By Hughes Federal Credit Union While you still have plenty of time to get all of your finances in check, it’s a good idea to get a headstart before this year’s deadline of April 18, 2022. Here’s what you should know. Child Tax Credit Payments In order to assist struggling families with financial difficulties brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic...
By Lilly DenmanLittle Rascals 4-H Club Reporter On January 8th, Pima County 4-H Club members competed in the annual Fur & Feather Show held at the UA Campus AG Center. The areas of judging included cavy, rabbit, pigeon, poultry and pygmy goat for six different experience levels. It was a beautiful day filled with sunshine, friends and family...
By Patrick Whitehurst When Vail Voice Publisher Lucretia Free made the move in 2001 from San Francisco to Tucson with her family, she brought with her all the tools she needed to create a local newspaper. Twenty years later that newspaper, The Vail Voice, is still going strong. “In another stage of my life, I was a marketing director at a large...
I am writing this shortly after the conclusion of the Board of Supervisors’ December 21 meeting, the final meeting of 2021. As we anticipate the beginning of a New Year, we will also be experiencing the beginning of a “Countywide Mask Mandate – Indoor Public Places.” In a 3-2 vote, with Supervisor Rex Scott and I voting against the mandate...
I cannot believe how quickly 2021 flew by. I would not consider 2021 an easy year on many fronts, and I’m looking forward to this new year and a fresh start. With that, we have many things to look forward to in 2022 here in Ward 4. Along with the continuation of so many projects that you see everyday, we will be rolling out a Ward 4 Community...
Land is cleared at the site of what may be the area’s largest RV and Storage facility at Rita and Old Vail Roads. Progress at the new TMC hospital site on Drexel and Houghton Roads scheduled to open in 2022. Work continues on TuSimple’s test center and trucking hub, which is expanding to 35,000 square feet increasing 100 jobs over the...
By J.J. Lamb On a Monday afternoon in February 1936 teachers Esta Trotter and Edwin Van Doran hiked with their students to “El Rancho del Lago” to see Bee Adkins’ hunting dogs. His daughters, Alpha and Gladys attended the Vail school. Their younger sister Vina was still too young, but liked to tag along to class when she could. The Vail school...
Dear Editor, I met Lucretia Free 5 years ago. After a friendly conversation she invited me to write an article for the paper she started in the Tanque Verde Valley. I took the opportunity to opine on topics such as Federalism, Socialism ect. I wanted to use the freedom of press to fully participate as a citizen and see what came of it. An...
By Sean ColbertSenior Pantano High School January is the year of new beginnings, it’s when everyone sits down and thinks about what they would like to improve on or change that they did last year. It’s the year where the New Year’s resolutions come in and everyone either gets on board or rolls their eyes at those making plans...
“A Dragon Lives forever, but not so girls and boys.” By David Levy Three quarters of a century ago, during the Second World War, the famous Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, along with Charles Federer, founding editor of Sky and Telescope Magazine, launched an association of astronomy clubs across the United States. It is called the Astronomical...
