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San Diego’s first wheelchair-accessible hiking trail opened Wednesday near Rancho Peñasquitos, giving the elderly and people with mobility challenges a chance to see views and natural habitat previously unavailable to them. The trail, located in the Black Mountain Ranch Open Space Park, is relatively short at just over one-fifth of a mile. It’s flatter and wider than most trails and it’s made of decomposed granite because people using wheelchairs and other mobility devices typically struggle on dirt trails.

City will look short and longer term solutions to beach access.

St. Petka Serbian Orthodox Church in San Marcos hosts its 5th Annual Serb Sept. 17-18.

A controversial plan to build 189 homes in north San Marcos won the unanimous backing this week of the city’s planning commission.

Coleman University and San Diego area community colleges are reaching out to help ITT Technical Institute students continue their education after their school abruptly closed Tuesday.

Four days after a 15-year-old girl was shot to death in an Oceanside park in the middle of the night, police have released very little information, but have spoken to a few witnesses and hope more witnesses will come forward.

Highway signs dedicating a five-mile stretch of state Route 76 at the southern foot of Palomar Mountain to the memory of a young cattle rancher who died tragically three years ago in a freak ranching accident were erected Aug. 27.

A judge will rule by early next week whether a challenge to the wording of a ballot argument submitted by opponents of Measure B, the countywide ballot initiative which asks voters to approve construction of a large housing development in Valley Center, should be altered.

Mentor recruitment for GANAS (Guide, Advise, Nurture and Support) and TEEN (Together Everyone Encourages Neighbors) mentoring program will be held 4 to 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at Scoreboard Pizzeria, 1125 S. Mission Road in Fallbrook.

German school adds new location