Vail Unified Governing Board Candidates 2022 Each election year, The Vail Voice supports Governing Board candidates speaking in their own voice directly to voters in the district. Total word count for each response (excluding the question itself) is to be no more than 300 words. I am grateful for each candidate’s participation! The answers...
By Steve Christy Most of the past six months has found your District 4 Supervisor’s office busy addressing many varied issues. Busy may not adequately describe the situation; feeling as though we’ve been playing Whack-A-Mole is probably more appropriate. The list of county business that has come before the Board of Supervisors is extensive: COVID...
By Nikki Lee The Tucson summer is upon us and as the temperatures rise, we hope for monsoon rains. With Lake Mead, Powell and the Colorado River shortages in the news; we are all trying to find ways to be good water stewards in our homes. I encourage you to review the Smart Home Water Guide at www.smarthomewaterguide.org or request a printed copy...
Dear Editor, Your latest issue of the Vail Voice had suggestions for conserving water: after all we do live in the desert. Those of us that have been here for many years do not have to be reminded that water conservation is just part of life here. We’ve always been concerned about how much water is “down there.” Now we are seeing...
Vail Community Programs welcomed back Missoula Children’s Theater (MCT) this summer and presented “Red Riding Hood” at the Vail Theater of the Arts. As Red put it, “Life is no picnic when you stray from the trail!” The local cast featured Lauren Liddicoat as Red Riding Hood, with Selah Miles, Claire Powell, and Taylor Gauthier as her three Girl...
I lived for 21 years on the San Carlos Apache Reservation and I worked in the emergency room as the nursing supervisor in the San Carlos Apache hospital. My father in law was the grandson of an Apache chief named Capitan Chiquito. I lived with my father in law for seven years until his death, and it was him that first got me interested in Capitan...
TUCSON, Arizona – LPC Desert West, the Southwest division of Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co., has announced it will develop a more than 1 million-square-foot, Class A industrial development in the Tucson, Arizona airport submarket, highlighting the rising relevance of Tucson as a strategic industrial location. According to public records, the...
By David H. Levy On May 30 observers all across the western hemisphere were outside, hoping to see a wonderful “new” meteor shower. The shower is actually not new. It is called the Tau Herculids, and it sends us dust particles from Comet Schwassmann-Wachman III. In 1995 this normally faint comet brightened dramatically as it split into several...
By Susan Summers Thanks to St. Rita’s of the Desert Catholic Church Outreach Ministry, Vail Resources Food Bank has been able to extend the popular back pack program through the summer months, making it a year-round program going forward. This effort provides weekend packs of nutrition for area students who are registered through the food bank...
By K. Nepsa What would happen if the Earth stopped rotating? According to scientists, it wouldn’t be good. At the equator, the earth’s rotational motion is at its fastest, about a thousand miles an hour. If that motion suddenly stopped, the momentum would send things flying eastward. Moving rocks and oceans would trigger earthquakes and tsunamis...
