By Rachael Lamb When teaching middle school students art, I was amazed that 12 year olds were already losing their ability to be creative. They were paralyzed with fear of making a mistake...
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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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McNinch Our Local Hero
By Jean Peglow One unsung hero quietly entered the pandemic scene in August 2019 and answered the call to help local students. Our Vail community included families without the ability to...
Water, Wildfires & SERC Incorporation Meeting
By Rick Bass The May issue of the Vail Voice published two important letters by Pima County Supervisor Steve Christy and Tucson City Councilwoman Nikki Lee. Both letters described how water...
Highways & Byways for June 2021
By Tom Howard Houghton/I-10 InterchangeCrews have completed the switch of all the on and off ramps. Work continues the bridge structure where crews have poured the concrete bridge deck...
Bavilon Salon: A Commitment to Education
By Chuck Colbath Here at Bavilon we have always considered keeping on top of the latest trends important. Our stylists benefit from in-store training several times a year. Even with the...
Wildlife Watercooler Gossip
By Alisha Brewer We’ve all been told not to feed the wildlife. It’s good advice. Feeding wildlife increases their dependency on human handouts. It causes animals to lose their innate fear...
Chamber Events on the Way
By Brad Anderson School is out. Some of us are planning a few days to get away from the heat. Others are going to stay in our beautiful Vail area and enjoy some Arizona summer. Either way...
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Prescott) 2021...
Christopher Bowers, son of Kevin and May Bowers, graduated on May 8th, 2021 from ERAU Prescott Campus with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He’s a 2017 graduate...
Scintillating Science: Science of Lake Recreation –...
By K. Nepsa Last month we discussed a few lakes located in southern Arizona to explore and to enjoy for recreation. Here are a few more lakes in the area: Pena Blanca Lake:Located in the...
April 2021 Climate Report
By John Simpson The April 2021 Climate report by John Simpson. April is typically a dry month and only one day, April 27th, yielded rain for the area in April 2021. From that one day, I...