In the face of the overwhelming epidemic of fentanyl overdose deaths, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has instituted a policy of outfitting all of its patrol units with Narcan.
Narcan is the brand name of an opioid counteractant known as Naloxone.
Taken in time, Nalaxone/Narcan will effectively reverse or reduce the effects of opioids. Most notably, the medication is used to counter decreased breathing that comes with opioid overdose. When given intravenously, the substance can go into effect within two minutes. Narcan also be injected into a muscle, but the effect in such cases can be delayed up to five minutes. The medicine can also be administered by aerosol spray, predominantly into an overdose victim’s nose.
Fentanyl was first synthesized in 1960 and made available for medical use in the United States in 1968. It is on the order of 50 times more potent than heroin by weight and 100 times more potent than morphine by weight. So powerful are its effect that Fentanyl can prove deadly in very minute quantities. The strict standardization applied by pharmaceutical companies in its processing into usable forms and protocols relating to its prescription by physicians was intended to prevent the substance from proving fatal. Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
Using the pretext that Barstow will become host to a modernized rail yard as the consequence of a $1.5 billion commitment to make it the logical location of an intermodal facility to warehouse and transload freight brought by train coming into the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach onto trucks for distribution to the rest of the country, the Victorville City Council on Tuesday pulled the plug on its 16-year-long commitment to develop the Southern California Logistics Rail Authority’s Victorville Intermodal Facility.
In 2007, the City of Victorville entered into an agreement with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company to carry out the eventual development of an intermodal logistics facility at Southern California Logistics Airport.
While Victorville officials justify the termination of the agreement with Burlington Northern Santa Fe as one that is driven by market conditions and currently prevailing economic trends, those with a more in-depth understanding of the city’s and region’s history recognize that the Southern California Logistics Rail Authority was from its inception a dispensable element in the strategy formulated by Victorville city officials more than three decades ago to outmaneuver San Bernardino County and other High Desert municipalities to take over control of what was then George Air Force Base and is today Southern California Logistics Airport.
The base, originally named the Victorville Army Air Station when it was crash built in the summer and fall of 1941 as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ direct involvement in World War II fast approached, was located on the outskirts of Victorville and closer to Adelanto. In 1988, it was announced that George was to be shuttered by the Department of Defense in 1992.
Victorville city officials, led by Mayor Terry Caldwell and City Manager Jim Cox, were intent upon excluding other political and governmental entities in the region from controlling the facility following its civilian use reconversion. Correctly assessing that Adelanto likewise would be intent on asserting exclusive control of the aerodrome and understanding that the federal government would prioritize dealing and cooperating, during the base decommissioning process, with a regional governmental collective rather than a multitude of individual municipal entities, Caldwell and Cox formulated an approach by which they essentially feigned making a cooperative effort involving San Bernardino County, the City of Hesperia and the Town of Apple Valley under the aegis of the Victor Valley Economic Development Authority, known by its acronym VVEDA. Using VVEDA, Victorville put together a competing proposal for the inheritance of the Air Force Base property and its conversion into a civilian airport and logistics hub. Continue reading →

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CIRCULATE INITIATIVE PETITION
Notice is hereby given of the intention of the persons whose names appear hereon of their intention to circulate the petition within the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District for the purpose of repealing the special tax associated with Service Zone FP-5. A statement of the reasons for the proposed action as contemplated in the petition is as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to repeal the special tax on parcels located in the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District Service Zone FP-5.
See www.redbrennan.org for details.
/s/ Robert A Cable
/s/ David Jarvi
/s/ Ruth Musser-Lopez
/s/ Albert H Vogler
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on May 5, 2023

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MICHAEL NEWELL aka MICHAEL SCOTT NEWELL
Case No. PROSB2300465
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MICHAEL NEWELL aka MICHAEL SCOTT NEWELL
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Mina Gallardo Newell in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Mina Gallardo Newell be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 24, 2023 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No. S36 located at 247 W. Third St., San Bernardino, CA 92415.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
PAUL HORN ESQ
SBN 243227
PAUL HORN LAW GROUP PC
11404 SOUTH STREET
CERRITOS CA 90703
CN995572 NEWELL Apr 21,28, May 5, 2023

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