Chino Basque News Today

Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe Its lunchtime, and 83-year-old Michel Bordagary sits alone at the center of the long Boarders Table at Centro Basco in Chino. All that surrounds him in the empty dining room where he has eaten lunch and dinner for the past 55 years are old photographs on the dark wood-paneled walls. He cant say for sure how many meals he has had here since 1966, when he boarded a train from Stockton for Chino, with only the clothes on his bac...

The words "Hottingers Family Meats" stretches above the doorway of a one-story, red-tile roofed building in an industrial corner of Chino near warehouses and railroad tracks. The business is one of the last reminders that ranches and dairies that once ruled this swath of the Inland Empire. Ben Hottinger at work at Hottinger Family Meats in Chino. (Courtesy of Hottinger Family Meats) Founded in 1948 by Swiss immigrant Henry Hottinger, the intimate butcher shop has been owned by the same family f...