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...
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This last summer, thousands of students from around the world donned their Rotary blazers, hugged their families goodbye, and jetted away to live in a foreign country for nearly a year. They left everything that was familiar and comfortable to...
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...
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...
There’s a new organization coming to give Southeast Tucson a voice and you’re invited to be a part of it. The South East Regional Council (SERC) is taking root to give a previously underrepresented community a coordinated way to...
Knowing how to listen well is an important component in relationships at work, in marriage, bringing up children, in leadership, and even taking the time to hear a homeless person. Listening is an act of compassion and caring. If you’re going...
Houghton Road Over the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge Work continues on the northbound side of the new Houghton Bridge. Crews have the grade nearly complete for the new roadway. Bridge girders (support beams) should be one of the next items we...
I recently had a lunch meeting with a friend who is very involved with local politics and very concerned with national politics. Part of our discussion revolved around the competing visions of how this country should operate. Aside from the...
On August 12th former Vail School District employee and Vail community member, Mrs. Gene Rowe passed away after a long illness. For over two decades Mrs. Rowe selflessly served the parents, teachers, students, and administration of the Vail...
Dear Editor, On our morning walks, we find a water leak in front of a resident’s house on what has now become almost a weekly event. Our HOA, Santa Rita 11, is bordered by Melpomene, South Mesa Shadows Drive, and Painted Vista. This morning my...