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VOL. 37, N0. 16
APRIL 21, 2023
Fletchers upend CAO .com job search SAN MARCOS -NEWS
500 MOORE
THE Couple’s donations VISTA to former labor leader NEWS muddy hiring process
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By Steve Puterski
Torrey Pines High School coach Jon Moore’s win totals keep growing after the longtime softball skipper recently earned his 500th win, adding to a career that includes 650 JV boys hoops victories. Story on 12.
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Photo by Michael Cazares
Search continues for 3 missing sailors and William Gross Trio and sailboat O’Brien left Mazatlán, Mexico, on 4 on the sailing vessel last seen April 4 April Ocean Bound, a 44-foot La and had planned to leaving Mazatlán Fitte, stop in Cabo San Lucas on
Encinitas advances pot business tax
Staff and wire reports
The Encinitas City Council readies a tax increase on the city’s four pot shops. 6
REGION — The leading candidate to become San Diego County’s new chief administrative officer received campaign contributions last year from embattledRANCHO Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and his wife, LoreSFNEWS na Gonzalez, records show. Cindy Chavez, who currently serves on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, was named the “preferred” candidate to replace outgoing CAO Helen CHAVEZ Robbins-Meyer, as first reported by LaPrensa. The top executive handles the county’s day-today operations, overseeing a $7.15 billion budget and over 18,000 employees. Gonzalez, serving as the chief officer of the California Labor Federation, donated $1,400 from her state Assembly campaign account to Chavez on April 4, 2022, records show. Fletcher, who has entered an out-of-state treatment facility for alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder and resigned from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors amid a sexual assault scandal, donated $1,000 to Chavez’s
REGION — A search continues this week for three American citizens who were sailing from Mexico to San Diego but have been missing for nearly two weeks. Kerry O’Brien, Frank
April 6 en route to San Diego, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. According to Levi Reed, a Coast Guard spokesperson, the missing sailors were facing inclement weather at the time they departed TURN TO SAILORS ON 13
OFF TO THE RACES
The Boy Scouts held their annual Pinewood Derby race on April 15 in the northwest parking lot at The Shoppes at Carlsbad. The event featured multiple heats and dozens of 5-ounce wooden cars built by local kids ages 5 to 17. Photo
by Steve Puterski
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