By MaRico Tippet One of my favorite TV shows is NCIS where Mark Harmon plays the character of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. As a Federal Agent, Gibbs has a set of rules that he expects his team to...
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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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Face Masks for Vulnerable Arizonans
By Ellie Abraham Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) posted on their social media about free masks for vulnerable Arizonans. It looks like they are going to ship these for...
Adopting a Desert Tortoise
“Shellebrity’s” of the Reptilian World By Khevin Barnes If you’re over fifty years of age you will likely remember those tiny turtles we had as pets in days past. Most every...
4Hope Camp Trail
By Rob Samuelson Water is the magical force of life. Its cohesion, universal solvency, physical states (gas, liquid, and solid), and hot and cold expansion properties are unlike any other...
Vail Homesteader Carter Crane
A Glimpse into the Complex History of Race in the United States By J.J. Lamb On January 3rd, 1894 Dora and Carter Crane welcomed their first child, Florence Estella, into the world...
Purchasing a Home with Solar Panels
By Rob Hallberg Solar panels are great for electrical savings and the environment, but you must be careful when buying a home with them. Your first question should be, “Is the system owned...
Mike’s Musings
By Michael Lavelle Recently, I read a question on Quora, an online site where people ask questions and others provide answers. Someone wrote, “I don’t know who or what to believe anymore. I...
Highways and Byways
By Tom Howard Vail Rd, Colossal Cave/I-10 Project Crews have made tremendous progress on the E/B I-10 bridge at Colossal Cave Rd. The new bridge...
You Can’t Stop the Music!
By Jared Free Like many businesses, Feagin’s Fretboard was unsure of how coronavirus-related closures would impact them. As a music education studio, their bread and butter was intimate...
Along Came a Spider
By Alisa Brewer The itsy-bitsy spider…strike that. Here in Tucson we know that some of our spiders, particularly our tarantulas, are not so itsy bitsy. Just...