Those who live in the San Bernardino area are curious as to the subtext of the police department’s application to obtain state funding to cover the cost of enforcing prohibitions on illegal off-road vehicle use both at the city’s periphery and within its more central and largely undeveloped areas falling within city limits.
Some believe the city wants the money to cover the cost of its vigilance with regard to some World War II-era metallurgical facilities that may yet contain material or equipment used in the designing and construction of the United States’ first generation atomic weaponry which may be vulnerable to vandalism or theft by individuals or entities inimical to the public interest.
Additionally, the patrols may prevent dirt bikers and other off-roaders from inadvertently coming upon spots where runoff from the San Bernardino International Airport – the former Norton Air Force Base – has left deposits of contamination from legacy atomic and early thermonuclear weaponry that may be extremely hazardous to their health.
San Bernardino’s atomic history, once well-known among a small circle, has since been forgotten and purposefully obscured. Continue reading →

Some Omnitrans buses running between San Bernardino and Ontario and those linking Fontana to Ontario International Airport are arriving and departing on a far less frequent basis than usual, due to a labor action by drivers who are seeking higher pay and more comprehensive benefits.
Omnitrans is the largest government-established public transportation agency in San Bernardino County, serving the most densely populated 480-square miles of the 20,560-square mile county. Established in 1976, it includes 15 cities in its service area and portions of unincorporated county areas with routes that reach into Riverside County and Los Angeles County. Carrying about 11 million passengers per year or about 25,000 per weekday.
Omnitrans operates fixed route bus service, bus rapid transit and a paratransit service for the disabled, referred to as “Access.” Its routes run from Chino Hills, Chino, Montclair through Upland, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Rialto, Colton, San Bernardino, Highland, Grand Terrace, Loma Linda, Redlands and Yucaipa, south of the San Bernardino Mountains. Continue reading →

Despite Yucaipa voters passage of Measure S, the one-percent sales tax override that was on the ballot in November, Yucaipa city officials are moving to cancel the Five Winds Country Music Festival scheduled for October 2025.
In making his pitch to Yucaipa’s voters to give approval to Measure S, the architect of that initiative, then-City Manager Chris Mann, said it would, among other things, preserve the city’s commitment to cultural events, a reference to performances at the city-owned-and-operated Yucaipa Performing Arts Center and other events such as the Five Winds Country Music Festival, which has been held on an annual basis since COVID restrictions ended.
In not so many words, Mann suggested that events such as the Five Winds Country Music Festival, which has been held, variously, at the Five Winds Ranch, located on properties spanning from 37186 Oak Glen Road to 37254 Oak Glen Road or at El Dorado Ranch Park, would continue to be held.
Those events are on occasion modestly subsidized by the city.
In the case of the Yucaipa Performing Arts Center, the venue generally turned a profit or broke even. In some cases, operations with regard to certain performances ran at a deficit.
In the case of the Five Winds County Music Festival, billed as a celebration and spectacle of music, dance, art, and community spirit, acts such as Chris Janson, Rodney Atkins, Adam Doleac, Frank Ray, Russell Dickerson, George Birge, Dillon Carmichael and Drew Baldridge performed. Continue reading →

With a new finance director in place and a full year after their city’s voters approved Measure V, a one cent per dollar sales tax override to redress municipal economic challenges, the Chino City Council was blindsided this week with the revelation that the city’s general fund is $6.3 million in the red.
The gloomy news was unleashed by Kim Sao, who last month replaced Robert Burns as the director of finance in the 94,498-population city.
In the staff report and documentation relating to an item on the agenda for the Tuesday April 1 meeting titled “Fiscal Year 2024-25 Midyear Budget Review” and “Midyear Budget Adjustments for Fiscal Year 2024-25” was a memo from Sao to City Manager Linda Reich which contained what in retrospect may have been a forewarning, although it was leavened with other data that did not seem to presage any type of fiscal crisis.
The action this week came slightly less than two-and-a-half months after the city council approved the mid-term budget on January 21.
Staff went over the budget with a fine-tooth comb thereafter, with an analysis of the deviations from the projected spending that were turned up.
According to Sao, it was learned that there was to be a “decrease [to] the general fund revenues estimate by $3,420,211 and all other funds by $12,839,480 for a total decrease of $16,259,691.” Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2503850
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner Keena Blythe filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Ke’Nea Shelice Blythe-Sherrod to Ke’Nea Shelice Blythe
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: APRIL 28, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S29
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: March 7, 2025 by
Eric Iturraide, Deputy Court Clerk
Keena Blythe
Telephone No: (909) 636-3070
Email address: keena.blythe@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on March 14, 21 & 28 and April 4, 2025.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2503479
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner MARIBEL CABRAL filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
GIA ALEXANDRA CABRAL to GIA ALEXANDRA ALVAREZ
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: April 17, 2025
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S35
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: March 5, 2025 by
Abrianna Rodriguez, Deputy Court Clerk
Maribel Cabral
Telephone No: (626) 484-8069
Email address: bel8088@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on March 14, 21 & 28 and April 4, 2025.

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