Grand Terrace’s four remaining elected municipal officials are yet cataloging their options in seeking a replacement for Sylvia Robles after seeking to plug the gap on their panel created with her abrupt resignation last month by offering that position to former Councilman Jim Miller, who declined the honor.
Robles, a former county employee who was first elected to the Grand Terrace City Council in 2012, reelected in 2016 and then reelected once more in 2020, was serving a term that was set to expire in December of this year. She was obliged to resign as councilwoman because, following her husband’s retirement, the couple had resolved to move to San Clemente. She earlier intended to make that transition next year, after leaving the council, but a favorable offer on their Grand Terrace home and an equally favorable opportunity to purchase a home in the Orange County beach community necessitated that they make the move at once. Continue reading →

Chinese espionage agents are reportedly intensifying their scrutiny of the vast 20,105-square mile reaches of San Bernardino County to facilitate the updating of that county’s nuclear missile targeting programs.
At present, the Chinese are targeting both the continental United States and Hawaii, with all six of their DF-5A silo-based nuclear missiles, first deployed in 1981; at least eight of their 12 DF-5B silo-based missiles first deployed in 2015; and no fewer than 15 of their 24 DF-31A missiles first deployed in 2007. Ultimately, the lion’s share of the DF-5C intercontinental ballistic missiles they are now in the process of deploying and the DF-41 silo-based missiles they will begin deploying next year and continue deploying until 2017 will be aimed at the United States.
Since at least early 2022, Chinese agents have been dispatched in multiple waves to ascertain military and infrastructure-related assets that should first be identified and in subsequent reconnaissance missions examined for vulnerabilities, hardening and tie-ins to other military and infrastructure structures, installations and relays.
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By Alfred Birnbaum
The mountains fly past
Kids torture a cicada
Its screams fill the car.

By Mark Gutglueck
Sheriff Shannon Dicus on Wednesday released video and still photographs of one of his deputy’s killing of 17-year-old Aaron James in Victorville on Tuesday, April 2.
James, described by Dicus as “a 17-year-old white male juvenile” was shot during a struggle over a knife while, Dicus said, he “was experiencing mental health issues.” James is the fourth individual to die at the hands of San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies in less than a month.
The deadly encounter took place just after 1 p.m. at a home in the 17100 block of Forest Hills Drive, just east of Brentwood Drive, in Victorville. Deputies had been summoned there just after 12:30 p.m.
According to Dicus, “The situation we were confronted with yesterday is the juvenile was just taken three days ago for harming himself, essentially cutting himself, to a hospital for treatment and ultimately to be sent to a mental health facility. During the transition to the mental health facility, the juvenile absconded from the hospital and showed up at a residence in Victorville.” Continue reading →

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The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
SION CONSTRUCTION 1245 W 28th Street SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405: KASHE CONCRETE CORP 1245 W 28th Street SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
Business Mailing Address: 1245 W 28th Street SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of Califfornia under the number 4180274.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 20, 2018.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ EVERADO FRAUSTO-GUTIERREZ, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 2/06/2024
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J6733
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on March 15, 22, 29 & April 5, 2024.

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The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
R12 AUTOMOTIVE 1502 WEST D STREET ONTARIO, CA 91762: NEVELLE E PIERSON
Business Mailing Address: 1502 WEST D STREET ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ NEVELLE E PIERSON
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 3/14/2024
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy K1583
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on March 15, 22, 29 & April 5, 2024.

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By Mark Gutglueck
Amidst reports federal authorities are scrutinizing them and their city manager and senior land use officials with regard to their ties to the development industry, the Yucaipa City Council Wednesday night gave approval to the Yucaipa Valley Wine Country Specific Plan, which is to suspend building restrictions on nearly 1,100 acres that were incorporated into the 54,524-population city’s 2016 general plan.
Some saw in the action confirmation of the widespread and penetrating suspicions that reportedly invited federal investigators to take up an examination of the somewhat irregular relationship the city’s decision-makers forged with the city manager they hired in a highly controversial move more than a year ago. Others, however, saw the action as a compromise with a development industry that is salivating at the prospect of converting large swaths of open space on the city’s north end, which was once grazing land or long dormant or more recently forsaken agricultural property, into massive subdivisions to include both residential neighborhoods and commercial centers.
The Wine Country Specific Plan is a proposed phased development to subdivide 1,094 acres in what is referred to as the city’s North Bench into lots for both homes and nonresidential areas for vineyards, wineries, trails, and open space. The plan calls for the primarily undeveloped land to be split into what are very close to halves, with residential uses on 547.4 acres and nonresidential uses on 546.2 acres. The proposed nonresidential land use designations including 465.5 acres for agriculture purposes, 73.6 acres for riparian use and 7.1 acres for utility application by the Yucaipa Valley Water District, the last of which has already been put in place by the water district. Continue reading →

Herbert Stone James, currently the economic development director with Cathedral City, has been chosen to serve as city manager in Twentynine Palms.
James will supplant Larry Bowden at City Hall. Bowden has served as interim city manager since October, when former City Manager Frank Luckino departed to become city manager in Desert Hot Springs.
James, 49, has been economic development director in Cathedral City since 2017.
James’ professional experience in government is limited to this tenure in Cathedral City, although he has other experience in governmental appointed posts. In addition, he has experience in real estate and development liaison capacities.
At present, he is a board member of a private school, Palm Valley School Pre K-12th Grade Independent School. Continue reading →