Mentone News

Redlands Educational Partnership Foundation granted about $21,000 to Redlands Unified School District teachers at Tuesday's board meeting.

The Redlands Branch of American Association of University Women honored accomplished women of the past and present and introduced the branch's scholarship winners at their Nov.

In our second column of our four-part series recognizing Native American Heritage Month, we will look at something that has made a positive impact here in the valley.

We need health reform now. As a former medical billing clerk in Redlands and as a student physician at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, I have the privilege of viewing the inefficiencies and failings of our health system as a result of insurance companies.

The San Bernardino County Farm Bureau recently celebrated its 92nd annual meeting at the Mill Creek Cattle Company in Mentone.

Redlands resident David Raley edged incumbent Cheryl Tubbs of Mentone Tuesday for her seat on the San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District board.

Mentone Senior Center held a "wild, scary and howling good" Halloween party Friday, Oct.

Today, at the Mentone Senior Center, I had the great pleasure of meeting 11 gentlemen who are retired military.

Lucille West of Mentone sent in a photo of her two sons, who ran the family Shell station on Redlands Boulevard.

A fire damaged a mobile home in Mentone Saturday evening. San Bernardino County firefighters responded at 8 p.m. to a fire at the Friendly Hills Mobile Home Park at 2140 Mentone Boulevard.

Prepare yourselves for trick-or-treaters. All the little ghosties and goblins will be on the prowl.

Inspiration struck Andrew Vincent Ayon at his cousin's grave. The 23-year-old rapper had already decided to write a song in honor of Anthony Vargas, a Marine fatally stabbed outside a Highland party in March between his return from Iraq and his scheduled deployment to Afghanistan.

Jeremy Stanwix sounded more like a football coach than a warehouse manager. Stanwix, general manager of the new Home Depot distribution center on Alabama Street, led shouts of "H-O-M-E D-E-P-O-T" that reverberated through the building at its dedication Thursday morning.

A former San Bernardino chapter president of the Vagos motorcycle gang is behind bars in the 2003 killing of a gang prospect, whose body was found in Landers.

Mentone Senior Center is proceeding with the Veterans History Project begun last year whereby local veterans are interviewed and videotaped recounting their experiences during war.

Music and mingling filled the air above Smiley Heights Drive Saturday night as Clelan and Lorraine Ehrler hosted the Redlands Conservancy's Fall Social.

I am an elementary public school teacher. A school is not a business, and should not be run using a business model.

Caprice is a true misnomer for Caprice Cafe in Redlands. When I think of joints I head to on a whim I think of food carts in L.A. or Casa de Maya in Mentone for margaritas and tacos de cabra, places I head to for relatively cheap grub that feels familiar and damn delicious.

Do Redlands residents care most about historic preservation or land conservation? One Redlands Conservancy project combines both efforts - the Zanja Trail and Greenway Project.

Mentone Elementary School students helped with district and state data collection this week by filling out a voluntary California Healthy Kids Survey.