 Skeptical councilmen sold on plans
 JOHN GASTALDO / Union-Tribune
Escondido councilmen Sam Abed, Ed Gallo and Dick Daniels tour Palomar-Pomerado Health's "Hospital Room of the Future," set up in a warehouse to test new technologies that will be used in its new hospital.
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TIP Academy to argue its case against closure
July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
ENCINITAS
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TIP Academy charter school will have a chance Tuesday to try to persuade the Encinitas Union School District not to shut it down.
The charter school, which just completed its second school year and now shares space at the campus of Ocean Knoll Elementary, has been accused of numerous violations of state law, including conflicts of interest, financial improprieties and repeated violations of the state's open meeting laws.
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July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
City considers zoning change for school site: Encinitas officials are contemplating a zoning change that would allow the Pacific View Elementary School site – prime seaside property – to be redeveloped with single-family homes, condos, townhouses and offices.
July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Campus paper not returning in the fall:
Fallbrook High School will not have a student newspaper in the coming school year, the apparent fallout of a move by administrators to remove the paper's adviser after he protested the censorship of an article and a student editorial.
SAN MARCOS, July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
School board member won't run again: SAN MARCOS
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Incumbent San Marcos school board member Pam Bancells, who is in the final months of her third term, has decided that she will not seek re-election.
OCEANSIDE, July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
11 get forms in quest for 5 city offices: OCEANSIDE
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Eleven people have pulled nomination papers to run for political office in Oceanside.
The filing period for municipal candidates in the November election began Monday and ends Aug. 8.
SAN MARCOS, July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Signs will go up in parks to indicate smoking areas: SAN MARCOS
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New signs telling people where they can smoke in San Marcos parks will be going up soon. An ordinance restricting smoking to designated areas in the parks went into effect almost two months ago, but the areas were not selected.
ESCONDIDO, July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
'Larger-than-life' characters take stage:ESCONDIDO
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What do you call a musical with a large cast, rousing dances, baton twirlers, a barbershop quartet, unforgettable ballads and an unlikely love story between a handsome swindler and a smart librarian?
July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ceremony planned for path's extension :OCEANSIDE:
A short ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday for a new segment of the San Luis Rey River Bike Path.
July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Body found in field is badly decomposed: VISTA:
A body found in a field yesterday may have been there for several weeks, sheriff's homicide detectives said.
July 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
North County crime log :
VISTA, 4:29 p.m. July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)Decomposed body found in Vista field: A body found in a field Friday may have been there for several weeks, sheriff's homicide detectives said.
OCEANSIDE, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Youth pastor draws from life for screenplay:
Cameras, lights and professional actors have transformed New Song Community Church in Oceanside into a Hollywood set.
At the rear of the church, a soundstage has been set up, where cameras began rolling last month for “How To Save a Life,” an independent movie written by resident youth pastor Jim Britts.
July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
ACLU steps into flap over added fee: ESCONDIDO – The ACLU is once again challenging a decision by the city of Escondido. The case involves a dispute between the city and a mobile-home-owners group. Last week, the city sent a letter to the group saying it would no longer be allowed to use meeting rooms at the East Valley Community Center for free.
OCEANSIDE, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
City Council to sell land under Marina Towers for $5 million: OCEANSIDE
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VISTA, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Farmers market finds new home: The Vista farmers market, being uprooted after 26 years of operation from a parking lot next to City Hall, will be transplanted to the Vista County Courthouse Complex beginning Aug. 9.
ESCONDIDO, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
New superstore could be toast of the town:ESCONDIDO
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In BevMo, the city of Escondido sees dollar signs, connoisseurs of alcohol see an Aladdin's cave of intoxicating treasures, and smaller liquor stores sense trouble on the horizon.
CARLSBAD, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
City councilwoman says she will seek eighth term: CARLSBAD
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Ann Kulchin has announced she is running for her eighth term on the Carlsbad City Council.
VISTA, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
City receives development zone report:
A report on Vista's ambitious redevelopment plan was delivered this week to the city, where an advisory panel will use it to make recommendations to a City Council intent on reshaping the community.
RAMONA, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Man charged in anti-war protest case: RAMONA
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A Ramona man who drove his pickup toward a group of anti-war protesters last month has been charged with misdemeanor reckless driving.
ESCONDIDO, July 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Priorities considered if schools get windfall: ESCONDIDO
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Cutting librarians, assistant principals and work hours from the Escondido schools budget was agonizing. Putting them back in could prove nearly as difficult.
CARLSBAD, 6:34 p.m. July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)Kuchin tells plans to seek re-election to Carlsbad City Council: Ann Kulchin has announced she is running for her eighth term on the Carlsbad City Council. Kulchin, who has served on the council since 1980, is one of six people who have formed campaign committees or taken out candidate papers to run for two council seats that will be on the Nov. 4 ballot. She held a news conference Thursday to formally announce her candidacy. 5:51 p.m. July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ramona man who drove toward protesters is charged: A Ramona man who drove his pickup toward a group of anti-war protesters last month has been charged with misdemeanor reckless driving.
SAN MARCOS, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Schools to adopt state fitness test: Getting out of gym class in San Marcos high schools will soon require more effort. In the past, students took two years of physical education classes to fulfill the number of PE credits needed to graduate, and then moved on to other electives. They didn't have to worry about passing tests.
VISTA, 2:51 p.m. July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)Sheriff's Dept. seeks help in IDing N. County car thief-burglar: The Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in commercial and vehicle burglaries in North County. OCEANSIDE, 12:37 p.m. July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Oceanside to sell Marina Towers property to homeowners: After more than a decade of start-and-stop negotiations, the Oceanside City Council has agreed to sell the land under the 17-story Marina Towers condominiums, one of the tallest buildings in North County.
VALLEY CENTER, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Mediation OK'd in split by tribe on membership: VALLEY CENTER
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A dispute over membership in the San Pasqual Indian band is threatening its government and its operation of the Valley View Casino, which has created hundreds of jobs and earned millions in revenues.
ESCONDIDO, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Future of hospital patient care rolls in: ESCONDIDO
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Palomar Pomerado Health district employees got a sneak peek yesterday at some of the technology they could be using in a few years.
July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Sales taxes not hitting targets: Carlsbad's budget isn't dipping into the red, but the sagging economy is dragging down tax revenues, the finance director told the City Council yesterday.
VISTA, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Council OKs civic center to replace City Hall: VISTA
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Frank Lopez Jr. remembers walking the grounds of the old downtown Broadway Center in 1986, when the city was looking for a new site for City Hall.
VALLEY CENTER, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Indian school under scrutiny to reorganize:
Facing revocation of its charter over accusations of financial mismanagement, a school for students living on North County Indian reservations has decided to close and reopen under a different structure.
July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ramona man ordered to trial in head-on crash:
A Ramona man, who for no apparent reason drove his pickup into oncoming traffic along state Route 67 in Poway and collided head-on with a Hummer last year, is awaiting trial on two felony charges of reckless driving causing bodily injury.
CARLSBAD, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Plans for new hotel at beach approved :
An oceanfront hotel with a rooftop restaurant will be built at the west end of Oak Avenue, after the Carlsbad City Council approved the plans for it Tuesday.
ESCONDIDO, July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Store owner Diaz running for council :ESCONDIDO:
Olga Diaz, a business owner who ran unsuccessfully for City Council in 2006, has announced her candidacy in the November election.
July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)2 to test incumbents for MiraCosta board: NORTH COUNTY: Two candidates have signaled their intention to run against incumbents for the MiraCosta College board of trustees. July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Plans for new hotel at beach approved: CARLSBAD: An oceanfront hotel with a rooftop restaurant will be built at the west end of Oak Avenue, after the Carlsbad City Council approved plans for it Tuesday. July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Re-election bid is posted on YouTube: POWAY: Councilwoman Merrilee Boyack has announced her bid for re-election to a second four-year term by posting a video on YouTube. VISTA, 6:44 p.m. July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Vista finally votes to build new civic center: Frank Lopez, Jr. remembers walking the grounds of the old downtown Broadway Center back in 1986 when the city was looking for a new site for city hall.
July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Man's calling: Preserving 760 area code: In May, Scott Chatfield set out to save North County's 760 area code. He had no idea what he was doing.
CARLSBAD, July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Carlsbad bans smoking at all its beaches, parks: The Carlsbad City Council voted last night to ban smoking on its beaches and in its parks, becoming the last of the county's oceanfront cities to adopt such a prohibition.
July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)MiraCosta decides fate of remaining palm trees: NORTH COUNTY: MiraCosta College officials hope they have written the last paragraph in the two-year saga of the palm trees. July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Affordable-housing site fully leased at opening: OCEANSIDE: La Misión Village Apartments, an 80-unit affordable-housing project, was 100 percent leased before its grand opening yesterday, and there are 100 people on the waiting list, said John Seymour, vice president of National Community Renaissance of California, the nonprofit that built the complex.
July 15 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Teen sought in stabbing of man turns himself in: ESCONDIDO: A 17-year-old boy sought in last week's stabbing death of a man who lived in the same apartment surrendered yesterday at Escondido police headquarters.
OCEANSIDE, 7:54 p.m. July 15 (UNION-TRIBUNE)Oceanside affordable housing project 100% leased: La Mision Village Apartments, an 80-unit affordable housing project, was 100 percent leased before its grand opening Tuesday, and there are 100 people on the waiting list, said John Seymour, vice president of National Community Renaissance of California, the nonprofit that built the complex. OCEANSIDE, 8:57 a.m. July 15 (SIGNONSANDIEGO)
Teen arrested in Oceanside tagging case: A 15-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of vandalism and possession of vandalism tools caused about $400 in damage to an Oceanside trash can, police said Tuesday.
SAN MARCOS, July 15 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Aiding academic dreams:
Ana Lopez has long dreamed of carving out a better life for herself and easing her father's load. Her dad works at a nursery and is the sole provider for a wife at home with arthritis and six children. The family lives in a two-bedroom Fallbrook apartment.
ESCONDIDO, July 13
Waiting his turn: He's been to every backwoods ballpark from Frisco to Fremont and back again. He's a veteran of seedy hotels, surly crowds and just one of many trying to get his shot in the major leagues.
July 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Vehicle hits, injures pair of pedestrians:SCRIPPS RANCH: Two pedestrians were seriously injured last night when they were hit by a vehicle on Pomerado Road near Willow Creek Road in the Scripps Ranch neighborhood of San Diego, police said.
July 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
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ESCONDIDO, 5:34 p.m. July 13 (AP)
Escondido cracks down on illegal immigrants: Officials in this San Diego County city are trying to discourage illegal immigration by enacting ordinances that crack down on border-crossers and the residents who harbor them.
SAN MARCOS, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
A clean slate: Some original classroom walls constructed more than four decades ago at Palomar College have crashed down in a construction zone on the San Marcos campus.
July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
The week: Stories and photos from July 6-12:Former Chargers linebacker Steve Foley, whose football career ended when he was shot by an off-duty Coronado police officer, settled his lawsuit against the city and the officer for $5.5 million, attorneys said Monday.
July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Longtime ranch manager became Poway's first 'honorary mayor':POWAY – Fred Allbee managed the Goodan Ranch in Sycamore Canyon for more than 50 years, and was still catching cattle rustlers into the 1970s. Allbee, a strong civic booster, was Poway's first “honorary mayor.”
OCEANSIDE, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
City likely to OK sale of Marina Towers land: After negotiating with a condominium homeowners' association for years, the Oceanside City Council is poised on Wednesday to sell the land under Marina Towers, the tallest building in North County.
CARLSBAD, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
2 men arrested in scam with foreclosed homes: Police unraveled an elaborate scheme Friday involving two men who allegedly posed as landlords and then collected up to thousands of dollars in payments from unsuspecting renters, authorities said.
VALLEY CENTER, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Woman's romantic mystery is finally published after 20 years: The expression “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again” certainly applies to Charlotte Strauwald of Valley Center.
CARLSBAD, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Smoking ban to be discussed: Carlsbad would become the latest city in the county to enact a beach and park smoking ban if it passes a proposed prohibition this week.
OCEANSIDE, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Samoan festival tries to instill pride, inspire next generation: When North County Samoans gather for their annual heritage festival, it's always filled with foods and music from the South Pacific.
July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Boy dies after vehicle blows a tire, rolls over:VISTA: An 8-year-old boy died yesterday after the vehicle he was riding in ran off state Route 78 and rolled over.
July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Road closures:
BONSALL, July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Green growers in more ways than one:BONSALL – Robert “Rio” Hahn of Bonsall knows just what to look for in an avocado: an oil-tinged, nutty flavor with a buttery, creamy finish in taste and texture.
July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
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