The San Bernardino County Behavioral Health Department is entering into an approximately $1.3 million contract with San Bernardino-based VARP, Inc. and expanded agreements with several community providers to increase access to substance use treatment and recovery services throughout the county.
The action includes an additional $800,000 in funding to support services for individuals referred by San Bernardino County Children and Family Services, bringing the total available funding for these services to $4 million. Providers receiving updated agreements include High Desert Child, Adolescent and Family Services Center, Inland Behavioral and Health Services, Inland Valley Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services and Cedar House Life Change Center.
These services include early intervention, outpatient care and long-term recovery support, helping residents in need access treatment earlier and maintain recovery over time.
By increasing access to substance use disorder treatment and recovery services for individuals and families in need, the county is furthering the county’s wellness goals.
The San Bernardino County Public Health Department received an approximately $669,000 grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program through February 28, 2027. Continue reading →

The musicians of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band and the Al & Jennifer Boling Family are proud to present a program entitled “Swing, Swing, Swing” on Monday, May 11, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will be held at the Ontario Town Square on Euclid Ave. between “B” & “C” Streets in downtown Ontario. The Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will present a pre-concert recital at 7:00 p.m. The performance is free to the public.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair as the seating is limited.
The concert will feature songs from the “Swing” and “Jazz” eras, including “Let’s Dance,” “Leap Frog,” “Wood Choppers Ball,” “Caravan,” “I’ll Be Seeing You,” “Stomping at the Savoy,” “Sentimental Journey,” Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood,” and more! The Show Band will have four accomplished guest performers returning to share the stage – Shelia Ruff, Loren Martinez, Peter Gutierrez and Homero Chavez.
The Colony High School Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Bachman, will perform with the Show Band for a special tribute to Jazz musician and composer Chuck Mangione.
Also featured will be Show Band solo musicians Steve Collins on Flugelhorn and Director Pat Arnold on vocal and tenor sax, along with the musicians of the Show Band. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2607757
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MIN KYOUNG LEE filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MIN KYOUNG LEE to KATIE MIN KYOUNG CHEON
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: 05/08/2026, Time: 09:00 AM, Department: S29
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 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.
Dated: 03/27/2026
Leslie Zepeda, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Judge of the Superior Court: Joseph T. Ortiz
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on April 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2026.

NOTICE OF HEARING
FAMVS901404
To: JORGE ENRIQUE RAMIREZ
Petitioner: Maria Eugenia Rosales
Respondent: Jorge Enrique Ramirez
A Court Hearing will be held as follows:
Date: April 28, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Department B3
Barstow Superior Court
Barstow Court House
235 East Mt. Viw Street
Barstow, CA 92311
Maria Eugenia Rosales, In Pro Per
Stewart & Gray Rd Unit 12A
Downey, CA 90241
(760) 353-5723
ma.eugenia.rosales@gmail.com
Dated: March 25, 2026
Commissioner Jason S. Wilkinson
Jennifer Garner, Deputy Clerk, for the Clerk of the Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on April 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2026.

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By Mark Gutglueck
City officials in Big Bear Lake have gone into crouch and are remaining tight-lipped in the face of recurrent accusations that the accommodationist policy of its [community development] department has subjected some residents to the risk of asbestos exposure.
Over the last six months, the city’s building and safety department has found itself second-guessed the Air Quality Management District, which has shut down some demolition projects that had been given permits by the city. The AQMD took that action because of suspicion or determination that there was asbestos or asbestos containing materials contained in structures that were either being demolished or within the walls, ceilings, floors, siding, framework for appliances or serving as insulation and that the city had either failed to identify or require in the permits a protocol or process for keeping asbestos fibers from becoming liberated and airborne.
Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring, fibrous, fire-resistant and heat-resistant minerals used for insulation, strength, and fireproofing in building materials. It becomes hazardous when damaged or disturbed, releasing microscopic fibers into the air that can be inhaled. These fibers lodge in lungs, causing fatal diseases like mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestiosis years after exposure. Asbestos was heavily used in construction and manufacturing from the early 1900s through the 1970s for fireproofing and insulation. A scientific determination of the danger of asbestos was made in 1970 and the Environmental Protection Agency declared it a carcinogen [cancer-causing] agent in 1975. While restrictions with regard to its use began in the 1970s and continued incrementally thereafter, particularly a 1977 ban on spray-on fireproofing applications, it was not completely phased out of all products until the Environmental Protection Agency’s comprehensive ban on chrysotile asbestos in March 2024. Continue reading →

In what appears to be a forced exit, Stone James, who had served as Twentynine Palms city manager over the last 24 months, tendered his resignation on Thursday, April 9.
James’ official departure will be effective on June 8, though sources say his duties as city manager beyond fully orienting whoever is to succeed him in an interim capacity have drawn to a close.
James was previously the economic development director for Cathedral City, a position he had filled since 2017. His was hired to serve as city manager in Twentynine Palms in March 2024 to replace interim City Manager Larry Bowden, who had been filling that spot since October 2023 when the previous City Manager, Frank Luckino, accepted an offer to serve as the city manager of Desert Hot Springs.
James’ forte in seeking out and encouraging local investment and economic development was perceived positively by the city council at the time of his hiring and for sometime thereafter, but was less well received by some city residents who saw a downside to certain economic advances, such as the conversion of what were traditionally residences into short-term rental units for vacationers, which exacerbated an already existing housing shortage and pushed the cost of housing to a point that resulted in some families being priced out of the community. Continue reading →

By Anthony Serrano and Mark Gutglueck
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians’ legal effort to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit aimed at forcing the United States Forest Service to prevent water from being diverted from near the top of the west San Bernardino Mountains for use as commercial drinking water has triggered an unanticipated, unintended and, from the tribe’s point-of-view, unwanted examination of the tribe’s water entitlements near the base of the mountains on its non-reservation investment property known on the grounds surrounding the historic Arrowhead Springs Hotel. Rulings in that lawsuit expected to be made later this year will potentially have a bearing on who controls or can claim ownership to a significant portion of the water and the water rights in the San Bernardino Basin.
Over the last four decades, there has been steadily increasing tension between environmentalists and entities who have gained access to water flowing in a canyon above the 5,000-foot level in the San Bernardino Mountains. Environmentalists maintain the displacement of that water is wreaking intensive ecological damage within the canyon. It is their further contention that the diversions by the corporate predecessors to those capturing the water now have been taking place in defiance of both federal and state law since the late 1920s based upon a fraudulently-drawn up document substituting water drafting rights further down the mountain at a spot closer to the 2,000-foot level as the basis for the illegal conscription of the water.
Since shortly after the San Manuel Tribe, also known as the Yuhaaviatam Nation, purchased the Arrowhead Springs Hotel in 2016, the succession of companies bottling the water originating in the canyon high up in the San Bernardino Forest have been providing a portion of that diverted water to the tribe. It is for that reason that the Yuhaaviatam Nation relatively recently became involved in the litigation relating to the water. Continue reading →

Somewhat unsurprisingly, the Town of Apple Valley has emerged at the forefront on the most recently forming opposition by local jurisdictions to the remedies to the homeless crisis being imposed on high across the state by legislators and bureaucrats in Sacramento.
At the April 14 town council meeting, the council and top town administration gave expression there rejection of Senate Bill 866, a proposal by State Senator Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) which would mandate strict reporting requirements for cities with regard to their homeless populations and efforts to provide permanent housing or sheltering for them, even if those jurisdictions are not receiving funds from the state to overcome the proliferation of those living on their streets.
For years, local government officials have decried Sacramento’s imposition of what what have been labeled as “unfunded mandates,” demands or requirements that counties, cities, towns or smaller agencies undertake action, invest in or initiate programs or meet requirements for which the smaller governmental entities receive no money or assistance in carrying out.
Those orders from the governor or legislature have ranged over a number of topics and touched on myriad issues, in may cases, locals have charged, attempting to micromanage governmental activity and authority in ways that are not in keeping with or are downright antithetical to the values of those living in the communities being ordered about. Continue reading →

“Mountains should be seen, not heard.”
—Ursala K. Le Guin,
The Left Hand of Darkness

By Phill Courtney
One hundred and twenty years ago this month, the cosmopolitan, Californian metropolis of San Francisco was devastated first by an earthquake centered near the city that approached an 8 on the Richter scale and then, after that, by a three-day urban inferno that completed the job. Thousands were dead in that beautiful “City by the Bay,” but also elsewhere along a fracture that extended for over two hundred miles.
Other U.S. quakes since then have caused more economic damage, but, In terms of the human toll alone, it remains the worst earthquake in the history of the United States, with the only other natural disaster to exceed it being the Galveston, Texas hurricane, which swept away somewhere between five to ten thousand (many bodies were never found) just over five years before.
I grew up hearing about the quake since a cousin of my mother’s, Zell Henley (who was still with us when I was young), had moved from Indiana, a state which may occasionally—very occasionally—get a 4-pointer from time to time, to San Francisco when he was 23, after landing a job with a photography studio only a few months before April 18th, 1906.
Among the “sacred” family relics I’ve held on to through years is a yellowed newspaper clipping from Zell’s hometown newspaper which consists of a letter he wrote to his parents back in Indiana which the paper headlined as a “vivid” account of what he’d gone through and deemed worthy of publication. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVBA2600136
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RANA SALEEM MUWANAS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
RANA SALEEM MUWANAS to RANA SALEEM ANTABEEL
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 24, 2026 Time: 8:30 AM, Department: B1
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, Barstow District-235 East Mountain View Street Barstow, CA 92311
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: 3/06/2026
Judge of the Superior Court: James R. Baxter
By Brian Gutierrez, Deputy Court Clerk
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on April 17, 2026.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF :
Cheryl Ann Gray
Case NO. PROVA2600205
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Cheryl Ann Gray:
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Megan J Jones in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
THE PETITION requests Megan J Jones be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. F3-Fontana at 09:00 AM on 05/07/2026 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino Fontana Division, 17780 Arrow Boulevard, Fontana, California 92335, Fontana Division
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDI TOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent,
you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of fi rst issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may aff ect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.
A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
In Pro Per: Megan J Jones
11569 Lancaster Wa y
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
Telephone No: 562 – 341 – 2001
Published in the SBCS
Rancho Cucamonga on:
04/03/2026, 04/10/2026, 04/17/2026

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