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Anderson Running For Supervisor

LA MESA -- Joel Anderson, former State Assemblyman and State Senator, has officially announced his candidacy for the District 2 seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors in the 2020 election. District 2…

From Beauty and the Beast’s hauntingly melancholic “If I Can’t Love Her” to the impassioned spirituality of Vaughn-Williams “Five Mystical Songs,” noted baritone Bill Marshall “sings it all!”  Think the exuberant “They Call the Wind Maria” from Paint Your Wagon and Theodore Roethke’s disturbing tale, “My Papa’s Waltz.”

All these – and more, much more, will be showcased when Marshall, accompanied by Jim Tompkins-MacLaine,  appears as featured artist in program eight…

Free Breakfast At Chick-Fil-A

LA MESA -- The 14 Chick-fil-A® restaurants in San Diego County will offer a free breakfast entrée this week to guests who create or log in to their Chick-fil-A App account. From March 25 to…

Diocese Move To Remove Beloved Principal

CASA DE ORO – For much of the last 30 years, a small elementary school just beyond the south side of…

New Health Care District Maps Released

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) has taken the next step as part of its future transition from district-wide to zone-based elections…

Through The Eyes Of A 10-Year-Old

LA MESA -- The Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library, a consumer health library at 9001 Wakarusa St. in La Mesa, is now presenting its Winter Art Exhibit featuring 15 paintings by 10-year-old Mia Bruso of …

Mixing Medicines Has Its Risks

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District’s Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library, 9001 Wakarusa St. in La Mesa, will host “A Healthy Outlook on Aging, Medicines,…

Health Care District To Honor Heroes

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) is seeking nominees for its 2019 Healthcare Heroes awards. Now in its 13th…

Daddy And Daughter Night Planned

LA MESA -- Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the 14 Chick-fil-A restaurants in San Diego County, including the Grossmont Chick-fil-A restaurant at 8200 Fletcher Parkway,…

How is Your Brain Fitness?

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District’s Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library, 9001 Wakarusa St. in La Mesa, will host “Keeping Your Brain Fit,”…

Health Care District Elects 2019 Board Officers

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) board of directors has elected its 2019 board officers.

 Randy Lenac, who recently won reelection to his second four-year term, was…

 Harp: Tasha Smith Godinez in Concert

“’T is believ’d that this harp which I wake now for thee

Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.”

 ~ Thomas Moore,  The Origin of the Harp

  Alluring…enticing…seductive:  words used alike for mythological sirens of old…

Health Care District Offers Scholarships

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) is seeking applicants for two of its 2019 scholarship programs, one for nursing students and another for…

Jones To Open New Office

EL CAJON -- The nearly 1 million San Diego County residents within the massive 38th California State Senate District, which includes La Mesa and much of San Diego’s East County region, have…

La Mesa Chick-fil-A operator challenges

Santee Chick-fil-A operator in annual friendly wager

for 2018 Army-Navy college football game

For the second…

It's A Hayride!

LA MESA -- Picture it – a horse-pulled wagon filled with carolers young and old making its way through suburban streets as the neighbors call out Christmas greetings.  It’s the annual Hayride and Chili Dog Dinner at The Table: United Church of Christ of La Mesa, 5940 Kelton Avenue, La Mesa 91942.

 You’re invited to join us, to hop on and start the holiday season in style!  Feast…

Awaiting the Messiah:  Advent Worship Services

10:00am, Sundays, December 2, 9, 16, 23

Evensong Blue Christmas 

6:00pm, Wednesday, December 12 

Christmas tough this year?  Clouded by loss and pain?  Are you wondering how you’ll make it through?

Christmas merriment often amplifies the sorrow and isolation many people feel this time of year. Sometimes the pressure to…

Two Grossmont Healthcare District

board members retain their seats

in November general election…

Grossmont Healthcare District will transition

from at-large to zone-based elections;

public hearing at 6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3rd

The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) has announced the start of a transition to a new…

Our Advent theme this year is the first thing God speaks of, in the first lines of the book of Genesis.

God’s first utterance—“Let there be light”

God’s first utterance, and then God sees that it is good.

Over and over, God sings to a new creation: good, good, very good.

We were formed in a primordial goodness.

But our world does not always feel that way, does it?

Our world can feel broken, twisted, and bleak sometimes.

And Advent doesn’t deny that…