South County Report: The State of Imperial Beach

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South County Report: The State of Imperial Beach

You can tell a lot about a city from the way it stages public events. In Imperial Beach last week, the city’s laid back, diverse, scrappy spirit was on full display at Mayor Paloma Aguirre’s annual State of City speech. The state of the city, Aguirre assured residents in a rousing, campaign-style address, is “strong.” From the audience’s point of view, the event felt more like a party. Imperial Beach is an only-in-Southern-California combination…