Last week’s article about the Valley Center Fire Protection District’s Station 3 ground- breaking incorrectly reported that the gift from the Rotary Club of Valley Center to the Valley Center Fire ...

Jeson Nikrasch has been recognized as VCMWD Employee of the Quarter for January – March 2025. With the departure of a senior Engineering Department staff member last December, Nikrasch has stepped up ...

The Palomar GranFondo bike ride will go through Valley Center, Rincon, Pauma Valley, Palomar, etc., this Saturday, June 7, with the ride starting at 7:15 a.m., starting and returning to Francis Ryan ...

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the San Diego County Water Authority June 2 announced the settlement of a 15-year legal dispute over rates and the price term of an exchange ...

The headline to this story asks a provocative question. But during periods of the 19th and 20th centuries, there was no doubt. His name was Jacob Gruendike. He was a titan of industry and his holdings ...

The Albertsons shopping center is moving forward and the developer, the San Pasqual tribe, is negotiating a lease agreement with the Albertsons corporation. The development, called Native Oaks Village ...

The new rector at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Pauma Valley, The Rev. Katharine Flexer, wants to get out and get to know the members of her new community. She is anxious to meet her neighbors and ...

Barbara Lee Leppelman, 78, of Valley Center, passed away at her residence on June 3, 2025. During the past few years she had been suffering from various health issues and recently was under Hospice ...

Adrienne Cisneros-Selekman (left) presents a proclamation dated May 30 from Supervisor Jim Desmond’s office to Laura Gordon of the VC Western Days Committee and newly minted Honorary Mayor Marlyce ...

A structure fire erupted on Rolling Hills Drive off Old Castle Road May 24, beginning about 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 24. The roiling coil of dark black smoke could be seen from most parts of Valley ...

It seems that, for some years already, there has been a string of No Parking signs, perhaps 8 to10, that have lined the street opposite the entrance to the Valley Center Library on Horse Creek Road. I ...

We will have a more expansive coverage of Western Days in next week’s paper. So if you don’t see the photo of your favorite this week, look for it next week. The 75th annual Western Days parade ...