Press Releases

Ovitt Family Community Library will reopen for limited services on Monday, June 29, 2020. Temporary operating hours are Monday – Saturday from 10am-6pm. Library staff are excited to welcome back patrons after over three months of closure due to the pandemic.

A new COVID Code of Conduct for the library has been created which includes the state-mandated wearing of face coverings for anyone age 3 and up, physical distancing of six feet between patrons, and touchless temperature taking upon entering the building. Any patron with a temperature reading of 100 degrees or higher… Read More

Free admission for unique community experience; donation to local food banks encouraged

(Ontario, California – June 10, 2020) – Are you tired of streaming videos and binge-watching old sitcoms? Are you longing for a good old-fashioned movie experience?

The City of Ontario, Ontario International Airport (ONT) and Street Food Cinema have a deal for you – a series of free drive-in movies, displayed on two 50-foot screens with digital sound fed directly into your vehicle via FM radio signal. “Drive-In Movie Nights at Your Airport” will… Read More

On Monday, June 1, 2020 the Ontario City Library extended the hours of operation for Check Out, Ontario, the library’s holds pickup service. Pick up is now available Monday through Friday, from 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM and Saturday from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the Ovitt Family Community Library. Customers can place up to ten holds through the library’s online catalog or by calling the library directly. Customers picking up material are asked to bring their library card, wear a face covering, and practice physical… Read More

The Lewis Family Branch will be closed from May 22nd to August 6th in coordination with Chaffey Joint Union High School District for necessary upgrades. For your convenience, the book drop located at Lewis Family Branch will remain open during this time.  You may continue to place holds on library material online or over the phone and pick up your items at Ovitt Family Community Library. For more information about the Lewis Family Branch or the Summer at Ontario City Library programming please visit OntarioCA.gov/VirtualCenter or call 909-395-2004.

Traffic investigators are seeking the public’s help in identifying the driver involved in a fatal hit and run collision.

On May 19, 2020 at 1:29 PM, a white sedan and a white semi-truck were invovled in a collision in the intersection of Airport Drive and East Terminal Way. After the collision, the white semi-tuck continued to drive west on Airport Drive and fled the scene.

The suspect vehicle is a white semi-truck, with a sleeper cab, towing a white 53 foot semi-trailer. The trailer should be missing the rear metal guard.

Anyone with information regarding… Read More

The City of Ontario announced today that the annual Independence Day Parade and Fireworks Spectacular are being cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The moves are among a variety of steps being taken that will impact the City’s recreation and community services over the next several months. Alternative virtual programing is being planned where possible, but a number of summertime staples – including concerts in the park and movies in the park – will not occur as they have in the past.

“It breaks our hearts to have to cancel, postpone or change events… Read More