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Community Highlight: Feeding America and the Inland Empire
As an organization facing the continuing hunger crisis in the Inland Empire, Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino (FARSB) has implemented new ways of serving the food insecure during the pandemic. For months after March 2020, the uncertainty of COVID-19 meant FARSB had to turn away volunteers
CBU tied with Texas for most NCAA championship wins
The California Baptist University athletics department secured their place at number one school in the nation for NCAA league title wins, tied only with the University of Texas. The CBU Lancers claimed six 2020-2021 conference championships in men’s and women’s cross country, men’s water polo, STUNT
Riverside hosts discussion on food truck regulations
Purchasing meals from food trucks and food vendors has been a staple of big-city life for a couple of decades, however the trend has only come to downtown Riverside in recent years. As a result of this trend, the city of Riverside’s Community and Economic Development department are hosting two virtu
UCR initiative calls for investment in the future of Riverside innovation
A vision for Riverside’s economic future grows as startups get in line for a University of California, Riverside (UCR) initiative aimed at creating jobs focused on sustainability. Opportunities to Advance Sustainability, Innovation, and Social Inclusion (OASIS), is UCR’s newest regional economic ini
Riverside embraces red tier status as case numbers drop throughout the county
One year ago on St. Patrick’s Day, Shelby Worthington rushed to freeze 600 pounds of corned beef when restaurant doors across the entire state had to close at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Worthington serves as president of the Downtown Riverside Partnership and is the owner of the downtow
Village of shelter units celebrates one year of housing Riverside’s homeless
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of when 30 temporary-shelter units were built near Massachusetts Avenue, which have since housed over 100 individuals experiencing homelessess. In early 2020, Riverside’s Office of Homeless Solutions partnered with City Net Riverside to open and operate the Ri
Indian activist rides into Riverside
Indian cyclist Somen Debnath rode into Riverside last week on his 17-year tour around the world, greeting Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson before heading to San Diego. What began as a trip to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS throughout India when he was 20-years-old, is now what he calls his worldwide mission
Riverside’s Housing Update: What We Know
A state-mandated October deadline looms over the city to cough up space for 24,000 new homes, but some Riversiders are left wondering if they are only “best-laid plans.” The Community and Economic Development Department, or CEDD, is working in partnership with six consultant companies as they prepar
Students return to their new normal next week after a year at home
As 12,000 elementary students prepare to head back to the classroom throughout Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) next week, district leadership says secondary students are not far behind. Starting Tuesday, March 9th, the 60 percent of RUSD families who selected the in-person model for the 202
Council OKs contract for millions in road repairs
City council unanimously approved a $2.6 million contract on Tuesday to commence road construction on more than three miles of major and minor streets in Wards 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Ed Lara, principal engineer with the Riverside Public Works Department, said in Tuesday’s city council meeting that constr
Our former city manager’s for sale sign serves as a signal to our current council members
After negotiating an employment agreement in 2018 that would make him one of the highest-paid city managers in California and later getting terminated without cause, former Riverside City Manager John Russo just sold his city-funded home. In February 2018, Russo brought a revised employment agreemen
The city’s final public workshop about Riverside housing is tonight
State law has Riverside on the hook to submit a plan this October that will increase the housing units inside city limits by approximately 26 percent over the next nine years. Tonight it your last chance to participate in the discussion about the formation of these plans. The development of more tha