Mark Acosta

Riverside

Metro Editor at The Press-Enterprise

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Articles

Have drivers forgotten the rules for using high beams? Some think so

2 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mark Acosta

A vehicle’s control panel displays its high beams Monday, May 12, 2025, in Riverside. Some drivers are reporting the increasing use of high beams on the roads. (Photo by Mark Acosta, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Mark Acosta TNS This week we write more on the issue of high beams while driving. We heard from several readers over the past few weeks about the incorrect use of a vehicle's high beams, which we addressed in a recent column.
Inland Empire freeway and road closures for the week of May 12

5 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mark Acosta

Traffic moves by a road construction sign in Riverside on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
Students enjoy and learn at new Perris community gardens

6 days ago | pressenterprise.com | Mark Acosta

Students enjoy and learn at new Perris community gardens Three campus sites get city closer to goal of 30 such venues in city
We call them palm trees but they really are something else

1 month ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mark Acosta

A man jogs down palm tree-lined Jackson Street in Riversides Arlington Heights neighborhood on Sunday, March 2, 2025, as clouds hover above. (Photo by Mark Acosta, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Mark Acosta TNS Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area. A tree or not a tree, that is the questionThe palm tree isn't really a tree.
Fontana students stage ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’

1 month ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mark Acosta

With professional sets and elaborate costumes, Fontana students are ready to bring C.S. Lewis' classic tale to life on the stage this weekend. They'll perform "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" in a series of weekend shows at the California Theatre of the Performing Arts in San Bernardino, starting Friday, April 11. Fontana Unified School District Theatre Conservatory students will star in the production.
Fontana students stage ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’

1 month ago | sbsun.com | Mark Acosta

With professional sets and elaborate costumes, Fontana students are ready to bring C.S. Lewis’ classic tale to life on the stage this weekend. They’ll perform “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” in a series of weekend shows at the California Theatre of the Performing Arts in San Bernardino, starting Friday, April 11. Fontana Unified School District Theatre Conservatory students will star in the production. Hour after hour of practice will culminate with the four public performances.
Temecula Pickleball Complex opens with 17 courts

1 month ago | pressenterprise.com | Mark Acosta

Temecula’s pickleball community has a new paradise. The Temecula Pickleball Complex is now open atop what used to be a soccer field at Ronald Reagan Sports Park. RELATED: Why teens are turning to the pickleball courtsPlanning for the approximately $3.7 million complex — which sports a bright blue and green color design — started about a year ago, officials said. Now it offers lessons, leagues and open play in the popular sport.
16,553 cardboard spoons in Riverside art piece shine light on hunger

1 month ago | redlandsdailyfacts.com | Mark Acosta

La Sierra University installation fashioned of food packages depicts number of kids who got free, discounted school lunches
16,553 cardboard spoons in Riverside art piece shine light on hunger

1 month ago | pressenterprise.com | Mark Acosta

How do you express the seriousness of hunger in the Inland Empire? A Riverside artist found 16,553 ways. That’s the number of cardboard spoons that make up an art installation assembled at La Sierra University in Riverside. Rebecca Waring-Crane, an artist in residence at the private Seventh-day Adventist campus, created a massive display in which the spoons hang from strings inside the Zapara School of Business lobby.
Boxer Robert Garcia opens academy in Moreno Valley

1 month ago | pressenterprise.com | Mark Acosta

Robert Garcia has trained world champion boxers, from his brother Mikey Garcia to Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez. Now, at his new gym in Moreno Valley, the Riverside resident is training everyone from kids around the neighborhood to tomorrow’s potential boxing stars. The new Robert Garcia Boxing Academy is open for business, training youths, amateur and pro fighters alike.