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City manager under fire for mocking peer By Abigail Sourwine
ENCINITAS — City Manager Pamela Antil is under fire for participating in an “inappropriate text exchange” about another city manager in her capacity as a board member of a professional association of local government managers. The messages were revealed as part of a defamation lawsuit by a Michigan city official against members of the International ANTIL City/County Management Association executive board, including Antil, related to a censure vote. “He just looks like a d----ebag,” William Fraser wrote in a text message to Antil. “He is,” Antil wrote in response. “I already want to punch him in the face,” Fraser wrote. Antil, a former assistant city manager in Santa Barbara who has served as Encinitas city manager since 2020, is on the executive board of the ICMA, a Washington, D.C.-based group with over 11,000 members. The executive board oversees the group’s business and “enforces the ICMA Code of Ethics,” according to the organization’s website. While serving on the board, Antil voted in favor of publicly censuring James Freed, a city manager in Port Huron, Michigan. The censure vote, initiated after the board received a complaint regarding TURN TO CITY MANAGER ON 13
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In the decade after the Rancho Buena Vista shortstop was selected in the 2010 MLB Draft, Vista native Tony Wolters has relocated himself behind the plate and spent parts of seven seasons in the big leagues. Now catching for the minor league St. Paul Saints, he’s grateful for the opportunity. “I work hard every day so I can go to sleep at night.” Story on A25.
Man gets 5 years in coronavirus scheme By City News Service
Family-run soap business turns 75 Dr. Bronner’s in Vista has grown from a small family operation into a global producer of natural soaps. 5
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REGION — A man who took part in a scheme to steal personal information from Scripps Health patients and use their identities to submit false claims for pandemic unemployment insurance benefits was sentenced Oct. 27 to nearly five years in federal prison. Konrad Piekos, 45, is one of four people charged by San Diego federal prosecutors and the final defendant sentenced
for submitting fraudulent claims to California’s Employment Development Department under the names of unwitting patients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Piekos, who prosecutors said in sentencing papers was “at the center of’’ the scheme, utilized his associate, Matthew Lombardo, to obtain patient data. At the time, Lombardo was a Scripps TURN TO SCHEME ON 14
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David Lebuser skates an inflatable half-pipe in a wheelchair during an Oct. 26 adaptive skate demo hosted by the Poseiden Foundation in Oceanside. The nonprofit is focused on giving a voice to adaptive riders. Photo by Samantha Nelson
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