Posted by: SB Insider | 12/07/2007 9:23 AM
Here is the San Bernardino County News Roundup for December 7, 2007:
Phoenix Center open - San Bernardino Sun
Community leaders on Thursday hailed the opening of a sterling, nearly 4,400 square-foot gymnasium and additional office and kitchen spaces, the final step in launching a long-envisioned, full- service youth facility in one of the city's most impoverished enclaves.
Muslim sues county - SB Sun
A Rialto woman backed by the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against San Bernardino County claiming sheriff's deputies violated her First Amendment rights when they forced her to remove her hijab, a head scarf that also covers the neck and shoulders.
300 drawn to Hardy Brown gala - SB Sun
The Black Voice News celebrated the 65th birthday of its publisher and founder, Hardy Brown, in grand style Thursday night with the third annual Hardy Brown Birthday Gala at the Riverside Convention Center.
The residents who had a seemingly endless list of complaints about their forgotten neighborhood might have shifted the City Council's attention to their woes, but they failed to halt a proposed affordable-housing project.
San Bernardino County employees filled two open seats on the Board of Retirement, and neither winner was former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin.
HelpHinkley.org, a nonprofit trying to stop the dumping of barrels of sludge in Hinkley, unveiled a campaign to fight a plan to bury tons of muck leftover from wastewater.
The Rialto Unified School District Board of Education voted Wednesday night to change elementary school boundaries and school-year calendars.
When the High Desert chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association was founded in 1982, there were about 40 members.
When Mike Leonard was unanimously voted in as mayor, his first act was a prepared statement on Victorville’s lawsuit to block the owner of Valley-Hi Toyota from moving the dealership to Hesperia.
The City Council approved the purchase of nearly 90 acres in San Timoteo Canyon Tuesday.