San Marcos
Billboard seeks to raise awareness on American POW
REGION — Never leave a man behind. That’s what has spurred Washington state resident and former Marine Chrissy Marsaglia to begin a grassroots campaign to raise awareness on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. Army soldier that has been held captive since 2009.
San Marcos Highlands project taken off table
SAN MARCOS – When city council was to meet Wednesday, they may have expected to hear a recommendation from the planning commission on the proposed housing development project known as San Marcos Highlands.
Residents still have concerns over San Marcos Highlands development
SAN MARCOS — The developer of the San Marcos Highlands, a proposed housing project, has reduced its residential footprint and increased the amount of open space at the site, but residents remain concerned over a number of issues still associated with it.
Kirk Effinger: Trouble in paradise
Residents in the San Marcos enclave of San Elijo Hills have certainly had their issues lately.
Kirk Effinger: The politics of change
What is it about change that so threatens people? The almost knee-jerk response that certain groups have whenever a new development proposal is made in their community?
Cell tower approved for San Marcos residential area
SAN MARCOS —City Council approved the installation of a 35-foot-tall AT&T cell tower off of Golden Eagle Trail in a residential area at its Oct. 22 meeting.
Man hit in face with beer bottle
SAN MARCOS – A 30-year-old man was hit in the face with what Sheriff’s deputies believe to have been a beer bottle, leaving an 8-inch laceration during an altercation on the 200 block of Avenida De Suerte on Thursday night.
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 relied, taxpayers in the district will soon be asked to accept a “lesser of two evils” decision forced by what ended up being opposing expectations from the district’s Proposition K […]
San Marcos wins $350k grant for new urban trail project
SAN MARCOS — The city will begin design efforts on a new urban trail with the hopes of being completed by late 2014 thanks to a grant issued from the state and city funds.
Portion of San Marcos pipeline will be relined to carry desal water
SAN MARCOS — In order to withstand the pressures that a particular stretch of pipeline in San Marcos will undergo once desalinated water begins to flow through it, the pipe will first have to be relined with steel.
