April 1, 2018—East County Magazine has the exclusive scoop on astounding major stories breaking today.

• Businesses pull together to solve parking problems and restaurant concerns for Farmer’s Market in La Mesa Village
• East County Performing Arts Center to reopen with all-star cast in “El Cajon Follies”
• Lemon Grove hires professional help
• Project Loon to power backcountry during power outages
• Santee goes underground to solve traffic woes
• Trump dumps California; now Mexico will pay for wall
• Pegleg Smith’s gold fortune found

Is truth stranger than fiction? You decide. Be sure to click this hot link to view blurbs on these stories in our extra-special April 1st edition. (Trust us, you won't want to miss this news!)  Then click "read more" at the bottom of each blurb to open each story and get the full scoop.

By Jack Pott

April 1, 2014 (Alpine) –Alpine parents have finally found a way to build the long-promised high school. 

“The odds of counting on the Grossmont Union High School District were just unwinnable,” said Sal Casamassimo, Chair, Alpine High School Citizens Committee.  “We twice voted for bond measures to build the school, and both times they spent all the money on other projects not even listed in the bond.”

Parents got signatures to divorce from the district and unify with the Alpine Union School District.  But after learning that this process would take several more years, Alpine parents decided to pool their resources and take a gamble—literally. (click "read more" below for full story)