Author: Pfingsten, Tom

The college’s 142-seat Planetarium is open after two and a half years of temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic and system improvements. SAN MARCOS — The last time anyone watched a simulation of the night sky inside the Palomar College Planetarium was March 13, 2020, days before the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic arrived in North…

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Palomar College’s innovative partnerships with three local school districts have students earning college credits before they even graduate high school. NORTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY — From Escondido to Rancho Bernardo to Fallbrook, three unique and innovative partnerships are bringing college classes to high school students within the Palomar Community College District (PCCD). Known as “middle…

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Just getting warmed up: Meet student composer Georgia Phipps, who earned a place on the San Diego New Music “Emerging Composers” concert this summer. SAN MARCOS — Georgia Phipps took her seat with dozens of other music aficionados in the Athenaeum Art Center in San Diego to listen to a piece entitled, “Melodium ad Dolorem.”…

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SAN MARCOS — Thousands of students returned to Palomar College for the first week of the Fall 2022 semester on August 22-26, filling the commons and classrooms with life again, two and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Many students said they appreciated the new remote learning options that became available and are…

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SAN MARCOS — Nancy Sanchez first picked up a viola in the 3rd grade, as a student at Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary School in San Marcos. The school had recently launched its Fortissimo after-school program, which gives many local schoolchildren their first exposure to orchestra music, and is affiliated with El Sistema, a nonprofit whose…

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