The San Bernardino City Unified School District Board is seeking applicants for superintendent. Applications can be accessed via the district’s application link and will be accepted through November 30, 2022.
The new educational leader, one with the background, skills, and abilities essential for guiding the scholastic mission of California’s seventh-largest school district, is slated to be named by February 2023.
In October, the board hired McPherson & Jacobson, LLC, an executive search firm that specializes in education, to lead a nationwide search for the district’s next superintendent. As part of the new search, the board is seeking input from parents, employees, and the community on desired characteristics through a survey that will help shape the search process. Continue reading →

SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO): 21ST CV 45171
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
(AVISO DEMANDADO):
RODRIGO FRANCISCO MANUEL, AKA RODRIGO F. MANUEL, AKA RODRIGO FRANCISCO
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
(LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): DEOMARLEE LALU SY, MARIA JOSE VILLEGAS, ESTELITA SY
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entregue esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formulario de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
Spring Street Courthouse
310 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demendante que no tiene abogado, es):
Oscar E. Toscano State Bar #84736
625 W. Broadway, Suite B
Glendale, CA 91204
Phone: (818) 241-0806
DATE (Fecha): December 10, 2021
Clerk (Secretario), by R. Clifton, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on: 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 & 11/04, 2022.

FBN 20220006980
The following person is doing business as LAW OFFICE OF JON F. HAMILTON 700 E. REDLANDS BLVD., SUITE U #165 REDLANDS, CA 92373 principally in SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY:
JON F HAMILTON 1320 GARDEN STREET REDLANDS, CA 92373
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JULY 1, 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/ JON F. HAMILTON, Individual Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/26/2022
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 G8420
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 8/5, 8/12, 8/19 & 8/26, 2022. Corrected on 9/9, 9/16, 9/23 & 9/30, 2022. Recorrected on 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 & 11/04, 2022.

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The plot has thickened with regard to the already steepening mystery related to the death of Steven Puskar, who died at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center on October 9 as a result of a severe beating administered to him by his cellmate, Michael Kevin Follet, on October 2 while both were incarcerated at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Follet was formerly a sergeant with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the agency that runs the West Valley Detention Center.
According to the department, on October 2, deputies found Puskar, 47, of San Bernardino, injured and unresponsive in the cell he shared with Follet. Lifesaving measures were taken, and Puskar was transported to the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, the main campus of the county hospital, in Colton. He expired from his injuries on October 9. Continue reading →

In what is believed to be the first use of an electronic tracking system to thwart the vandalism and/or disruption aimed at electioneering activity in San Bernardino County, the Redlands Police Department on October 17 recovered four stolen campaign signs and cited the woman who had removed them from where they had been posted.
The signs in question were ones for Redlands School Board candidate Erin Stepien, which had been placed at various locations around Redlands, including at the Plaza Las Palmas retail center, 1150 Brookside Avenue, at the corner of Brookside Avenue and San Mateo Street. The sign at the shopping center had been outfitted with a tracking device.
At 7:40 p.m. on the evening of October 17, a Monday, Candy Olson, Stepien’s campaign manager, noted that one of Stepien’s campaign signs was being moved. She traced it to a location on Sonora Circle Drive, proximate to or at the residence of Patty Holohan, the incumbent school board member against whom Stepien is running. Olson contacted the police to inform them of the theft. Continue reading →

Three of the principals caught in the City of Baldwin Park/West Valley Water District political corruption scandal were utilizing burner phones in much of their communication with one another at least as early as 2018, the Sentinel has learned.
Beginning in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, then-Baldwin Park City Councilman Ricardo Pacheco arrived at an understanding with two entities interested in establishing marijuana-related enterprises in Baldwin Park that he would champion their cause, including obtaining the necessary two other votes on the council to approve their operating permits within the 6.79-square mile city, in exchange for kickbacks.
Assisting Pacheco in that arrangement, according to the FBI, were two key Baldwin Park officials, City Attorney Robert Tafoya and Police Chief Michael Taylor.
Through an elaborate set of deals and exchanges involving all three utilizing their official authority and capacities, Tafoya drafted the Baldwin Park city ordinances that allowed Pacheco, participating as part of the city council majority, to award commercial marijuana operating permits to the companies that were bribing Pacheco, according to the FBI. Continue reading →

In Big Bear Lake, hidden away in the rustic northeast corner of the San Bernardino Mountains, a cultural civil war is playing out in this year’s municipal election, one in which there stands a chance that the reigning political establishment will virtually overnight be extirpated.
At the heart of the contest is the continuing identity of the county’s second-smallest city population-wise and third smallest city geographically as a tourist community first and foremost.
While no one anticipates that tourism will cease in a place that offers skiing in the winter and early spring, boating from spring until late fall, swimming in the summer, hiking, camping and fishing year round and upland game bird and California mule deer hunting in season, Big Bear maintaining its primary credential as a tourist community is at stake with what in effect is an election where the incumbency of four of the city council’s five members is on the line. Continue reading →