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3 days ago | countynewscenter.com | Anita Lightfoot |James Kecskes

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLife is sweet for some local seniors now living in their new affordable apartment homes on Mt. Etna Drive in Clairemont. The first community event for residents, an ice cream social, was held inside the Senior Wellness Center attached to their building. It has been five months since the grand opening of the Paul Downey Senior Residence, a 79-unit apartment building for low-income seniors, 62 years and older.

5 days ago | countynewscenter.com | Tracy DeFore

Reading Time: 3 minutesStarting Tuesday, June 3, registered voters in the County of San Diego’s First Supervisorial District have the additional option of returning their mail ballot for the July 1 special general election to any one of 29 official ballot drop boxes located around the district. Mail ballots for the district’s 370,000 registered voters are expected to arrive this week. Some voters may have received theirs over the weekend.

6 days ago | countynewscenter.com | Tracy DeFore

Reading Time: 4 minutesA public hearing on the County’s recommended budget for Fiscal Year 2025-27 will get underway on Tuesday, June 3. It will begin with a budget presentation at 9 a.m., followed by public comments on the budget before the Board of Supervisors’ regular legislative session gets underway. The budget hearing will continue at 5:30 p.m., giving the public another opportunity to comment.

1 week ago | countynewscenter.com | Tracy DeFore

Reading Time: 2 minutesOver 370,000 ballots are on their way to registered voters in the County of San Diego’s First Supervisorial District for the July 1 special general election. Registered voters should receive their ballot the week of Monday, June 2. Some voters may receive theirs this weekend. The official ballot packet will also include an “I Voted” sticker. The person elected will fill the district’s vacant seat for the remainder of the current term that ends in January 2029.

1 week ago | countynewscenter.com | Tracy DeFore |Andy Tolley

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe County’s new state-of-the-art Public Health Lab officially opened its doors after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the County Operations Center (COC) in Kearny Mesa on Thursday. The two-story facility measures 52,000 square feet, three times larger than the old, cramped and outdated building on Rosecrans.  Once a shopping center and dating back to 1965, it hadn’t been designed to house a lab. The structure was closed due to its aging infrastructure.