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Ontario must love the Route 66 Crusin’ Reunion. The three-day gathering along part of Euclid Avenue attracted more than 212,000 people and pumped an estimated $23.3 million into the local economy, according to the Greater Ontario Convention & Visitors Bureau, the event’s sponsor. Despite temperatures above 100 degrees and competition …

Melissa A. Russo has been named director of the San Bernardino County Museum. Russo, who will take over as head of the struggling facility Oct. 19, is the museum’s first female director, according to a report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Russo, who is being asked to reverse years …

Chris Thornberg has been named director of the Center for Economic Forecasting and Development at UC Riverside’s School of Business Administration. Thornberg, a founding partner with Beacon Economics in Los Angeles, will also be an adjunct professor at the business school, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The center …

September 21st’s San Bernardino City Council meeting was illustrative of the continuing divide developing at city hall. Among the many items considered by the city council in a nearly 10 hour meeting were raising sewer rates, San Bernardino’s financially broke Workforce Investment Board, and other controversies. From reading the local …

CVB Financial Corp., the holding company for Ontario-based Citizens Business Bank, has announced a 12-cents-per-share dividend for the third quarter. That dividend was approved by the company’s board of directors Tuesday and will be paid on or about Oct. 22 of next month, according to a statement. That marks the …

Ontario will have to do more than gain control of Ontario International Airport in order to make that facility profitable again, according to a local economist. Manfred W. Keil, an associate professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College, told a crowd of 700 business leaders and public officials Thursday that …