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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 · 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.
Banning Record Gazette · Banning, CA
Nearby: Banning, CABanning 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.
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.
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.
Daily Hampshire Gazette · Claremont, CA
Nearby: Claremont, CAClaremont, CA – Albey M Reiner died on October 15, 2026 at the age of 85 in his home in Claremont, California. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Albey attended Princeton University (B.S.E ’62) as an undergraduate, then spent time at Oxford University, the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University (PhD ’68), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and UC Berkeley before landing a position in the Microbiology Department at UMass Amherst, where he worked as a professor for 34 years before retiring in the spring of 2005.Albey liked to be called by his first name by his students, and was best known for his enormously popular Biology of Cancer (later Biology of Cancer and AIDS) course, in which he introduced thousands of students (more than 30,000 all told) to new ideas about disease, healing, and spirituality, while maintaining rigorous academic standards and keeping up with the latest developments in cancer and AIDS research.
The Student Life · Claremont, CA
Nearby: Claremont, CALast Sunday, students danced their hearts out in elaborate traditional outfits of various bright colors for Diwali, one of the few festivals where the Desi community at the 5Cs comes together to bring a familiar cultural tradition to life in Claremont. On the evening of Nov. 8, students from across the 5Cs celebrated Diwali at McKenna Auditorium. The event was hosted by the Claremont Hindu Society in partnership with the South Asian mentorship program and the 5C Bollywood dance club Claremont Tamasha. It was also co-sponsored by The Claremont Colleges Services’ Religious and Spiritual Life office, which brought interfaith chaplains from the McAlister Center as well as a new partner from the Bay Area, the Hindu Spiritual Care Institute. For many students far from their families, the celebration offered a piece of home at the 5Cs. Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, celebrates the spiritual victory of light over darkness, though the specific victory being referenced varies by region.
Claremont Courier · Claremont, CA
Nearby: Claremont, CAA free and open to the public launch event for Deb Karpman’s debut book, “My First Little Collage ABC,” is set for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, November 14 at To Be Read Bookshop, 987 W. Foothill Blvd., Suite 104, Claremont.
The Student Life · Claremont, CA
Nearby: Claremont, CAGray clouds loomed over the San Gabriel Mountains, slowly passing over their peaks late in the morning. Warm amber bulbs strewn around the trunks of olive trees at Padua Hills Theatre became shrouded with the encroaching haze of sprinkling rain. But as artists began to open their booths and people poured inside, the venue quickly flooded with soul, color and curiosity. The Claremont Lewis Museum of Art (CLMA) hosted its 22nd annual FestivArts showcase on Nov. 1 at the Padua Hills Theatre, bringing 44 artists to the foothills of Claremont. Among them were 5C staff and longtime Claremont artists, and for many in attendance, the festival was a reminder of how deeply the city’s art scene connects to the Claremont Colleges — a legacy stretching back to Scripps College art department head Millard Sheets. “They made [Claremont] into a mecca for culture,” Shearer said. “The colleges, Pomona and Scripps, have a lot to do with it.
