Here’s what you get when you win an NCAA championship:
You could just feel the words on that page.
Tim Conway Jr. fooled me back on Feb. 18 while driving to Aquinas High’s “San Bernardino Strong” game against city basketball rival Indian Springs.
In February, Highland’s Historic and Cultural Preservation Board named the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians the 2020 Citrus Harvest Festival Honoree in appreciation of the tribe’s longstanding generosity and partnership as a neighbor and part of the Highland community.
On April 10, the St. John Bosco Church of East Highlands will present the Good Friday play.
It’s hard to overlook first place at an NCAA regional event -- any regional.
Rachel Roche may have had the best sports media job in all of Redlands -- maybe in San Bernardino County. There she was, cheerfully moving through a downtown Redlands Starbucks on a soon-to-be-hot Wednesday afternoon back on July 24.
This writer has covered the musical lives and accomplishments of a local all-girl rock band called Viridian Lights made up of Highland and San Bernardino residents.
Ignacio “Nacho” Perez’ family are some of the founding members of the East Highland community.
CIF-Southern Section football champions in both 2017 and 2019, Aquinas High School was honored by the San Bernardino city council last week. Virtually the entire squad showed, minus those that were playing on the soccer and basketball teams.
If you have read previous stories about East Highland, you will have read about Henrietta Chavez, a woman who helps with the activities at St. John Bosco Church.
Kobe Bryant’s been agonizingly gone ⎯ along with eight others, including his hoops-playing daughter, Gianna ⎯ for nearly two weeks. I’ve gotten nothing but grief-stricken memories from local readers. One is just as gut-wrenching and heartfelt as the next.
Sunday morning, Jan, 26, the parish at St. John Bosco Church, East Highland, participated in its annual recognition of all the altar servers that have been part of mass since the church was constructed in the 1940s.
It’s never really made sense to me that Redlands East Valley didn’t have a football stadium. Or an upgraded track & field facility. Soccer’s been so big at REV, it almost seems backward that the little Mentone campus hasn’t sprung for a top-flight pitch.
I’m not sure about you, but I don’t meet Emmy Award winners every day.
There was family insight on LSU assistant head coach Dave Aranda.
Tim Mead is creeping up on a special date. On Jan. 21, the former Los Angeles Angels’ executive from San Gorgonio High, who is now the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame, will inform the 2020 nominees on whether or not they'll be inducted at Cooperstown this summer. Big day coming.
I keep hearing from plenty of readers around here that this is still Rams’ Country. Part of it might have to do with the fact that the L.A. Rams — who played in St. Louis for about two decades — once used the local university as their training camp from 1949-60.
For more than a century, the California condors have ridden the thermals of the mountain ranges of California, with their almost 10-foot wingspan.
You won’t be able to call next season’s Cal State San Bernardino squad a rebuilding year for highly successful coach Kim Cherniss. It’s because she’ll lose a few seniors -- Stephanie Doak, Moira Murphy and Sascha Dominique to name a few -- but return a bunch of star players.
Legendary football coach Dick Bruich, who seemed to be guarding the north end zone at his son, Kurt’s, Citrus Valley game against visiting Ontario Colony last Sept. 6, greeted me as I crossed the field at halftime.
This column has highlighted the outrageous talent of the musicians of the all-girl band, Viridian Lights. This week, the spotlight falls on the bassist, Sarah McClung.
There’s a locally produced book on tennis with Aquinas High School roots. Falcons’ coach Scott Smith is the author.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO -- Aquinas High’s sidelines, even way out here at San Juan Hills High on a cool Friday night, was alive with some stray thoughts during last weekend’s Southern California Regional 2AA championship game.
Viridian Lights, an all-girl band in the Inland Empire, is composed of talented and energetic performers.
Viridian Lights, a Highland-based all-girl rock band, has proven itself to be just as polished as their legendary counterparts.
That tiny little campus over in northeastern San Bernardino lights up a handful of times every fall. Sure, it revolves around football. What high school campus doesn’t? It’s the Little Campus That Could.
There was a full house, a full orchestra, two harps, diversity in the audience and the orchestra. In the far back the percussion, with the timpanist prominent to the audience right, horns just in front of them, woodwinds to audience left. The background behind was black, and remained so with…
I’ve got a lengthy rant today.
Tiny little Aquinas High School sits over in the little San Bernardino area, just waiting to fire up.
History happens by the minute; a discovery is made, someone wins a title or someone writes an endearing song.
Last week, we discovered a young talent in Highland Jauneil Brooks, a self-taught photographer and videographer.
hen Mayor Penny Lilburn, came over to our table as the program for Volunteer Recognition Dinner began, I had just sat down after about a half dozen trips to the restroom. I was getting ready to drive home hopefully in between spasms of dry heaves. It was NOT something I ate! Dinner was delic…
At least 101 apologies to football fans that thought that the Oct. 25 game was at San Gorgonio High. I’m 64 and losing my mind regularly.
While most teenagers in the Inland Empire are glued to their electronic devices or streaming on the Internet, there is an extremely motivated teen that seeks action in a more productive way.
Now a sensational 17-0, ranked No. 1 nationally, Cal State San Bernardino’s women’s volleyball squad heads to the road for matches at Cal State East Bay-Hayward, San Francisco State, Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State Domiguez Hills over the next two weekends.
If Chuck Sanchez, a three-sport athlete from San Gorgonio way back in the 1970s, were set to do it all over again, he might make a dynamic switch in picking sports.
The rematch turned out to be one-sided at Claremont-Mudd College last Saturday afternoon.
At 72, combat veteran Gary Lemos still remembers the struggle of surviving and battling in the Vietnam theater.
Team USA, cutting its softball roster back to prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, left Sahvanna Jaquish off the ultimate squad last week.
Aquinas High School student-athletes have a new sport to stretch their athletic abilities as the Catholic school introduced a boys water polo team this year.
Take a look at the Minnesota Vikings’ 2019 season transactions at some point.
Times are changing.
This week is the final installment of learning about the military service of Highland WWII and Korean War veteran John E. Chavez.
Some time ago, this reporter had the honor to speak with WWII and Korean War veteran John E. Chavez, from East Highland. Chavez shared his experiences in the battlefield of South and North Korea, during the Korean War, as a member of the Airborne 187 Regimental Combat Team.
It seems like ⎯ maybe I’m wrong ⎯ that anyone who shows up to watch a Citrus Valley High School football game has a story to tell. Some of those folks have Fontana backgrounds. Many of them live in Highland. Most of them are standing in the vicinity of the sidelines.
You wonder about a few things:
By now, you are well acquainted with stock car champion Jerry Tillman who has raced, and hob knobbed, with greats of racing.
Call after 1:30. That was the message from Nathan Meadors, the newest member of the Minnesota Vikings’ 53-man roster. The Vikes were setting up their roster last week for an all-important game against the Green Bay Packers.
Over the last several weeks, I have covered Highland racing champion Jerry Tillman.
Andrew Luck’s surprising retirement just before the NFL season might’ve seemed familiar.
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