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Perris adopts eviction moratorium

Evictions plague much of U.S.

Perris residents unable to pay their rent because of COVID-19 don’t have to worry about being evicted, at least for now. Council members voted recently to place a four-month moratorium on such evictions, after declining to institute a six-month moratorium, according to statement on the city’s website. The ordinance, which …

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Apple Valley renews sheriff department contract

Apple Valley has renewed its law-enforcement contract with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The $15.5 million agreement, which the town council approved recently, runs from July 1 of this year through June 30, 2021, according to a statement on the town’s website. The contract represents a 10.3 percent increase …

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ONT passenger, cargo numbers move in opposite directions

Passenger traffic at Ontario International Airport dropped 93.5 percent in April, another sign of the damage COVID-19 is inflicting on the Inland Empire economy. Fewer than 29,000 air travelers passed through the airport during the fourth month of the year, compared with nearly 445,000 in April 2019, the Ontario International …

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Palm Springs asks for federal assistance

HUD Block Grants Available

Palm Spring is asking for federal assistance to help offset a potential loss of $78 million in tax revenue because of the COVID-19 outbreak. In a letter sent to President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other top federal officials, Palm Springs officials state that the city’s economy was all …

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Perris program to help small businesses

Perris has launched a program designed to help the city’s small businesses manage the COVID-19 crisis. The Small Business Assistance Program, which the city council approved Tuesday, moves $300,000 from the Perris Restaurant Incentive Program into the new program, according to a statement on the city’s website. Perris first provided …

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Stater Bros. leaves pay increase in place

Stater Bros., the largest private employer in the Inland Empire, is again extending the $2-an-hour-raise it gave to its hourly employees at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. The pay increase, which was extended once in mid-April, will now remain in place at least through May 31, according to a …

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