As was almost universally anticipated by San Bernardino County’s political prognosticators, Luis Cetina and Jesse Armendarez will compete in a run-off in the November general election to determine who will succeed Janice Rutherford as county supervisor in the 2nd District, based on the results of this week’s primary election voting.
Unexpected by most of those familiar with the five-person match-up was that Cetina outdistanced Armendarez for first place and that DeJonae Shaw, a neophyte political figure, did as well as she did.
Under the ground rules for San Bernardino County’s supervisorial district contests, a candidate who manages to capture at least one more vote than fifty percent in the race which corresponds with that year’s primary election can claim victory outright. If no single candidate eclipses fifty percent, then a run-off is held in conjunction with that year’s general election. Continue reading →

In a move the reasons for which are too opaque to assimilate, the Apple Valley Fire Protection District and Fire Chief Ken Harrison have parted ways, less than a year after he was installed in that position following an impressive firefighting career in Orange County.
It was previously thought that the 56-year-old Harrison would remain as the head of the Apple Valley Fire Department until he reached the age of 60. He was brought in last year to replace former Fire Chief Lorenzo Gigliotti. 
While lavishing recognition upon the professionalism and competence of the crews he oversaw, Harrison hinted at but was not explicit about shortcomings with the attitude and direction of the fire district’s Continue reading →

What slim prospect the Democrats had of breaking the Republican nut lock on San Bernardino County’s governmental structure was dashed on Tuesday with incumbent Fourth District Supervisor Curt Hagman’s drubbing of challenger Connie Leyva.
Hagman’s polling of 8,901 votes or 53.21 percent of the 16,727 votes counted and 86 of 218 precincts reporting as of midnight on the night of the election, four hours after the polls had closed, was taken as an indication that Hagman was going to take the race running away, with little chance of a run-off. By 4 p.m. today, Friday, June 10, with all 218 precincts accounted for and 19,299 mail-in ballots from District 4 voters counted, Hagman had widened his lead to 13,559 votes of the 24,346 cast so far, or 55.69 percent, to Leyva’s 9,009 votes or 37 percent. 
The third-place candidate in the race, Larry Wu, as of 4 p.m. today has received 1,778 votes or 7.3 percent.
In San Bernardino County, county supervisorial races can be decided in the primary elections if a candidate secures at least fifty percent plus one votes.
Hagman’s victory means that he will serve his third and final term on the board of supervisors after having first been elected to that post in the 2014 election. Since 2006, members of the board of supervisors have been subject to a three four-year term limit. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIV SB 2207605
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: SAMANTHA CHRISTINA HERNANDEZ and JOHN JAMES LU filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
KADEN JAMES LU to JAMES CALVIN LU
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: June 13, 2022
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S-17
The address of the court is
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino,
247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415,
San Bernardino District-Civil Division
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: 04/06/2022
John M. Pacheco
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on May 20 & 27 and June 3 & 10, 2022.

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Mailing Address: POST OFFICE BOX 4607 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91729
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above Continue reading →

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Almost a year ago, on June 4, 2021, the Liberty Sculpture Park in Yermo introduced two sculptures by Weiming Chen, the “CCP Virus” Sculpture and another titled “Victims of Communism.”
A little over a month later in July 2021, agents of the Chinese Communist Party with ties to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, repeatedly attacked the CCP Virus sculpture, eventually burning it to total destruction July 23, 2021, according to charges unsealed in March 2022 by federal prosecutors.

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The attorney representing five former San Bernardino city employees who are suing Mayor John Valdivia and their former employer over treatment they were subjected to by Valdivia this week rejected as political rhetoric assertions by Valdivia’s re-election campaign that those claims were politically motivated ones.
Tristan Pelayes is representing Mirna Cisneros, Valdivia’s one-time constituent service representative; Karen Cervantes, his former special assistant; Jackie Aboud and Don Smith, two of Valdivia’s field representatives; and Matt Brown, Valdivia’s former chief-of-staff. The three women have claimed that while working for the city, Valdivia pressured them to have sex with him. Cisneros related how Valdivia Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
Following the investment of approaching $8 million and more than 10,000 man-hours of effort by members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s department over the last 17 months, there are unmistakable signs that a corner has been turned on the effort to eradicate the bootleg marijuana cultivation activity that had proliferated in many of the vast outreaches of 20,105-square mile San Bernardino County since 2017.
A milestone in that effort was reached in March, when a division of the sheriff’s department’s task force unexpectedly came upon a vast subterranean “industrial-sized” farm in the remote desert community of Newberry Springs, one with ties, the Sentinel is told by reliable sources, to an international tong which has sponsored the erection of literally hundreds of other greenhouses in the desert in the past five years. The takedown of that operation sent a signal, one louder and clearer than any delivered before, to the Continue reading →

Rancho Cucamonga’s city council will remain at four-fifths strength until December in the aftermath of Councilman Sam Spagnolo’s May 2 death.
The city council had the option of appointing someone who lives within the city’s First District to fill the vacancy.
Potential replacements included Tim Johnson, Luis Cetina and Tony Guglielmo.
Johnson was a protégé of former Rancho Cucamonga City Councilman and Second District San Bernardino County Supervisor Paul Biane. In 2002, Johnson served as Biane’s deputy campaign manager. In 2010, before Biane was defeated for reelection as Second District supervisor in that year’s race and after a falling out occurred between Biane and Matt Brown, who was both Biane’s chief of staff and his Continue reading →