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...
By Rick Bass • Suicide prevention is a critical need. Since 2008, suicide has ranked as the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. Suicide claimed the lives of more than 44,000 Americans in 2020, and evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated suicidal thoughts and actions. • Individuals who need help can find it by...
The Friends of the Esmond Station Library felt the May books sale was so successful that members have scheduled another book sale in the Gibson–Esmond Station Library community room on Saturday, August 27, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. One reason for the book sale in late August is because the parking lot of the library is scheduled to be enlarged...
by Hollie Warnick Throughout human existence, knowledge and wisdom have been passed down so each generation can learn more and grow from there. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Look at the way we pass information now. Social media is such a fast way to get stories out to others. It’s no longer the bard travelling from town to town that...
Dear Claire, The following dream affected me a lot. I have thought about it for over a week, and I am still thinking about it. In the dream, I am leaving work really late, and everyone is long gone. It is very dark everywhere in the building and in my office. I have my car parked at work, but when I go to find it, it’s gone. I keep looking and...
