By Khevin Barnes After our recent monsoon rains here in Vail, my Internet was knocked out and I began a three day saga of trying to communicate with a big corporation while being shuttled...
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Hello Vail!
Hello Vail! Recently, Lucretia Free, publisher and owner of The Vail Voice, met and chatted it up about the newspaper/journalism...
Read MoreThe Vail Chorale Welcomes You for the Spring 2024 Season!
The Vail Chorale Welcomes You for the Spring 2024 Season! The Vail Chorale is excited to invite new and returning singers to join...
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Love Vail!
By now, everyone in Vail should have noticed the Love Vail signs spread throughout our community. The Love Vail campaign and...
Read MoreIncorporation Is Not a Done Deal!
The silencing of Vail residents has been happening for months behind the scenes and will continue to happen if Vail is...
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Creating a Winning Salon
By Chuck Colbath Thanks to a timely hint from a friend some time ago, we learned of a salon that was that was in need of a new owner. John and I had a record of success in other businesses...
Tucson Road Construction
By Rob Hallberg As we live and work in Southeast Tucson, we are constantly faced with the road construction challenges on the Houghton/I-10 corridor. There are actually two projects;...
South Houghton Road Widening Project
From I-10 to AndradaPolytechnic High School The Pima County Department of Transportation, along with its contractor, Borderland Construction, will begin the roadway improvement construction...
Tips to Keep Your Banking and Financial Information...
By Christine Anderson Ferraris This month’s article offers a few tips on precautions for internet financial transactions. Tip 1: Take extra precautions for logging into bank and other...
Life Along the Pantano – The Leon Family Homestead
By J.J. Lamb Jimmy and Oscar Leon anxiously waited for their mother, Carmen, to have everything ready for their long walk from their home along the Pantano to the Vail Depot. Once a month...
Flooding in the Desert?
By Rob Hallberg I grew up in the DC area and it often surprises my friends when I reveal that Tucson has flooding problems. Floods in the Desert? They just don’t understand. “Desert” refers...
Juneteenth Festival in Tucson, 50 Years of Celebrating
By Larry Starks The Tucson Juneteenth Festival Celebrated its 51st annual Celebration on June 19, 2021. Due to COVID regulations in 2020, we were not able to hold an “in person” festival...
How a Banjo Taught Me About Racial Injustice
By Khevin Barnes PLANTING THE BANJO SEED Fifty four years ago I picked up a banjo that had been discarded by my older brother. I was in Jr. High School and he was four years older than me...
Desert Dwellers: Let’s Leave the Croaking to the Toads
By Alisha Brewer I remember when I was young digging in my mom’s flower bed one summer night. I had a pile of soil next to me that contained all of the worms that I found. As I continued my...