Dead apparently butchered goat

Plan focuses on roads, downtown revitalization

City's $78 million capital improvement plan includes paving 56.5 miles of roads

Hesperia will be spending $78 million of the city's record $181 million budget on capital improvements. The spending includes $28 million on roads, including paving 56.5 miles in the city.

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Local politicians get name recognition via non-election signs

Vogler, Smith adopted road signs well in advance of Election 2006

The battle of the ballot booth is fought long before Election Day. And before one can battle for votes, there is the fight for name recognition.

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Gang sweep nets 77 arrests, 53 suspects are from Hesperia

More than 50 alleged gang members and other wanted suspects were picked up during a one-day gang sweep of the city earlier this month.

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Concrete legacy

Hi-Grade Materials patriarch Robert Hove celebrates 80th birthday

The Robar Enterprises companies all stopped work for a brief period on Friday across the High Desert. Although rock dust still filled the air at the Hi-Grade Materials Company ready-mix concrete company site on Bear Valley Road, there was also the smell of steak, chicken and sausage grilling. Similar cookouts happened at company sites in Lancaster, two locations in Arizona and company quarries across the High Desert.

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Chamber to hold second monthly breakfast event

The Hesperia Chamber of Commerce has added a monthly breakfast to its arsenal of regular activities.

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Neighbors discover 4-foot shark while on daily desert walk

Neighbors Richard Doornbos and Al Embry have stumbled upon numerous mysteries of the Mojave Desert, but never anything like this.

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Bar h Rodeo rocks into high gear

PRCA Rodeo at Shearer Equestrian Center is pure Americana, pure fun

With boots shined and belt buckles sparkling, the local cowboys were looking fine, and the cowgirls even finer. Patrons enjoyed funnel cakes, hot dogs, kettle corn and other tasty goodies.

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Residential burglary, C and Muscatel

A press release from the Hesperia station of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department:

Incident: Residential Burglary                                   
Suspect(s):  3 – 17 year old male juveniles – Hesperia
1 – 16 year old male juvenile - Hesperia
Location: Muscatel/C Avenue - Hesperia
Time/date: 11:33 a.m. – 6/21/06

SUMMARY:

On the above date and time, Deputy Swoboda was dispatched to a report of a burglary in progress at the above location.

The victim reported that she was asleep in the bedroom of her apartment when she was awakened by a noise.  She looked up and saw a male standing in her bedroom.  He ran out the door.  The victim got up and noticed the door open and her T.V. and play station missing.

Two witnesses saw the suspect hand the T.V. over the retaining wall of the balcony and get in a pickup truck parked on Muscatel.  The witness followed the truck southbound on E Avenue.  The vehicle stopped in front of a house E Avenue, where the witness saw the suspect unloading the T.V.  The witness got the license plate number, and when the truck left again, the witness followed it to another address on Cactus Street.  He then returned to the victim’s residence.

The sheriff’s helicopter, 40K, was overhead and monitoring the activity from above.  The pilots in the helicopter observed the suspects coming out of the house on Cactus.  Two of the suspects grabbed bicycles and were riding away.  Deputy Swoboda apprehended the first suspect in the area of C and Bodart, and the second suspect at E Avenue and Muscatel.  40K issued commands to the third suspect from the air, advising him to stay where he was.  Sgt. Bowman took the third suspect, who was on foot, into custody. 

The truck the suspects were driving was recovered with the stolen property still inside.

All three juveniles were taken into custody and booked at the Apple Valley Juvenile Detention Center.  One of the 17-year old male suspects is on parole with the California Youth Authority for shooting at an inhabited dwelling.  A fourth suspect is still outstanding.

The witnesses were able to positively identify the suspects.

More photos from Friday's gang sweep

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Gang-Busters

Deputies and police from the High Desert and surrounding communities turned Victor Valley College into a temporary base of operations Friday afternoon when they rounded up suspected gang members in Hesperia and Apple Valley in a "zero tolerance" sweep.

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Hesperia to add 61 employees

The city of Hesperia will hire an additional 61 employees, if the proposed city fiscal year 2006-2007 budget is approved as written at Wednesday's city council meeting.

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Park board's Hall considers council run

After 16 years on the board of directors for the Hesperia Recreation and Park District, Richard Hall is considering changing elected offices and running for the Hesperia City Council this fall.

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Local BMX riders for a cause

After 16 years on the board of directors for the Hesperia Recreation and Park District, Richard Hall is considering changing elected offices and running for the Hesperia City Council this fall.

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A Dream Realized

On a wing and a prayer -- and lots of drive, determination and hope -- the Hesperia Junior High science team that created and developed the Hands-Off Telephone Band cell phone accessory accomplished their golden dream.

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Lewis Center student to attend conference

Christopher Manghane, a student at the Lewis Center Academic Academy of Excellence in Apple Valley, has been selected to attend the 2006 Congressional Student Leadership Conference, sponsored by LeadAmerica, at San Diego State University.

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A heart for giving

If you ask what truly matters to Elvyn and Bernice Reeves of Hesperia, a couple who has enjoyed many of the finer things in life, it's very simple. It's a matter of heart.

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Star wins state park association award

The Hesperia Star Newspaper has received the 2006 "Best District, Newspaper Coverage" award from the California Association of Recreation and Park Districts.

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Carlee De Mase places second in soap box derby

Carlee De Mase of Hesperia took second place in the Masters Division of the seventh annual Greater Los Angeles Soap Box Derby in La Canada Flintridge. The event was hosted by the Kiwanis Club of La Canada and the California Family Soap Box Derby Association.

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VVC to hold PAC groundbreaking event

Victor Valley College will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a construction of the new Speech/Drama addition to the Performing Arts Center at noon on Thursday, June 29.

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