Anthony Wilson Guitar Quartet
Robert Bush 8:35 a.m., May 25
Imperial Beach
U.S.-Mexico border gate swings open at Friendship Park
Residents of both countries allowed a visit
Mayor Bob Filner, his fiancé Bronwyn Ingram, and Border Angels founder Enrique Morones made history Sunday, April 28, by going into Mexico via a newly built gate in the fence, opened for the first time ...
Digging for Pismo clams at San Diego Beaches
Bring pitchfork, bucket, and license
I’m not going to lie. The water is cold. It’s 12:51 p.m. on a Saturday and it’s low tide. I’m in ankle- to hip-deep water, digging for clams. The native Pismo clam, specifically. The first ...
Friendship Park to remain open at the Border
Cancel that shut-down, cancel the protest
The silent protest of the closing of Friendship Park scheduled for Saturday April 6 has been canceled because Friendship Park, at the monument in Border Field State Park, will be able to remain open on ...
More energy-efficiency home funding for Imperial Beach
About 90 homes improved since 2007
Ten homeowners in Imperial Beach will have a chance at energy-efficiency improvements, and six Habitat for Humanity homes will be completed with money from the now-folded redevelopment agencies that the state Department of Finance has ...
Border Patrol schedules closure of Friendship Park
Budget cuts to trigger April 7 closure
Friends of Friendship Park, a group with an interest in the unique spot at the southwestern corner of the U.S. where it meets Mexico, is planning to protest the closure of the park, scheduled for ...
Sewage in Imperial Beach traced to Playas de Tijuana
Wastewater flowed at about 32 gallons per minute
On Monday, March 18, with currents and wind pushing north, the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health closed all beaches in Imperial Beach due to a suspected sewage spill from the Tijuana River mouth. ...
Imperial Beach’s imported sand threatens estuary’s eco-health
Those 450,000 cubic yards could block marsh outlet
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge biologists are monitoring the movement of the 450,000 cubic yards sand dumped on Imperial Beach shores last fall, worried that southbound sand will block the river mouth as it did ...
Imperial Beach's sandcastle competition to return?
None last year after 31 years
The San Diego Unified Port District is set to put up $40,000 in seed money toward reviving Imperial Beach's U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition, which was washed out last year, ending a 31-year tradition that drew ...
Imperial Beach City Council nixes stoplight plan
Using surplus SANDAG funds “not quite right”
An effort to install a traffic light that would help cyclists on the Bayside Bike Trail — one supported and funded by the San Diego Association of Governments — failed to get off the ground ...
Confused man takes a drive in Tijuana River Valley
Police send him home in tow truck
An elderly man who police said has Alzheimer’s disease drove his car through the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, up to the top of Spooner's Mesa, and became stranded in his white Honda just feet ...
