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  • The demolished College Center shopping center at 6300 El Cajon ("The Box") Boulevard awaits its fate. The 10.59-acre site was slated to be transformed — ...

    The demolished College Center shopping center at 6300 El Cajon ("The Box") Boulevard awaits its fate. The 10.59-acre site was slated to be transformed — ...

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Kroc Church

Kroc Church

Rolando | Sheep and Goats
Published Nov. 11, 2009

“My wife and I have been here for four years now,” said Captain John Van Cleef, senior pastor at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center’s Kroc Church. “When we came, there were something like ...

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Dessert Oasis

Dessert Oasis

El Cerrito | Rolando | Tin Fork
Published Oct. 7, 2009

“And now for a special live report from the border, here’s our border-affairs reporter, Ed Bedford. Ed?” Cue Ed: “Yes, Cindy. I’m actually standing on the border. One foot on either side, my right planted squarely ...

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Real Drip

Real Drip

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Rolando
Published Sept. 22, 2009

Last week, the San Diego Police Department warned residents about a male burglar who gained entry into a home in the Rolando neighborhood to steal from an elderly female homeowner. On September 15, a victim notified ...

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Chollas Lake Towers, TSA Confiscations

Chollas Lake Towers, TSA Confiscations

Matthew Alice | Oak Park
Published Sept. 16, 2009

Heymatt: Chollas Lake in College Grove has a radio tower that played a big role in WW2, or was the first radio tower of its kind in the U.S., or something fabulous. It’s still operational, I ...

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State's TB Scare

State's TB Scare

College Area | Neighborhood News from Stringers | SDSU
Published June 20, 2009

A San Diego State University student who attended classes during the spring 2009 semester has been diagnosed with active, infectious tuberculosis. The student is considered to have been contagious between March 1 and May 21. According ...

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Samoan Aloha

Samoan Aloha

College Area | Tin Fork
Published May 27, 2009

Up here near the 94 College exit, a blue 1966 Valiant sits parked between a Frazee’s and a Weight Watchers place. Only one man in this town has a sky-blue ’66 Valiant: my buddy Rod, the ...

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Lend Emerald Your E.A.R.

Lend Emerald Your E.A.R.

Allied Gardens | City Heights | Del Cerro | Grantville | Neighborhood News | Rolando | San Carlos
Published May 2, 2009

Councilmember Carl DeMaio isn’t the only budget watchdog in town. On Thursday, April 30, District 7 representative Marti Emerald issued a memo to Budget Review Committee chair Tony Young that listed a few of her ideas ...

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College Area Kookout

College Area Kookout

College Area | Crasher
Published Dec. 30, 2008

There was a story on CNN about the controversy surrounding a public Christmas tree in Washington, D.C. In the interest of fairness, apparently, an atheist group was permitted to place a sign up in the area, ...

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Coolio, Cool J, and Dee Ray

Coolio, Cool J, and Dee Ray

College Area | Crasher | Valley Center
Published Oct. 1, 2008

I saw an ad for a CD-release party for LL Cool J. It’s funny because when bands invite me to CD-release parties, they aren’t really parties. It’s usually the band playing a small venue for a ...

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Christ Church Unity

Christ Church Unity

Chollas Creek | Sheep and Goats
Published Sept. 17, 2008

The psychedelic stained-glass window over the altar (and even above the electric sanctuary lamp) caught the feel of Christ Church Unity pretty well: psychedelic, but still stained glass. Modern spirituality swirled with tradition. More examples: heavy ...

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Bound by Fear

Bound by Fear

College Area | Event Hilite
Published April 9, 2008

“Gated communities are created for different reasons, but the reasons are all about fear,” says president of the American Anthropological Association Setha M. Low. “In places like California, where the cities can’t expand their tax base ...

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Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation

Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation

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Published Jan. 23, 2008

Fancy wimmen are okay, but there's nuttin' like the real thing: a nice warm adobada taco on a nice cold night beside a nice hot grill outside a friendly taco catering truck, with that marinated pork ...

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Best Deal Ever

Best Deal Ever

College Area | Mira Mesa | Ocean Beach | Off the Cuff | Solana Beach
Published Dec. 27, 2007

Dan Williams Retired Ocean Beach It would probably be my neighbor's '96 Mercedes. I got it for $2500 and it's totally cherried out. She's 86 and can't drive anymore. She originally was going to sell it ...

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Remains Of An Abandoned 1920s Hotel Project, c 1950

Remains Of An Abandoned 1920s Hotel Project, c 1950

Picture Story | Rolando
Published March 29, 2007

The photo was taken in 1950, "near Rolando Hill, south of University Avenue and east of 54th Street," according to info on the Historical Society print. To order this photo please contact the San Diego Historical ...

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Faith Presbyterian Church, College Area

College Area | Sheep and Goats
Published March 29, 2007

From the outset, a mix of old and new marked the service in Faith Presbyterian's mid-century- modern church. The old standby "What Wondrous Love Is This" served as the prelude, but the organ arrangement mixed in ...

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