With spring in full swing in Southern Arizona, bees are busy gathering pollen, and, occasionally forming giant, somewhat alarming clusters which are often found on tree branches. This...
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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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Ghost Bustin’ at Colossal Cave
by Mike Lavelle I have never seen a ghost, goblin, gremlin, spirit, apparition, genie, fairy, troll, orb, shadow person, leprechaun, sasquatch, chupacabra, extraterrestrial alien, or an...
Connie Erickson Retires After 53 Years in Education
by Anne Gibson Connie Erickson will shortly begin a new adventure after 26 years as a teacher and 27 years as a principal. Her story in education begins in a one-room schoolhouse with an...
Better Business Bureau Scam Alert
by Susann Miller of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona Medicare cards are undergoing a big change to make them more secure. But, in the meantime, scammers are (of course!)...
Weather Almanac A Dry March
by John Simpson After a very wet February (I wrote about this last month), March ended up being very dry with only a couple hundredths of an inch of rain falling, which was well below the...
Del Lago Golf Renovation
by Burt Graeff Anyone who has not played del Lago Golf Club in a while is in for a surprise. The facelift has been dramatic. The course, which has five sets of tees ranging from 5,044 yards...
Pima County now has a Cross-Country Moutain Bike Trail
by Joel Elizaga A team of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) members is serving with the Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists (SDMB) to maintain and construct Pima County’s...
Two Road Agents Dead, Another in Custody – The...
by J.J. Lamb (part two). Continued from March Vail Voice Three train robberies east of Tucson in 1887 on the Southern Pacific Railroad’s main line that wound through Cienega Creek kept...
The Birth and Growth of a Community Garden
by Elizabeth Smith Creating a community garden is a wonderful resource for people to grow healthy food in an environment fostering community, education, hands-on care for plants and soil...
Highways and Byways
by Tom Howard Houghton Road over the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge Traffic has been shifted and work continues on the demolition of the old structure. Crews have been hauling dirt from...