As the result of action taken by the Upland City Council on August 3 22, the city’s voters will be called upon to vote on the approval of what the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters’ Office has designated Measure M.
Measure M will revamp the city’s business licensing schedules to change the cost of obtaining a business operation permit in the City of Gracious Living.
Measure M will intensify the burden that the city’s most successful businesses bear for doing businesses in the city. Indeed, those businesses cataloged as the highest grossing in the city would see the cost of their city business licenses jump by a whopping 3,240 percent, from the current $864 to $28,000, if a majority of the city’s voters support Measure M, which has been placed on the upcoming November ballot.
All five of the council’s members – Mayor Bill Velto, First District Councilwoman Shannon Maust, Second District Councilman James Breitling, Third District Councilman Carlos Garcia and Fourth District Councilman Rudy Zuniga – are in favor of Measure M.
The argument they make in their pitch for the city’s voters to support of it is “Out business license structure is 31 years old. Yes on M simply reforms this structure to match the mix of business in our city today. Measure M applies only to businesses. Yes on M will not increase taxes for residents or homeowners. Currently, our local small businesses pay significantly higher rates than the largest businesses – in some cases, more than 100 times as much. That’s simply unfair.” Continue reading →

A man from Highland and a younger man from San Bernardino, described by personnel with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department as shady characters, have been arrested in connection with the stabling murder of a slightly older man living in Highland.
33-year-old Samuel Canales was at a home in the 7600 block of Elm Street in Highland when he was stabbed, resulting in the loss of a critical amount of blood, on Monday, August 3.
Sheriff’s deputies who had been dispatched to an emergency call from the residence at 10:37 a.m., arrived to find him gravely wounded inside a detached secondary unit on the property. He was transported to a hospital, where he expired, shortly after arrival.
Detectives with the homicide detail of the specialized investigations bureau identified two suspects potentially involved in the killing.
At 1:54 a.m. on August 4, Angel Santiago Macias De La Cruz, 23, with a birthdate of February 25, 2003 was located at 25813 11th Street in San Bernardino, very close to the boundary with Highland. He was arrested. T
At 8 p.m., the following day, August 4, they tracked down one of the second suspect, Brian Anthony Huidor, 27, to a residence at 6672 Roca Circle in San Bernardino, where they took him into custody.
Macias De La Cruz was booked on a charge of murder, Penal Code 187(A) into the Central Jail in San Bernardino. He is being held on $2 million bail. He is to next appear in court on September 1 in San Bernardino Superior Court Department 11 on September 1.
Huidor, who was born on August 17, 1998, was booked on a charge of murder, Penal Code Section 187(a) , as well as possession of nitrous oxide. He is to appear in courtin Department 11 on September 4. His bail has been set at $2 million.
-Mark Gutglueck

SUMMONS
CASE NO. CASE NO.: D-26-731629-D
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: FEI XIAO
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: YUXIA PENG, Plaintiff
EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA
DEPT.: T
A Complaint for Divorce has been filed by Plaintiff YUXIA PENG against you. The object of this action is divorce. Plaintiff seeks a decree dissolving the marriage and the other relief requested in the Complaint for Divorce filed in this case.
If you intend to defend this lawsuit, within 21 days after this summons is served on you (not counting the day of service), you must:
1. File with the Clerk of Court a formal written answer to the Complaint for Divorce.
2. Pay the required filing fee to the court, or file an Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and request a waiver of the filing fee.
3. Serve a copy of your answer upon Plaintiff YUXIA PENG at the address shown below.
If you fail to respond, Plaintiff can request your default. The Court can then enter a judgment against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint for Divorce.
EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT DEPT.: T
CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA
CASE NO.: D-26-731629-D
YUXIA PENG, Plaintiff,
vs.
FEI XIAO, Defendant.
STEVEN D. GRIERSON CLERK OF COURT By: Cecilia Dixon Date issued: 06/24/2026 Eighth Judicial District Court Family Courts and Services Center 601 North Pecos Road Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
ISSUED ON BEHALF OF PLAINTIFF: YUXIA PENG, Self-Represented 4110 SANDERLING CIRCLE #432 LAS VEGAS, NV 89103
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2026.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIV SB 2622340
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner STACY MARIN GARCIA filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
STACY MARIN GARCIA to STACY GARCIA
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: September 18, 2026
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S27
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
San Bernardino District-Civil Division
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Joseph T. Ortiz
Judge of the Superior Court.
Janai Piedra, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Dated: August 4, 2026
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2026.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2621360
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioners CHRISTINA and BRIAN TAYLOR filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: SOPHIA ROSE COLLINS-TAYLOR to SOPHIA ROSE TAYLOR.
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 09/08/2026, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S30
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 07/24/2026
Indian Cuen, Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court
Judge of the Superior Court: Joseph T Ortiz
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel August 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2026.

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San Bernardino County officials, who as recently as early this month appeared to be on a trajectory to give go-ahead to a massive mining operation in Music Valley, are now balking at that plan upon a wide public revelation that the principals behind the proposal to unify 1,026 mining claims on the property adjoining Riverside County in the central-east Mojave Desert are foreigners.
That action comes as one of the members of the county board of supervisors has fallen under the close scrutiny of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in part relating to his acceptance of money from foreign nationals and a company with ties to the mainland Chinese governments espionage and propaganda ministries.
Historically, mining in Music Valley, primarily for gold, was complicated in the main as a consequence of its remote location and relative inaccessability as well as its lack of plentiful water that would have allowed for the use of hydraulic mining. While the presence of gold in Music Valley resulted in the working of claims in the area during the 1880s and 1890s, by the early 20th century, most small-scale mining in the San Bernardino foothills, including Music Valley, had ended. The last significant gold production in the region ended in the 1930s when output had already peaked and was in decline, although sporadic prospecting in the area never fully ceased. Continue reading →

The California Air Resources Board has strewn a major roadblock in the path of the effort to preserve the 153-year-old mining operation at the extreme northwest corner of San Bernardino County through a complicated bankruptcy protection ploy.
Searles Valley Minerals is the corporate successor to the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company that was created in 1873 by John Wemple Searles, who first arrived in the West Mojave Desert as a gold and silver prospector in the 1860s. He encountered copious quantities of white crystalline borax on the bed of what is today known as Searles Dry Lake near the town of Trona, which is located on the San Bernardino County side of where San Bernardino County, Inyo County and Kern County converge. John Searles initially used 20-mule teams to haul borax in wagons roughly 170 miles to San Pedro. In 1876, when the Southern Pacific reached the community of Boron, Searles was able to reduce the one-way distance of that delivery by 91 miles. In 1895, Searles sold the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company was sold by Searles to the Pacific Coast Borax Company, owned by the so-called “Borax King” – Francis Smith. Simth discontinued production at Searles Lake in 1896, but in 1913, the British-owned Consolidated Gold Fields Company, which had extensive holdings in South Africa, founded the American Trona Company. In 1914, the company completed the Trona Railway line from Searles Station south to a junction with the Southern Pacific Railroad, simultaneously establishing the company-owned town of Trona, named for crystals of soda ash formed by the evaporation of chemical-rich water commonly found in the lake bed in combination with borax. Continue reading →

Despite a series of stunning victories in its cultural war with the State of California’s entrenched liberal political establishment, a committed core of conservative activists in Chino Valley yet face implacable opposition in the long twilight struggle to reestablish what they celebrate as traditional values in their educational system.
One of the more fascinating social and political phenomena at play in California at present first tangibly manifested in 2006, though it had been gestating prior to that, with the election of Sylvia Orozco to the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees.
Orozco was a harbinger of what was to come, as she was a parishioner of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Congregation. The pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills is Jack Hibbs, a denominationalist, who holds that Christians have a duty to stand up for their beliefs by either running for election to public office themselves or supporting other Christians who do run, and then, upon taking office, Christianize public policy. Hibbs was deceptively sophisticated in his approach, as he realized that political change of the type he envisioned would need to be effectuated gradually and without shock to the existing social order, and he exhibited the disciplined patience to execute his strategy. Rather than zooming to the top of political hierarchy and targeting offices such as governor, U.S. Senator, state legislators or city council members, he started at the low end of the political pecking order as well as within the area of his immediate reach, that being the school board. Continue reading →

The Fontana Planning Commission on August 4, 2026 approved the construction of a 108-townhome subdivision with a density of 16.12 units to the acre on property at the northwest corner of Baseline and Palmetto Avenues.
The project proponent was Monte Vista Homes, which has proven very aggressive in seeking from the City of Fontana entitlements to proceed with high density projects. In the subject case, the parcel on which the homes are to be built is 6.7 acres.
The planning blueprint under which the development is taking place – the Walnut Village Specific Plan – is 46 years old, having first been derived in 1980. Throughout that time, no serious proposals for the development of the 6.7 acres had been filed with the city’s planning division. In 2024, the city adopted an updated version of the specific plan which upped the permissible density on the property to a range of 12 to 24 units to the acre.
In 1980 in Fontana, the average number of units permissible under its then-extant specific plans were eight units to the acre. Continue reading →

Officers with the California Highway Patrol collared two suspects in the shooting death of a homeless man and the wounding of a homeless woman that occurred on Sunday, August 16. 5280
According to the San Bernardino Police Department, well into the midnight hour Sunday morning, there was audible gunfire in the area of the 210 Freeway and Del Rosa Avenue, some 1,500 feet or just over 0.28 of a mile from the campus of St. Thomas Aquinas High School and roughly 1,200 feet or almost 0.23 of a mile from an island of unincorporated county property surrounded by city property on San Bernardino’s northeast side.
After a call to its dispatch center reporting those shots came in, San Bernardino Police Department patrol units were dispatched to the scene, arriving at around 1 a.m.
Officers arrived at a homeless encampment on the south side of the freeway near Del Rosa Avenue, where they encountered a woman who had been shot and a man who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The woman was transported to a hospital. The California Highway Patrol became involved in the investigation into the incident because the shooting apparently took place on state property. Continue reading →

A 92-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, was killed on Saturday, August 15, 2026 while he was operating a golf cart on Twentynine Palms Highway.
While the man’s name is known to authorities, as is his address in Yucca Valley, that information is yet being withheld as the Sentinel goes to press on Friday.
According to the sheriff’s department at 05:47 p.m., the San Bernardino County Sherrif’s Department responded to Twentynine Palms Highway and Mohave Trail in Yucca Valley to a report of a traffic collision.
According to the department, the man was severely injured when he drove the golf cart into oncoming traffic.
The speed limit on Twentynine Palms Highway, also known as State Route 62, at that point is 45 miles per hour. Moving vehicles at that point are potentially moving at rates reaching 50 to 55 miles per hour.
The man was transported to Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree and pronounced deceased at 8:02 p.m.