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With an asking price of $3,500,000, Milagro Farm Vineyards and Winery in Ramona qualifies as the most expensive property currently offered in any of San Diego County’s eastern communities. The property spans 110 acres, 20 of which are planted with 10,000 producing grape vines of 11 different varieties. The property includes 20 acres of grapevines. In addition to the wine grapes, the estate also includes apple and olive orchards, a citrus grove, pens for raising hogs, and an area for free-range chicken and turkeys that’s also home to a handful of peacocks. Read entire story [here][1]. [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/jun/12/un… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/1…— June 12, 2013 11:09 a.m.
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I’ve promised Carla a meal and it’s heading for nine o’clock at night and I’m still traipsing across the bridges over the open wound they call Chollas Creek.... I make it up 47th to Federal Boulevard. Actually, it's 8.25. I’ve got ten minutes till the one bus still operating around here is due to show. The #13 should be trundling up this hill at 8:35 and get me to Euclid Trolley.... Then: Thar she blows! On the larboard bow! An eatery. An Italian eatery, open, right at the corner of 47th Street and Federal Boulevard. Pretty much the one light in the night. And right across from the #13 bus stop. To read whole story in Reader today, click [here][1]. [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/feast/2013/… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/1…— June 12, 2013 10:52 a.m.
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I’ve promised Carla a meal and it’s heading for nine o’clock at night and I’m still traipsing across the bridges over the open wound they call Chollas Creek.... I make it up 47th to Federal Boulevard. Actually, it's 8.25. I’ve got ten minutes till the one bus still operating around here is due to show. The #13 should be trundling up this hill at 8:35 and get me to Euclid Trolley.... Then: Thar she blows! On the larboard bow! An eatery. An Italian eatery, open, right at the corner of 47th Street and Federal Boulevard. Pretty much the one light in the night. And right across from the #13 bus stop. To read whole story in Reader today, click [here][1]. [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/feast/2013/… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/1…— June 12, 2013 10:49 a.m.
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For folks in southwestern Riverside County, it was the first Sunday without their local newspaper — The Californian. With the purchase of the North County Times in September 2012, the U-T San Diego also acquired The Californian, which was published for the communities in the Murrieta, Temecula, and Wildomar areas. Since September, the U-T published a daily local section with community news and sports under The Californian masthead, combined with the regular edition of the U-T. On Tuesday, May 27, U-T San Diego stopped publishing The Californian section. Folks in North San Diego County also lost the last remnant of the former North County Times with the disappearance of their “North County Local” section. Over at Mo’s Egg House, a popular breakfast spot on Jefferson Avenue in Temecula, on Sunday morning, June 2, diners Roberta and Barry were reading their home-delivered U-T, as they do every Sunday morning. “I miss the first page being local news,” said Roberta. “I might as well pick up the New York Times or the L.A. Times.” At the 7-Eleven off Highway 79 South/Temecula Parkway, clerk Navi said the Sunday U-T seems to still be selling, while next door at Carl’s Jr., the L.A. Times and Press-Enterprise racks were empty by 8:00 a.m.; several copies of the U-T were still available. Though the publishing of a newspaper with decades of name recognition has ceased, the U-T’s marketing people stated the U-T brand has a strong presence in southern Riverside County. Other San Diego–based businesses that have Temecula-area locations (i.e., banks and restaurants) have previously pointed out that the small-town Temecula/Murrieta area grew in the past three decades to a 250,000+ community, primarily from a northward migration of San Diegans looking for cheaper housing. An estimated 20 remaining employees, columnists, and reporters of The Californian/North County Times were let go last week with the loss of the local sections. Unofficial circulation figures show The Californian/North County Times lost almost 40,000 subscribers over the past decade, which follows the trend of most metro and suburban daily newspapers. Read the rest of the story [here][1]. [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/jun/04/st…— June 5, 2013 5:03 p.m.
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Construction began Monday, June 3, on a canopy that will cover all south bound lanes into Mexico at the San Ysidro port of entry. The project will require three to four lanes to close during the hours of 21:00 (9pm) to 05:00 during the month of June. Read original story [here][1]. [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker…— June 5, 2013 4:59 p.m.
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Passing along National Avenue. Come to the big orange barn where they have the San Diego Public Market. This is before ten in the morning. But it's like "Honey I Shrunk the Market." Only one of the two big spaces is being used, and doesn't look like too many stalls in the other one. Is this place not getting the peeps? I jump off the bus, and walk back up to the old boiler factory that's now the market. Jane Sandi, one of the managers, says everything's fine. "We're concentrating on setting up a commercial kitchen first, before we develop the permanent market," she says. "But you need to speak to Catt White. She knows all about the plans. This is her operation." It suddenly strikes me that, hey, it's still a little early. Maybe I was jumping to conclusions. Like, while I'm talking, this couple is setting up their stand. Read entire story in Reader today [here][1]. [1]: http://buff.ly/17q3TDS— June 5, 2013 4:49 p.m.
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...I set out for City Heights and Asmara Restaurant (4155 University Avenue, 619-677-3999). Much like Red Sea, Asmara had little more than a door and a sign on the side of an unattractive building. There’s a parking lot out back for anyone who might like to drive, but it would be easy to cruise right past the restaurant in the low light of a city evening. Inside? Better. Adequate coziness and a lively crowd of regulars watching Lebron James reinvent the game of basketball. I ordered a Harar beer ($4) and a sambusa ($2.50) to start from the super-friendly guy tending bar, who also disappeared to work on the kitchen with help from “the woman” in the back, whom I did not see all night. Try as I might, I cannot find the East African sambusa a favorable dish.... Read more [here][1]. [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/feast/2013/… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/0…— June 4, 2013 4:51 p.m.
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Alicia and Robert, the owners of a single-family house on Lewis Street in Hillcrest, had heard of people wearing gas masks and robbing houses while they were being tented for termites. So, they decided to pitch a tent in their front yard on May 30, next to the one covering their home. The couple set up an awning, spread a few nice carpets, brought in a small table, a few cozy pillows, a pair of patio chairs, some beach chairs, ran a couple of extension cords, and plugged in a laptop and portable radio. A 12-pack of Dos Equis was secured under Robert's laptop and the latest copy of the Reader was at their feet. Read rest of today's Reader story [here.][1] [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/jun/03/st… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/0…— June 4, 2013 4:36 p.m.
neighborhoods/coronado -- Coronado
Corner of 9th and A used to have most interesting garden in Coronado - all cactus and succulents. Lotsa spines. A few year ago they switched to more standard - roses, lobelia, lavender, olive trees. Not sure when the 10th and A corner took over the honors- maybe it was gradual. Not cactus, but assortment of dry, native plants. Mallow, butterfly bush, coreopsis. And the native plants spill over into the sidewalk strip next to curb on 10th. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/2… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/2… http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/2…— May 27, 2013 6:28 p.m.
neighborhoods/coronado -- Coronado
Hoped that Sheerwater would be cheaper than 1500 Ocean at the Hotel Del. But cheapest lunch entrees were the stir-fired vegetables ($16) and portobello mushroom-quinoa burger (16.50). Almost mitigated by the 3-4 employees carrying 10-foot poles with falcons perched on top. Was this going to be a show? Nah- it was hotel's way of keeping seegulls away from patio diners. Never noticed the herb garden - north of patio dining. Photo attached. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/2…— May 27, 2013 6:19 p.m.