San Dimas News

Luciano De LA Hoya, 5, of Norco, performs rope tricks for the students during the Temple Station Posse horse safety and how to groom a horse learning event, at the West Covina Public Equestrian Center, in West Covina, Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Acting on that notion, Bonita accelerated freshman core program teenagers took on the triple task of teaching complex concepts to elementary students, maintaining focus and discipline for kindergartners to fifth-graders and assuring retention by making each exercise fun and fulfilling.

Gary Rapkin, Bonita Unified School District superintendent, is a lifelong devotee of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering athlete who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Eric Whipp, owner of Landscape Technologies, uses native plants and rocks at his home in San Dimas.

Rep. Grace Napolitano recently honored 15 women who had been nominated by volunteer organizations for exemplary service at the 2013 "Women of the Year" ceremony at the Grace T. Black Auditorium.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies received a call about the robbery at 660 E. Foothill Blvd.

San Diego's Shelley Susman made a winning return to competitive tennis on the singles court as she defeated Susan Lammers of Seattle, 6-2, 6-1, to advance to the second round of the Women's 50s Division at the USTA National Senior Women's Hard Court Tennis Championships.

The La Verne Police Officers Association's "Walk With A Cop" event Saturday is a journey to understanding and friendship, not a walk- or jogathon.

Whether it's posing as The Grim Reaper in the "Every 15 Minutes" program, setting up a family foundation to fund high schoolers' dreams of college and career, connecting local youth and merchants in creative enterprises, tutoring and mentoring students in classrooms and on playing fields or nurturing terrified toddlers, there are some people fully ... (more)

The Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved an approximately 16 percent rate increase for Golden State Water Company customers, which includes the cities of Claremont, Apple Valley, San Dimas and Wrightwood in its Region 3. Exact increased figures for customers in Region 3 were not available Friday because Golden State officials were still ... (more)

The California Public Utilities Commission is launching a series of hearings in search of ways to improve a state program that provides low income families a discount on basic, residential and wireless phone service.

Mark Whitfield, Raging Waters' general manager, said this is the first time that Pink's, a Los Angeles landmark since 1939, has put a concession in a water park.

Naughtiah Pepper, 11, of Riverside, has fun on her boogie board at The Cove Jurupa Aquatic Center in Riverside in August 2012.

Opus Bank has signed an agreement to buy four offices from California Bank & Trust, a deal that will have the Irvine-based lender assume all of the deposits at those branches.

Bonita Unified School District trustees and administrators applauded student creativity and gave special recognition to award-winning student artists during the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night.

Nathan Stanley was walking around campus one day when a fellow student caught his eye.

You're sitting in freeway traffic on a Saturday and all the lanes are jammed. Well, almost all.

This weekend the San Dimas Festival of Arts hosts its popular Western Art Sale and Exhibition, with free admission to the public.

Officials are attempting to identify the contents of an unattended box perched on a bus bench in San Dimas Wednesday afternoon.

Bonita and San Dimas high schools have received national recognition this month when the two Bonita Unified School District schools were ranked in the Washington Post's list of America's most challenging high schools.