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Santana baseball is this year’s CIF Cinderella

To be frank, Santana didn’t have a good regular season. The Sultans went 7-19 (4-8 Grossmont Hills) and were seeded 12 — out of 12 Division I teams — in the CIF San Diego Section Championships. Now they’re one win away from playing in the final. “We had it in…

East County athletes are state bound in track and field

The United States Olympic team’s motto for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing was “Amazing Awaits.” With qualifiers in 11 events for this weekend’s California state championship track and field meet at Buchanan High School in Clovis, the Grossmont Conference might also want to borrow that tag line. It is…

CIF expands Division V football playoffs

The CIF San Diego Section’s Division V football playoffs will now have 12 teams instead of eight. A unanimous voice vote during the May 23 CIF Board of Managers meeting approved the playoff expansion. The change will take effect for the fall 2018 season. A separate CIF action reduced the…

Fire mitigation fee rates increased

The fire mitigation fee rates paid by developers to fund the cost of fire department facilities serving the new development will increase for Fiscal Year 2018-19. The fee for non-agricultural construction will increase from 56 cents to 58 cents per square foot and the fee for agricultural buildings without sprinklers…

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