By John Simpson June 2021 was the hottest June and calendar month on record at the Tucson Airport. That’s right, June 2021 was the hottest month since records began. The average high temperature was 104.6 degrees and the 30-year average is 101.2 degrees. The average low temperature for June was 75.0 degrees and was 3.9 degrees above average. The...
By Fiona de Young, Community Relations Manager Speed is the number one driver-related crash factor in fatal highway collisions, according to the Bureau of Transportation. Here at the Rincon Valley Fire District, we are asking residents to slow down, pay attention, and use caution. “We have seen a significant increase in motor vehicle collisions...
Geoff Parks, former Principal of Catalina High School and long-time Vail resident, will be the new Principal at Andrada Polytechnic High School. Principal Parks comes to Andrada from Catalina High School where he previously served as Principal. He has an extensive background in education and coaching, with strong administrative experiences as an...
By Christine Anderson Ferraris This month’s article offers a few tips on precautions for internet financial transactions. Tip 1: Take extra precautions for logging into bank and other financial accounts. Create “strong” user IDs and passwords by choosing combinations of upper-and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols that are hard for a hacker...
By Patrick Whitehurst They say watching too much news can make you twitchy. What they don’t say is what happens when you watch too much biased news. And today that form of “entertainment” is bountiful. When one consumes biased news, one begins to think exactly how the corporations want you to think. This means news from left...
By Hughes Federal Credit Union Buying a home, saving for college and looking forward to retirement are all major milestones you plan for and one thing that can derail those plans is debt. While it’s easy to fall into a debt pit, there are habits you can start building that can help you avoid digging any deeper. Check out these three easy...
By J.J. Lamb Jimmy and Oscar Leon anxiously waited for their mother, Carmen, to have everything ready for their long walk from their home along the Pantano to the Vail Depot. Once a month they went to town (Tucson) to shop and visit family and friends. They stayed overnight in town with family. For Oscar and Jimmy this was the best part—they would...
By Shirley Mays Summer is finally and solidly upon us! As an adolescent, growing up during the summer in an area known as “The Valley” in rural Ohio brought great pleasure to my friends and me. The Valley streets were paved with asphalt and we had no sidewalks; we rode our bikes and played barefoot in the streets. All of the streets were dead end...
Dear Editor, Firstly I want to commend the Vail voice for printing opposing views in its letter section on the Covid 19 crisis. Sadly Voltaire’s ” I disapprove of what you say but will defend to death the right to say it” no longer applies to contrary discourse regarding controversial issues. With that said the letter to the...
By Patrick Whitehurst Remorse. Sadness. Regret. These were my resounding thoughts after setting up a bird paradise in the backyard of our home. Bird baths, seeds and mealworm (not to mention hummingbird feeders) are stationed everywhere. And the birds came. Did they ever. Only I wasn’t ready for the tragedy.I don’t mean the inevitable cooper’s...
