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Emergency Preparedness

Organizations as diverse as The Boy Scouts of America, the Center for Disease Control, and FEMA all recommend that Americans have a basic level of preparedness for emergencies, disasters, and disease outbreaks. Although we are less prone to...

Local Services Awarded

Two Arizona Department of Education “Exceptional Student’s Services” awards were given to Vail community members at the 17th annual ADE Transition Conference in Phoenix this week. Rhonda Warren was recognized for her great work helping...

Checking for Fire Safety

The topic for this month is about what you’re seeing all around the community in abundance during and after this year’s monsoon season, which is wild grass and desert brush. In fire parlance, this is called fuel. We have seen exceptional growth...

A Truly Wonderful Eclipse

A total eclipse of the Sun is possibly nature’s grandest show.  And to be somewhere in the path of totality, looking at a darkened sky and seeing the jeweled crown around what was once the Sun, is truly an experience like no other. Throughout...

OBSERVATIONS IN NATURE: Cougar

  Several of my neighbors have observed a cougar in the desert scrub between their homes and the golf course or on the golf course fairway. Cougars are also known as American lion, Mexican lion, mountain lion, puma, panther, and catamount...