Neighborhoods - Imperial Beach
Imperial Beach Events
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"Booze, Bunkers, and Bombs"
Saturday, March 20, 2010
11:00 a.m., Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center
Imperial Beach Blogs
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Should San Diego Public Schools be Private?
By diegogirl - January 11, 2010
Coronado Middle School is not a public school, at least not in my eyes. You need to be wealthy enough ...
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Sad Santa
By PeteSalisbury - December 28, 2009
I never liked holidays. I lived a very unhappy childhood and when a holiday came around my thrice divorced mother ...
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HOBO MILLIONAIRE: A TRUE STORY
By PeteSalisbury - November 6, 2009
Around ten o'clock Halloween morning I was riding my beach cruiser home after an early trip to ...
Imperial Beach Photos
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pavonessurfschool: A lovely college girl from Phoenix, Arizona ready for her 1st winter surf lesson
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pavonessurfschool: Turning south on Saturn Blvd i noticed large plumes of thick black smoke. What i found was a parked mobile home fully engulfed San Diego ...
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meliweli: Just a breeze
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meliweli: A calm sight of flight
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meliweli: Sail into the sunset in IB
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kimrescate: Imperial Beach Pier sunrise
Imperial Beach Stories
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Fearless
By Rene Pina, Feb. 16, 2010
On Saturday, February 13, plumes of black smoke arose from where it seemed like the location of Mar Vista Middle School. As I traveled west on Coronado Avenue, I figured something big was on fire, so ...
The Longest Arm
By Steve Horvath, Feb. 13, 2010
A suspect has been arrested in connection with three bank robberies that occurred during the past several months in San Diego County. According to a report obtained from the local FBI office, 34-year-old Alberto Alatorre of ...
See the Heat
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 6, 2010
Recent attempts to smuggle drugs and illegals into San Diego via the Pacific Ocean have prompted the installation of thermal-imaging cameras that have the capability of scanning a distance of ten miles. The cameras are budgeted ...
What Video Feed?
By Suzanne Ramirez, Jan. 30, 2010
In his ongoing quest to promote democracy through educating the public, Ed Kravitz of SaveIB.com has sought access to a video feed of Imperial Beach City Council meetings. His intention is to stream the meetings through ...
Drive-In Laundromat
By Peter C. Salisbury, Jan. 14, 2010
Shortly after 1:15 p.m. on Monday, January 11, a Dodge Durango was driven into the Sombrero Mexican Food Restaurant at 189 Palm Ave. and the laundromat next door. According to Sombrero owner Maria Gomez, a female ...
Repeat Thief?
By Peter C. Salisbury, Dec. 2, 2009
The North Island Credit Union at 1101 Palm Avenue was robbed at about 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday, December 2. A sheriff’s deputy at the scene acknowledged that the robber who fled the scene on foot might ...
Rowdy’s End Point
By Peter C. Salisbury, Dec. 2, 2009
At around 10:20 p.m. on Sunday, November 29, sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call about a shooting at an apartment complex on Holly Avenue in Imperial Beach. Inside an apartment, police discovered a 21-year-old female ...
I'm a Hero!
By Peter C. Salisbury, Nov. 8, 2009
When they heard the smoke detector going off in a vacant condo unit, neighbors called the fire department to the Bayside Villas in the 600 block of 13th Street on Saturday morning, November 7. Ten-year-old Winter ...
Crazy Crime
By Peter C. Salisbury, Oct. 28, 2009
On Wednesday, October 27, a shirtless man attacked a green waste container full of palm fronds in the 1100 block of Grove Avenue. An 11-year-old boy walking home from school with his 10-year-old cousin witnessed the ...
¡El Niño Viene!
By FT Yoshida, Oct. 11, 2009
On Friday, October 9, in order to minimize the risk of a repeat of last mid-December's devastating flooding in the Tijuana River Valley, the City of San Diego Stormwater Management Department began removing tons of sediment, ...
Girls from Spring Valley
By Peter C. Salisbury, Oct. 2, 2009
Shortly after 1:00 p.m. on Friday, October 2, San Diego Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 911 call from an apartment house at the corner of 13th Street and Grove Avenue in Imperial Beach. Three patrol cars ...
Highway Horse
By Diane McNelly, Sept. 26, 2009
At 2:15 Saturday morning, September 26, the 905 freeway was temporarily closed at the eastbound transition with Interstate 805 south after a horse was discovered walking west in the eastbound lanes. Zero visibility due to heavy ...
Motorcycle Sisters
By Peter C. Salisbury, Sept. 26, 2009
Two young women riding a new Kawasaki motorcycle and a woman driving a Toyota Camry were involved in a traffic accident in the 1300 block of 13th Street on Thursday evening, September 24. The Camry was ...
Stove on Fire
By Peter C. Salisbury, Sept. 25, 2009
In Imperial Beach Thursday morning, September 24, a fire at 1325 Grove Avenue destroyed two apartment units and displaced six adults and three children. Fire engines from Chula Vista, Coronado, Imperial Beach, and San Diego responded. ...
Scholarship Scam?
By Peter C. Salisbury, Sept. 24, 2009
San Diego parents of high school students began receiving mailings from Arlington, Texas-based “College Admissions Assistance” in recent weeks and, judging by the letter’s formal appearance, could have been mistaken in believing the mail was from ...
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