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POINTERS’ TEAMS DIVING INTO PLAYOFFS SEE PAGE 10
New corporate executive chef for The Patio Group SEE PAGE 7
Group urges City to stop spraying chemical herbicides SEE PAGE 4
Pointer shortstop Duce Gourson dives over a San Pascual Academy player at second base during the Pointers' 4-3 win in the Lions Tournament last week.
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San Diego Community Newspaper Group acquires five newspapers BY KENDRA SITTON | THE BEACON
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Marcia Ball to play at Gator by the Bay this weekend SEE PAGE 14
n a deal made official on April 1, San Diego Community Newspaper Group purchased five of San Diego Community News Network’s six publications. Julie Main, owner and publisher of San Diego Community Newspaper Group, adds San Diego Uptown
‘One of the more rewarding things about the community newspaper industry is everyone has a story to tell.’ – JULIE MAIN, PUBLISHER/OWNER OF SDCNG News, San Diego Downtown News, Mission Times Courier, and La Mesa Courier to the company’s stable of La Jolla Village News, Peninsula Beacon, and Beach & Bay
Press newspapers. Included in the purchase was Mission Valley News, which will be discontinued. San Diego Community News Network retained Gay
San Diego as its only publication. As a result of the purchase, the bi-weekly Peninsula Beacon has moved from publishing on Thursdays to coming out on Fridays. With the addition of San Diego Community News Network’s papers, Main runs the largest independent newspaper group in the SEE SDCNG, Page 6