The once quaint but more recently significantly delapidated historic El Rancho Motel in Barstow was largely destroyed in what officials say was a suspicious fire on Tuesday, July 5.
The Barstow Fire Department raced to the scene at 112 East Main Street around 9:35 p.m. and was later joined by units with Fort Irwin Fire Corps and the Victorville Fire Department. Concerted efforts to douse the flames were made. The fire raged for a good 50 minutes after the arrival of the first responding engine to the three-alarm fire. The fire was eventually knocked down, but not before nearly three-fourths of the rooms at the motel were fully engulfed and destroyed.
There was no immediate indication that the fire was deliberately set, but arson investigators have been combing the wreckage, searching for clues. Continue reading →

An untold number of burros in the Reche Canyon Area stretching between San Bernardino County and Riverside County have contracted a respiratory illness believed to be equine influenza that is decimating their population.
For years, the burros have lived at large in the wildland foothills stretching from Reche Canyon in Colton over to San Timoteo Canyon in south Redlands and ultimately meeting up with Moreno Valley in Riverside County and the area near Box Springs Mountain and along Pigeon Pass Road. Residents have tolerated them, though they on occasion have gone into the roadway, where they represent a traffic hazard. Scores of the donkeys have been killed over the years when struck by vehicles. Continue reading →

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The following entity is doing business as COMPLETE PROPERTY SERVICES 10837 LAUREL ST #200 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: SOLAR SOLUTIONS INC 10837 LAUREL ST #207 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California 2152736
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MAY 31, 2009
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 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MARY PENG, Secretary
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 05/23/2022
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 I1327
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 6/17, 6/24, 7/1 & 7/8, 2022. Continue reading →

Inadvertently, a Malibu-based lawyer has thrown the 52-year-long historical peculiarity of Loma Linda never electing a member of the city council who was not a Seventh Day Adventist into stark relief.

By Mark Gutglueck
The City of Loma Linda will become the 17th municipality in San Bernardino County in the last eight years to transition, under the threat of legal action, to by-district elections to select the members of its city council.
As a consequence of the way in which the Malibu-based attorney who forced Loma Linda to make that change utilized the California Voting Rights Act to bring the city’s political selection process into question, Loma Linda has become the focus of not only the entirety of the State of California but the nation as well over the way in which it has historically engaged in religiously-polarized voting.
Since 2014, Lancaster-based attorney R. Rex Parris, Los Angeles-based lawyer Milton Grimes, Malibu-based barrister Kevin Shenkman and more recently Los Angeles-based solicitor Matthew Barragan and Northern California-based legal practitioner Scott Rafferty have collectively generated for themselves over $7 million in legal fees by exploiting a provision in the California Voting Rights Act that entitles a lawyer seeking to promote so-called protected minority voter empowerment to bill the cities they engage with in that effort. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino City Unified School District should give serious consideration to canceling ten of the 26 contracts it has with outside entities for the provision of extended learning programs and educational augmentation services, according to a recommendation contained in an audit of those contracts requested by the district’s now departing superintendent.
According to the audit, the district is currently spending $12,824,798.20 on those contracts and would see that outlay reduced by $5,048,201.35, such that the total in contracted-for services would stand at $7,776,596.85.
Different and more reliable vendors would need to be found to provide some of the services, the auditors said.
Shortly after he took on the position of San Bernardino City Unified School District superintendent in June 2021, Harry “Doc” Ervin carried out what he acknowledges was a quick and superficial survey of the Continue reading →