Public Safety

Probationer’s Marketing Ideas a Winner

| 3:24 PM

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If the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS)  starts offering free wi-fi or television monitors promoting tourism, it could be because of some suggestions made by an 18-year-old probationer in the Camp Barrett program.

Parks and Rec

The Outdoors, Smart Phones and Prizes

| 10:23 AM

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Roll them altogether and what’s not to like? Let’s hope your kids like the idea because County Parks and Recreation will soon offer a program that involves all three thanks to a fundraiser at a local natural food grocery store chain.

 

Health

14 Faces of Mental Illness

| 9:38 AM

Reading Time: 3 minutes As they are – and as their mental illness makes them feel. Pairs of photos make up an exhibition meant to reduce the stigma of mental illness.

Health

Sewage Spill Fouls Creek in Fallbrook

| 5:31 PM

Reading Time: < 1 minute An estimated 33,000 gallons of sewage spilled into Ostrich Creek in Fallbrook Wednesday, the County’s Environmental Health Department reported. The spill came from a ruptured main at a lift station at 2841 Overland Trail. It began about 6:00 a.m. and continued for more than five hours until crews from the Fallbrook Public Utilities District shut […]

Health

GALLERY: 14 Faces of Mental Illness

| 4:03 PM

Reading Time: < 1 minute Through our lens: personal stories of mental illness is an exhibition featuring photos of San Diegans with mental illness. There are two photos of each person: one a color portrait, the other a black-and-white image suggesting the strain of the societal stigma attached to mental illness. The captions in this gallery are excerpted from longer descriptions in the […]

Animals

Dog Beating Suspect Arrested

| 2:55 PM

Reading Time: < 1 minute Investigators say the suspect beat the eight-pound dog after it dug up a tree. The dog died from its injuries.

Consumer

Free Oil Recycling Program for Small Farms

| 11:28 AM

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Just one gallon of used motor oil can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. Now there is no reason to run that risk. Small farms in the unincorporated areas can stop oil from washing down storm drains into the ocean and protect their own farmland by taking advantage of a free recycling program for used motor oil and oil filters.