Nearly two years and ten months after it committed to doing so, the Ontario City Council on Tuesday adopted a district voting map together with the scheduling of district-based voting by 2026.
That action came a month and 12 days after the city failed to deliver on holding its first by-district election, which was supposed to take place on November 8.
The city council voted on December 20 to adopt what it referred to as Map 17, which divides the city into four districts for future elections.
District 1, which lies at the northwestern end of the city abutting Montclair to the west along Benson Avenue and the 10 Freeway at its north end, is the most densely populated of the four districts. It extends eastward to North Allyn Avenue and south to Mission Boulevard. Continue reading →

Twenty-seven Union Pacific freight cars derailed near Victorville Tuesday morning, December 20, proximate to Mojave Narrows Regional Park near the Kemper Campbell Ranch, about one mile south of Outer Highway 18 near Stoddard Wells Road.
The mishap occurred on a railroad track owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway around 8 a.m.
There were no injuries reported.
The cars that went off the track were carrying iron ore, according to the railroad.
Two of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway tracks at that juncture had to be closed.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe crews arrived on the scene within 75 minutes to begin an effort to clear the tracks and restore them to use.
One consequence of the derailment was that Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train, scheduled to depart from Los Ángeles to Chicago on Tuesday, was canceled.
One of the tracks was restored to functionality by late Wednesday, December 21.
The derailment’s cause is under investigation.

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: 01/06/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
12 PETE 1XP4D49X5CD123639 XP19213 CA
To be sold by M & C DIESEL ROAD SERVICE 8606 DUMOND DR FONTANA CA 92835
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 December 23, 2022.

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: 01/06/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
15 KIA KNADM4A39F6443028 7KIR698 CA
To be sold by AIR EXPRESSWAY TOWING AV 13606 JOHN GLENN RD APPLE VALLEY CA 92308
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 December 23, 2022.

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: 01/06/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
01 FORD 3FDNF65231MA43758 6U13077 CA
To be sold by CONTINENTAL TOWING 14601 VALLEY BLVD 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 December 23, 2022.

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: 01/06/2023 09:00 AM
Year of Car / Make of Car / Vehicle ID No. / License No. (State)
16 CHEV 1G1FF1R74G0138755 AU91F50 CA
To be sold by MOTORINN GENUINE AUTO CARE INC 111 S. LEMON AVE ONTARIO CA
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 December 23, 2022.

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Chased Out By Councilwoman Calvin

San Bernardino City Manager Rob Field will depart from his post in January after 28 months as the top administrator in the county’s largest city, a casualty of confusion, contention, miscalculation, misunderstanding and, ultimately, the full unraveling of Mayor John Valdivia’s political career.
The prime mover in Field being forced out, the Sentinel has learned, is Sixth District Councilwoman Kimberly Calvin, who would have preferred that he be outright fired without any severance package being conferred upon him. Instead, Field was given leave to resign, a face-saving gesture for him by which he will be accorded the professional courtesy of a generous exit stipend and the city will avoid tarring itself as a municipality inhospitable to its top administrators beyond the somewhat dubious reputation it has in that regard already. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino County Department of Health and its vector control division have been silent in the face of reports that aggressive and atypically resilient mosquitoes or cuicoides of an unknown provenance have been extant in the northeastern end of San Bernardino.
Reports have reached the Sentinel that the insects, which are hard to detect visually, are proliferating, perhaps breeding in standing pools of water in the troughs in the flood control district facilities and settling ponds east of the Arrowhead Country Club.
The Sentinel was told that the insects are able to survive and thrive in conditions that are inhospitable to native mosquitoes and/or midges, that being in cold weather and possibly in cold water that has accumulated locally as a consequence of the rainstorms that took place in November and earlier this month.
One resident characterized the mosquitoes as no-see-ums, similar to culicoides, also known as punkies or biting midges, which are minute flies barely visible to the eye. Continue reading →