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Published weekly San Diego Neighborhood Newspapers March 16, 2006

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Comprehensive storm coverage

Hordes from city trash rural communities 
     A tour Monday along I-8, Old Highway 80, and any number of small residential roads in Descanso and Pine Valley reveals a landscape of destruction. Fences are mangled — some hastily repaired where livestock needed to be contained — piles of trash, including dirty diapers and tampons, and hundreds of people defying property owners and private property laws for a chance to play in the snow...MORE
Snowfall offers residents fun and challenges
    
As predicted, the snow came again this year, a little later, and a little noisier, but it came down nonetheless. The fluttery white stuff was preceded by rain and hail Friday, making for a very slushy Back Country. The many dirt roads and unfinished driveways quickly succumbed to the squishy conditions that make them impassable when our winter weather comes down...MORE
Dark sky could take Boulevard off airport list    
    
A presentation by officials from the Mount Laguna Observatory to the strategic planning committee of the San Diego Regional Airport Authority, may have been the last nail in the coffin for the Campo/Boulevard airport site. The report, by San Diego State University professor and observatory director Paul Etzel, stated that development of an airport at the Boulevard site — about 15 miles from Mount Laguna's facility — would ruin the dark skies that are needed for the observatory to operate...MORE

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