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San Bernardino is accepting applications for a facade improvement program for local businesses. The “Paintbrush Program” will provide $10,000 to $20,000 grants along multiple business corridors, grants that will help those businesses improve their appearance, according to a statement on the city’s website. Possible improvements might be new exterior signs, …

San Bernardino is close to completing a proposal that would allow the city to resume removing homeless encampments from its parks. In January, U.S. District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter issued an injunction against the city that suspended that practice, after San Bernardino was sued by the ACLU and SoCal …

Riverside has secured $2.5 million in federal funds that it will use to help upgrade the National Guard Armory at Fairmount Park. Built in 1959, the 12,000-square-foot armory occupies 4.7 acres near the 60 Freeway and has approximately 32,000 square feet of parking, according to a statement on the city’s …

San Bernardino County voters who want information on Measure K, the proposed increase of the county’s transit occupancy tax, may do so on a special website. The TOT website explains in detail what that the tax is, how San Bernardino County’s TOT compares to other communities, how it’s audited, and …

Apple Valley will set up a committee to oversee revenue generated by Measure P, the one-cent sales tax on the town’s Nov. 5 ballot. If that measure passes, the committee of local residents will track the revenue it creates and make certain it’s spent “in a manner consistent with the …

Eastvale has set up a grant program designed to reduce crime in the city’s shopping centers. The License Plate Recognition Camera Grant Program will reimburse grant recipients up to 25 percent of the first-year cost of operating a license plate recognition camera, according to a statement on the city’s website. …