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Spring Valley Events

Les Misérables School Edition	Sunday, March 24, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Spring Valley Farmers' Market Family Fitness and Fun Park	Tuesday, March 26, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Red Room Burlesque & Music Revue The Bancroft	Sunday, April 7, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Bastard Noise and Secret Fun Club The Bancroft	Friday, April 19, 9 p.m.

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Spring Valley News & Stories

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. ...

Thanks for the Kmart memories

Spring Valley store to close in November

On August 23, I visited the Kmart at 935 Sweetwater Road in Spring Valley by the 54 Freeway. A lady with a blue shirt that read “Attention Kmart Shoppers” on the front was helping me. ...

Local spirits rise from the ashes

Nine months after a fire, San Diego Distillery returns bigger and better

Back in September 2017, San Diego Distillery was poised to grow out of its small warehouse space in Spring Valley. The craft spirit maker’s “beer whiskey” approach — distilling craft beer into barrel-aged grain liquors ...

Global worming

No eyes, two lungs, five hearts, $25 a bucket.

The road to Sharon’s Worm World is in turn blacktop, gravel, then finally Ramona dirt. Sharon McLaughlan, the worm farm’s founder and namesake, is waiting at the crest of the dusty lane that ends at ...