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Wildlife is a fact of life in Borrego Springs; and, one that most enjoy. However, occasionally residents run into situations from injured to dead animals and don’t know where to seek help. For information on the San Diego County Services regarding wildlife call: 619-236-2341: C... — Updated 11/21/2023

Wildlife is a fact of life in Borrego Springs; and, one that most enjoy. However, occasionally residents run into situations from injured to dead animals and don’t know where to seek help. For information on the San Diego County Services regarding wildlife call: 619-236-2341: C... — Updated 11/9/2023

Community meetings prioritizing issues for Borrego, always have low cost housing that meets the needs of a family, and different types of housing are at the top of the list. The following are some important housing bills passed by the legislature this year. For investors wishing... — Updated 11/9/2023

Planning to get the latest Covid vaccination? If you want them now, you will have to leave Borrego to find a provider. Why? The Borrego Sun checked with both the Borrego Springs clinic and DAP’s office – the new owners and managers of the clinic, to find out about the status of th... — Updated 11/9/2023

Note: If you have black cats, as I do, do not let them out during the Halloween season. Unfortunately, too many people still believe black cats are either evil, or bad luck. Among the more reprehensible Halloween traditions are torturing or killing black cats. Black cats still... — Updated 11/9/2023

I have so many questions about Borrego Community Health Foundation (BH) – what’s left of it – and DAP, the new owners, I don’t know where to start. The first and most pressing is: Why hasn’t the Attorney General indicted any of the 40 alleged criminals, including Borrego H... — Updated 11/9/2023

Anyone who regularly checks into Borrego’s Facebook – Borrego 92004 – is familiar with Julian Watson’s video posts of animals as they stop by a watering hole during their nightly escapades. There’s Bob the bobcat, scratching his back on his favorite tree posts. There are coyot... — Updated 11/9/2023

Meet Terry (Not his real name, but he is a real person). He recently told the following story to the Borrego Sun. When reviewing his medical records, Terry alleges, he discovered that Medicaid had been charged for services he did not receive. Persons illegally padding the... — Updated 11/9/2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has detected a new SARS-CoV-2 variant labeled BA.2.86. The CDC is continually monitoring for new variants and studying their potential impact on public health and will continue monitoring BA.2.86 and other circulating variants of the... — Updated 11/9/2023

The above is how David Brinkman, CEO of DAP, defines acquiring Borrego Health’s clinics and pharmacies. The following is about the future of the Borrego Springs assets – clinics and pharmacies – as told to the Borrego Sun by Steven Henke, spokesperson for DAP (formerly the Desert... — Updated 11/9/2023

Haboob means “blasting/drifting” in Arabic. It is a type of intense dust storm carried on an atmospheric/gravity current known as a weather front. Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout the world. And are known to occur in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Des... — Updated 11/9/2023

On July 31, DAP Health, a federally qualified Health Center (FQHC), became the new owner of Borrego Community Healthcare Foundation’s (Borrego Health) assets. Purchasing the 18 remaining clinics with the auction bid of $50 million, DAP Health, originally the Desert Aids P... — Updated 9/14/2023

In Borrego Springs we are surrounded by wildlife. These articles are about getting to know and enjoy our nonhuman neighbors and respecting their place in our community. At dusk bats can be seen silhouetted against the dusky sunset as the sun sets places, usually around water,... — Updated 9/14/2023

A lengthy article in the Guardian newspaper entitled, “How Solar Farms Took Over the California Desert: ‘An Oasis has Become a Dead Sea,’” by Oliver Wainwright, May 21, 2023, offers insight into the cumulative impact of utility scale solar plants on the desert’s populations – both... — Updated 7/21/2023

The Borrego Water District (BWD) has recently negotiated the purchase of two citrus ranches totaling 420 acres and 640 acre feet of associated permanent water rights. increasing the district’s future water supply by 640 acre-feet of water, to the current 1,583-acre feet in use. T... — Updated 7/21/2023

The Borrego Water District (BWD) has recently negotiated the purchase of two citrus ranches totalling 420 acres and 640 acre feet of associated permanent water rights. increasing the district’s future water supply by 640 acre-feet of water, to the current 1,583-acre feet in u... — Updated 7/18/2023

San Diego County District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond prepared to make residents happy by announcing his office has placed an item on the May 24, Board of Supervisors agenda to revisit the skewed information that downplayed roof top and parking lot solar in favor of industrialized so... — Updated 6/13/2023