Banning Record Gazette · Banning, CA
Banning will reimburse Beaumont up to $369,580 for roadway improvements. (Angelina Parisi/Staff) Banning will reimburse Beaumont up to $369,580 for roadway improvements along Highland Springs Avenue at Ramsey Street, an intersection that straddles the boundary between the two cities. The Banning City Council unanimously approved a resolution, authorizing a cooperative agreement that establishes each city’s responsibilities for the project. Beaumont will oversee construction, including administration, inspection, traffic control and coordination with the contractor, while Banning will reimburse Beaumont for work within Banning’s jurisdiction. The project is part of Beaumont’s broader citywide pavement improvement program. Matich Corporation’s bid for the overall project was $3.43 million, with Banning’s share of the work estimated at $321,374. A 15% contingency brings Banning’s maximum reimbursement to $369,580.
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror · Calimesa, CA
Nearby: Calimesa, CAAs of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, unofficial election results show Chelsea Brammer Ramirez leading Yucaipa City Council District 1 with 53.63% of the vote. Cali Binks leads the San Bernardino County superintendent of schools race with 51.99%. Robert Cruse leads the Yucaipa Valley Water District board of directors Division 2 race with 51.68%, while Starene Cruse leads the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District governing board Area 4 race with 50.56%. Results remain unofficial and are subject to change. (0 Ratings) Click to read this week's issue. Click to read Best of Banning/ Yucaipa. Click to read Discover Our Town. Most Popular Yucaipa acquires land after $4.5 million loan defaults Yucaipa 2026 election results Yucaipa secures $1.58M grant for 6 firefighter positions Yucaipa’s Make a Difference Day Sen. Ochoa Bogh to speak at Veterans Day Ceremony
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror · Yucaipa, CA
Nearby: Yucaipa, CAYucaipa’s pickleball community has grown from a handful of early enthusiasts playing on basketball courts with temporary lines into a club that reports thousands of visits, youth instruction programs and hundreds of hours of volunteer work each month. Now, club leaders are asking the city to address deteriorating court surfaces and consider adding amenities at Seventh Street Park. Richard Rios, president of Yucaipa Pickleball Inc., presented the club’s history, programming and requests to the Yucaipa Parks and Recreation Commission on Oct. 28. The commission received the update and directed that the matter return on a future agenda, leaving further consideration of the requests for another meeting.
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror · Yucaipa, CA
Nearby: Yucaipa, CALongtime locals Kristine Mohler, former Mayor Denise Allen, along with the Make a Difference Day committee brought back Make a Difference Day to Yucaipa after a three- year hiatus.Yucaipa’s Make a Difference Day took place on Saturday, Oct. 24. Hundreds of residents and team leaders gathered to beautify and clean Yucaipa in city-wide service projects.The three hiatus was due to budgetary restraints in the city of Yucaipa. The city council spent a good portion of its Sept. 28 council meeting discussing who should pay for the annual event. Ultimately, the council unanimously approved the event. Much of the cost was absorbed by locals and businesses. City staff explained that the city had worked with community members and representatives from the Trails and Open Space Committee, Healthy Yucaipa Committee and Park and Recreation Commission to form a Make a Difference Day Committee.The day was perfect, according to hundreds of volunteers.Yucaipa City Manager Dr.
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror · Yucaipa, CA
Nearby: Yucaipa, CAThe Yucaipa Calimesa Veterans Committee will hold its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 11, from 11 a.m. to noon at Yucaipa Community Park.State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh will be a guest speaker.“Veterans Day is a day to honor the men and women who have sacrificed so much as they served our country and protected the values we uphold as a nation,” she said. “I’m grateful for the people who have stepped up, and their families who have shared them with us. It is because of them, that we are blessed to live the life we choose to live. In freedom. My heart is full.” Ochoa Bogh serves as a member of the California State Senate, representing District 19, which spans parts of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. She is highly respected and admired by her constituents.She was born in California, the daughter of Mexican immigrants; her family settled in the San Bernardino area.
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror · Yucaipa, CA
Nearby: Yucaipa, CAThe property the city purchased in December 2023. (City of Yucaipa/Submitted) Yucaipa acquired approximately 80 acres of vacant land off Oak Glen Road through foreclosure in October after a $4.5 million loan to Koy Builders Inc. went into default. It left questions about the original lending terms, the property’s value and the financial implications for taxpayers. Michael Kooyman, owner of Koy Builders, and the property, died by suicide. Records reviewed for this story do not establish a connection between his death and the loan. The city council approved the loan in December 2023, under a different city manager (Chris Mann) and council (Justin Beaver, Chris Venable, Jon Thorp, Matt Garner and Bobby Duncan), agreeing to lend Koy Builders $4.5 million at a fixed annual interest rate of 7%. The loan was secured by a deed of trust on the property, and the city also obtained an option to purchase it for $5.475 million.
Madras Pioneer · Nuevo, CA
Nearby: Nuevo, CAand celebrated the milestone with her family at the Mazatlan restaurant in Madras. Valdez was born on Aug. 30, 1926, in Nuevo Repuebleo, a well-known neighborhood in the southern part of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She grew up with five brothers and a sister. She migrated with her family to Corpus Christi, Texas, at age 17. That is where Valdez continued living and eventually began raising her own family. Valdez and her family were migrant workers for several years, picking produce like peaches, pears, plums, whole mint, potatoes and beans. For this work, they traveled from Texas to California and then Central Oregon every year. In total, Valdez had five children whom she raised as a stay-at-home mother. She is also a Jehovah’s Witness and is regularly visited by people with whom she attends church. Valdez and her family moved to Culver in 1997, before moving in with her daughter, Irma Symons, after her husband’s death in March 2010.
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror · Redlands, CA
Nearby: Redlands, CASmiley LIVE! Americana Roots will present the sizzling hot sounds of traditional and contemporary Zydeco music. David Sousa and the Zydeco Mudbugs will bring the heat of Zydeco to Redlands through the use of single row and triple row diatonic accordions with songs in both Louisiana French and English.Capturing the rich sounds of New Orleans style music since 1998, David Sousa and the Zydeco Mudbugs will surely make guests want to kick up their heels with traditional Zydeco songs like, “Don’t mess with my Toot-Toot,” “Why you want to make me cry,” “Good Old Cajun Music,” and “Chubby Party.”Early Zydeco was a blend of Louisiana French accordion music and Afro-Caribbean beats. It sat at the cross-roads of Creole, Cajun, gospel and the blues, yet has since evolved to include influences from several other genres. Instrumentation almost always includes an accordion and a frottoir, a washboard.
Atlanta Black Star · Riverside, CA
Nearby: Riverside, CANyree Hinton says he had a prescription for Adderall and a valid driver’s license when California cops arrested him for possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and for driving without a license earlier this year. But things went from bad to worse when the 30-year-old Black man said he discovered the Jaguar he had been driving the day of his arrest at an auction facility in Riverside County after a disputed repossession. “I called the cops, but (Riverside County deputies) threw me in jail again and charged me with stealing my own vehicle,” Hinton said in an interview with Atlanta Black Star. The former finance worker said he spent the night in a Riverside County jail before he was released, but the district attorney never filed charges in that case. “I never had a criminal history coming to California,” said Hinton, who grew up in New Jersey and moved to California in January 2022 for a job at Capital Group after working in finance in New York.
California · Riverside, CA
Nearby: Riverside, CAA driver heading east on the westbound 91 Freeway was at the center of a crash early Thursday in Riverside that claimed three lives and is under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.
Asian Journal · Pechanga, CA
Nearby: Pechanga, CA— Two Filipino music favorites light up the stage with timeless hits and powerhouse vocals — TEMECULA, Calif. — (October 28, 2026) – Pechanga Resort Casino proudly presents Freestyle x...
Out · Indio, CA
Nearby: Indio, CAWelp, looks like we HAVE to go to Coachella next year! Babe, grab your sunscreen, clear backpacks, and windbreakers, because Coachella just dropped its 2027 lineup, and it is absolutely sickening! Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, and SZA are headlining the festival, which returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, for two weekends, April 9–11 and April 16–18. Reggaeton legend Daddy Yankee is also making his Coachella debut with a special performance billed as “Daddy Yankee in the Desert.” And the rest of the lineup? Just as exciting. Fetty Wap is making his Coachella comeback after being released from federal prison earlier this year, while Empire of the Sun, Weezer, and pop royalty Robyn are also heading to the desert. Oh, by the way, did we mention Madonna?! The Queen of Pop is returning to Coachella's dance tent 21 years after her iconic 2006 performance. You're welcome, we gays totally manifested this one! And yes, we're counting Madonna among our LGBTQ+ favorites.