OsideNews 2025

OCEANSIDE WEATHER

Encinitas and Oceanside contend with increasing ICE enforcement
From septic tanks to sustainability: Encinitas talk highlights invisible service

BUSINESS NOTES

Encinitas health tech firm Lumati names new executive

Tecovas among new tenants at The Forum Carlsbad
Encinitas firm helps community hospitals recover $10M in missed funds
Encinitas resident named to landscape society fellows

NORTH COAST LINK

Students explore opportunities at San Elijo JPA Water Career Day

Halloween is no time to waste pumpkins, San Diego nonprofit says
Interfaith Community Services launches fund to offset federal cuts
From septic tanks to sustainability: Encinitas talk highlights invisible service

NORTH COAST CAMPUS

Palomar College President Star Rivera-Lacey leaving for Riverside

Palomar College celebrates key event for Fallbrook center
MiraCosta College President Sunita Cooke to retire by summer 2026
CSU San Marcos starts $200M fundraising effort as building, STEM disciplines get major boost

OCEANSIDE NEWS

Next phase of water, sewer work to begin in early ’26

Oceanside will begin construction on the Downtown Water and Sewer Replacement Phase II Project in early 2026, the second of a five-phase program to replace aging water and sewer mains throughout Downtown Oceanside.

Sand set for Oceanside’s Tyson Street Beach

NORTH COUNTY

San Marcos City Council OKs e-bike restrictions

Young e-bike riders will be under a kind of community watch in San Marcos after the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, Oct. 28, to put a pilot safety program in place built on state legislation unique to San Diego County.

San Marcos leaders mull tougher e-bike rules for kids

CURRENT EVENTS

Carlsbad, California. (Art Wager, iStock Getty Images)

CARLSBAD: McClellan-Palomar Airport drill early Oct. 23

VISTA: Gas and Steam Engine Museum show two Oct. 25-26

Encinitas, California. (Ian McDonnell, iStock Getty Images)

ENCINITAS: Safe Trick-or-Treat returns for Oct. 31

ENCINITAS: Historical Society walking tours cover Coast Highway

Furniture. (Photo by Jonathan Borba, Unsplash)

DEL MAR: San Diego Fall Home Garden Show Oct. 18 and 19

NORTH COAST BEAT

Actor and producer Desi Arnaz, who lived in Del Mar, attends a reception in the Honeymoon Cottage, which housed the San Dieguito Art Guild, in 1971. (SDAG courtesy photo)

San Dieguito Art Guild marks 60th anniversary this fall

Marking its diamond anniversary, the San Dieguito Art Guild is celebrating six decades of North San Diego County art-making defined by resilience, reinvention and community roots. What began on a Del Mar back patio in 1965 has grown into the guild's current identity as the Off Track Gallery in Encinitas.

Oceanside coffee shop Jitters revamps with help of Jason Mraz
Grand opening set for MiraCosta College’s Media Arts Complex

COLUMNISTS

Citizen Koenig: California on its own authoritarian path with housing law

We have “not in my back yard.” Then there’s “yes in my back yard.” Yet in the context of a new California state housing bill, there is nothing solid to address “how in my back yard.”

Citizen Koenig: A century of local history lives, but what of tomorrow?
Historically Speaking: America’s ambition(less?) vice presidents

DIALOGUE

Commentary: SB-41 puts California Latino seniors like me at risk

Don’t let big pharmaceutical companies and their political pawns fool you. California Senate Bill 41 is here to drain the lifeblood from our Latino and senior communities, putting our health, our savings, and our very lives at risk.

KOCT TELEVISION

2024 Oceanside election coverage available on KOCT

KOCT, Oceanside’s community television station, provides roundtables and other coverage of this November’s election.

Oceanside election coverage available on KOCT television

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Motorcyclist killed in Vista collision with SUV

A motorcyclist died Oct. 29 after colliding with an automobile on North Melrose Drive in Vista, authorities reported.

Swimmer rescued after search near Oceanside Pier