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San Diego astronomers – the pros and the amateurs

When an e-mail reaches the computer of Dennis Mammana at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, a familiar voice interrupts the quiet of the astronomer’s second-floor office. The voice belongs …

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Jacumba – our unloved border town

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 …

Feature Stories Jacumba

The Weekend Read: Stay away from Pinto Canyon

June 3, 2009"There’s some petroglyphs over in Pinto Canyon," Frank said as he passed me on the trail. Frank Johnson, a handsome 75-year-old man, with flowing white hair and a …

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San Diego summer fires cause home insurance jitters

While there were fires all over the county on July 1, including areas by and in Mount Hope, Jacumba, Lake Morena, San Diegans in other neighborhoods got more reason to …

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Mother, daughter try Goat Canyon trestles

It’s all about the footwear, at least that is what advertisers would like you to believe. Expensive footwear, expensive daypack, invest a lot of money. Well, we did it with an older pair of Sketchers …

April 8, 2024

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DeAnza Springs sheds the naked life

“I have seen more people out nude today than I have in a long time,” said Hawk. “Today” was Thursday, August 31st, the last day that clothing would be optional in of DeAnza Springs Resort’s …

October 25, 2023

From the archives Jacumba

April 10, 2023

In-Ko-Pah’s Desert View Tower, the edge of nowhere

Party at the snakes' place The joke is that nobody is from here, because we are on the edge of nowhere, but, sure as snake’s teeth, the right kind of folks will settle just about …

Golden Dreams Jacumba Mission Bay

February 22, 2023

Adventures on paradise’s periphery with Hidden San Diego

Jessica Johnson has been on many outings during which she has thought to herself, “We might die today.” Like the time she and some companions were six miles deep into the back country near the …

Alpine El Cajon Jacumba Neighborhood News

February 20, 2023

Why those big rigs are parked on the side of I-8

On February 12, a wind advisory was made on I-8 from Willows Road in Alpine next to Viejas Casino & Resort to the Imperial County line a little past Jacumba, according to CA-17.com. The wind …

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January 11, 2023

Jacumba – the next Palm Springs?

Entering Jacumba Hot Springs — a “census designated place” in the high desert just north of the Mexican border some 70 miles east of San Diego proper — is like stepping into a Steinbeck novel, …

Jacumba Neighborhood News

August 31, 2020

Jacumba hotel sold for $3.9 million

Humble Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel and Spa is one of the few places booming during Covid-19. It makes a big impact for the tiny, high desert town, population 561, where the hotel, pools, and restaurant …

From the archives Jacumba Village Square

September 2, 2019

Jacumba – the far edge of San Diego

A quiet street and an old hotel Jacumba is a kind of living ghost town out in southeast San Diego County, on the Mexican border, in what’s called, the Mountain Empire district. It has come …

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Could Burning Man come to In-Ko-Pah?

Roadside attraction Desert View Tower at In-Ko-Pah is on the market. Rising over the steep, rocky Jacumba landscape, the 70-foot tower has been a beacon to travelers since 1928. Ben Schultz now owns and operates …

August 27, 2019

Anza-Borrego State Park Jacumba Neighborhood News

In-ko-pah flying saucer tour

If I were ever going to see a UFO, I figured it would be in the desert. Then, last Tuesday while innocently driving through In-Ko-Pah, near Desert Tower, that rock edifice standing lookout over a …

February 25, 2019

Imperial Valley Jacumba Neighborhood News

October 16, 2018

Hippie fest near Jacumba – more to come

Over 300 San Diegans gathered in the boulder-strewn, high desert mountains near Jacumba, to celebrate Desert Rising; a three-day consciousness-raising festival held over the October 12 weekend. Though it is best described as a version …

Cover Stories Jacumba

August 16, 2017

Border Angels takes water out to Jacumba area for migrants

A small crowd gathers in the courtyard outside the Border Angels headquarters located at the Sherman Heights Community Center on Island Avenue four blocks south of State Route 94 and five blocks east of Interstate …

Crasher Jacumba

June 21, 2017

Party at the snakes' place

"We got any locals here?” one of the Widows asks to scattered whoops of recognition. “Thank you for coming out from under your rock.” Two hits on a snare drum and a brass crash. The …

Jacumba Roam-O-Rama

May 31, 2017

Boulder Park builder allegedly paid a buck a day

The sculptures of Boulder Park have amused and surprised people for more than 80 years. W.T. Ratcliffe, an unemployed engineer during the Depression years, carved the stone sculptures in the 1930s where the natural shapes …

Cover Stories Jacumba

November 16, 2016

Water level appears low at Jacumba Hot Springs

Jacumba is at the epicenter of an ongoing struggle for economic revival tempered by a grassroots commitment to natural preservation.

Anza-Borrego State Park From the archives Jacumba Warner Springs

September 3, 2016

Near desert places

A Quiet Street and an Old Hotel He smeared my whole body and face with mineral oil and began rubbing it around with a machine that whined and felt warm. A cord led from his …

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January 24, 2014

Duo busted in Jacumba with pot and mushrooms

Border Patrol agents arrested two men in a Volkswagen Jetta on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and possession of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms, according to a January 22 release. Around 10 p.m. on the 21st, …

Jacumba News Ticker

July 10, 2013

Illegal border crosser rescued after 2+ hour search

A manhunt spanning two-and-a-half hours early Tuesday morning (July 9) resulted in the rescue by Border Patrol agents of a 28 year-old Mexican national who got lost trying to enter the United States illegally near …

Jacumba Neighborhood News Spring Valley

September 19, 2012

Spring Valley Lady Allegedly Faked Death to Avoid Jail

An East County woman who may have tried to fake her own death was sentenced September 14 to 18 months in federal prison for her role in smuggling undocumented immigrants through Jacumba Hot Springs. Rebecca …

City Lights Jacumba

May 23, 2012

Jacumba trusts Dave Landman, the naked guy

"I am thinking about becoming the Duke of Jacumba,” Dave Landman jokes. We are sitting in the dining room at his DeAnza Springs Nudist Resort, a property in Jacumba that Landman has owned for 15 …

Blurt Music News Jacumba

April 25, 2012

Tectonic Temple at Telemagica

“I have the habit of making seemingly insurmountable goals for myself,” says Joe Mousey, an art student, musician, and promoter who will be constructing a 20-foot-tall pyramid and six 4-foot pyramids for an upcoming outdoor …

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