Ontario City Council President Freddy Rodriguez at a March 4 meeting. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise) 3/10: This post was updated with comments from Cydney Cooke. ONTARIO – An Ontario woman Tuesday filed a petition to recall Ontario City Council President Freddy Rodriguez. Cydney Cooke, who ran for city council in 2018[Read More…]

Council President Freddy Rodriguez at City Hall on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise) 3/9: This story has been updated with comments from councilors. ONTARIO – Seven citizens urged Ontario city councilors to act against once of their own last week, going public with allegations against Councilor Freddy Rodriguez[Read More…]

Freddy Rodriguez presiding over a recent Ontario City Council meeting. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise) ONTARIO – Freddy Rodriguez, an Ontario city councilor, has requested a court hearing to contest a restraining order issued against him last month, the second such order to be brought against him in the past year related[Read More…]

Adam Brown, Ontario city manager, at a recent city council meeting. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise). ONTARIO – The Ontario City Council decided the city will continue investing in grant writing services through the end of a one-year contract begun last June.  The contract with the Washington, D.C.-based firm Merchant MacIntyre has[Read More…]

Ontario Mayor Riley Hill. (The Enterprise/File) ONTARIO – A hearing transcript obtained through a public records request is shedding new light on Ontario mayor Riley Hill’s decision to sue the city over a $500 civil penalty.  Hill, a landlord and property developer, has been mayor of Ontario since 2019. The[Read More…]

Erik Hartley said he is looking forward to seeing the airport grow in the future. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise). ONTARIO – When Erik Hartley came from South Carolina to consider a job as Ontario’s new airport manager, he “just fell in love with the town.” According to Hartley, most people who[Read More…]

The portion of the Snake River that runs through Walmart’s property is the site of a former homeless encampment and is thicketed and unkempt. (The Enterprise/Liliana Frankel). ONTARIO – Ontario residents are one step closer to enjoying a riverside promenade after the city acquired the quarter-mile portion of the Snake[Read More…]

Ontario City Councilor Freddy Rodriguez and Mayor Riley Hill at a Black Lives Matter protest in Ontario in 2020. New court filings claim that Rodriguez has said he has Hill’s “protection.” (Rachel Parsons/The Enterprise) UPDATE: Freddy Rodriguez late Wednesday morning responded to questions from the Enterprise. UPDATE: This article was[Read More…]

Ken Hart has been named to the Ontario City Council, filling a seat left vacant by the resignation of Dan Capron. (Enterprise file photo) ONTARIO – Ken Hart, chief financial officer for Valley Family Health Care and former hospital president, was appointed Tuesday to fill a vacancy on the Ontario[Read More…]

Ontario Councilor Freddy Rodriguez speaks at the Black Lives Matter rally at Ontario City Hall on June 4. (Rachel Parsons/The Enterprise) ONTARIO – Petitioners have abandoned their effort to force a city vote to recall Ontario City Councilor Freddy Rodriguez, saying they couldn’t gather the necessary signatures. Petitioner Vernon Denison,[Read More…]