Riverside and Mount Rubidoux are seen looking northwest on a sunny summer day from Sycamore Canyon Park. (Bob Sirotnik) Have a photo that captures the spirit of Riverside? Share it with us and help celebrate the beauty of our community!
Sunday Gazette: August 24, 2025
Hello Riverside, and Happy Sunday! Last week was a lighter one in the Gazette newsroom as our team caught our breath and focused on a few big projects we can’t wait to share. Thanks for your understanding, neighbors.
Here’s to a fresh week ahead, we’ll see you tomorrow!
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Thank you to the Subscribers who became paid supporters this week: Shelley Coleman, Emma Lynne, Greg Scott, Ellen Suey and Valerie Williams Othon. Your ongoing financial support is vital to our success in serving Riverside with the news it deserves!
Each week, we will introduce a new neighbor. This is not a who's who list. These are regular Riversiders doing exceptional things.
Noah, a Riverside native and head coach at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside. (Brenda Flowers)
Born and raised in Riverside, Noah is a proud graduate of the California School for the Deaf, Riverside (CSDR), where he now serves as a Bilingual Language Arts teacher and head coach for the varsity girls basketball team. As a student, he was Student Body Government President and CSDR Athletics’ Social Media Manager, helping to boost school spirit and community engagement. During his senior year, he made local sports history, scoring 71 points in a single game and breaking the area record for most points in a game.
His talents extend beyond the court. At age 10, he appeared alongside Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels in the movie Sweet Nothing in My Ear and recently played a minor role in the Deaf President Now movie released on Apple TV in 2025. After graduating from CSDR, he attended Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where he continued his basketball career before briefly playing professionally in Radom, Poland.
Today, Noah proudly represents the United States in international Deaf basketball competitions, including the upcoming 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo. For him, Riverside is more than a hometown—it’s the foundation that shaped him, and the community he’s honored to serve every day.
This week, we're poking our playful side with something we work hard to ignore: spam emails. We often see them as a nuisance, a digital weed patch to be swiftly deleted. Yet, these emails, with their bizarre promises, urgent tones, and often-clumsy language, are a fascinating window into our digital world. They speak to larger ideas about technology, the commodification of our attention, and the relentless attempts to access our minds and our wallets. They represent a curious blend of cunning and desperation, a digital hustle that is both annoying and, when you look closely, creatively compelling.
What's in your junk folder? Beneath the surface of a "Nigerian Prince" scam scam or an offer for a questionable weight-loss miracle, there's a treasure trove of unusual vocabulary, misplaced urgency, and a kind of surreal poetry.
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Council approves $200M Northside soccer stadium talks, Riverside Light Parade group adopts park for cleanups and National Senior Citizens Day celebrates our elders.
