San Bernardino County officials, who as recently as early this month appeared to be on a trajectory to give go-ahead to a massive mining operation in Music Valley, are now balking at that plan upon a wide public revelation that the principals behind the proposal to unify 1,026 mining claims on the property adjoining Riverside County in the central-east Mojave Desert are foreigners.
That action comes as one of the members of the county board of supervisors has fallen under the close scrutiny of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in part relating to his acceptance of money from foreign nationals and a company with ties to the mainland Chinese governments espionage and propaganda ministries.
Historically, mining in Music Valley, primarily for gold, was complicated in the main as a consequence of its remote location and relative inaccessability as well as its lack of plentiful water that would have allowed for the use of hydraulic mining. While the presence of gold in Music Valley resulted in the working of claims in the area during the 1880s and 1890s, by the early 20th century, most small-scale mining in the San Bernardino foothills, including Music Valley, had ended. The last significant gold production in the region ended in the 1930s when output had already peaked and was in decline, although sporadic prospecting in the area never fully ceased. Continue reading →

The California Air Resources Board has strewn a major roadblock in the path of the effort to preserve the 153-year-old mining operation at the extreme northwest corner of San Bernardino County through a complicated bankruptcy protection ploy.
Searles Valley Minerals is the corporate successor to the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company that was created in 1873 by John Wemple Searles, who first arrived in the West Mojave Desert as a gold and silver prospector in the 1860s. He encountered copious quantities of white crystalline borax on the bed of what is today known as Searles Dry Lake near the town of Trona, which is located on the San Bernardino County side of where San Bernardino County, Inyo County and Kern County converge. John Searles initially used 20-mule teams to haul borax in wagons roughly 170 miles to San Pedro. In 1876, when the Southern Pacific reached the community of Boron, Searles was able to reduce the one-way distance of that delivery by 91 miles. In 1895, Searles sold the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company was sold by Searles to the Pacific Coast Borax Company, owned by the so-called “Borax King” – Francis Smith. Simth discontinued production at Searles Lake in 1896, but in 1913, the British-owned Consolidated Gold Fields Company, which had extensive holdings in South Africa, founded the American Trona Company. In 1914, the company completed the Trona Railway line from Searles Station south to a junction with the Southern Pacific Railroad, simultaneously establishing the company-owned town of Trona, named for crystals of soda ash formed by the evaporation of chemical-rich water commonly found in the lake bed in combination with borax. Continue reading →

Despite a series of stunning victories in its cultural war with the State of California’s entrenched liberal political establishment, a committed core of conservative activists in Chino Valley yet face implacable opposition in the long twilight struggle to reestablish what they celebrate as traditional values in their educational system.
One of the more fascinating social and political phenomena at play in California at present first tangibly manifested in 2006, though it had been gestating prior to that, with the election of Sylvia Orozco to the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees.
Orozco was a harbinger of what was to come, as she was a parishioner of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Congregation. The pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills is Jack Hibbs, a denominationalist, who holds that Christians have a duty to stand up for their beliefs by either running for election to public office themselves or supporting other Christians who do run, and then, upon taking office, Christianize public policy. Hibbs was deceptively sophisticated in his approach, as he realized that political change of the type he envisioned would need to be effectuated gradually and without shock to the existing social order, and he exhibited the disciplined patience to execute his strategy. Rather than zooming to the top of political hierarchy and targeting offices such as governor, U.S. Senator, state legislators or city council members, he started at the low end of the political pecking order as well as within the area of his immediate reach, that being the school board. Continue reading →

The Fontana Planning Commission on August 4, 2026 approved the construction of a 108-townhome subdivision with a density of 16.12 units to the acre on property at the northwest corner of Baseline and Palmetto Avenues.
The project proponent was Monte Vista Homes, which has proven very aggressive in seeking from the City of Fontana entitlements to proceed with high density projects. In the subject case, the parcel on which the homes are to be built is 6.7 acres.
The planning blueprint under which the development is taking place – the Walnut Village Specific Plan – is 46 years old, having first been derived in 1980. Throughout that time, no serious proposals for the development of the 6.7 acres had been filed with the city’s planning division. In 2024, the city adopted an updated version of the specific plan which upped the permissible density on the property to a range of 12 to 24 units to the acre.
In 1980 in Fontana, the average number of units permissible under its then-extant specific plans were eight units to the acre. Continue reading →

Officers with the California Highway Patrol collared two suspects in the shooting death of a homeless man and the wounding of a homeless woman that occurred on Sunday, August 16. 5280
According to the San Bernardino Police Department, well into the midnight hour Sunday morning, there was audible gunfire in the area of the 210 Freeway and Del Rosa Avenue, some 1,500 feet or just over 0.28 of a mile from the campus of St. Thomas Aquinas High School and roughly 1,200 feet or almost 0.23 of a mile from an island of unincorporated county property surrounded by city property on San Bernardino’s northeast side.
After a call to its dispatch center reporting those shots came in, San Bernardino Police Department patrol units were dispatched to the scene, arriving at around 1 a.m.
Officers arrived at a homeless encampment on the south side of the freeway near Del Rosa Avenue, where they encountered a woman who had been shot and a man who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The woman was transported to a hospital. The California Highway Patrol became involved in the investigation into the incident because the shooting apparently took place on state property. Continue reading →

A 92-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, was killed on Saturday, August 15, 2026 while he was operating a golf cart on Twentynine Palms Highway.
While the man’s name is known to authorities, as is his address in Yucca Valley, that information is yet being withheld as the Sentinel goes to press on Friday.
According to the sheriff’s department at 05:47 p.m., the San Bernardino County Sherrif’s Department responded to Twentynine Palms Highway and Mohave Trail in Yucca Valley to a report of a traffic collision.
According to the department, the man was severely injured when he drove the golf cart into oncoming traffic.
The speed limit on Twentynine Palms Highway, also known as State Route 62, at that point is 45 miles per hour. Moving vehicles at that point are potentially moving at rates reaching 50 to 55 miles per hour.
The man was transported to Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree and pronounced deceased at 8:02 p.m.

After the Chino Hills City Council voted on July 14, 2026 to place a one-cent per dollar sales tax override before their constituents on the November 3 ballot, there was no shortage of residents ready to make an argument opposing the measure.
One of those Chino Hills residents aggressively challenged City Hall, stating straight out that city employees are overpaid and that city residents should not be put into the position of subsidizing a bloated and profligate city workforce. Not surprisingly, city employees made a decision not to include that argument in the election materials to be considered by the city’s voters before they make their decision on whether to approve the tax increase.
If approved, the initiative, which has now been provided with the label “Measure J,” would raise the sales tax collected within the 44.7 square mile Chino Hills City Limits from its current 7.75 percent to 8.75 percent. In California, the state levies a 6 percent sales tax. Local governments are at liberty to ask their residents to voluntarily burden themselves with a levy beyond that tacked onto the cost of goods purchased within their jurisdictions. Continue reading →

FBN20260006907
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
RIZO TECH REFRIGERATION 6327 OPAL ST RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: SALVADOR RIZO
Business Mailing Address: 6327 OPAL ST RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 2026.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 17913). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ SALVADOR RIZO, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/24/2026
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy K7325
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 31 and August 7, 14 & 21, 2026.

FBN20260006419
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
INFERNAL COFFEE 13495 QUAIL CT FONTANA, CA 92336: ANTHONY D HERNANDEZ [and] ADRIAN R HERNANDEZ
Business Mailing Address: 13495 QUAIL CT FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: COPARTNERS.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: August 31, 2024.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 17913). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ ANTHONY D HERNANDEZ, General Partner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/09/2026
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy F3010
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 31 and August 7, 14 & 21, 2026.

FBN20260005152
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
DJ MOTORS LLC 12520 RECHE CANYON COLTON, CA 92324: DJ MOTORS LLC 12520 RECHE CANYON COLTON, CA 92324
Business Mailing Address: 2097 E WASHINGTON ST STE 1E PMB 309
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered under the number B20260247559.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 26, 2026.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 17913). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ DIEGO A MACEDO CAMACHO, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/03/2026
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy K3379
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 17, 24, 31 and August 7, 2026.

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