On a 4-to-1 vote this week, the board of the embattled Inland Empire Utilities Agency gave its general manager a salary increase of more than 9 percent, raising the ire and concern of a large cross section of the community and public served by the regional service entity.

As a result of the action, Shivaji Deshmukh will see his salary jump from $311,428 to $340,000, and his total annual compensation, when his annual cost of living adjustment is factored in, go from $420,853.80 to $462,908.57.

At issue in the board’s favorable treatment of Deshmukh is not only pointed disagreements within the community about his performance and the direction of the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, but growing public dismay over the reflexive granting of raises to public employees in general and the management echelon among public employees specifically, creating a widening gulf between the remuneration levels of public and private sector workers. Continue reading →

The City of Needles is updating its general plan that has been in place for nearly 37 years.
San Bernardino County’s easternmost city and smallest municipality population-wise with 5,225 residents, the town has been in existence since 1883, when it was selected as the California side of the bridge constructed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to bring the railroad across the Colorado River from Arizona.
The seventh city in San Bernardino County to incorporate in 1913, Needles from the 1920s through the 1960s was a major stop on Route 66, what was then the primary highway from Chicago to Los Angeles. From the 1970s until quite recently, Needles’ population was in decline, reaching its nadir within the last decade. In 2014, the city’s last supermarket, Bashas, a chain store run by an Arizona company, was shuttered. Virtually all of the commercial establishments that once existed in the city, its dime stores, 1920s- and 1930s- and 1940s- and 1950s and 1960s-era hotels and motels, its Chinese laundry, drug stores, furniture stores, jeweler, newsstand, restaurants, several general stores, and at least nine saloons or taverns including a Prohibition speakeasy are gone, many having fallen victim to fires, including arsons. Continue reading →

WEST END, February 17, 2023 –The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department late today identified the grandson of George and Sonia Ramirez as their likely killer.
George Ramirez, 72, his wife, Sonia Ramirez, 68, and their son, David Renteria, 43, were found dead in the home they lived in on an otherwise usually quiet cul-de-sac in the unincorporated San Bernardino County West End district shortly after 9 p.m. on January 30.
George, a retired carpenter, woodworker and furniture maker, and Sonia were the progenitors of a large family and had lived for some time in the 1,350-square foot, two-story three-bedroom house located at 4804 Ramona Place in the unincorporated county area north of Chino, south of Montclair, west of Ontario and east of Pomona and the Los Angeles County line. Continue reading →

A resort project proposed for development on just over 21 acres at the corner of Amboy Road and Gammel Road in Wonder Valley is to be augmented with a residential component on the surrounding 138.78 acres, one of the principals in the undertaking told the Sentinel this week.
In November 2021, Alan Greenberg and Jason Landver applied for a conditional use permit, including a rezoning request, for the majority of 21.22 acres on the corner lot site in the remote desert community which are currently zoned for low density housing. The 3.18 acres closest to the two roads is already zoned for commercial service use, while the remaining 18.4 acres bear the county’s RL-5 zoning designation. The request is to designate all 21.22 acres as suitable for commercial service use, or CS in the county’s zoning parlance. The current RL-5 designation allows single family homes on lots no smaller than five acres. Greenberg and Landver have acquired 160 acres at the Amboy/Gammel corner location. Continue reading →

FBN 20230000138
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as W.M.S BODY CONTOURING & HOLISTIC THERAPY 15555 MAIN ST UNIT D7 HESPERIA, CA 92345: WENDY MUNOZ SANTIESTEBAN 18390 BIRCH ST HESPERIA, CA 92345
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOVEMBER 26, 2022.
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/ WENDY MUNOZ SANTIESTEBAN, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/06/2023
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 C6677
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 January 27 and February 3, 10 & 17, 2023.

FBN 20230000670
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as FRAPPE & BOBA 4545 MISSION BLVD E MONTCLAIR, CA 91763: LAKE R ROJANAMONTIEN 12790 WILD HORSE WAY RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
Mailing Address: 12790 WILD HORSE WAY RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JANUARY 23, 2023.
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/ LAKE R ROJANAMONTIEN, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/25/2023
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 I9576
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 January 27 and February 3, 10 & 17, 2023.

FBN 20230000342
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as VENDIES VENDING 8320 VICARA DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA 91701: VENDIES OFFICIAL LLC 8320 VICARA DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA 91701
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202253219069
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOVEMBER 11, 2022.
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/ JACQUELINE CHENG, Managing Member
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/13/2023
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 J3108
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 January 27 and February 3, 10 & 17, 2023.

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