It was a full house at the Joshua Tree National Park Association’s Bighorn Benefit Dinner & Auction Saturday evening (9/23). The event featured a catered dinner, an open bar sponsored by Joshua Tree Distilling Co., live music, special guest speakers and a live auction. Organizers said the event, held at the Soundstage in Pioneertown, raised some $13,000. Auction items included a private plane tour, major concert tickets, hotel stays, stunning artwork, and local goods and services. The funds…

The new school year is off and running here in the Morongo Basin. On this Friday's ``Up Close" show with Gary Daigneault, Yucca Valley High School Principal Justin Monical will be the guest. Monical will talk about plans for this year, new offerings at Yucca Valley High School and what his staff is doing to support and enhance the education of our kids. Call-in live with your questions this Friday at 10:00 am here on Z107.7, streamed and podcast at z1077fm.com.

Already the victim of bad driving, Tropical Storm Hilary was the final straw. Z107.7 Radio personalities (from left) Cody Joseph and Jef Harmatz, and Founder Gary Daigneault say a fond goodbye to the “Z107.7 Weather Palm”    Since 1989, when Z107.7 first went on the air, morning show co-host Les Taylor would refer to the Weather Palm as our indication of wind direction and intensity. His references to the palm tree in front of the Joshua Tree studios over the years made it one of the unique…

On Friday’s Z1077 Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault spoke with Chair of the County Board of Supervisors Dawn Rowe, who discussed larger scale hotel projects that are being considered for development within the Morongo Basin's "rural living" zoning designation. Dawn Rowe: "What we should have done, before we got more populated, is laid out industrial corridors, commercial corridors, so that residents knew when they built where it would be zoned only residential, and not just…