Peter C. Salisbury

Pete Salisbury spent eight years in the U.S. Navy (1971-78) which included two Western Pacific cruises to Vietnam aboard the carrier USS Ranger CVA-61, was assistant plane captain for the prime recovery helicopter for SKYLAB II and III space lab missions aboard the USS New Orleans LPH-11, and helped train Canadian sailors aboard the HMCS Provider AOR-508. He has lived in Imperial Beach almost 40 years and has written community news for the past 10 years for the South County Eagle & Times, La Prensa San Diego, and for the past three years he has contributed news items to the Reader. He has worked as an extra on 18 Wheels of Justice with G. Gordon Liddy, and played proud parent #48 in an episode of Veronica Mars. He is currently writing a graphic novel entitled The Teenage Pumpkin Heads.

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South Bay Drive-In goes digital

Projectionist loses job

The South Bay Drive-In Theatres on Coronado Avenue in South San Diego recently updated its projection booths to digital. The digital conversion is being forced on all movie theaters by the major movie studios, which ...

Torpedo found by dolphin in Coronado

Munition is at least 125 years old

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR) reported that one of its Navy dolphins discovered an old torpedo last month just off the shore of the Hotel Del Coronado, during a mine-hunting training exercise. ...

Man walks into the Imperial Beach Sheriff Station and says he just killed his wife

Woman's body found in husbands Nissan pickup truck

Just before 4:00 pm Wednesday February 6, William Barker was driving home from work when several San Diego Sheriff cars ...

Man robs Imperial Beach Pharmacy at gunpoint

Robber described as looking 17 and high as a kite

An 18 year old man was arrested Monday night January 21, on suspicion of robbing the Imperial Beach Pharmacy at ...

Imperial Beach phone booth dumped

For years, a phone booth sat on the corner just outside of the Siesta RV Park in the 400 block of Palm Avenue in Imperial Beach. Made of aluminum and glass with a light in ...

Imperial Beach family barely escapes death

A silent, deadly killer. Carbon monoxide.

An Imperial Beach family is thankful today to be alive after a carbon monoxide leak sent them to the hospital. ...

King tides create salty problems in Imperial Beach

Flood parking areas, require bulldozer work

Residents in Imperial Beach were dealing with more flooding as unusually high “king tides” hit the California coast last week. Condominiums along Seacoast Drive were inundated with water on Friday morning, January 11. The high ...

Bank robbery suspect arrested in Imperial Beach

Claimed to be armed with a gun and bomb

The Navy Federal Credit Union in the Southland Plaza Shopping Center on Saturn Boulevard in the South Bay area of ...