To The Editor: Ms. Winstryg and Mr. Newton were remiss by not acknowledging #InvestInEd in their op-ed “After Red for Ed, What’s Next?” On July 5, 2018, it was widely reported that the Invest In Education campaign turned in 270,000 signatures to get their education funding initiative on the ballot in November, nearly twice the valid signatures...
by Paul Lorenz A few years ago, one of my students, currently an incoming freshman at Empire High, was in a music class at Ocotillo Ridge Elementary School, when the teacher asked how many in the class could read music. Hers was the only hand that went up in the entire room. Accordingly, on the days I am headed out of the Vail area for that day’s...
Isabella Dittiger, soon to be a sophomore at Empire High School, attended a weeklong STEM program at the United States Naval Academy. Enrolled in the NJROTC program at Cienega High School, Isabella has always been interested in the medical field, and would like to pursue that as a career, hopefully in the Navy. The Stem program followed a...
Vail Academy and High School’s (VAHS) Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) attended the National Leadership Conference held in Baltimore, from June 26th through the 2nd of July. Students competed in events they qualified at our state leadership conference, attended workshops, and had the opportunity to sightsee in Baltimore and Washington, D...
by Jillian Cowles After a monsoon thunderstorm, the night becomes alive as millipedes, toads, and tarantulas appear as if by magic. With a leg span of 4 to 5 inches, it is no wonder that the desert blond tarantula, Aphonopelma chalcodes, has become an iconic symbol of the Arizona desert. But perhaps most residents of our fair state would be...
How old were you when you first started writing? I started to write for fun about 20 years ago. I had a file folder of ideas for stories, and finally I just started to write. I still have that folder, and I think that it has enough ideas in there to keep me writing until I’m about a thousand years old. What was your inspiration for the book...
Before we get to Post-Modernism, which I look forward to, we can probe the ideas of abstraction, non-objective painting in particular. I am an enthusiastic fan of non-objective and abstract painting. They each offer a freedom that is inviting. What is abstraction? The word would imply some sort of recognizable but challenging take on, in our...
by Chris Colemon Residents of the Rita Ranch and Civano neighborhoods and select parts of the Vail community interested in exploring new local transportation services and solutions can now start using them for free through AMORE, the Regional Transportation Authority’s grant-funded pilot program. The AMORE pilot program allows selected...
by Heidi Schewel, Coronado National Forest As the operation and maintenance of the shuttle system for the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area transition to a new permit holder, a gap in service may occur due to the automatic stay under Forest Service regulations of issuance of the new permit during the appeal of the permit holder selection decision. As...
Rabies is often thought of as a bygone health threat. Yet, in 2017 there were 77 rabid animals identified just in Pima County. Earlier this year a suspected, rabid gray fox bit a woman in Vail near Rancho del Lago. Given their innate curiosity, children are more likely to have encounters with wild animals. We connected with Tim Bohan, a nurse...
