Assemblyman James Ramos is the target of an ethics complaint after he used his authority as a California state legislator to push the United States Forest Service to take action that a number of San Bernardino County residents, including a cross section of Ramos’s own constituents, believe will benefit him financially.
On January 24, 2023, Ramos sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service in support of a proposed land swap between the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation, formerly known as the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and the United States Forest Service involving 1,533.92 acres now owned by the tribe at various altitudes ranging from approximately 5,200 feet to 7,000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains for two parcels of federal land consisting of 1,475.90 acres located near the Arrowhead Springs Hotel at the approximate 2,000 foot elevation in the San Bernardino Mountain foothills. Continue reading →

A week after San Bernardino County’s political and social establishment took yet another and what it hoped might be a fatal shot at Victorville Councilwoman Blanca Gomez, she has rebounded and landed, albeit somewhat unsteadily, on her feet, even as those who were celebrating her demise are scattering for the tall grass amid rumors and speculation that the California Attorney General’s Office now has them fixed within its crosshairs.
In a seemingly perpetual pattern, just as the enmity that Victorville/San Bernardino County officialdom harbors toward Gomez at each succeeding junction seems to have hit its apex, events will either transpire or conspire to create one further apogee in the arc of hate and contempt that the governmental structure and Gomez bear toward one another. So, too, has there now materialized an anticlimax to Gomez’s arrest on February 21, an arrest which the mayor and at least two members of the city council consider to be not only justified but long past due but which Gomez’s allies and free speech activists considered an orchestrated profanation of the law.
In the relatively early going of the February 21 Victorville City Council meeting, Gomez had a run in with Mayor Debra Jones when the former sought to use the public speaking lectern to make a public issue of what Gomez considers the council majority’s sidelining of her suggestions and initiatives and the elective body’s outright mistreatment of her. Continue reading →

Inexplicably, the Chino Valley School Board on March 2 rescinded its January 19 vote to name the second school in The Preserve development after the late School Board President and Chino Police Captain Louis Moreno.
Moreno was born in 1935 on his family’s farm, Rancho Moreno, located at Pine and Euclid avenues in what was then referred to as Prado City and is now a portion of Prado Regional State Park. He attended segregated Chino schools as a child before graduating from Chino High in the Class of 1953. He subsequently went to work with the Chino Police Department, rising through the ranks to become what was then the youngest captain in the police department’s history.
He served eight years, from 1981 until 1989, on the Chino Valley Unified School District Board and was the founder of both the Chino Youth Boxing Club and the Chino Youth Services organization.
His attachment to the police department and understanding of the dynamics involving residents of the city led to the creation of the Chino Police Community Relations Board. Upon retirement from the police department, he operated his own private investigation firm, Lou Moreno and Associates. In 1990 he resisted an effort to draft him into a run for San Bernardino County Sheriff. Continue reading →

The GEO Group, which runs two private prison facilities in Adelanto under contract with the federal government, will shutter one of those in April.
Despite incessant reporting of a wasteful contractual arrangement between the U.S. and GEO, by which the government is squandering millions of dollars every year and through which indications are that GEO is profiting handsomely, neither side would state definitively whether closing out the now-sparsely occupied Adelanto ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Processing Center will entail the cancellation of the contract for the illegal/undocumented alien detainee processing and holding center.
There were multiple irregularities or omissions in the communications made between Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO Group, Inc. and the non-federal governmental entities at the state and local level, which under normal protocol are kept abreast of developments impacting operations at the prison facilities.
What is clear is that a pending layoff of some 112 employees in place at the for-some-time significantly underused and underoccupied 2,000-bed Adelanto ICE Processing Center located at 10400 Rancho Road will take place on or around April 14.
Those to be laid off are employees of the GEO Group subsidiary, GEO Secure Services LLC, which employs, primarily, prison guards and the faculty to support them.

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Eren Cello been named Ontario International Airport’s chief marketing and communications officer.
Cello, who has served as Ontario International Airport’s director of marketing and communications for the past five years, has worked closely with the airport’s executive leadership. Global Traveler magazine has ranked Ontario International Airport as the fastest-growing aviation gateway in the U.S. each of the past five years, although that claim has been brought into question, given the drastic downturn in airline ridership throughout the industry during the 2020-2021 Coronavirus pandemic. Ontario International was among a group of airports in 2022 that exceeded pre-pandemic passenger volumes.
In 2022, Cello led the airport’s rebranding effort. “Not So Fast,” a marketing campaign tied to that rebranding effort, helped generate more than $34 million in ticket sales for Ontario International Airport’s airline partners since its launch.
Raised in Ontario, Cello was director of marketing & communications for two Prime Healthcare hospitals before joining Ontario International Airport. Continue reading →

The Fontana City Council and City Manager Matt Ballantyne have elected to forego bringing an outsider in to replace Police Chief Billy Green.
After what was termed an “extensive” search that began immediately after Green made his retirement intention known in November, Ballantyne has recommended and the council endorsed promoting Captain Michael Dorsey to the police chief’s spot.
Dorsey has 29 years of law enforcement experience, including the last quarter of a century with the Fontana Police Department. Continue reading →

Redlands Chief of Police Christopher Catren, whose physical mobility has recently been limited as the result of a work-related back injury, has been temporarily replaced by Commander Rachel Tolber, who is to serve for the time being as interim police chief.
Tolber is to continue to serve in the role of interim police chief until such time as Catren’s disability retirement is fully processed through the California Public Employees Retirement System, and his successor as police chief is installed.
“It has been an honor and privilege to serve the Redlands community for over 28 years including the past five years as chief of police,” Catren said Thursday through Redlands official spokesman Carl Baker. “The support I’ve received from past and current members of this department, city staff and the community has made this career fulfilling, fun and impactful. I am incredibly proud of the Redlands Police Department staff and their dedication to the residents and visitors of this city. I am confident the department will continue to grow and thrive while providing top-tier policing services.” Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2300634
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHAEL ALEXANDER LUZZI filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
MICHAEL ALEXANDER LUZZI to RHYS HENRI DORNHYLL
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing
Date: MARCH 24, 2023
Time: 8:30 AM
Department: S27
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,
County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Brian S. McCarville, Judge of the Superior Court
Filed: February 10, 2023
Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court: Paola Iniguez
Michael Alexander Luzzi, In Pro Per
747 E. Pioneer Ave.
Redlands, CA 92374
(909) 699-3902
rhyshenridornhyll@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on February 10, 17, 24 and March 3, 2023.

FBN 20230001059
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as MAJESTY ONE ESCROW A NON-INDEPENDENT BROKER ESCROW 8338 DAY CREEK BOULEVARD STE 103 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: MAJESTY ONE PROPERTIES INC. 8338 DAY CREEK BOULEVARD STE 101 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California under the number 3024218.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: February 8, 2008.
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/ JULIO CARDENAS, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 2/03/2023
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 J2286
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 February 10, 17, 24 and March 3, 2023.

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