The Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold their regular 6 PM meeting tonight at Joshua Tree Elementary. The Board will hold three public hearings. First, for the 2024-25 Local Control and Accountability Plan, to set goals, plan actions, and leverage resources to meet those goals to improve student outcomes; second, for the 2024-24 Proposed Budget and Fund Balance; and third, for the proposed 2024-2025 SELPA (or Special Education Local Plan Area) Local Plan, to include the…

The Morongo Valley Community Services District Board of Directors will be holding a special 6 PM meeting tonight in Covington Park’s multipurpose room. The sole item on the meeting’s agenda is a request from a local road improvement community group seeking to waive fees for use of the multipurpose room for the road improvement group’s next ten meetings. In exchange, the road improvement group is offering to paint the interior of the multipurpose room. It’s recommended the Board discuss,…

Tonight, at The Palms waaay out in Wonder Valley you can get even further out with psychedelic space art rock of Landroid, Alien Probe, and Yvonne Champagne. The long-standing Landers two-piece group Landroid is a dark and dreamlike melancholic, inspired by the desolate isolation of the desert. Alien Probe is a performance art ensemble spewing loose facts and answers to all your probing questions about aliens. And Yvonne Champagne is a mysteriously masked female fuzz-laden trio who combine early…

Morongo Valley’s Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is celebrating Black Birders Week beginning this Saturday, June 1st from 8 AM to 12 noon. To highlight Black nature enthusiasts and to increase the visibility of Black birders, Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management and the Wilderness Society providing a free, family friendly introduction to birding. Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally known birding site with over 240 species of birds being recorded.…