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Week in Review

Stories published by IB Patch within the past week.

Corruption among South Bay educators continued to be an important and developing story this week.

Sweetwater superintendent Dr. Ed Brand announced Wednesday that an investigation that has taken place over the past year .

The same day, Southwestern announced it will .

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Friday afternoon downtown Sweetwater Union High School District board members were allegedly for years of unreported campaign contributions, gifts and pay to play politics.

checked-in with the IB band Dante's Boneyard. Their music video for the song . Their new album Social Tsunami is due out next month.

Actor Matthew Modine went to Mar Vista High School and , one of the most anticipated movies of 2012. The film is expected out in the summer and the trailer set records. While attending Mar Vista he was a member of the theatre troupe.

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, and here is .

In polls, we asked readers , , if they think their friends and if .

This week we premiered a new column called where readers are challenged to guess pictures of places and items in or near Imperial Beach. Guess the right answer and you get a free Patch T-shirt.

The photo in this week's challenge was the . In 1883, 20 years before the Wright Brothers, John Montgomery took the first fixed wing flight from a hill in Otay Mesa.

We also published a story about City Council taking steps to .

Crimes reported in the like a stolen sword and license plate and assault with a deadly weapon.

Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser based at Camp Pendleton with Marines desecrating the bodies of four Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

In nearby Coronado, NAS North Island held a ., and in Alabama a Navy ship was named in the city's honor, the third in Naval history.

In this column Colleen O'Connor explains why she thinks it would be a shame if and his passionate supporters can prove a point.

In Parents Talk, we asked readers what and in Southwest Surf Serge Dedina talks about chasing waves in Baja California.

Abi Cotler O'Roarty talks about and Rachael Grant Dixon talks about .

In the TechKnowledgy column, Jeffrey J. Rose talks about the ultra thin .


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