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Here’s what we have for you today:
- Find out the winners of the San Diego Music Awards.
- Missed your fix of live music at the award show? Here’s who’s playing in town.
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Top story
‘Wreck Alley’ off Mission Beach is a premier West Coast dive spot
Nearly 26 years ago the HMCS Yukon, a 366-foot Canadian destroyer, took up its new life as an artificial reef. It wasn’t by accident. The boat was gutted and scuttled 100 feet out to sea to what is now known as Wreck Alley.
It’s not alone. There are multiple other ships down there, it’s a graveyard of intentionally sunken ships that now serves as a scaffolding of sorts to create a habitat for marine life.
It’s a nesting ground for underwater life, as well as a surreal diving destination. For divers, it is a place where life above water collides and harmonizes with the world below, as historic ships can be found alongside thriving ocean life.
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Stories you should know about
💐 Weekend Guide, May 8-10: A motherlode of Mother’s Day events, University Heights’ block party, a car show in Carlsbad and the G.I. Film Festival.
💻 UCSD, San Diego State part of widespread attack on Canvas education platform: Hackers say they have compromised university data and will release it if not paid a settlement.
🅿️ More than 5,000 repairs made since parking meter fees reformed in October, city says: The repairs target street lights, potholes and traffic safety features.
🥎 Palomar College takes powerful lineup to softball SoCal Super Regional: So far this season the team has won 27 games in a row and a player broke the program’s all-time record for home runs.
📈 Sempra reports ‘great start’ with 15% rise in first-quarter earnings
🗳️ Opinion: Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling could alter California’s new districts: From CalMatters commentator Dan Walters.
What else we’re reading
☎️ San Diego County is cutting over a dozen 911 dispatchers despite an existing shortage of them that is already impacting answering speeds. (NBC 7)
🎄 December Nights, which costs the city around $1.5 million, would be essentially eliminated by the mayor’s proposed budget cuts. (Union-Tribune)
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