She goes to sleep with her ear to the phone and is known to bolt out of bed at all hours of the night to help somebody find their lost dog.

Chino Hills Building Official Winston Ward has provided the Champion with a look at how residential and commercial construction activity has fared this year as 2021 comes to an end.

The roar of engines on the 71 Freeway was loud and long enough to rouse Chino Hills residents from their sleep during a 10 to 15-minute time period last Saturday ending at 2:45 a.m. 

The community is invited to a Christmas block party from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 6085 Joaquin St. in Chino, near Chino and Magnolia avenues to celebrate the memory of Laiken Kenwood who died from acute lymphocytic leukemia in 2008.

After reading the book Balloons Over Broadway about the originator of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, the students in the fourth grade classrooms of Susie Hofmann and Michaela Estrada at Chaparral Elementary School in Chino Hills, designed and built their own balloon floats. They concluded t…

Nearly 450 families received food at the 12th annual Food for Life Ministry’s “Saturday-before-Thanksgiving” grocery distribution last Saturday at the Chino Adult School. “It was a joy to see so many families come out to receive food. We hope it makes for a great Thanksgiving,” said Food for…

Residents in Chino Valley will see big changes in their trash routines when a state law goes into effect in January requiring food waste to be separated from garbage.

Draft maps released Nov. 10 by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission show that some areas in Chino Hills are separated from the rest of the city in a congressional district.

It was a golden day for Steve Zalai, the man who stood alone in 2017 asking the City of Chino Hills for pickleball, but now surrounded by dozens of fellow enthusiasts on four new courts at Vellano Park in Chino Hills.

The Main Street area of the Preserve is being proposed for a redesign to create a downtown-like atmosphere with bigger parks that will accommodate an art walk for farmer’s markets, street fairs, and community events.

The Chino Valley Lions Club honored 13 teachers in the Chino Valley Unified School District with mini grants of up to $500 each for a total of $3,500, followed by a chicken dinner to celebrate.

Chino Valley Fire District firefighters battle a blaze at a home in the 12600 block of 10th Street in Chino last Saturday afternoon. One firefighter was taken to a hospital for a heat-related illness and was later discharged, fire officials said. No other injuries were reported. “The home su…

Young Marine Corporal Audrina L. Aguilar, a member of the Chino Valley Young Marines and a freshman at La Sierra High School in Riverside, has been selected as the battalion’s Young Marine of the Year. 

A worker with the California Conservation Corps (CCC) clears out the Carbon Canyon Creek after a 100-foot-tall eucalyptus tree fell in the area of the former Party House Liquor Store in Sleepy Hollow during a windstorm in fall 2020. West Coast Arborists cleared out most of the tree soon afte…

The duplex bill is on its way to becoming an official chapter in the municipal code of the City of Chino Hills.

Conversations between the Chino Valley Fire District chief and three-time censured board member Winn Williams will no longer have to be recorded with a witness present after the board voted 4-1 Wednesday to lift another condition from the censures imposed in 2019.

Chino Hills Councilman Ray Marquez admonished his colleagues for voting to advance four trash firms to the final stage of the selection process when they were the most expensive of the seven proposals.

A preview of next year’s productions at Chino Community Theatre will be staged at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 18 and Friday, Nov. 19. 

Seeking to build trust with the community, Chino Police Chief Wes Simmons has created the “Chief’s Community Round Table.” The inaugural meeting was held Nov. 10 at the police department’s community room.

Chino Hills Marine veteran Ed Denzin is excited about his new bathroom shower installed by Reborn Cabinets on Veterans Day in partnership with the “Baths for the Brave” program. While Mr. Denzin was kept away, workers installed the shower and escorted him for the “reveal” when the installati…

The City of Chino was proclaimed as a Purple Heart City during the Nov. 2 city council meeting. Pictured from left to right are Don Avila (Commander of American Legion Post 299), Mayor Eunice Ulloa, Pete Garcia (Purple Heart Recipient), and Dennis Murillo (Commander of VFW Post 11546).

Miguel Rueff of the Chino Hills Public Works Department freshens up the red curb in front of Rolling Ridge Elementary School on Calle San Marcos, north of Grand Avenue. The streets section crew has been repainting red curbs citywide as part of the city’s bi-annual program.

Twelve winners of the annual Celebrate the Family Contest were announced during Tuesday’s Chino Hills City Council meeting. This year’s theme was “Every Family Has a Story, Welcome to Ours.” The 12 were chosen from more than 560 entries in kindergarten through eighth grade, with Loving Savio…