Dear Readers:
April 28, 2026 (San Diego’s East County) — Our new, redesigned website has finally launched! Posting comments will be restored soon. We’re deeply grateful to the Prebys Foundation for their generous grant for our new site layout, new logo, improved navigation, plus security upgrades. We also thank our many readers who sent donations. Here’s what’s new, and some tips for navigating our new site.
We are proud to unveil our beautiful new “Visit East County” section! It includes a video about East County, detailed articles on our nine regions in East County , numerous guides to activities such as dining, golf, liv
e entertainment, and more. You can also view “Best of East County” seasonal attractions updated regularly. If you’d like to sponsor Visit East County to help us bring more visitors to East County with seasonal stories each month, please let me know!
We have a new Wildfire & Emergency Resources section to help keep you safe. Thanks to the San Diego Fire Foundation and San Diego River Park Foundation.
Everyone with an account to post comments will soon be sent an email to reset your password on the new site so you can soon start posting again. We had to be sure the site was safe from the AI bots that were attacking us, with new security programs installed first.
All subsections from our old site are still here! But a few have been consolidated or moved to other sections. Use the dropdowns by hovering over sections in the top menu to find all your favorite places.
You can see the top 12 stories chosen by our editor in the “breaking news” newsflasher at the top of our site, just like on the old site. Below that, we now have feeds for our top nine most-read sections, showing you the most recent headlines in each.
If you don’t want to miss anything, go to the “latest stories” below section feeds, or in the top menu under News Center, click “latest stories.” That will show you everything from every section posted most recently.
We’re still working on a few issues. The site should soon be running faster, with a few formatting issues fixed. If you find any nonworking links, missing photos or articles, or other errors, or If anything is confusing, please let me know at editor@eastcountymagazine.org.
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If you love our work and want to help us report more local stories in your community, please donate at https://eastcountymagazine.org/donate/ or better yet, become a sustaining monthly donor to help us budget ahead to insure the most important stories each month will be covered.
We hope you enjoy our new and improved East County Magazine website!
Please reply in the comments below with your feedback, ideas and suggestions!
Best wishes,
Miriam Raftery, Editor
(619)698-7617