Both teachers and non-teaching personnel at one of the more remote school districts in San Bernardino County are revolting against the district’s elected and staff leadership.
This week, the Trona Teachers Association and the Trona Classified Employees Association joined to issue votes of no confidence against the Trona Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Jairo Arellano.
Arellano assumed the role of superintendent in July 2000, coming to the district after having been assistant superintendent with the Alisal Union School District near Salinas in Monterey County, where he also oversaw what was termed whole child education. Prior to that he was the executive director, a position under the superintendent, in the Oxnard School District, overseeing English language services. Continue reading →

The long-simmering clash of wills over how aggressive the City of Big Bear Lake will prove in regulating vacationers and the elements of the tourist industry and landowners who cater to and profit off of them has recontexted itself, placing the city’s residents in a power position over its elected officials, a reversal of what the situation was previously.
The Big Bear Lake City Council has found itself caught between on one side the full-time residents who want tough restrictions imposed on both tourists and the owners of vacation rental units and on the other side the often-absentee landlords who are making a substantial amount of money by renting their properties on a temporary basis and want nothing in place that will discourage renters from coming to Big Bear Lake. Continue reading →

NOTICE OF SALE OF VESSEL
Notice is hereby given the undersigned will sell the following vessel and trailer at lien sale at said address below on: 06/03/2022 9:00 am
VESSEL
U615557, 76 APOLLO ABMP0051M75K, CA
DATE OF SALE- 06/03/2022
TIME OF SALE-09:00 AM
LOCATION OF SALE-14038 SEA SHELL ST FONTANA CA 92335
To be sold by PATRIC HENDY 14038 SEA SHELL ST 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 Sentinel on 05/20/2022

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Two decades ago, Jeff Burum and his business associate Dan Richards boldly asserted themselves and the entity they headed as the most prolific political donors in San Bernardino County.
The way in which those political donations were applied, however, as well as the action some of those politicians took after receiving that money raised questions, followed by suspicions. Thereafter, criminal charges resulted that required the better part of a decade to fully play out, ultimately sending the politician who had been the largest recipient of Burum’s and Richards’ largesse to prison.

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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, through the beginning of this week, has confiscated what it calculates is more than $665 million worth of marijuana and both cannabis-derived and marijuana-related products throughout San Bernardino County since August 2021.
Sheriff Shannon Dicus, who was appointed to succeed former Sheriff John McMahon, dubbed that effort Operation Hammer Strike. That marijuana eradication effort was a continuation of a similar stepped-up campaign targeting illicit marijuana cultivation enterprises that McMahon began in January 2021. The board of supervisors as a last-minute augmentation to the county’s 2021-22 budget appropriated in June 2021 an added $4 million for code enforcement throughout the county, the lion’s share of which has been used to cover the cost of Operation Hammer Strike.

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In a turn of historic significance not just to Redlands or San Bernardino County but the whole of California, the Redlands City Council and Planning Commission voted Tuesday night to approve a project without a significant number of its features having been delineated or specified.
In approving Village Partners proposed 700-housing unit, four-story mixed commercial-residential-office development on the grounds of the shuttered Redlands Mall, the city council and planning commission elected to abide by the provisions of a 2019 state law that are now being challenged by other municipalities. One of the provisions of that law precludes a local governmental entity from holding more than five public meetings pertaining to a development proposal for a residential project before making a determination as to whether the project proponent can proceed with the undertaking.

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