Calimesa News

The high-profile criminal charges came just weeks apart -- one after the other -- and now threaten the San Jacinto Valley's reputation for years to come, residents, local officials and experts say.

A 49-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession and transportation of 9.9 grams of methamphetamine for sale in Calimesa, a sheriff's lieutenant said Friday.

"The Spirit of Christmas on Main Street" was strongly upbeat in music and theme Saturday night, from the "Thank you for coming to our play" from a very young lady handing out programs to the gentleman warming up the audience as it waited for the curtain to rise, to the applause and cheers at the end of the production.

A rural section of I-10 in Riverside County is undergoing 8.2 mi. of rehabilitation.

Dance Dreams Studio of Calimesa will present the "Nutcracker Ballet," under the direction of owner and artistic director Norinne Venables, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec.

An undercover sting at a Calimesa spa led to Thursday's arrest of a Monterey Park woman who allegedly offered to perform sex acts on an undercover sheriff's detective, authorities said.

Four teens who witnesses say walked out of a Calimesa Stater Bros. Grocery Store with four cases of beer are behind bars.

The enthusiasm was obvious as the cast practiced last week for "The Spirit of Christmas on Main Street," a new family musical written, composed and directed by Dan Damon.

Jessalyn Sullivan and Matthew Wills will marry in 2011. Mike Sullivan of Redlands and Dema Mota of Highland announce the engagement of their daughter Jessalyn Ann Sullivan to Matthew Lee-Eric Wills, son of Lee and Suzee Wills of Calimesa.

Two Loma Linda men are set go to trial in January in the violent assault of a woman, who was beaten, stabbed and left for dead, in December 2006 in Calimesa.

Joe Maiberger and two of his clients were honored at the Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards Wednesday night.

Leaders of a combustion-technology company, a paper supplier and craft brewery were among Inland entrepreneurs honored Wednesday night during the seventh annual Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards.

Five o'clock in the morning comes earlier than it used to. Seriously. Since daylight-saving time went back an hour to standard time, 5 a.m. is the former 4 a.m. My mind knows this, but I've discovered my body hasn't figured it out yet.

Future ninth-graders could soon have to go to school with the big kids. The Yucaipa/Calimesa Unified School District Board of Education considering closing the district's ninth-grade campus because of budget issues.

MacKenzie Stickney, right, gets an introduction to French from her mother Laura Stickney before leaving for a year as an AFS exchange student in Belgium.

Jan Werner, the operator of a Bloomington medical marijuana collective, said the U.S. Department of Justice's directive not to prosecute cases in which medicinal cannabis is used in compliance with state laws "gives us a little sigh of relief." "That has been a hairy thing hanging over our heads," Werner, of the Inland Empire Patient Group, said.

Redlands police investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying people who were victims of several recent vehicle and commercial burglaries.

A parolee driving a stolen Jaguar led Redlands police on a short pursuit Saturday night before being arrested in Loma Linda.

Boy Scouts in Redlands and surrounding communities encourage their friends and neighbors to help them do a "Good Turn for America" Saturday, Oct.

This is the first time ever that I have been concerned about a subject to write a brief letter strongly urging a petition against the building of a Super Wal-Mart within the area.