The Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold their regular 6 PM meeting tonight at Joshua Tree Elementary, after their special joint meeting with Copper Mountain College at 4 PM. For the special joint meeting, also held at JT Elementary, the 2024 CMC Greenleaf Scholarship recipient will be recognized, followed by updates on early college and dual enrollment, as well as a CMC Counseling update. For the regular 6 PM meeting, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services Amy…

The Beatnik Lounge presents My Dead Girlfriend’s Art 2: Save Me from the Thrift Shop group art show at 5 PM. By popular demand, My Dead Girlfriend’s Art returns, featuring Barbara Austin’s posthumous work and other extremely talented local and invited artists, sharing their passions as a tribute to Austin, who, upon her death, pleaded to assure her work didn’t end up in the thrift shop. Hey There Projects presents Void Solutions, with silkscreens by …

The local veteran non-profit Mil Tree will be hosting a 6 PM reading tonight at the Joshua Tree VFW featuring the award-winning Brian O’Hare, the veteran author of the story collection Surrender, out now from Syracuse University Press. Born in Pittsburgh the son of a Marine pilot, O’Hare went into the Naval Academy from ’84-88 before going headfirst into the Marine Corps as a supply officer, doing stints in Camp Lejeune, Okinawa, and the Persian Gulf War. After leaving the service, O’Hare had a…

The Morongo Unified School District Nutrition Services Department was honored last week with a Turnip the Beet Award from the Food and Nutrition Services of the US Dept of Agriculture. The Turnip the Beet Award recognizes outstanding summer meal program sponsors across the nation who offer high quality meals to children that are appetizing, appealing and nutritious in the summer months, showcasing sponsors who are going above and beyond. MUSD Nutritional Services was one of four districts…

Last Tuesday at Copper Mountain College, educators from Fire Technology and Criminal Justice, EMT students, and CMC faculty hosted the President's Circle BBQ, a complimentary dinner open to the public to discuss how CMC is strengthening public safety and to raise awareness on scholarship fundraising for students pursuing public safety careers. Predating the college itself, The President’s Circle is a continuum of the group who established CMC, and currently includes CMC Foundation Executive…