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Spring Valley Events

Red Room Burlesque & Music Show

The Bancroft

Sunday, September 22, 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

Red Room Burlesque Fetish

The Bancroft

Sunday, October 6, 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

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Spring Valley News & Stories

Gas tax bump sends 15 San Diego stations above $4.30/gallon

Calif. governor launches investigation

Gas prices in San Diego County were supposed to go up on 5.6 cents a gallon on July 1, due to a new gas tax. Some stations didn’t get the memo. As of midday July ...

The unsolved case of La Mesa's Jamie Peters

Maybe those bones are my son

Nearly 31 years ago, Jamie Peters walked into his mother’s home in La Mesa and dropped off his house keys. It was a brief nighttime visit. He paused long enough to look around the familiar ...

Where to find Bankhead Mississippi style cooking

A healthy approach to Southern food yields… Southern food

Never let it be said this county is short of corners to explore. I certainly found myself driving along new roads seeking out Bankhead Mississippi Style Cooking, out in a southern corner of Spring Valley, ...

238 calls to 911 by one man in Vista

Sheriffs lose body cameras while wrestling him into custody

Daryl Mayol Vaughn made 238 emergency calls to 911 in the year 2018, according to testimony from deputy Max Blumenshine in court yesterday, January 3, 2019. In those not-really-emergency calls, Vaughn typically claimed there was ...

The water of life flows in Spring Valley

A centuries old family scotch recipe goes legit

It’s tough to think of a peeted single malt whiskey as moonshine, especially from a recipe as old as any laws in this country. But for decades, that’s technically what Mike Curphy had been making. ...