Pala Today News – 3/10/26

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

Still no details on the reported fatal accident that closed Pala Temecula Road for several hours yesterday morning.  It happened near the top of the straight away about four miles north of Pala Mission Road, according to CHP logs.

Camp Pendleton has issued a noise advisory for communities surrounding the base due to live-fire training in the Whiskey/Zulu Impact area in the northern half of the base for the rest of this week.  San Clemente, Fallbrook and Oceanside are each about 6 miles from the training area.  Temecula is about 15 miles away. The sound tends to travel eastward.  All surrounding areas are expected to hear explosions. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/explosions-booms-coming-camp-pendleton

Forty-five percent all teachers in California say they plan to retire in the next 10 years.  That’s the highest percentage of any state.  New York was close behind at 42%.  Texas was third at 39%.  Those are the three states with the most public-school teachers.  The nationwide average is 36%.  Though morale has been declining overall ever since the pandemic, California teachers’ morale is a bright spot in the survey of 5,800 K-12 teachers in the US.  73% say their work morale is the same or better compared to a year ago.  That’s better than 40 other states.  California teachers also have the highest average annual salary at $101k.  Average starting pay is $58,400.  https://patch.com/california/murrieta/nearly-half-ca-teachers-plan-retire-within-10-years-report

Several hundred SDG&E customers in the southeastern part of Fallbrook lost power early this morning as the result of a traffic accident at the intersection of South Mission and Big Oak Ranch Roads.  CHP logs say it was reported at 3:11a.  Power is expected to be restored by 3p this afternoon. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/03/05/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanearly-morning-crash-affects-power-and-causes-sigalert/81388.html

Today is the last day before the start of a weeklong heatwave that’ll see temperatures in Pala approach 100 degrees Friday and again at the start of next week.  The full forecast is coming up. (below)

 

SPORTS

In the NBA – Yesterday’s winners were Cleveland, Brooklyn, Oklahoma City, Utah and the Clippers over the Knicks in New York, 126-118.

Tanking, or intentionally losing a game has been an issue in the NBA for a number of years.  But this season, it seems more teams are losing more games earlier in the season than ever and there is even more acknowledgement that something needs to be done about it.  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver confirmed it over the weekend and says something will be done about it for next year.  The way the NBA draft is set up is the reason.  Losing teams get better positioning in the draft.  In basketball, this is more important than other sports because there are only five players on the court at a time.  Acquiring two superstars in the draft can change everything for a franchise.  That sometimes makes losing a lot of games a winning strategy.  It also makes being a middle-ranked team the worst place to be.  Not good enough to challenge for a trophy, but not bad enough to draft any really great players.  Some suggest the league not allow teams to have a top-four draft pick two years in a row.  Others say the draft lottery should be flattened so that no team gets more than, say a 10% chance of getting the first pick. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2026/mar/10/nba-tanking-problem-theories-no-solutions

Golden State coach Steve Kerr thinks the solution is fewer games.  He thinks the league would be more competitive with healthier players and less tanking if the NBA took ten games off the schedule.  Partly because of injuries, the Warriors have lost four of their last five games.  In last night’s loss to Utah, they were without Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, Al Horford, Moses Moody and Kristaps Porzingis and are now in danger of missing the playoffs.  Ironically, the Utah Jazz were one of two teams recently fined by league for tanking.  Fewer games is an unlikely scenario due to the loss of revenue.    https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48163624/playing-10-games-less-season-improve-league

In the minors – The San Diego Clippers next game is tomorrow hosting Rip City at Frontline Arena in Oceanside.

In college basketball – The rankings for the top three teams remain the same with Duke at #1 followed by Arizona and Michigan.  Florida and Houston each move up to #4 and #5 while UConn and Iowa State take their places at #6 and #7.  Illinois moved up two places to #9 and Virginia jumped three places to #10.  https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings

In women’s NCAA – UConn remains undefeated with a 90-51 win over Villanova.  In the Coaches Poll, they’re still getting all but one of the votes for #1 with that one going to #2 UCLA. https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/rankings

In the NHL – The Kings topped the Blue Jackets in Columbus 5-4 in overtime.  Other winners were Washington, Chicago, Ottawa and the New York Rangers.  Thirteen games tonight including the Kings at Boston and the Ducks at Winnipeg.

In the minors – The San Diego Gulls next game is tomorrow at San Jose. 

In Major League Baseball Pre-Season – The Padres lost to Texas 4-1.  The Dodgers edged Milwaukee 4-3.  The Angels shut out the Giants 2-0. 

At the World Baseball Classic, The US beat Mexico yesterday 5-3.  Today they play Italy.  Japan had already played its game today, beating Czechia 9-0.  Japan is one of six undefeated teams so far.  The others are the US, Italy, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.

In the minors – test

In soccer – The San Diego Sockers next game is Saturday at Kansas City.

In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is Saturday at Saskatchewan.

Local High School Sports –

Bonsall – boys’ volleyball hosting St. Joseph Academy at 4:45p

Great Oak – baseball at Chaparral at 3:30p; boys’ lacrosse at Poly at 6p

Fallbrook – boys’ volleyball hosting Valley Center at 4:30p

Valley Center – boys’ golf hosting Ramona at Native Oaks at 3p; girls’ lacrosse hosting Fallbrook at 5p

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up.  The Dow gained almost nine tenths of a percent.  The S&P 500 was up 6 tenths.  And the Nasdaq rose 8 tenths.  Comex gold shot up $139.20 to $5,243.10 an ounce.  A little sanity returned to oil futures with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude down $13.81 to $80.96 a barrel.  Apparently, oil ministers are set to release some emergency reserves. 

The FAA briefly grounded all JetBlue flights at the airline’s request early today as it dealt with a 40-minute system outage.  The New York City-based airline didn’t provide any further details.  Such outages happen occasionally.  Alaska Airlines had to ground its planes for several hours twice last year due to IT problems.  United had a similar outage back in August.  And Delta struggled to recover from a faulty software update for several days that affected airlines, hospitals and other businesses in 2024. https://apnews.com/article/faa-ground-stop-jetblue-e990b118812f467d904d92375b984d71

Spirit Airlines has recalled some furloughed pilots after higher-than-expected attrition.  It is still cutting some routes and plans to emerge from its second bankruptcy in less than a year by summer. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/spirit-airlines-pilots-bankruptcy.html

Grocery Outlet is closing 36 underperforming stores including nine in Southern California.  That’s about 6% of its stores.  Most are on the East Coast and represent almost a third of the locations there.  Its ten stores in North County and southwest Riverside County are not among the nine Southern California stores that are closing.  The chain’s plans for expansion include opening almost as many new stores this year, focusing on a cluster model to improve supply chain efficiency and marketing leverage, according to CEO Jason Potter. https://www.grocerydive.com/news/mapping-grocery-outlets-36-store-closures/814116/

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

The leader of the only act to appear twice on stage at the original Woodstock festival in 1969 has died.  County Joe McDonald became a counterculture antiwar icon after playing an impromptu set Saturday afternoon, then returning as scheduled with his band on Sunday.  Born in Washington D.C. and raised in El Monte, he played trombone in dance bands in his teens, joined the Navy at 17, then moved to the Bay Area in ’65 where he and guitarist Barry Melton founded Country Joe and the Fish.  Although he was the leader of the group, the “Joe” in their title was said to be Joseph Stalin.  But that worked okay since Joe McDonald’s Communist Party parents had named him after Stalin.  Their first Fish album was released in ’67 and included protest songs like “Superbird” satirizing President Lyndon Johnson.  For fear of censorship, it did not include what became their most famous song, the “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die-Rag” beginning with “The Fish Cheer”.  This song was different from other war protest songs in that it not only didn’t blame soldiers for war, but sarcastically portrayed them as the victims of politicians and the weapons industry.  McDonald died Saturday in Berkeley from Parkinson’s.  He was 84. https://variety.com/2026/music/obituaries-people-news/country-joe-mcdonald-dead-fishwoodstock-singer-1236681876/

The Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy board has approved transferring 656 acres of upper Palm Canyon near Palm Springs to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.  That makes more than 1,200 acres that have been returned to the tribe since 2024.  https://patch.com/california/palmdesert/656-acres-riverside-county-desert-returned-indigenous-tribe

A scale model of the Oceanside shoreline is being tested at the Hinsdale Wave Research Lab in Oregon to see if a proposed artificial reef could help Oceanside city beaches avoid erosion.  Testing began in January after months of computer modeling.  Right now, data is being collected to study wave patterns, currents and sediment flow with the proposed reef and headland features in place.  Results will be used to finalize the reef design. https://www.northcoastcurrent.com/region/oceanside/2026/02/oceanside-sand-retention-project-enters-next-wave/

On this day in music history – March 10,

• 1958, Big Records released “Our Song” by Tom and Jerry, a teenage singing duo from Queens.  In the 60s the two changed their stage names to their real names, Simon & Garfunkel.
• In 1962, Bruce Channel began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Hey! Baby” which included a harmonica riff by Delbert McClinton.  During their tour of the UK that year, McClinton met John Lennon and gave him some harmonica tips, which he immediately put to good use on The Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do”.
• In 1964, exactly six years to the day since the release of Tom & Jerry’s “Our Song”, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel recorded an acoustic version of “The Sounds of Silence”.  When the record company, without Paul and Art’s knowledge re-released it over a year later with electric guitar, bass, and drums it became a hit in late 1965.
• In 1977, at the offices of A&M Records, the Sex Pistols celebrated their signing by trashing the label’s posh London offices, insulting and threatening executives and having their way with female fans in the loo.  Their contract was cancelled six days later.
• In 1979, Gloria Gaynor began the first of three weeks at #1 with “I Will Survive”.  It was originally the B-side of her cover of The Righteous Brothers song, “Substitute”.
• In 1988, The Bee Gees’ younger brother Andy Gibb died of heart complications following a long battle with cocaine addiction.
• In 1996, at the 25^th Juno Awards in Canada, native daughter Alanis Morissette won Best Album for “Jagged Little Pill”, Best Female Singer, Best Rock Album, Best Songwriter, and Best Single.
• In 2000, leader of The Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against The Gap in Manhattan for selling leather goods from cattle allegedly slaughtered “illegally and cruelly”. 
• In 2003, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines told a concert audience in London that the band was ashamed that President Bush hailed from her hometown of Lubbock, Texas.  The comment led to outrage among many Americans and a backlash by country music fans against the Dixie Chicks.
• In 2010, Pink Floyd won a court battle to prevent EMI Records from selling single download ringtones of the band’s music.

Born on this day …

• In 1940, Dean Torrance from Jan & Dean, pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music.
• In 1947, Tom Scholz, guitar and keyboardist for Boston.
• In 1963, Jeff Ament, bass player for Pearl Jam
• In 1964, singer and songwriter Neneh Cherry who had the 1988 hit “Buffalo Stance”.
• In 1966, singer with the New Bohemians, Edie Brickell
• In 1977, singer-songwriter Robin Thicke who had a #1 hit for 12 weeks with “Blurred Lines”.  His parents are actors Gloria Loring and Alan Thicke.
• In 1983, 4^th season American Idol winner and now, country music star Carrie Underwood.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=10&month=3

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actor Chuck Norris is 86
• Actress Katherine Houghton, who played the daughter of her real-life aunt, Katherine Hepburn in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” is 81
• Actress Sharon Stone is 68
• Actor Jon Hamm, best known as Don Draper in “Mad Men” and Monty in “Landman” is 55
• Actress Olivia Wilde is 42

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0310.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 74 this afternoon … 85 tomorrow … 98 Thursday … mostly sunny and 99 Friday … 95 Saturday and Sunday … 98 Monday … overnight lows, 43 tonight … 52 tomorrow night … about 57 Thursday and Friday night … about 54 Saturday and Sunday night

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