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LANCASTER - Antelope Valley parents with a desire to send their sixth grade students through a groundbreaking engineering program that prepares them for the challenges of their future are......(more)
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LANCASTER - Seven Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies who served in Antelope Valley and were killed while protecting the community were honored during a special BBQ lunch; detectives and the family of a woman struck and killed by a hit and run driver asked for ....(more)
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Artists Sought For Jersey Designs
PALMDALE – The City of Palmdale is encouraging local artists to use their creative energies to design cycling jerseys for the “Race to Art” Jersey Design Contest,.......(more)
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Terry Lee Russell of Tehachapi passed away on Oct. 17, 2012 at the age of 57. He was born on Aug. 4, 1955......
Richard Leigh Ledwidge, 84, Deputy
Long time Mojave resident Richard Ledwidge passed away on the evening of Oct. 14, 2012 after a long.....
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Gala, Auction, Surfin’ Safari At LPAC
LEONA VALLEY - Phyllis Tremblay, known as Mrs. T of the Lazy T Ranch........
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J. Luther Garland was called home to be with his Lord on August 30, 2012 at the age......
Terry Lee Russell, 57, Aerospace Engineer
HANDLEY: Gun Control Reality Check
I just listened to President Obama as he presented his ideas on gun control. It is obvious to me that he doesn’t understand what........
LANCASTER – The Lancaster Performing Arts Center Foundation will host Surfin’ Safari, its third Annual Gala and Grand Auction, Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. The event, themed around the 1960’s surf scene,  complimentary, top-shelf cocktails, music of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean...(more)
Billy Glen Hall, 1934-2012
Funeral services for Billy Glen Hall, age 77, of New Harmony, Texas are  scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Caudle-Rutledge Funeral  Home Chapel with the Rev. James.....(more)
Phyllis Tremblay, 81, Lazy T Ranch Owner
J. Luther Garland, 95, Former Pastor
OPINION
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IN MEMORIUM
ON PATROL
ANTELOPE VALLEY -  An elderly woman attacked, killed by pack of pit bulls, man with eight pit bulls and a marijuana grow in home arrested, an accident on Eastside claims life of a man......(more)
Lee Joe Campbell, 1925-2013
Mrs. Lee Joe Campbell, age 88 of Gassville, Arkansas, passed away Monday, April 1, 2013 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She was born January 5, 1925 in Kansas City, Kansas to the Reverend Carson and Mable Swafford. She married Charles “Tom” Edgar Campbell in Lancaster, California....(more)

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Millions Up In Smoke?
AV Is King Of Green
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Solar Facility Opens
LANCASTER - Officials gathered under the desert's famous warm, sunny skies recently to celebrate the opening of a new 66 MW solar generating facility in Lancaster. Alpine Solar, with its one million solar...(more)
BYD Drives Jobs To AV
LANCASTER - While some US companies are opening businesses in and shipping jobs to China and other overseas locations, the city of Lancaster and Los Angeles County have joined a Chinese company to bring business and ....(more)
Mayor Ledford, after reading your entire deposition four times, I am curious about something.........
Letter To Palmdale Mayor James C. Ledford
Engineering Program Prepares Students For Future