville, Rhode Island to David and Alice ...

A Vietnamese Pot Belly pig named Miss Piggy is getting settled at the Escondido Campus of the San Diego Humane Society, after being brought into care April 1 by the Society’s Humane Law Enforcement ...

The Southern California Indigenous Culture & Art Festival takes place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 19, at Escondido’s Grape Day Park, 321 N. Broadway.. The event is free and open to the public. It’s an ...

I write this column on Sundays and I thought about an event begun recently at Kit Carson Park called Cars and Coffee. Sounds like a good combination of favorites—what with all the coffee shops popping ...

Last week, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors failed to take necessary action to protect public safety, allowing San Diego County’s reckless “super sanctuary” policy to remain in place. This ...

Escondido City Council at its April 2 meeting voted 4-0 to provide major funding for the Southern California Indigenous Culture & Art Festival that will happen 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 19, at Grape Day ...

San Pasqual High School’s robotics team, the SuperNURDs, has clinched another major victory, winning their second regional competition at the San Diego Regional hosted by UCSD this past weekend. The ...

Several people were arrested Wednesday, March 26 due to criminal activity at a large homeless encampment in Harmony Grove in an area encompassing both unincorporated Escondido and the City of ...

One of the biggest victories we had last year for common sense was defeating the per-mile tax here in San Diego County. SANDAG — our regional transportation board — was pushing a proposal to charge ...

The Escondido Union School District has announced the District Employees of the Year: ELA/Reading teacher Cassandra Johnson of Hidden Valley Middle School is EUSD’s Teacher of the Year-Middle School.

“Collateral damage” is a military term for damages to unintended targets, i.e., innocent bystanders. Sometimes it designates unintended victims of generally benign activities. Such as Escondido’s ...