This week in The Alpine Sun

Lead Stories

New World Record set by Alpine Girls Softball Association  
      On Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at 9:05 AM, players from the Alpine Girls Softball Association (AGSA) completed 39-hours of continuous softball play to set the New World Record for the Longest Youth Marathon Softball Game. ...MORE

Alpine Teachers and students speak out   
     At the April 14 Alpine board meeting teachers, students and supporters gathered to fight for the protection of teachers and staff who received pink slips. The speakers focused on Corrine Lewis of Alpine Elementary and everything she loss when receiving the pink slip...MORE

Planning Commish recommends to supes pending hearing
The county's Planning Commission voted 6-1 April 16 to send a recommended general plan update to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors while holding a separate hearing on equity mechanisms which would be incorporated into the recommendations to be considered by the county supervisors...MORE

Arrest and extradition is made in
“cold case” homicide
SAN DIEGO— A preliminary hearing has been set for July 13 in a 1995 murder case in which the body of a young woman was dumped not far from Kitchen Creek Road in Pine Valley. The woman’s husband was arrested last month in Nevada.
 

New Magnet School to Open in Alpine
Beginning in August 2010, there will be one more educational format in which students, parents and teachers may participate. This program will be seeking International Baccalaureate status by beginning the three-year process of certification. 
 
San Diego Minutemen and SoCal Patriots Coalition Praise New Arizona Enforcement Law 
San Diego, CA – Border Security and rule of law activist groups in San Diego, Southern California, and nationwide are praising Arizona's tough new enforcement bill that Governor Jan Brewer signed into law this afternoon to deal with their ongoing border crisis.

Supervisors authorize grant  application for Alpine right-of-way development standards Alpine
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 April 14 to authorize the submittal of a Community-Based Transportation Planning Grant Program application to the California Department of Transportation for the Alpine Community Right-of-Way
 

It’s Sage & Songbirds Festival weekend in Alpine!
Masses of garden and outdoor-lovers are expected to converge on Alpine this weekend for the 13th Annual Sage & Songbirds Festival.

Alpine Kiwanis Trailblazers
On April 24th, The Kiwanis Club of Alpine sent a Walking Team down to the Annual M.S. Walk at Liberty Station in Point Loma.  All of us left Alpine at 6:30 a.m. because parking is at a premium down there. 

 

Columns/Opinion

My Turn with Roger Garay: Value Added Tax — If a VAT is good policy, repeal the 16th Amendment first.

My Turn with Nancy Graham: Sleepless San Diego opens eyes

Abundant Life with Guatay Christian Fellowship: His Love