by Lori Freeze After 61 years, Shirley Harding of Timbo, Arkansas, is getting to know the daughter she never met. A ward of the state, Shirley was only 13 years old in 1957, when she gave...
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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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Valencia Road: Wilmot to Kolb – The Basics
Improvements to Valencia Road, including the intersection with Kolb Road, are set to continue in order to increase capacity and enhance safety on the regional corridor. The construction...
Valencia Road: A Work in Process
by Shirley Scott, City of Tucson Ward 4 Council Member. Joining Home Goods and the Target fulfillment center, Amazon has chosen a home in South East Tucson with plans to hire more than...
The Voices of Vail Documentary – A Celebration of...
by J. J. Lamb The Voices of Vail film documentary premiered to a sold-out Fox Theatre on August 12th. The Vail Youth Symphony brought the sounds of The History of Vail, an original...
Vail, Rita Ranch, and Corona Construction Updates
by Tom Howard Road Construction Update Houghton Road/Over Union Pacific Railroad: Crews are now backing filing the new South Bound side of Houghton Road. Work continues on the bridge deck...
The Church in Labor
by Candace Lansberry Labor Day is here already, and the afternoons and evenings are beginning to cool down a bit … and thoughts are turning to fall break and family. Perhaps...
Rincon Valley Farmers and Artisans Market at Rocking K...
The Rincon Valley Farmers and Artisans Market and Heirloom Farmers Markets are excited to announce their affiliation. On August 1st, 2018, Heirloom Farmers Markets assumed operation and...
District 4 Update: The latest from Pima County...
My monthly column usually, and primarily, centers upon and deals with countywide road repair issues. At this point in time, the only road repair issue before all of us is whether Pima...
ReSources Weekend “Back Pack” Program: Kids Helping...
by Susan Summers Stefanie Stark was so impressed by the “Back Pack” weekend supplemental nutrition program offered through Greater Vail Community ReSources, that she became a volunteer at...
Postmodernism is a Reaction – Not a Response
by David James You may recall that we have discussed Modernism in these pages as a painting or artwork that exhibits attention to a process of reduction, alert to high ideals and gently...