Yermo, which throughout most of the 20th Century was an independent and flourishing community in San Bernardino County’s vast desert outback, over the last several months has surrendered a key element of that independence. Further anticipated administrative action later this year and into next year will likely result in its governance being placed into the hands of county officials in San Bernardino.
Situated at a division point of the old Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad which was later absorbed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Yermo was founded in 1902. A post office was established there in 1905. During the decade from 1910-to-1920, as the federal government was attempting to establish what was referred to as the all-weather Auto Trails System in the Southwest, the Arrowhead Trail, running from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles was routed through Yermo. In the 1920s, the Arrowhead Trail would be rechristened as U.S. Route 91. It was as a major stop along Route 91, that Yermo came to fruition as a community.
In its heyday, Yermo featured 27 gas stations, most of which employed with mechanics, a machine shop capable of fabricating a host of auto parts, a hardware store, four real estate officers, seven restaurants, two grocery stores, a hardware store, seven bars/taverns, three motels, a thrift store, roadside camping sites and two parks. Continue reading →

Almost six years after Victorville’s voters by a very narrow margin passed a measure to impose on themselves an additional one-cent-per dollar sales tax burden, three of the five members of the Victorville City Council on June 16 indicated their willingness to ask for another cent in sales tax to be borne by the city’s consumers every time they make a dollar’s worth of purchases.
A bare majority vote of the council – 60 percent – was not able, however, to put the measure before the voters in November. A request of the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Office to place the proposed tax ballot measure before the city’s 70,572 registered voters needed to be approved by a supermajority of the council, meaning four of the five current members of the council.
In 2020, public safety advocates, in particular supporters of the sheriff’s department, which serves as the contract law enforcement agency/police department for the City of Victorville, proposed a sales tax override, the proceeds from which would be used to beef up the city’s contract with the sheriff’s department to include putting more deputies on the city’s streets.
It is a peculiarity of the California Government Code, the California Tax Code and the California Elections Code that tax measures involving a tax proposed to be used for a specific purpose must be passed by a two-thirds margin, i.e., 66.67% supermajority. General tax measures in which there is no commitment as to how the tax proceeds are to be spent need obtain a mere majority of the vote, i.e., 50.01 percent, to pass. Continue reading →

SUMMONS – (FAMILY LAW)
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): WILLIAM DAVID BLACKWELL
YOU HAVE BEEN SUED.
Read the information below and on the next page. Lo han demandado. Lea la informacion a continuacion y en la pagina siguiente.
PETITIONER’S NAME IS (Nombre del demandante): ANGELA McKINNEY
CASE NUMBER FAMSB2507678
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (Form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.cagov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citacion y Peticion para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o liamada telefonica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerio. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiemp, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de heco, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion, y honorarios y costos legales. Para asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encontrar un abogado en el Contro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lahelpca.org) o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abodgados de su condado.
NOTICE – Restraining orders on page 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement office who has received or seen a copy of them.
AVISO – Las ordenes de restriction se encuentran en la pagina 2 : Las ordenes de restriccion estan en vigencia en cuanto a ambos conyuges o miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la peticion, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya rocibido o visto una copia de estas ordenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.
FEE WAIVER : If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.
Exencion de cuotas : Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de execion de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que ested pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a peticion de usted o de la otra parte.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirrecion de la corte son):
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
351 N ARROWHEAD AVE
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415
The name, address and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direccion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demendante si no tiene abogado, son):
ANGELA McKINNEY, In Pro Per
18268 LAPIS LN
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407
(213) 610-0903 360-9821
Filed: NOVEMBER 12, 2025 by Christa Martin Del-Campo, Deputy clerk (Asistente) for Clerk of the Court (Secretario)
Published in The San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 12, 19, 26 and July 3, 2026.

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