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SDG&E Supports Teachers, Match Funds for Stem Projects
With a new school year under way, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is providing $250,000 in shareholder funds as matching dollars to help teachers supplement classroom education with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects. This is the sixth year that... — Updated 9/14/2023
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Saturn's Changing Rings
Just about everyone's favorite planet is back in our evening sky once again. The ringed beauty Saturn reaches its "opposition" point in late August (officially on Aug. 27) when it appears as a fairly bright "star" that rises in... — Updated 9/14/2023
Big Moon A-Risin'
Make sure you're out at sunset on Wednesday, Aug. 30, to watch the beautiful full moon rise in the east. If it seems particularly large when it rises that night, that's because, well, it is. Not the moon's actual size, of course;... — Updated 9/14/2023
Official: BSFPD Transitions to Cal Fire
As of July 1, 2023, the Borrego Springs Fire District have officially transitioned into Cal Fire San Diego County Fire. The SDCFPD is managed and staffed under a contract with the state's Department of Cal Fire. "After months of... — Updated 9/14/2023
SDG&E: Energy Storage Facilities, Strengthen Grid Reliability, Advance Goals
As part of its commitment to help bolster summer grid reliability and advance California’s 100% clean energy goal, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has completed two additional utility-owned energy storage facilities totaling 171 megawatts (MW), enough to power almost 130,000 h... — Updated 9/14/2023
Visitor's View – Palm Groves
A word of caution. The Borrego Sun presents Visitor’s View as a guide for those discovering the wonders of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Many of the destinations are dangerous places to visit in the peak of summer heat, and we urge readers to simply save these articles until t... — Updated 9/14/2023
Assembly Public Safety Committee Reverses Course
The Assembly Public Safety Committee backpedaled its course to pass Senate Bill 14, which would make sex trafficking of minors a serious crime in California. The bill, authored by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), was initially blocked on a 2 – 0 vote by the Democrats in t... — Updated 9/14/2023
Bats: Coexisting with Wildlife
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
Visitor's View – Blair Valley
Summer can be a challenging time to visit Anza-Borrego Desert State Park as searing daytime temperatures create dangerous and unpleasant conditions. But evenings are often mild and comfortable and the desert's dark sky away from ur... — Updated 9/14/2023
Measuring the Cosmos
My regular readers have surely become accustomed to seeing some pretty big numbers. For example, in any one article, I might explain that our Milky Way galaxy is home to hundreds of billions of stars, that our sun produces 400 mill... — Updated 9/14/2023
Nature Watch: "Great Horned Owl"
There is something quite comforting about the monotoned hooting of a great horned owl on a dark desert night. It's a sound you will often hear in November or December, marking the start of courtship for this large, powerful bird.... — Updated 9/14/2023
Borrego Sun News
Due to a labor shortage with the postage company and a recent switch in companies, many of of our subscribers have either not received their mailed papers or suffered a slight delay in receiving them. We apologize for the... — Updated 9/14/2023
My Longtime Celestial Friend
Summer is now upon us in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes a changing canopy of stars that always transports me back to childhood. It was a simpler, more innocent time – a time when neighbors sat on their p... — Updated 9/5/2023
Impending Heat Wave Brings Fire Danger
High temperatures often lead to high fire danger. Temperatures will rise and continue to build everywhere in San Diego County but particularly in the deserts, mountains and inland valleys. The National Weather Service in San Diego has issued an excessive heat warning for inland... — Updated 7/21/2023
Solar Farms: Taking Over
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
Borrego Water District Increases Future Water Supply
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
Mercy Air, Permanent Operation
Since beginning operations adjacent to the Borrego Medical Clinic in July 2020, Mercy Air’s helicopter air ambulance has operated on a temporary authorization from the permitting agency, the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), Division of Aeronautics. To give p... — Updated 7/21/2023
Audit Request Approved
Following more than two years of objections to Liberty Healthcare and the CA Department of State Hospital (DSH) practice of hiding Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs) in rural neighborhoods, an audit of the SVP Conditional Release Program (CONREP) was approved. Senator Brian Jones... — Updated 7/21/2023
Rams Hill Value Keepers
A big congratulations to Dunia Padilla, Rene Navarro, Dan Donnelly, Gabriela Ramirez, Efrin Vilchis, and Charles Thompkins for earning recognition as Rams Hill's Value Keepers for the 2022-2023 season. We commend these team... — Updated 7/21/2023
Borrego Water District Increases Future Water Supply
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
New Grant to Help More San Diegans Get Online
The County is expanding its campaign to help more San Diegans get online. These new efforts will be rolled into the regionwide outreach efforts, allowing expansion thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Federal Communications Commission to tell people about the Affordable... — Updated 7/18/2023
SDG&E Awards $10M in Grants
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is awarding grants of $250,000 to $1 million to 21 community-based nonprofit organizations regionwide, enabling them to expand essential services for vulnerable residents who struggle with basic needs. The grants stemmed from the SDG&E Community... — Updated 7/18/2023
New Laws in Effect in CA
As we are midway through the year 2023, there are new laws going into effect in California as of July 1. These new laws range from recognizing a new state holiday, new acts, and the changing of compensation. Juneteenth (AB-1655) Juneteenth will now be recognized as an official... — Updated 7/18/2023
BWD Board of Directors Public Forum
At its June 13 meeting, the BWD Board of Directors held a Public Forum to select the replacement for the Alternate Community Representative to the Borrego Watermaster Board. The action was needed due to the resignation of Martha Deichler, who recently resigned to pursue another... — Updated 7/18/2023
Burn Permits Suspended
Effective June 26, CAL FIRE/San Diego County Fire has suspended all outdoor residential burning within the State Responsibility Areas of San Diego and Imperial counties. This suspension bans all residential outdoor burning of landscape debris and leaves, according to a news... — Updated 7/18/2023
