By Article Writer Historical referencing for our local area is far and few between, but most people today do not know that almost 60 years ago the area currently known today as Corona de...
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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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A Tribute to a Great Lady by Sandy Whitehouse
by Article Writer November ended sadly for many residents of Corona de Tucson when we learned of the passing of Jeanette Solinski. She and her late husband Lenny were 20-plus-year...
Mesquite’s Quest to Make Rita Ranch Smile by Hallie...
by Article Writer At the beginning of the year Mesquite’s Student Council members were challenged to find ways to spread kindness and cheer within our Vail community. Together, students...
November, Mostly Dry and Cool by John Simpson
by Article Writer November was relatively cool and dry. The only day with recorded rainfall was the last day of the month. Most of the Vail area received 0.1 to 0.4 inches. I recorded 0.23...
How Tucson Got Its Name
People often want to know how Tucson got its name. The Tohono O’odham (Desert People) had a village and irrigated fields at Bac, about 7 miles upstream from their village of Stjucson (or...
Christmas Memories and Traditions
The Vail Voice welcomes Ambur Wilkerson to our cadre of volunteer writers. Ambur is a graduate student working on a degree in journalism at the University of Arizona. In this issue, she...
Historic Preservation’s Impact in Vail
by J. J. Lamb “Most significant and successful historical/educational restoration project in Arizona.” Those were the powerful words from Chris Cody, the Arizona State Historic...
District 4 Update: December 2018
The usual anticipated post-election collective sigh-of-relief that all of us give and hear seems to have been a bit prolonged, or delayed somewhat, in this election cycle. With so many...
Out and About in the Southwest
by Mike Lavelle Continuing in our ongoing series of local southwest towns to visit, on our motorcycle ride, the last part of our trip took us from Las Cruces to Hatch, on Highway 25, and...
Holiday Hiking
by Rob Samuelsen The Ghost of Christmas Past is alive and well in Arizona. Taking Ebenezer Scrooge on a quick tour of Arizona’s past, the ghost guides Scrooge to the December 25th, 1847...