Michael Covert, CEO of Palomar Pomerado Health, will see his salary jump to $528,000 and will receive a $160,000 bonus after the hospital’s board of directors approved an extension of his contract.
While the search for a new chief executive officer for the Poway Chamber of Commerce continues, former city manager Jim Bowersox will step in Monday as interim CEO for the next three months.
There’s a new face of the Rancho Bernardo football program, but it’s a familiar one.
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A pre-professional youth ballet company largely made up of local dancers will perform twice at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts on April Fools’ Day.
Rancho Bernardo, Poway and Mt. Carmel each have established gymnastics programs and will compete for titles in their respective leagues — the Broncos and Titans in the Palomar League, the Sundevils in the Avocado League.
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The Poway girls lacrosse team, fresh off a CIF San Diego Section Division I title, will get the chance to measure up against some of the best teams in the nation this year. The Titans are scheduled for a trip to the East Coast to play four top teams in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The pools of North County are open, and all four local schools field boys and girls teams that are capable of taking home a victory on any given day. Will Mt. Carmel, Westview, Rancho Bernardo or Poway be able to overcome the weaknesses that slow them and end up leaving the rest of the Palomar League in its wake?
Poway Unified School District is setting the pace countywide with the highest overall API score of all unified school districts, according to information released by the California Department of Education on Tuesday.
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Rancho Bernardo High senior Amanda Nunez considered cooking “a fun pastime” when she was 13.
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Every year, the “Wheel of Fortune” game show receives inquiries from more than one million fans who want to be contestants on the show. Of all those hopefuls, Poway resident Melissa Gastelum was one of the lucky few.
