San Marcos 10K takes runners over 1,100 feet of climbing — I was crazy enough to join them
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning. The alarm goes off and I think, “What in the heck am I getting myself into?”...
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San Marcos elected talk housing, business at first candidate forum
The nine candidates for the San Marcos City Council and mayor’s seat sat facing about 70 people inside of the sanctuary at the Rock Church....
What’s new at local schools
Students starting school across the region are seeing a lot of changes at some of their schools — new classrooms, new playgrounds and new administrators. ...
San Marcos Unified superintendent retires, citing husband’s health
San Marcos Unified School District Superintendent Melissa Hunt said the tumultuous year of boundary changes, complaints about school overcrowding and budget constraints did not lead...
SMUSD to add third resource officer
The city of San Marcos and the San Marcos Unified School District are working on a plan to add a third school resource officer at...
San Marcos Unified approves shift in school boundaries
SAN MARCOS — The San Marcos Unified School District recently approved a shift in its school boundaries that will change where hundreds of students will...
San Marcos Unified probes shooting threat
SAN MARCOS — San Marcos Unified officials and the San Diego County Sheriff’s department recently investigated a social media threat of a school shooting inspired...
La Costa Meadows on track for $33.5 million worth of improvements
Since June, progress has been made on replacing 38 portable and modular classrooms with two separate two-story buildings containing 19 classrooms each....
San Marcos Unified gets $4.1 million energy grant
SAN MARCOS — The San Marcos Unified School District recently received a $4.1 million grant from the state Energy Commission to complete energy efficiency upgrades...
History made, one upset in school board races
REGION — History was made and an upset of sorts occurred in the elections of two of the region’s largest school districts....
New park a shot in the arm for neighborhood
SAN MARCOS — Just eight months ago, the five-acre plot of land adjacent to San Marcos Elementary School was a debris-filled lot, home to impromptu...
Kirk Effinger: San Marcos Unified School District: Pay me now, or pay me later
Thanks to a sequence of events unanticipated by the San Marcos Unified School District administration, its Board of Trustees, or, apparently advisers upon whom they...
Kirk Effinger: Pavilions and Proposition K
This past weekend members of the public were treated to a preview of the latest installment in the saga of San Marcos Unified School District’s...
