The San Bernardino County Sentinel

12/05/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/12/former-supervisor-gonzales-running-for-assessor/

12/04/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/12/federal-prosecutors-want-12-year-prison-term-for-ex-assistant-fontana-police-chief/

Federal Prosecutors Want 12-Year Prison Term For Ex-Assistant Fontana Police Chief Posted on December 1, 2023 by Venturi By Mark Gutglueck Federal prosecutors are seeking to utilize former Fontana Assistant Police Chief Alan Hostetter’s own words both before and during the January 6, 2021 U.S. Cap...

11/29/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/on-the-attack-for-what-they-are-doing/

Montclair Was Incorporated In 1956 As Monte Vista Posted on November 24, 2023 by Venturi In 1897, Mrs. Edward Fraser pushed for the creation of “The Township of Marquette,” lying between Pomona to the West and Ontario to the east, for the purpose of developing the property there. In the early 19...

11/29/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/premature-to-the-cause-they-have-become-disenfranchised-from/

Redlands Was Home To Classic Surf Band Posted on November 24, 2023 by Venturi The Tornadoes, a seminal surf band from Redlands, comprised members who were among the most originally creative purveyors of that genre in the early 1960s. Their 1962 song, “Bustin’ Surfboards” became a number one hi...

11/28/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/who-knows-the-basis-of-their-intent-on-establishment/

Adelanto Has Had A Fair Share of Dysfunction Posted on November 24, 2023 by Venturi Adelanto, which means ‘progress’ or ‘advance’ in Spanish, and was originally inhabited by the Serrano Native American tribe, was considered by the High Desert’s settlers in the late 1800s to be well suited ...

11/27/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/a-whole-laundry-list-of-things-with-which-they-are-not-familiar/

Crippled Man Dies During Sheriff’s Department Search Warrant Siege Of His Upland Home Posted on November 24, 2023 by Venturi The bolloxed handling of what started out as a routine welfare check on a handicapped man ended with his death and the utter destruction of the home he lived in. Now follows...

11/24/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/bob-page/

Yucaipa-Calimesa School District 86s Appeal For Parental Notification Posted on November 17, 2023 by Venturi Contrary to common expectations, the vast majority of parents and other community members who attended the November 14 Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District evinced no enthusiasm for...

11/22/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/michael-jiminez/

ROV Dismisses GOP & Democrat Concerns BallotMobile Will Facilitate Election Fraud Posted on November 17, 2023 by Venturi More than three years after accusations of a rigged voting process created a nationwide social turbulence that has yet to subside, San Bernardino County’s chief election officia...

11/21/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/stephenie-shea/

Reporters Deserve Jail Time For The Premature Disclosure Of City Manager Finalist, SB Officials Maintain Posted on November 17, 2023 by Venturi San Bernardino city officials are attempting to put criminal cases together against three journalists over what those officials are saying was the premature...

11/20/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/timing/

Big Bear Contemplating Ending Its Affiliation With Community Fire Service Collective Posted on November 17, 2023 by Venturi Twelve years after the City of Big Bear Lake formed a public agency relationship with the larger unincorporated Big Bear community that surrounds it to establish a collective t...

11/19/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/levy/

City Of Chino On The Brink Of Bankruptcy, Municipal Officials Acknowledge Posted on November 17, 2023 by Venturi The City of Chino is teetering over a financial abyss so deep and dark, city officials say, that if any of them loses his or her footing, the co**se would never be recovered. Despite the....

11/16/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/exit-the-closet/

Spun Out Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested In Possession Of Crank While Working Jail Detail Posted on November 10, 2023 by Venturi A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy who was celebrated in his hometown of Fontana as an upstanding law enforcement type was arrested on Monday on suspicion of being und...

11/14/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/wellesley-heights/

Colton, Having Reduced City Council From 7 To 5, Looks To Eliminate Elected City Clerk Posted on November 10, 2023 by Venturi Prompted by the death of longtime City Clerk Carolina Padilla-Barrera eight months ago, the Colton City Council this week voted to put a measure on the March 2024 ballot to c...

11/12/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/moe-jesse-sid-parts-i-ii-iii-2/

Sheriff’s Department In Operations To Curtail Smash & Grab Swarm Robberies Posted on November 10, 2023 by Venturi The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, in an effort to get ahead of the retail theft curve that accompanies every holiday gift buying season but which has grown particularly...

11/10/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/colton-2/

A Year After Measure L Defeat, Upland Is Thriving Posted on November 3, 2023 by Venturi Moving on to a year after Upland voters rejected Measure L, which would have imposed a half-cent sales tax increase on non-food and non-pharmaceutical transactions in the 15.6-square mile city, City Hall appears....

11/09/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/cnc/

Among Chino Valley’s Establishment The Wages Of Dissent Proves Out To Be Ostracism Posted on November 3, 2023 by Venturi Counter-reaction to resistance has shown itself to be contagious in the Chino Valley in the last fortnight, with two commissioners in the area’s two cities each being forced o...

11/07/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/crr/

California AG Seeking To Hold Thom To Account Over CNC High End Auto Thefts Posted on November 3, 2023 by Venturi More than two years after events overtook Upland’s premier high-end auto dealership, engulfing it in scandal and forcing its closure, the primary owner of the company and the company.....

11/06/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/11/draft/

Colton Council Keeps Progression Toward Extending CR&R’s Franchise To 2036 Moving Posted on November 3, 2023 by Venturi By Mark Gutglueck After a substantial buildup, the Colton City Council this week took no action with regard to the city’s ongoing 30-year commitment to CR&R and whether to tran...

11/02/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/apple-valley-housing-subdivision-approval-delayed/

Apple Valley Housing Subdivision Approval Delayed Posted on October 27, 2023 by Venturi The Apple Valley Town Council has put off until November 14 a decision on whether it will accede to Mark Maida’s proposal to convert 120 acres of property currently zoned under the town’s residential agricult...

10/31/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/stor-abandons-upland-project/

Colton Councilors Angling Toward CR&R Trash Franchise Contract Rollover Posted on October 27, 2023 by Venturi It appears that in relatively short order Colton Councilmen David Toro and John Echevarria along with Councilwoman Kelly Chastain are going to politically outmuscle Mayor Frank Navarro and C...

10/30/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/energystor-abandons-upland-batter-project/

EnergyStor Abandons Upland Battery Project Posted on October 27, 2023 by Venturi GridStor and Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC this week abruptly abandoned their long-in-the-making plan to establish the 120-megawatt standalone battery energy storage Upland Reliability Project in the Sycamore...

10/29/2023

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Reform Group Again Qualifies Vote To Rescind Fire Tax Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi Reply Nearly a year-and-a-half after San Bernardino County residents voted to rescind the application of a fire service tax to cover 95 percent of the county’s 20,105-square mile expanse only to see that me...

10/26/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/upland-battery-storage-project-proposal-artificially-resuscitates-maude-gonnes-political-career/

Battery Storage Project Proposal In Sycamore Hills Raises Residents’ Concern Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi An issue has manifested in northwest Upland that carries with it the potential of dividing the community in the City of Gracious Living. There are multiple elements to what is occurri...

10/26/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/honesty-courage-or-lack-thereof-among-toro-echevarria-smith-will-control-flow-of-coltons-millions-to-crr/

Honesty & Courage Or Lack Thereof Among Toro, Echevarria & Smith Will Control Flow Of Colton’s Millions To CR&R Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi Twenty-seven years after Colton entered into a corruption-encrusted franchise arrangement with its current trash hauler’s corporate predecessor th...

10/24/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/reform-group-again-qualifies-vote-to-rescind-fire-tax/ -29016

Reform Group Again Qualifies Vote To Rescind Fire Tax Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi Nearly a year-and-a-half after San Bernardino County residents voted to rescind the application of a fire service tax to cover 95 percent of the county’s 20,105-square mile expanse only to see that measure ...

10/22/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/mann-refutes-being-a-shill-for-developers/

Mann Refutes Being A Shill For Developers Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi Yucaipa City Manager Chris Mann this week derided perceptions that his status as a developer and function as a representative of the building industry undercuts his ability to fulfill the commitments he has assumed to sa...

10/19/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/contention-over-airport-gateway-project/

California AJ & Social Justice Crusaders Oppose IVDA’s Airport Gateway Project Posted on October 13, 2023 by Venturi A coalition of local municipalities and governmental agencies and entities and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, as the largest single landowner in the environs of the long-sh...

10/18/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/mendoza-confirmed-as-county-purchasing-director/

County Permanentizes Mendoza As Purchasing Director Posted on October 13, 2023 by Venturi County Chief Executive Officer Luther Snoke has appointed Pete Mendoza as the permanent director of Purchasing following a competitive recruitment process. Mendoza is a 32-year County employee who has served as...

10/17/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/ab349-lauded-and-resisted/

Praise & Resistance To New Law Allowing Patton State Hospital To House The Homeless Posted on October 13, 2023 by Venturi Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of Assemblyman James Ramos’s AB 349 into law has earned plaudits while sparking expressions of concern that the marriage of multiple social so...

10/16/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/willis-staying-as-big-bear-fire-chief/ -28906

Willis To Remain As Big Bear Fire Chief Posted on October 13, 2023 by Venturi Big Bear Fire Chief Jeff Willis will remain in his assignment heading San Bernardino County’s 13th largest fire department, likely until the expiration of his contract on June 30, 2025, despite the widespread expression ...

10/14/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/read-the-sentinel-here-114/

San Bernardino Hires Montoya, Lately Of Arizona, As City Manager Posted on October 13, 2023 by Venturi Charles Montoya, who has formerly served as the city manager of Watsonville in California and was the town manager of Florence, Arizona and the city manager of Avondale, Arizona, will become San Be...

10/12/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/f-3/

Within One Week, SB City Manager Candidate Carrigan Goes From Feast To Famine Posted on October 6, 2023 by Venturi On September 27, Steve Carrigan was a municipal managerial ace, one who was so in demand that California’s 17th largest city, San Bernardino, was clambering for his services and its 3...

10/11/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/redlands-commissioner-frasher-resigns/

Embattled Redlands Planning Commissioner Frasher Resigns Posted on October 6, 2023 by Venturi Redlands Planning Commission Chairman Steven Frasher yesterday resigned from the commission, two days after his arrest by the San Bernardino Police Department Tuesday on charges that pornographic images of....

10/10/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/d-5/

Upland Council Grants Planning Commission Chairwoman Aspinall A Third Term Posted on October 6, 2023 by Venturi “Consistency,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Civic leaders in Upland appear to have taken Emerson’s admonition to heart, particularly with r...

10/09/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/renteria-collared-by-upland-pd/

Renteria, On The Lam Since Killing His Grandparents & Uncle In January, Collared By Upland PD After His Fourth Known Murder Posted on October 6, 2023 by Venturi Pete Renteria, who killed his grandparents and an uncle during what is believed to have been a psychotic episode in January, was taken into...

10/08/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/10/luckino-leaving-as-twentynine-palms-city-manager-for-desert-hot-springs/

Luckino Leaving As Twentynine Palms City Manager For Desert Hot Springs Posted on October 6, 2023 by Venturi Making the fifth managerial advancement in his 31-year career, Twentynine Palms City Manager Frank Luckino is leaving San Bernardino County’s 17th most populous municipality to take the adm...

10/06/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/09/1400-warehouses-in-southern-california-under-aqmd-pollutants-control-noncompliance-review/

1,400 Warehouses In Southern California Under AQMD Pollutants Control Noncompliance Review Posted on September 29, 2023 by Venturi The South Coast Air Quality Management District is seeking to confirm preliminary findings that 1,400 warehouses in Southern California, including hundreds in San Bernar...

10/04/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/09/dhromium-6-high-in-29-palms-water/

Chromium Standard Revamping Flummoxes 29 Palms H2O District Posted on September 29, 2023 by Venturi The Twentynine Palms Water District is beset with the challenge of having to treat the locally-derived water supply it is completely dependent upon for supply its domestic and commercial customers. At...

10/02/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/09/at-least-13-doed-in-mountains-during-winter-blizzard/

At Least 13 Deaths In Mountains During Blizzard Of ’23 Posted on September 29, 2023 by Venturi At least 13 people living in the San Bernardino Mountain Communities died during what is now referred to as the Blizzard of ‘23, an extreme weather event that lasted from February 22 until March 10, du...

10/02/2023

https://sbcsentinel.com/2023/09/yucaipa/

Converting Mobilehome Parks To High Density Residential Subdivisions Seen As Mann’s Latest Yucaipa Pro-Development Ploy Posted on September 29, 2023 by Venturi The recent focus by Yucaipa municipal officials on revamping the city’s standards and protocols relating to the conversion of the city.....