Do you have a fourth grader? If so, you’ll want to check out www.everykidinapark.gov. This new website offers fourth graders the opportunity to complete an activity. In return, they’ll receive a free voucher for an annual pass to...
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The Arizona Trail Association has launched a new app.This is “undoubtedly the most comprehensive digital navigational resource we have ever developed,” the Arizona Trail commented. The app has everything a trail user would need at...
On August 31, 2015, the Greater Vail Area Chamber of Commerce held a town hall meeting at Empire High School. This was an information-only event; it was not a debate. Speakers in attendance discussed the impact a positive or negative vote on...
The Pima County Small Business Commission is accepting nominations for 2015 Small Business of the Year Awards. The Commission will present awards to an urban small business and a rural small business. Nominees for the urban small business...
by MaRico Tippett Have you ever stopped to wonder where you came from? Not just who your parents or grandparents are. But have you ever thought about the history surrounding your family name. Have you pondered what legacies were left and or...
Rincon Valley Fire District (RVFD) was recognized by the Arizona Department of Health Services (AzDHS) as a Premier Level Agency through Premier EMS Agency Program (PEAP). To participate in PEAP, agencies have to satisfy three of five...
Well, it’s been quite a traumatic past few days for this born-and-raised southern girl. My husband and I moved to the tranquility of semi-rural Corona de Tucson eight years ago from the suburbs of New Orleans, La. – away from virtually daily...
By Mert Halvorsen World War II had barely ended at the time that baby Herbert Lorenz, just eight weeks old died, presumably from war-related malnutrition. His little body was buried in St. Thomas Friedhof (cemetery), Berlin, in the...
By Jennifer Branch 4 pork chops Salt and pepper to taste Cooking oil 1 shallot, finely diced 1 peach, washed and cut into slices 2 tablespoons of brandy (optional) 2 tablespoons of brown sugar 2 sprigs of Thyme, leaves...
On Bastille Day, July 14, 1789, the great Parisian prison was set ablaze as a mob, enraged into a fury, lit the spark that set off the French Revolution. Two and a quarter centuries later, on another Bastille Day, a different kind of revolution...