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Fletcher family tragedy in Borrego Springs

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Gary Wilson, Borrego Springs Music Fest, Deaf Club, Lee Coulter, SDMA Nominees

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Fletcher family tragedy in Borrego Springs

The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for …

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Gary Wilson, Borrego Springs Music Fest, Deaf Club, Lee Coulter, SDMA Nominees

Gary Wilson at Soda BarMarch 20The documentary film You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story, details the life of Gary Wilson, the eccentric indie-punk pioneer best known …

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Cats, small dogs, and toddlers don’t last long in Borrego

Ten Reasons Why You’d Have to Be Crazy to Live in Borrego Springs To paraphrase what Gertrude Stein once said of Oakland, there is no there there — no people …

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2022 Summer Fun Issue

The other night at dinner, the Young People asked the Old People, “How do you know when you’re an adult?” Your humble Editor’s answer: “When you realize that life is …

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Borrego Springs Feast! Restaurant Reviews

Better desert dining at The Fox Bistro

We’ve reached that time of year when folks head out to the easternmost reaches of San Diego County in search of desert wildflowers. Thanks to a drier than usual winter, this spring won’t be hyped …

April 12, 2022

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San Diego's worst are the 20/30-something Princesses

Digging concurrence Unfortunately have to concur with most of the digs (“The internet writers gang up on San Diego,” Cover Stories, January 19). Born in MA, grew up in NC, have lived in LA (total …

February 9, 2022

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February 2, 2021

The right mountain in East San Diego County to plant that wind turbine

Where's the best place for renewable energy? Many backcountry locals think San Diego rooftops would be ideal. The county, however, is eyeing the wide open spaces of the desert. Out where bighorn sheep roam, the …

Borrego Springs From the archives Village Square

November 11, 2019

Borrego Springs– no there there

From Toro Peak to Fonts Point, barely Their plan was to start at Toro Peak, in the Santa Rosa Mountains just north of Borrego Springs, hike along the mountainous spine over Rabbit Peak and Villager …

Anza-Borrego State Park Borrego Springs Roam-O-Rama

December 13, 2017

Ride your bike around Borrego's prehistoric sculptures

Borrego Springs is the unincorporated town in San Diego’s desert area surrounded by Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. It is an official International Dark Sky Community where you can really see the stars at night. Borrego …

Borrego Springs City Lights

March 29, 2017

Yay! San Diego reservoirs filling up

On January 26, San Diego County’s water authority exulted that the drought was over. On March 22, the New York Times wrote, “We have some good news on the California drought.” The huge snowpack in …

Borrego Springs Roam-O-Rama

March 22, 2017

Hike to Borrego Palm Canyon’s Third Grove

One of the most popular hikes in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the Borrego Palm Canyon Trail. On most weekends, there is a steady stream of people walking up this easy trail to the first …

Borrego Springs Neighborhood News

March 18, 2017

Borrego's bloom boom

For the second time in a week, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department issued a traffic advisory for the Borrego Springs area March 17 — too many visitors in town to see the desert wildflowers. …

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San Diego neighborhoods: Borrego

Hell with the Fire Gone Out There is a small library in town, but not a single stoplight. Parking is free. There is no hospital in Borrego, which, I’m told, militates against larger development. A …

November 19, 2016

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Swordsman in flames

A Borrego Springs man was hospitalized with severe burns Wednesday night, January 28, following an altercation with a neighbor that ended with the subject setting his mobile home ablaze. According to a report from sergeant …

January 29, 2015

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October 22, 2014

Borrego: build a home, lose a farm

San Diego may have to adopt the Borrego strategy: fallow farms in order to permit development.

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Fletcher family tragedy in Borrego Springs

Gary Wilson, Borrego Springs Music Fest, Deaf Club, Lee Coulter, SDMA Nominees

Cats, small dogs, and toddlers don’t last long in Borrego

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