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Halloween is coming. What's the most haunting or unexplained thing you've experienced or heard here?

Every place has its legends. The dorm noises, the odd feelings in the libraries after hours, the desolate walkways.

Firsthand accounts, family stories, urban legends, and historical oddities are all welcome. Skeptics are welcome too; sometimes the best part is figuring out what really happened. Happy haunting. 🎃

Halloween is coming, and I want to spend October collecting the strangest stories Hawthorne has to offer.

Every place has its legends. The house nobody stays in for long. The stretch of road where drivers swear they saw someone standing on the side of the road. The old hospital, the closed-down theater, the street that feels little too quiet after dark. Or the personal ones: the thing you saw as a kid that you still can't explain, or the night something happened that you've only told a handful of people about.

We want to hear your stories! What's the most haunting or unexplained thing you've experienced or heard here?

Firsthand accounts, family stories, urban legends, and historical oddities are all welcome. Skeptics are welcome too; sometimes the best part is figuring out what really happened. Happy haunting. 🎃

Halloween is coming, and I want to spend October collecting the strangest stories LMU has to offer.

Every place has its legends. The dorm noises, the odd feelings on the bluff, the empty gym.

We want to hear your stories! What's the most haunting or unexplained thing you've experienced or heard here?

Firsthand accounts, family stories, urban legends, and historical oddities are all welcome. Skeptics are welcome too; sometimes the best part is figuring out what really happened. Happy haunting. 🎃

Halloween is coming, and I want to spend October collecting the strangest stories Gardena has to offer.

Every place has its legends. The house nobody stays in for long. The stretch of road where drivers swear they saw someone standing on the side of the road. The old hospital, the closed-down theater, the cemetery that feels a little too quiet after dark. Or the personal ones: the thing you saw as a kid that you still can't explain, or the night something happened that you've only told a handful of people about.

We want to hear your stories! What's the most haunting or unexplained thing you've experienced or heard here?

Firsthand accounts, family stories, urban legends, and historical oddities are all welcome. Skeptics are welcome too; sometimes the best part is figuring out what really happened. Happy haunting. 🎃

Halloween is coming, and I want to spend October collecting the strangest stories Inglewood has to offer.

Every place has its legends. The house nobody stays in for long. The stretch of road where drivers swear they saw someone standing on the side of the road. The old hospital, the closed-down theater, the cemetery that feels a little too quiet after dark. Or the personal ones: the thing you saw as a kid that you still can't explain, or the night something happened that you've only told a handful of people about.

We want to hear your stories! What's the most haunting or unexplained thing you've experienced or heard here?

Firsthand accounts, family stories, urban legends, and historical oddities are all welcome. Skeptics are welcome too; sometimes the best part is figuring out what really happened. Happy haunting. 🎃

curious if it's worth the $75

I wonder what the greater IE community thinks. The fire was very eye opening, news even citing "increasingly rising temperatures" of the batteries and how local FD is mitigating and the evacuations. My hats off to them for keeping this from worsening.

That said, Chino's planning commission initially denied AYPA's request to build it across from Ayala park, it appealed succcesfully to the city council last week. While there is still some options left to overturn this, most residents are disappointed and concerned who easily swayed the council was on AYPA's presentation despite the large turnout at the meeting.

The magnitude of such a project near a park, businesses, and homes gives me pause, along with the concern that it will inevtiably likely draw a data center. But what are your thoughts? Is this something Chino should move forward with, "for the good of the county/state" regarding electrical power storage?

A lithium-ion battery energy storage system caught fire yesterday at Metropolitan Water District's Weymouth complex in La Verne, about 10 miles from Chino. MWD's own statement says the fire was at a battery storage unit near a solar field on the property, not the water treatment infrastructure itself, worth being precise about that since some outlets' URLs are misleading. It triggered a hazmat response, evacuation orders near Wheeler and Bonita, shelter-in-place at Grace Miller Elementary and Bonita High, evacuations at Damien High and University of La Verne, and one injured employee. Cause is still under investigation.

Relevance to Chino: this is the same underlying technology and the same failure mode (thermal runaway in a grid-scale BESS) that residents raised at both the July Planning Commission hearing and the September 15 City Council appeal for the Dirac project. The Planning Commission denied Dirac 4-3 in July. Aypa appealed. The City Council voted 4-1 on September 15 to grant the appeal, approving the Special Conditional Use Permit and Site Approval (Resolution 2026-061) and introducing the Development Agreement ordinance for first reading.

What's actually still on the table, with real deadlines:

1. Writ of mandate. This is the only track that reaches the actual permits, not just the money. It challenges whether the Council's findings were supported by substantial evidence in the record. Government Code 65009 sets a 90-day deadline running from September 15, and the petition has to be filed AND served on the city within that window, not just filed, courts have dismissed cases over late service alone. A CEQA-based challenge to the project's environmental exemption may have a shorter window, as little as 35 days. This needs a land use attorney now.

2. Referendum. This only reaches the Development Agreement ordinance, since California treats development agreements as legislative acts (referendable) but treats the permits themselves as administrative acts (not referendable). The ordinance only got its first reading on the 15th, it hasn't been formally adopted yet, so the 30-day petition window hasn't started. Watch Chino's Legistar site for the second reading. A successful referendum would strip the financial terms without stopping construction, since the permits were already approved separately.

3. November election. Four council members voted yes on the appeal (Ulloa, Comstock, Flores, Lucio), one voted no (Burton). Several seats are up this cycle. However people feel about the project, knowing the actual vote record before Election Day is just accurate information.

Neither the writ nor the referendum is a simple petition drive, both have hard legal limits and short clocks already running or about to start. Get an actual attorney involved if either is going to happen.