December 5, 2007 News Roundup
Posted by: SB Insider | 12/05/2007 11:48 AM
Here is the San Bernardino County News Roundup for December 5, 2007:
Strange lead story in today's San Bernardino Sun.
The City Council has unanimously endorsed a move to petition the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to list a 160-acre industrial tract in the city's northern fringe as a Superfund site.
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition to stay a Superior Court judge's decision closing the notorious nude cabaret for eight months and fining its owners $25,000.
Crews plan to start removing asbestos and other debris left over from the Slide and Grass Valley fires today, a first step toward helping residents rebuild their homes.
San Bernardino County to Los Angeles County: watch out.
Supervisor Mitzelfelt working against gangs.
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved two separate proposals to contribute $1,000 each to the sheriff’s department in support of the annual Bicycle Give Away Program and to the county Safety Employees Benefit Association’s sixth annual Shop With a Cop event.
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved plans for a project to add several improvements at Pinon Hills Park.
Emotions ran high at a workshop commissioned by two City Council members to address concerns about the odor from the Nutro Pet Products Plant on Tuesday night.
A study approved by the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors on Tuesday could bring a much needed trauma center to the Victor Valley.
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a request from the state, that if accepted, could give Victorville a $1 million head start on its new gang prevention program.
San Bernardino County officials are asking the city of Los Angeles to stay out of environmentally sensitive areas in the Morongo Basin as it puts together plans to build power transmission lines through desert communities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The city of Rialto will ask federal environmental officials to recognize the severity of its perchlorate-contaminated groundwater and to help clean it up.
A Yucca Valley nursing home faces a $100,000 state fine after a resident was dropped on her knees by an employee on April 13 and died of complications five days later.
If Bobby Gleason wants to remember October's wildfires, he just has to look at the scar on his left foot.
San Bernardino County nurses will get wage and benefit increases and a promise to meet state staffing mandates under a three-year contract approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.
Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, who represents the High Desert region, said there is a need for another in the vast 1st District, given the increased population and traffic on interstates leading to Las Vegas and Arizona.
A drive by Loma Linda's Civic Center on Barton Road will reveal bare steel girders of a new two-story addition to the building.
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