LANCASTER - A model of an engine never tested in flight took a supersonic leap toward proving it doesn't disrupt the flight of its host, NASA SR-71. It was the first test of how the aerospike model affects the Blackbird's flight.
LANCASTER - A model of an engine never tested in flight took a supersonic leap toward proving it doesn't disrupt the flight of its host, NASA SR-71. It was the first test of how the aerospike model affects the Blackbird's flight.
Nov. 2
LANCASTER - Assaults and serious-injury incidents involving staff, inmates and visitors at California State Prison Los Angeles County steadily increased since Jan. 1, according to statistics.
LANCASTER - The big one got away, but his little brother didn't.
Lancaster resident Joseph Garcia, 30, caught the prize-winning 5.8-pound trout about 20 minutes after the 1997 Fall Classic Adult Fishing Derby began.
Nov. 4
LANCASTER - Hometown favorite Jon Sharp won the Formula One Gold Division and set a new speed record in his plane, Nemesis at the William J. Fox Field National Air Races. It was his 35th consecutive win, adding to the longest string of victories in Formula One racing.
PALMDALE - Design of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' space shuttle prototype X-33 is complete, according to company officials.
Nov. 5
LANCASTER - Incumbent Sue Stokka lost a bid to retain her seat on the Antelope Valley Union High School District board, finishing sixth among a field of seven challengers.
LANCASTER - With 100% of the 21 precincts reporting, incumbents Richard White and Greg Tepe were re-elected to the Lancaster School District's board of trustees. Keith Giles, with 2,289 votes, unseated incumbent Greg Hanson for the final seat.
LANCASTER - Political newcomer and challenger Betty Wienke led a field of eight candidates in final returns in a race for three seats on the Antelope Valley College board of trustees.
Betty Lou Nash was second with all 79 Los Angeles County precincts reporting and all 11 Kern county precincts reporting. Michael R. Adams was third in L.A. County, Herman Kicenski in Kern.
PALMDALE - Incumbent Terry Judge and political newcomer Shelley Sorsabal outdistanced eight other candidates in a race Tuesday for two seats on the City Council.
PALMDALE - Voters gave Mayor Jim Ledford a fourth term in office Tuesday, turning away contenders Kevin Carney and George Wolfe.
PALMDALE - Incumbents Fredrick Thompson, Sheldon Epstein and Velma Trosin will continue to lead the Palmdale School District.
Nov. 6
NORWALK - As expected, only a fraction of registered voters made their way to the polls to cast ballots in the consolidated election of municipal officials. Countywide, turnout was 15.8% of registered voters. That number is up from 14.69% in 1995, the most recent consolidated election before Tuesday's.
Nov. 7
LOS ANGELES - The old Lancaster branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library was sold at auction by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. It will be leased back by the county as office space for the Department of Children and Family Services.
PALMDALE - Four armed men, their faces hidden by bandanas, escaped with $3,800 when they robbed a discount store.
LANCASTER - Antelope Valley's public and private leaders must join to raise $500,000 a year for a coordinated regional economic effort to attract thousands of new jobs, consultants said in a series of presentations.
PALMDALE - City officials are negotiating with a high-tech Valencia machine shop to expand its operation to Palmdale and create nearly 450 jobs, most of which could be filled by local residents, according to city and company officials. Under the deal, B&B Manufacturing Co. would erect a building on 19 acres in the Palmdale Trade and Commerce Center, said City Councilman David Meyers.
Nov. 8
PALMDALE - Planning commissioners voted to give Ritterprop Inc. until September 2000 to build houses under a conditional use permit granted in September 1994.
LANCASTER - The Antelope Valley College board of trustees repealed a board policy that was used to justify an English professor's eviction from a board meeting in June.
Nov. 9
MOJAVE - This weekend, the East Kern Airport District celebrates 25 years of guiding and transforming the once desolate Mojave Airport into one of the area's biggest employers.
PALMDALE - The recommendation that Palmdale be included as a stop along the state's projected high-speed rail system was part of a 20-year transportation plan.
Nov. 11
PALMDALE - A fatal accident in Palmdale and a 17-vehicle collision on the Antelope Valley Freeway in Santa Clarita accompanied Monday's stormy weather, the Valley's wettest day so far this fall.
California Highway Patrol officers reported that a two-car collision at 30th Street West and Avenue N-4 killed a teenage boy.
LANCASTER - Members of the Antelope Valley chapter of the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Squadron 15 are flying high following their selection as the California Wing's Squadron of the Year. They were chosen from among 65 competing groups.
PALMDALE - More than 250 people will be hired to beef up Northrop Grumman's B-2 radarevading bomber modification workforce in Palmdale, a company spokesman said.
Production of the 21 bat-winged bombers is over, but modification and maintenance of all of the aircraft is expected to continue until late 1999 or early 2000.
Nov. 12
PALMDALE - Landowners in a special assessment district encompassing the Antelope Valley Mall, the Trade and Commerce Center and the Palmdale Auto Center have failed to maintain payments on $34.8 million worth of bonds issued in 1989 for infrastructure improvements. On Sept. 2, those bonds slipped into default.
Nov. 13
PALMDALE - As many as 539 homes could be built under a request by a developer to subdivide 793 acres between 35th and 50th streets west, between Elizabeth Lake Road and the California Aqueduct.
Nov. 14
PALMDALE - New Century Entertainment corporation was granted 180 days to find prospective tenants for a multiscreen movie theater, entertainment and retail-shop complex to be built somewhere in the city. The agreement was added by a 4-0 vote to the Community Redevelopment Agency's agenda as an emergency measure during the agency's regular meeting.
