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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Monday and Tuesday morning April 7 & 8 over 600 students at Pioneer Elementary School participated in mock abduction drills. The Escondido students first attended an assembly about what to do if they ...

Janice Culver, an artist and resident of Escondido, won the second-place in the exceptionally competitive April 2025 San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) Member’s exhibition “Beauty and Beyond.” The in ...

In Eli Uva’s freshman year at San Pasqual High School, he joined the school’s robotics club because his brother Tayler was already an alumni and encouraged him to join. And, he wanted to give ...

War has been declared on the homeless in Escondido. And in the crossfire, war has simultaneously been declared on the lone non-profit in Escondido who provides services to both the poor and the ...

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 ...

Charles Wheatley Cleveland, Jr. of Escondido, CA, loving husband and devoted father of two, passed away peacefully in Poway, CA at the age of 84. He is survived by his wife Kathy and sons Christopher ...

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.

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 ...

The 26th Annual Walk for the Animals was held at Kit Carson Park on Saturday March 22, and was attended by thousands of people and pets. The event was put on by the San Diego Humane Society, which ...