Joe Naiman

The county’s victor control assessment will be increased from $9.10 to $10.76 per benefit unit. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors, who serve as the board of the county's Vector Control District, voted 5-0 June 26 to approve the 18.2% increase in the assessment.

The annual assessment for properties in Zone A of the San Diego County Street Lighting District will remain at $2 per equivalent dwelling unit.

Two separate 5-0 Rainbow Municipal Water District board votes June 25 approved an increase for water and wastewater rates and an increase in capacity fees. Water rates will increase by approximately 4.5% while wastewater rates will be increased by 13%. The first capacity fee increase in seven years will be 26.4%. In November 1996, the state's voter...

Lianna Arnold had been a lifelong Fallbrook resident, but after graduating as the Fallbrook High School valedictorian for the class of 2021, she attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. She graduated from Georgia Tech in three years, and in April 2024, she was given the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for the George W. Woodruff Scho...

Mallory Sehnert will actually conclude her Future Farmers of America career, at least as a member of FFA, Oct. 23-26 at the national FFA convention in Indianapolis. Her final FFA event as an exhibitor was the 2024 San Diego County Fair, and one of the steers she raised was selected as the supreme grand champion. "It was an amazing way to end my FFA...

When Anthony Wilson began ninth grade as a Fallbrook High School student in 2020, he set a goal to graduate as the class of 2024 valedictorian. And in June 2024, he gave the valedictorian address at the graduation ceremony. "I'm glad that I was able to keep that plan," Wilson said. "I am extremely grateful. It takes hard work, but it paid off." Wil...

Maya Khoury graduated from Fallbrook High School as the class of 2024 salutatorian. "It was really cool and it was an honor, and it was fun giving the speech," Khoury said. The valedictorian and salutatorian selections utilize weighted GPA. Advanced classes including advanced placement courses provide an extra grade point. Khoury received an "A" gr...

Share During the October 2003 wildfires, most of the fatalities were citizens who were trying to evacuate but were caught in traffic on congested roads. The October 2007 Rice Fire, which forced the evacuation of most of Fallbrook, also closed Interstate 15, so Fallbrook residents had to evacuate through Camp Pendleton and had long wait times to evacuate.

Share Rainbow resident Meg Berry won five awards including two first-place ribbons at the San Diego County Fair’s gems, minerals and jewelry exhibition.

Share The Fallbrook Community Planning Group did not take a vote in favor or against a proposal to install automated license plate readers and high-resolution traffic cameras in Fallbrook to address illegal and dangerous driving behaviors, but those who attended the Monday, July 15, meeting were able to fill out a survey indicating whether they favor or oppose such cameras.