Desert Crown Theater Company is the formulation of five women, all residents of Vail, whose vision is to provide the community a theater close to home, participated in and enjoyed by all ages, that will someday become a staple and legacy for the Vail area. The theater is entirely volunteer-run, with the ongoing operations overseen by an elected...
The subject of and the interest in Vail Incorporation is moving forward with greater momentum. The Vail Incorporation Committee held its first meeting last month. Numerous, well-known, Vail Community leaders attended the meeting, chaired by David Hook, with vice-chair MaRico Tippett. Vail incorporation has been gaining attention in recent months...
With school back in session, we are hearing reports from concerned citizens regarding speeding in school zones and increased traffic accidents. The Tucson Police Department does their best to patrol school zones and major intersections. It is the responsibility of each individual driver to follow traffic laws and obey speed limits. We encourage...
Dear Editor, School is back and I’m honestly not too excited for new learners or returning. With more and more gun violence it makes me terrified for my friends and the young kids just trying to go to school, to get an education. Kids shouldn’t have to be scared to learn or enter a school building. I feel with the rise in gun violence...
by Susan Summers It’s August and Vail schools are back in session, but life has just gotten a lot more expensive for most families in southern Arizona. Food, clothing, household energy, dining out—these costs and more are up an average of 9% throughout the country, and that’s not even considering increases in gasoline prices. Most incomes are not...
The Prickly Pear JAMboree parade is coming to Vail on Saturday, September 10. Parade entries begin lining up at 6:30 a.m. at Christ Lutheran Vail, 14600 E. Colossal Cave Road, and extends East toward Colossal Cave Mountain Park. Sharply at 8:00 a.m. the Cienega Bobcat band begins to play and the Parade travels down Colossal Cave Road to Hacienda...
Kristy Mace was named to the Wichita State University Dean’s Honor Roll for spring 2022. Arizona Girls StateMarks 75th SessionIt was a girl’s week with nearly 180 high school girls from across Arizona converging on the University of Arizona campus for the 75th session of The American Legion Auxiliary premier program, American Legion...
By Anne Gibson Incorporate Vail Arizona (?) will hold a Town Hall for residents of the unincorporated areas of the greater Vail area on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, in the Student Union at Cienega High School at 12775 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way. Reservations are required for the free two-hour town hall. To register, please click on the link and...
by David H. Levy Ever since I read Bart J. Bok’s foreword to Rose Wilder’s and Gerald Ames’ The Golden Book of Astronomy, I have marveled at what the night sky had to offer and how much of that has changed. “Such wonders,” Bok wrote,” fill this book.” I have never forgotten those beauties, in particular Bart’s favorite: The Eta Carinae nebula...
By Deborah Camacho In 2001, my husband and I, with four children ages 9, 4, 2 and 10-months-old, purchased a piece of property in Vail, south of I-10. Before JD Ranch Estates. Before Sonoita Hills and Windmill Ridge at Mountain View Ranch. Before the Rincon Valley Fire District Station 2. When it still felt like we lived ‘out in the country’. Our...
