The Coronado Island Film Festival sees over 80 films each year, helping launch some of them to bigger platforms to be shown on Amazon Prime, PBS and even nominated for Oscar awards.
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Coronado cross country finishes fifth in Wolf Pack Invitational
Coronado High School’s cross country teams placed fifth at the Wolf Pack Invitational on Aug. 25 in grade-only races behind El Capitan, Point Loma, Steele Canyon, and Santana, said Islanders Coach George Green.
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Urgent need for funding at SunCoast Market Co-op to avoid losing site
The SunCoast Market Co-op, after 7 years of planning, is in danger of losing its leased space in Imperial Beach if a funding goal of $1.6 million is not met by this fall, officials said.
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An ‘exciting day’ as school begins again in Coronado Unified
The school district anticipated its students’ return with welcome events leading up to the first day of school.
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The women of Naval Air Station North Island’s Squadron VRM 50
Three women sit in the Commanding Officer’s office for the Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 50 based on Naval Air Station North Island. They are among the 47 women who serve in the 242-personnel squadron. That’s about 19% of the staff or just shy of the overall figure (20%) for women serving in the U.S. […]
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Psychological thriller “Vertigo” comes to CIFF’s Classic Film Aug. 30
The Coronado Island Film Festival is rolling right through summer with their next classic film, “Vertigo” by Alfred Hitchcock, screening Aug. 30 at the Village Theatre. As part of their monthly Classic Film series, August will venture into the weird and wondrous world of the great Alfred Hitchcock, who was also known for his films […]
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Emilia Alpert competes as one of two female football players at CHS
Senior Emilia Alpert is another trailblazer on the Coronado High football team, joining Lindsey Balsley as one of two female players in the program. Alpert plays running back on offense and inside linebacker on defense. With one older brother and two younger siblings, one of whom will be an incoming freshman at CHS, Alpert said she […]
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How a Powderpuff punt got Lindsey Balsley on the CHS football team
A long punt during the spring Powderpuff game resulted in Lindsey Balsley, a multi-sport athlete, getting recruited to play football this fall.
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New: Coronado students likely circulated “inappropriate” content that led to child porn investigation
New public records show Coronado High School students in late May located and distributed “a photo/image” of a district employee from an online dating app and then sent it to numerous smartphones of classmates, The Coronado News has learned.
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Op-Ed: On the edge of darkness and the power of the toupée
“Bonanza,” the first color TV show, first aired on Sept. 12, 1959, and it ran 14 seasons to Jan. 16, 1973. It was the second longest Western in broadcast history recounting the fictional story of the Cartwrights, a family of ranchers living on the bountiful Ponderosa Ranch in the mid- 1800s, near Virginia City, Nevada. The […]
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Beaches reopen in Coronado as sewage water flows from Mexico decrease
The South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant near the U.S-Mexico border is stabilizing, and transboundary flows of sewage water down the Tijuana River are decreasing, as the storm has passed, the agency reported Monday morning.
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Tropical Storm Hilary menaces Mexico’s Baja coast, carrying a deluge toward Coronado
ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Hilary was accelerating northward off Mexico’s Baja coast on Sunday, no longer a hurricane but still packing what forecasters called “life-threatening” rain likely to unleash flooding across a broad region of the western U.S. As of 8 a.m. Pacific time, Hilary was located about 220 miles (350 kilometers) south-southeast of […]
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Feds issue sewage warning for Hurricane Hilary
The U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission said Friday afternoon that it’s tracking Hurricane Hilary and its possible effect of excess sewage coming from Tijuana into the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant and surrounding area. The boundary commission said it has spoken with their Mexican counterparts to make them aware of […]
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Hurricane Hilary grows rapidly off Mexico. Rare tropical storm watch issued for California
No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service. The watch warned of numerous potential threats to life and property including extreme flooding, mudslides and tornados.
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Awaken Church: From down under to Coronado
Awaken Church founders Jurgen and Leanne Matthesius have built their evangelical ministry around Jesus, but with an emphasis on miracles, speaking in tongues while advocating political activism and “prosperity theology” – a belief that God will reward faith with wealth on earth. The pastors enhance those themes with attractive young ministers, lively Christian music and […]
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Breaking barriers and building campfires
The Boy Scouts of America for more than 100 years created an outlet through which young men could grow and mature into honorable, responsible, and self-sufficient adults. But five years ago that all changed. The BSA opened their Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA to young women, and they’ve never looked back. Coronado’s first all-girls troop […]