From cooler temperatures to pumpkin pie, we welcome many things that come with the fall season, but the flu is not one of them. Dr. Katherine Leitner, a Vail pediatrician and mom, provides...
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Who Invented Mother’s Day?
Happy Mother’s Day! The real history of Mother’s Day in the United States might surprise you. Three women—who championed efforts...
Read MoreIncorporation, Deception at its Finest
When the topic of Incorporation comes to mind, I flash back to my childhood. I grew up in an unincorporated area of Maricopa...
Read MoreIncorporation Concerns
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. William H...
Read MoreVail is in the Top 50!
The secret is out! According to SmartAsset, Vail is the 35th best suburb in America, the only Arizona suburb in the Top 50, and...
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Happy Veteran’s Day: Or is it?
Just what is this holiday that seems to prompt huge sales at retail outlets and for others a day to drink and have cookouts or other celebrations? Oddly, veterans rarely get the day off...
The Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy
Imagine yourself in a room with three-dozen highly intelligent, civically engaged people, from all over Arizona – each of them keenly interested in state government policy and the problems...
Construction Zone
Bridge over Union Pacific RR This project began Spring 2017 and will be complete in two years by Spring 2019. By the first of 2018 the side currently used by drivers will be taken down and...
Road Repair and Your Taxes
Our office has recently received numerous calls from District 4 constituents questioning their latest property tax statement. They have noted that the newly-instituted road property tax is...
Vail Serves Vail and Hurricane Victims
In response to the recent hurricanes, two Senita Valley Elementary School 4th graders decided they were going to help the victims. Nadine Ponce de Leon and Karly Guenaga created the poster...
Responding to Disaster
As we have seen in the news recently, four hurricanes have made landfall, causing a massive amount of damage and untold suffering in the gulf coast region, Caribbean Islands, and...
Resourceful Thinking
Benevolence – “the quality of being well meaning; kindness.” Whether you read the paper or watch the news on TV, it seems more and more challenging to recognize this remarkable human...
Colossal Cave Dedication
The dedication of the Colossal Cave Road Project on Sept. 9th was truly a celebration! The Vail Preservation Society is proud to have worked with many residents, youth and teachers...
From the Heart of a Pioneer Country
I have been well acquainted with the Cieniga {sic} from 1880 when the Southern Pacific Railroad reached there …there was no deep wash through the bottom as at present, but a...