A Final Decision has been made for the North Big Bear Landscape Restoration
Project. Objectives of the project include promoting forest health, returning beneficial fire to the
landscape, improving the watershed condition, protecting resource values, and restoring unauthorized
roads and trails that have been created within the project area. The successful implementation of this
project will reduce the risk of catastrophic fire which would serve to protect two adjacent communities
(Fawnskin, Peter Pan Community of Big Bear City) and the greater Big Bear Valley.
The environmental assessment analyzes the approximate 13,000-acre region between the Big Bear Dam
and Baldwin Lake.
Over the past hundred years or more, fire suppression within the San Bernardino National Forest has excluded fire from much of the landscape. Fire is a natural ecosystem process, and the absence of periodic fire has led to unnaturally high tree density and fuel-load conditions throughout the project area. The area includes a variety of habitats that support highly diverse plant and wildlife populations, including bald eagles. A high-intensity wildfire is likely in this area if left untreated and would potentially destroy their little remaining habitat.
The anticipated effects of high-intensity wildfires in untreated areas can be observed West of the project
area as fire scars, resulting in vegetative type-conversion from a forested landscape into brush and grass
with low to no tree cover or signs of natural tree regeneration.
“I am excited to share this final decision and begin implementing this very important project that took
over 12 years to develop. Improving forest health and community protection has been a major part of my career and I am very enthusiastic at the outlook of improving the environment within this project area
so it can be enjoyed by future generations, while protecting complex natural systems, and the greater
community” said Mountaintop District Ranger Freddie Duncan. “The level of interest and public
engagement on this project has clearly demonstrated how much we all value this landscape and do not
want to see it lost to a catastrophic wildfire”.
The original analysis also considered up to 41 miles of new mountain bike trail construction and the
introduction of e-Bikes as a new form of recreational opportunity. This part of the proposed action was
removed from the decision with the opportunity to re-evaluate the purpose and need for new trails and
e-Bikes in the future.
“We understand the desire and value of sustainable recreation in Big Bear and will be taking another
look at how mountain bike trails and e-Bikes fit into the recreational spectrum on the North Shore”,
said Mountaintop District Ranger Freddie Duncan.
The project record, final Environmental Assessment, Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant
Impact are available online for public view.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 06/02/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
17 FRHT 3AKJGLDR4HSGP5287 XP8853 CA
To be sold by CYPRESS TRUCK REPAIR INC 15131 WASHINGTON DR FONTANA 92335
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. Published In the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 05/19/2023.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 06/02/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
09 VOLVO 4V4NC9EJ78N481158 XP35714 CA
To be sold by PRIME TRUCK AND TRAILER REPAIR 9978 CHERRY AVE FONTANA CA 92335
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
Published In the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 05/19/2023.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 06/02/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
16 CHEV 1G1PC5SH4G7208740 TNK643 MS
To be sold by THE BEST AUTO REPAIR 2416 3RD ST HIGHLAND 92346
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
Published In the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 05/19/2023.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at
said address below on: 06/02/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
07 HD 1HD1FC4307Y657142 18P5689 CA
To be sold by THE BEST AUTO REPAIR 2416 3RD ST HIGHLAND 92346
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. Published In the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 05/19/2023.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 3071 of the Civil Code of the State of California the undersigned will sell the following vehicle(s) at lien sale at said address below on: 06/02/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
05 INTER 1HTMMAAM25H130581 8U03871 CA
To be sold by VARINDERPAL BEINIG 11848 CAJON BLVD SAN BERNARDINO 92509
Said sale is for the purpose of satisfying lien for together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale.
Published In the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 05/19/2023.

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Pejman Elahi of Wonder Valley has been convicted of eight felonies related to or growing out of his use of firearms with murderous intent on two separate occasions last year.
A day after he had nearly killed a man he shot three times, Elahi was taken into custody on November 10, 2022 as he was appearing at the Joshua Tree Courthouse to answer charges relating to a similar incident that had occurred on September 25.
On the morning of Sunday September 25, Ryan Rodriguez, an Instacart delivery driver in a Honda Civic was driving out Two Mile Road in Wonder Valley, attempting to deliver groceries to a household on Primrose Lane, when he overshot a turn he was supposed to have made. When he made a U-turn on the remote dirt road, Elahi, who was riding a white Suzuki quadrunner, chased after him. Rodriguez, seeking to orient himself, had slowed to a near stop. At that point, Elahi began to knock on the window on the passenger side of the Civic, and attempted to open the Civic’s door. Rodriguez drove off, reaching El Paseo Drive, where the road surface was so soft, the Civic was struggling to get traction. As Rodriguez was attempting another U-turn, Elahi closed in on him, pointed a gun at him and then fired upon the car. Frantically trying to elude Elahi while desperately seeking to make a 9-1-1 call, Rodriguez drove through the loose desert sand and around and at times over and through chaparral. He reached the sheriff’s dispatch center at 8:43 a.m. Elahi, on the quad, was able to stay right with him until Rodriguez reached a paved road, at which point Rodriguez was able to get away. Continue reading →

Real estate industry analysts are purposefully avoiding using such words as “meltdown,” but it is increasingly clear that home sales are in the doldrums, and no one is hesitating in throwing around such terms as “real estate shakeup.”
For 16 straight months, home sales in all of Southern California have dropped off, with a drop of 33 percent over the past 12 months.
Because property values in San Bernardino County started out well below those in Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura counties, the local real estate market for a time seemed immune to the creeping downturn. But home sales are dropping throughout much of San Bernardino County to levels comparable to its neighbors, and even in cases where peculiarities in certain zones or districts of the county that militated in favor of real estate agents and brokers, there have been regulations put in place to cool down the rampant inflation in property values that were fueling those isolated pockets of buying frenzy. Continue reading →

Many county residents, particularly those living in the more remote parts of the 20,105-square mile expanse are making a needed but rough adjustment to the restrictions and limitations contained in Senate Bill 1383, which took effect on January 1 of this year.
In the county’s mountain region, the impact of SB 1383 was not initially noticed, as the winter storms that were particularly intense, resulting in what is now referred to as “the Blizzard of ‘23,” blanketed the mountain communities in snow, preventing, or obviating the need for, the disposal of what is normally referred to greenwaste. The proper handling of Greenwaste and its vectoring to a what is considered to be a proper repository is a primary issue in SB 1383.
Referred to as California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Law, SB 1383, passed in 2016, established methane reduction targets for California. It calls for goals toward reducing and ultimately eliminating the disposal of organic waste in landfills, including greenwaste and edible food. The bill’s purpose is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane, ensuring that food scraps and greenwaste are composted and compost is purchased by cities. SB 1383 was put into place because landfilling organic waste is a significant source of local air quality pollutants.
While SB 1383 mandate to recycle organic food waste has yet to go into effect, the redirection of greenwaste – grass cuttings, tree trimmings, plant prunings and the like – to use as compost has gone into effect.
The enforcement of the SB 1383 limitations has fallen to the county’s division of special districts and its constituent county service areas, as well as to the county’s franchised trash a haulers.
Burrtec Industries has trash-hauling franchises in the six largest of San Bernardino County’s 24 cities – San Bernardino, Fontana, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Victorville and Rialto. The company also has franchises in ten of the county’s other municipalities – Apple Valley, Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley, Yucaipa, Adelanto, Upland, Grand Terrace, Redlands, Montclair and Barstow. Additionally, it is the franchised garbage handler in the unincorporated San Bernardino County communities of Amboy, Angeles Oaks, Yermo, Victorville, Valley of Enchantment, Twin Peaks, Arrowbear, Baker, Barton Flats, Bloomington, Blue Jay, Skyforest, Silver Lakes, Cedar Glen, Cedarpines Park, Cima, Crestline, Daggett, Del Rosa, Devore, Dumont Dunes, El Rancho Verde, Forest Falls, Fort Irwin, San Antonio Heights, Running Springs, Nipton, Oak Glen, Newberry Springs, Mount Baldy, Mountain Pass, Haloran, Helendale, Hinkley, Kelso, Lake Arrowhead, Lenwood, Landers, Lucerne Valley, Ludlow and Mentone. Continue reading →

On May 6, a marijuana deliveryman was shot and killed while making his rounds in Upland.
Johnnie Escalante, a 24-year-old cannabis product logistics specialist, was in a neighborhood at the extreme east end of Upland near Rancho Cucamonga when he had an encounter with three men near an apartment complex.
It is unclear whether Escalante’s death was the result of an attempt to waylay him and take both the products he was transporting and the monetary proceeds in his possession from sales made earlier that day.
According to Upland Police, Escalante was delivering marijuana to an apartment in Upland around in the 1300 block of East San Bernardino Road at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night when he became involved in a physical altercation. During that fight, he was shot.
The fatal shots were heard at around 9:40 p.m. Continue reading →

The Lake Arrowhead Christian School, faced with financial and enrollment challenges that grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic and from which it has not recovered, will close out its high school program at the end of the 2022–2023 school year.
During the 2019-20 school year the number of students at the school stood at 250. Enrollment has now dwindled to less than 150, such that its owner, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, is losing $500,000 yearly in sustaining its operations.
The school is arranging for current 11th grade students to complete their senior year in 2023-24 and to carry on as a kindergarten through 8th-grade campus.

Two iconic Stater Bros. markets in Colton and Fontana will close in June.
The Stater Bros. store at 9954 Sierra Avenue in Fontana is scheduled to close June 4 and the store at 1904 North Rancho Avenue in Colton will shutter on June 18.
Both are being closed as the consequence of expired leases, according to company spokesman Jonathan Lieu.
Both stores were key locations for the Stater Bros. corporate chain, which originated in San Bernardino County.
Stater Bros, founded in Yucaipa in 1936 by Cleo and Leo Stater, was among the first of what are considered modern grocery stores in the country, following upon the model first employed by Fontana-based Crawford Stores during the Depression-era, which allowed customers to access available products on their own without the constant assistance of store clerks, using at first in-store baskets and in subsequent decades, shopping carts. Continue reading →