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By Brian Hews In today’s cyber world, students “turn in” their written essays and papers to an internet service called Turn-It-In. The service checks the paper against a massive database…
By Brian Hews and Brian Hews Records obtained by Los Cerritos Community Newspaper from Central Basin Municipal Water District via a public records request show that Tom Calderon, brother…
Cities flip-flop on notifying residents about water rates Lakewood, CA – Today, three cities went to court in an attempt to stop the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD)…
By Brian Hews and Brian Hews A Los Cerritos Community News investigation has revealed that Art Chacon, a Director at the Central Basin Municipal Water District in Commerce, had his…
By Brian Hews Cerritos Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Barrows was involved in an incident Monday night that could land the veteran city councilman in legal hot water after he allegedly…
By Brian Hews It was called the “dirty water campaign” but in the end, voters returned incumbent Phil Hawkins back to serve another four years as a Director of the…
Candidates running for the Central Basin Water Board of Directors (District 5) held an “open debate” Thursday afternoon that featured incumbent Phil Hawkins and challengers Assemblyman Tony Mendoza and Cerritos…
By Brian Hews and Jerry Bernstein Central Basin Water District Board incumbent Phil Hawkins went on the attack Monday taking on his two rivals for recent statements made in Los…
By Brian Hews A 17-year old male is lucky to be alive after being shot six times on Monday night at the intersection of Mapledale Avenue and Maidstone Avenue in…
March 12, 2024 WASHINGTON – On Saturday, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, a package of six domestic funding bills focused on lowering costs for families…
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Gloria Gray from West Basin Water website. Sign up for local news and alerts; we will not sell your email, who does that? _____________ March 29, 2023 By Brian Hews…
AWARDS: from (l-r) Samantha Sugino, DYW Central; Amy Ganatra, DYW East; Aila Jahromi, DYW West; Alena Nielsen, Fitness Award; Diya Bharadwaj, DYW Alternate and Talent Award; Ellie Ta, Interview and…
WRD BOARD MEMBERS (l-r) John Allen, Vera Robles DeWitt and Joy Langford welcome Attorney General Bonta to ARC. November 7, 2022~The Water Replenishment District’s (WRD) Board President John…
WRD Board members John Allen, Vera Robles DeWitt and Joy Langford welcome Attorney General Bonta to ARC. October 31, 2022 – The Water Replenishment District’s (WRD) Board President John…
“If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck.” By Brian Hews June 6, 2022~47th Congressional District candidate and current Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia…
March 10, 2022 (Lakewood, California) –Groundwater Awareness Week was established in 1999 to highlight the importance of groundwater management and to celebrate local groundwater efforts across the country.…
October 26, 2021 MY NEWS LA – Los Angeles sanitation officials received a $224 million loan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help finance a project to purify wastewater…
Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez presents WRD Board of Directors with Ceremonial Check at the Albert Robles Center in Pico Rivera, May 27, 2021 from left, Director Vera Robles DeWitt,…
BY BRIAN HEWS • October 5, 2020 Back in April of this year, HMG-CN reported that El Monte City Councilwoman Victoria “Vicky” Martinez-Muela held a Friendsgiving fundraising event in…