In high school basketball today, the Yucca Valley High School Trojan basketball teams travel away to Desert Hot Springs. The girls game starts at 6; boys at 7:30. The Twentynine Palms High School Wildcat basketball teams are also away tomorrow at Desert Mirage. The boys play at 7:30; girls at 6. Joshua Springs Christian School basketball teams travel to Baptist Christian. Girls at 5; boys at 6:30. Coming up tomorrow, the Yucca Valley High School Trojan wrestling teams travel away. The varsity…

It's time to play baseball in the Morongo Basin! Hi-Desert Pony League is gearing up for its 2012 season and will be setting up registration booths at locations in Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms starting this weekend. Tomorrow, Saturday, sign-ups will be held at Luckie Park in Twentynine Palms and on Sunday, at Stater Brothers in Twentynine Palms. On Saturday, January 14, sign-ups will be held at the Stater Brothers in the Wal-Mart shopping center in Yucca Valley. The cost of…

The Hi-Desert Cultural Center has unveiled an ambitious fund-raising campaign to finish the restoration of their theater. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has the challenge... The Hi-Desert Cultural Center's large theater, now named the Kaye Ballard Theater, has received an offer to match all donations made to help finish the final renovation phase of the 300-seat theater, up to $125,000. The theater was largely destroyed in a 2007 flood. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has also agreed to…

Breaking Bread Ministry in Twentynine Palms is serving up a free meal and fellowship tomorrow from 3 to 5 at the Little Church of the Desert Community Hall. On the menu is chili, cornbread, and dessert. The meal is prepared and served up by the Twentynine Palms High School Interact Club.

Joshua Tree Community United Methodist Church will provide a free community breakfast buffet tomorrow and every Saturday morning from 9 to 10 a.m.. Clothing, shoes, coats and blankets are free to those in need as supplies last. The community is invited. The church is located at 6213 East Parkway in Joshua Tree.

Tomorrow is the first Saturday breakfast at the Copper Mountain Mesa Community Association on Winters Road in North Joshua Tree. Breakfast is served from 8 to 11 and is still only $4.50 per person. Friendly volunteer neighbors dish up eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, pancakes, biscuits and gravy – coffee and juice are included. As always, breakfast comes with a heapin' helpin' of fellowship and good cheer.

The Joshua Tree Veterans of Foreign Wars is serving up fish and shrimp tonight from 4 to 6 at its post at 6402 Veterans Way. Sunday breakfast is chicken fried steak from 8 to 11. And don't forget Taco Wednesday from 11 to 1.

A new exhibition opens tomorrow at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum in Yucca Valley. Reporter Derwood Andrews invites you to an exhibition on body art called, "Beauty and Culture..." A new temporary exhibition on Body Art, runs from now until March 1, at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum. "Eye of the Beholder: Beauty and Culture" explores the many reasons that people embellish their bodies with paint, scars, tattoos, make up and much more, through human history up to the present day. On…

A meeting of the Cactus Sewables Quilt Guild will take place this Monday, January 9, in the Yucca Room of the Yucca Valley Community Center. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.; meeting begins promptly at 1:00 p.m. Highlight for the afternoon will be the installation of the following officers: President, Denise Cohen; 1st Vice President, Bonnie Millage; 2nd Vice President, Dawn Tonioli; Secretyary, Mary Michaud; Treasurer, Carole Swanson.

Morongo Basin residents responded to a question we asked on the Z107.7 Facebook page, Morongo Basin Broadcasting. With the New Year, we asked our thousands of friends what they would like to see most in our desert communities. Among the most responses was a wish to see the former Blue Skies Country Club in Yucca Valley restored as a community golf course. Respondents said the Blue Skies property could include a miniature golf course and petting zoo. A community garden was another request as well…