Spring Valley

Blog entries concerning the Spring Valley area of San Diego.

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Entries

Trial Begins For Husband Accused of Bombing Wife

In an odd twist, a prosecutor spent some minutes demonstrating for jurors how to create a pipe bomb, during his opening statements in an attempted-murder trial this morning in San Diego’s East County Superior Courthouse. ...

Fresh & Easy Busted for Union Busting

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Inc., the U.S. arm of British grocery giant Tesco, itself the second most-profitable worldwide retailer behind Wal-Mart, has lost in a petition for review of a disciplinary order handed down ...

Mental pause

Got the kids in the car, ready to head out of town. Went to get gas and there was some Naval officer guy in front of me pumping a cartel’s worth of gas into an ...

San Diego, Unplugged

Top Ten Reasons to have a blackout Now we know who we’re related to, electrically speaking Finally got to use 2-year-old new emergency radio & flashlight Neighbors out on porches, talking and laughing Kids playing ...

Catholic Priest Writes Book on Ministering to Gays

A controversial retired Catholic priest has penned a new book aimed at helping parishes that seek to reach out to homosexuals. And it doesn't focus on changing their orientation. James Schexnayder’s book, Setting the Table: ...

Preseason Top 10

Red Zone Preseason Top 10 Records from last season, division in parentheses 1. Oceanside (II) (10-3) – Aiming for eighth straight Division II title 2. Helix (II) (11-1) – Full of talent and should be ...

Longhaired Relationship

At a retreat in Ramona recently, I met two new friends. At the top of a nearby mountain stood a large white cross, so we decided to hike up the path to it. All three ...

A Coyote Skinned My Knee

I sleep next to the chicken coop. To be clear, my bedroom is in the back corner of the house and the chicken coop is right outside my window off the back porch. The coop ...

Body Found in Sweetwater Reservoir

The body of a suspected burglar was found submerged in the Sweetwater Reservoir after witnesses saw the man enter the reservoir after breaking into a nearby home. Sheriffs say the unidentified man broke into a ...

Sheriff's Dept. Investigates Death, Announces DUI Checkpoint

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a woman reported yesterday on Gillespie Drive in the La Presa neighborhood of Spring Valley. Deputies responding to the call decided to bring in a ...

Friends Like These

It was 1973 or so. I was walking home from school with my old gang. As we passed the roller skating rink the BP gas station came into view. The group noticed the wooden cases ...

A Dog's Tale

They keep a dossier on me at the animal shelter. And if you’ve ever had any dealings with them, they have a file on you too. During my divorce, we had to find a new ...

colored water

We didn't exactly pick Spring Valley as the place where we wanted to buy our first home together. We had an apartment on 600 Front Street downtown and decided it was time to buy. After ...

Faith Cougar

I live in a mobile home park in Spring Valley, so it’s a neighborhood inside a neighborhood. We are bounded by Jamacha Boulevard and the reservoir on the south side, and a housing development on ...

Freeway Side Revelations

The judge had sentenced me to many hours of grueling hard labor... He hadn't mentioned the complete lack of intelligence that I would be subjected to. It would be in the manner of 19 year ...

The readers of the Reader Movie Reviews deserve better

Dear Reader Editor and Editors, After seeing and enjoying "The Last Song", as we did Nicolas Sparks' "The Notebook", it is very irritating and offensive to read Shepherd's so called "review." He calls it an ...

Another Saturday

People may wonder why I named my blog "The Vortex." It's not that so much happens here; rather, it is the focal point of my universe, my own little space on the planet. It is ...

Youth can be exciting.

This is the extent to which how exciting my teenage life is. It was last friday, my best friend Paulina, my cousin Cassi and I were cruising around town in her little gold car that ...

A Dog Tale

Moments after I opened my front door, I tried to catch the security door before it slammed into the wall as my dog bolted outward, leash taut, toward the steps. We were headed to Spring ...

CIF Section Finals Scoreboard

Division I No. 1 La Costa Canyon 45, No. 2 Escondido 28 La Costa Canyon running back Matt S. Williams celebrates a third quarter touchdown with a chest bump. The Mavericks won their first section ...

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