Local high school volleyball players from Cienega and Empire will be moving on to college and have signed up with their respective college teams. Cienega volleyball player Katelyn Anders will play for Yavapai College in Prescott. Emily Robinson...
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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 average of around 0.75.” In fact, every month since...
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 to 7,206 yards and plays to a par 36-36- 72, has gone...
Dear Claire, I have versions of this dream where I am in this huge, mansion-like house at nighttime. It is very dark, and there is this horrible storm that seems to be at its worst right over the house. Just about everything in the house is in...
by Evan Lavelle Neuroscientists used to think that brain cells would stop growing once a person reached adulthood. For most parts of the brain, this is still agreed to be the case. However, recent research suggests that one area of the brain...
Dear Heather, My wife and I have been happily married for 15 years. We have good careers, great kids, a supportive family and some amazing friends. Over the past several years we have become very close with one pair of our couple friends. We...
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 first ever machine-built trail system, McKenzie Ranch...
by Kimberly Crossland, Owner of Savvy Copywriters As I write this, I’m sitting in one of the massage chairs at ONE Nail Salon. The stars aligned and I was able to sneak out for an hour to get a much needed pedicure. On my way out the house, I...
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 everyone on edge. After the August robbery, the posse...
In all my travels through District 4, and throughout all of Pima County as well, I’ve found strong evidence gathering that residents of Pima County would be willing to pay more in taxes if they were assured that the revenue generated would be...