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Board hires Tripi as new schools chief
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BIGGEST STORYLINES OF 2018 1
‘Blue Wave’ crashes ashore in North County
The North County has been a reliable bastion of support for the Republican Party over the years, but as 2018 dawned, talk of changing demographics and dissatisfaction with the current presidential administration put the region’s political future in the balance. Nationwide, pundits predicted that a so-called “Blue Wave” would prove to be a repudiation of the Trump administration’s politics. North County became
By Christina Macone-Greene
From a ‘Blue Wave’ to ‘green’ initiatives, from the grand opening of an airline to the closing of a psychiatric facility, North County saw its fair share of major headlines this year. Here are the Top 10, as voted on by The Coast News staff.
ground zero of the movement, as activists set their sights on the 49th Congressional District, where Darrell Issa had narrowly survived a challenge two years early. In 2017, protesters began the longest running demonstration of its kind as they picketed outside of Issa’s office for more than a year. Those protests paid dividends, as in one of the first victories of the “blue wave” movement, Issa announced his resignation in January. But the movement was just getting started. It took nearly a month DEMOCRAT MIKE LEVIN and his wife, Chrissy, celebrate on Election Night in Del Mar. TURN TO TOP 10 ON 14
JAN. 4, 2019
Levin won a high-profile race to replace retiring Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican, in Congress. Facebook photo
RANCHO SANTA FE — In a 3-0 vote, the Rancho Santa Fe School Board approved the employment of Donna Tripi as its new superintendent effective Jan. 1. At the Dec. 13 special meeting, a three-year employment agreement was approved noting that Tripi would be compensated an annual salary of $190,000 in addition to benefits. Tripi will replace former Superintendent David Jaffe whose voluntary res- DONNA TRIPI had ignation was been principal of effective on La Jolla ElemenJuly 31, 2018, tary since 1999. as well as Kim Courtesy photo P i n ke r ton’s role as interim superintendent over recent months. In the new year, Pinkerton will resume her position as elementary school principal at R. Roger Rowe. Since 1999, Tripi served as the principal of La Jolla Elementary School. She has more than three decades of educational experience and was selected from a field of 23 superintendent candidates. New board members Jee Manghani and Kali Kim abstained from the vote. Manghani said he did get a chance to meet Tripi the prior week. While he was fully supportive of Tripi, he decided to abstain since he was not part of the superintendent candidate interview process. TURN TO TRIPI ON 5