Copper Mountain College’s Commencement Week 2024 has arrived with several ways to usher in the end of the college school year this week. Starting tonight, Wednesday, May 22nd, Registered Nursing and Vocational Nursing programs have their Pinning Ceremony at 6 p.m. in the Bell Center Gymnasium on CMC campus.  This is an event where CMC's Nursing students celebrate their accomplishments, being "pinned" by family and friends. The main Copper Mountain College Commencement…

Most known for being part of Powell-Peralta’s Bones Brigade, a gang of young influential skaters who changed the skateboard industry in the 1980s, then starting his own skate company, Real, Tommy Guerrero would pursue music in tandem with skating for the following decades. His latest project Los Days is a collaboration between Guerrero and Sacramento born multi-instrumentalist Josh Lippi. The duo retreats to the House of The Rising Sun, a solar-powered single room house deep in the heart of…

This Friday (5/17), downtown Joshua Tree’s Taylor Junction is hosting a punk and space rock show featuring local psychonauts headlined by an old school San Francisco cult band whose fans included the late Kurt Cobain. Formed in 1982, the feminist punk rock group Frightwig were a formative influence on the 90s riot grrl movement and paved the way for the likes of Hole and L7; their iconography infiltrated MTV when Kurt Cobain wore their shirt for Nirvana’s iconic Unplugged performance. The…

Last night, the Morongo Valley Community Services District Board of Directors held their regular 6 PM meeting in Covington Park’s multipurpose room. Beginning with director reports, General Manager Brittany Chavez announced former MV Fire Captain Ryan McEachen taking over as interim Fire Chief in the wake of James Brakebill’s retirement last week. For action items, updates were made to the Schedule of Fees, including the decision to waive emergency fees for low-income residents upon their…

The Morongo Valley Community Services District Board of Directors will hold their regular 6 PM meeting tonight in Covington Park’s multipurpose room. For the meeting’s agenda, the Board will review, discuss, and approve the update of the Schedule of Fees, as well as an update to the Memorandum of Understanding negotiation team. The Board will review and discuss Resolution 24-03, which approves the assessment fee and orders the levy and collection of annual assessments within the Morongo Valley…