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Condo project tops council agenda, along with taxis and trash
OCEANSIDE – The Oceanside City Council will tackle a variety of issues when it meets Wednesday. They include a disputed 158-unit condominium project, a proposal to allow a second taxicab company to operate in the city and raising rates that residents pay for trash pickup.
PROPERTY VALUES
Home sales in San Diego And Coronado
AROUND THE COUNTY
La Mesa Beautiful group helps make city greener
LA MESA: In its 28-year history, La Mesa Beautiful has planted about 2,000 trees, including memorial trees that honor people who have died, board member Bob Bradshaw said.
IN & AROUND
San Diego and regional news and notes
Volunteer opportunities for San Diego residents
Volunteer San Diego helps nearly 30,000 individuals, families, and corporate and community groups fill volunteer needs at 800 community organizations each year. To volunteer or post volunteer opportunities, visit volunteersandiego.org.
IN & AROUND
South County and regional news and notes
IN & AROUND
East County and regional news and notes
Not much gloom in June this year
June gloom never fully bloomed, and the last few days of the month should stick to the pattern.
CEO, lecturer calls meditation a good investment
EL CAJON – As far as investments go, Atul Thakkar says nothing provides a greater return than meditation.
Owners hope to rebuild landmark restaurant
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO
– Martin and Cindy Blair know that their barbecue and beer joint, forever immortalized in the Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun,” will never be the same.
Vista teen's singing performance a highlight of movie out on DVD
Last year, 16-year-old Heather Youmans of Vista had an opportunity most singers spend their careers dreaming about.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY FAIR
In The Ribbons: Cristina Medrano-huffer
Judges' choice: San Diegan Cristina Medrano-Huffer earned the award for Most Educational Collection for her group of about 80 medicines and toiletries from the 1920s and early 1930s.
HIGH SCHOOL VOICES
Use your time wisely with extracurriculars
As high school draws to a close for many teens, a sense of excitement ripples through the student body. The mingled feelings of enthusiasm at embracing something new and apprehension at leaving the safety of high school behind have brought an electric quality to the mundane nature of everyday life.
SHORT TAKES: SOUTH EDITION
Standard & Poor's raises Chula Vista credit rating
CHULA VISTA: Standard & Poor's restored Chula Vista's credit rating this week, a move seen as a sign of confidence in the city's finances.
SHORT TAKES: EAST EDITION
Lakers star Waltonto appear at camp
SPRING VALLEY: Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton will meet with local teens at the 2008 Spring Valley Gymnasium Basketball Camp next week at the Spring Valley Gym and Teen Center, 838 Kempton St.
SHORT TAKES: NORTH INLAND EDITION
Residents win fight against cell tower
Residents in an unincorporated area near Escondido who have been fighting a Cricket cell tower won Wednesday when the county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reject the project.
SHORT TAKES: REGIONAL EDITION
County Medical Services rules get judge's approval
A Superior Court judge gave the green light yesterday to a set of rules that will broaden a health program for poor adults, starting Tuesday. The new regulations are for County Medical Services, which covers essential treatment for legal residents with life-threatening illnesses.
PUBLIC SAFETY: REGIONAL EDITION
Inquiry under way in Baja in slaying of American
TIJUANA: Baja California detectives are investigating the death of a 64-year-old U.S. citizen who was killed at his residence in southern Tijuana.
THE WAY WE WERE
Standard Oil fire of 1913 tested fire crews
With a roar that rocked the walls of the Savage Tire Company three hundred yards away, shook a trolley car on the rails five blocks off, and rattled the windows in the houses within the radius of over a mile, the Standard Oil Company's 250,000-gallon distillate tanks blew up yesterday just before noon.
EXPLORATION: NORTH EDITION
Check it out
Buena Vista Park is in the heart of the Shadowridge community of Vista. It is adjacent to Rancho Buena Vista High School and the Buena Vista Little League Ball Park that was home to the team that went to the 2005 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The park encompasses about 150 acres.
EXPLORATION: SOUTH EDITION
Check it out
Test yourself with a little treasure hunt along Third Avenue in downtown Chula Vista. The tour, sponsored by the Chula Vista Heritage Museum, features 12 pedestals that show historic photographs of the views you're seeing. It covers about six blocks along Third between G and E streets, with another group of little houses a few blocks east on F Street.
EXPLORATION: EAST EDITION
Check it out
For locals looking to cool off this summer without driving to the beach, the Aztec Aquaplex at San Diego State University is a quiet facility that offers a range of swimming and lounging options. Open to the public for a fee, the Aquaplex includes a competition pool, a recreational pool and a large spa.
EXPLORATION: CITY EDITION
Check it out
For locals looking to cool off this summer without driving to the beach, the Aztec Aquaplex at San Diego State University is a quiet facility that offers a range of swimming and lounging options.
Pet of the Week: South Edition
Pet of the Week: East Edition
Pet of the Week: City Edition
Meeting agendas for local agencies: East Edition
East County datebook
How to contact East County officials
South County datebook
San Diego datebook
Just Fix It: An East County guide for getting things done
For The Record
The name of an outrigger canoe race today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mariner's Point in Mission Bay Park was incorrectly listed as the Kai Elua Ironman Outrigger Canoe Race. It has been changed this year to the Outrigger Iron Championships, hosted by the Kai Elua Outrigger Canoe Club.

OBITUARIES

County Obituaries A-Z
OBITUARY
Paul Oeffinger; Technical Illustrator, Art Director 'loved To Invent'
Paul Oeffinger loved to tinker. He had a garage full of tools and a head full of ideas. When his daughters heard the clatter from behind closed doors they doors, they knew something inventive would emerge.
OBITUARY
Ed Arno; Cartoonist of New Yorker whimsy; 92
Ed Arno, whose sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics domestic and cosmic appeared regularly in The New Yorker for more than 30 years, died on May 27. He was 92.
OBITUARY
John Foster Dulles; Professor, son of former secretary of state; 95
John Foster Dulles, a noted Brazilian history scholar and the eldest son of the former secretary of state, died of kidney failure Monday at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He was 95.
OBITUARY
Rudolph Vecoli; Scholar of immigration; 81
Rudolph Vecoli, an Italian-American historian whose searching chronicles of the American immigrant experience gave a new view of what immigrants kept and left behind, died June 17 in St. Louis Park, Minn. He was 81 and lived in St. Paul.
OBITUARY
Katherine Bogdanovich Loker; Philanthropist supported Oceanside schools and USC
Philanthropist Katherine Bogdanovich Loker preferred to keep a low profile in her hometown of Oceanside, but her generosity left an indelible mark on a wide range of institutions she loved.

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