By John Simpson The first month of the new year was warmer than normal temperature wise and about normal precipitation wise. The Tucson airport was exactly three degrees warmer than average for the high temperature during the month while the low temperature was exactly normal. This resulted in the mean average temperature for January 2021 to be 1...
By Fiona de Young, Community Relations Manager Is your home wildfire ready? The Rincon Valley Fire District wants to make sure. RVFD was recently awarded a FEMA grant to implement our first-ever Wildfire Risk Reduction Program. We are launching an outreach campaign to help residents understand simple ways to reduce wildfire hazards and important...
Cienega High School student Kaylee Peterson sings the National Anthem. NJROTC Cadets under the director of Commander George Murga were – Trinity Condosta, Ava Gardner, Theodore Kassa, Amelio Salmen, Dylan Simpson and Kaitlynn Zimmerman
Padme Franco won the Tucson area High School Graphic Design Championship Logo Contest. Padme is Andrada Polytechnic High School student. She beat out 52 designs from six schools to win.
Vail Voice contributor Suzanne Saluti shared these marvelous winter images from her home in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
By Hughes Federal Credit Union 2020 was a rough year and your credit cards might have been use more than expected. Maybe you added more to the holiday gift list last year or perhaps you had some emergencies to take care of, whatever the situation, having credit card debt pile up is no fun. If you’re looking to get back on the right financial...
By George and Pat Soetaert How did you and meet and how long have you been married?George and I met in high school. While in high school we lived across the street from each other. George was a Senior and I was a Junior. We have been married 68 years. Who initiated the first contact?He was a Senior and I was a Junior. He asked me for a date and we...
By Leroy B. Vaughn and Ceci Vaughn How did you and meet and how long have you been married?We met in 1978 at a party in Los Angeles. The party was at a private detective agency owned by one of our officers and was attended by police officers and civilian employees from the California State Police. Ceci was not very impressed with me at that time...
By Patrick Whitehurst Tay’s Brew House and Tay’s BBQ, located at 16461 S Houghton Road in Vail, closed their doors this month, but will reopen again. Original owner Natasha Herzig recently sold the popular businesses to move with her family to Texas. The Brew House and BBQ, with a staff of ten, is named for their daughter, Taylinn, or Tay for...
By Steve Christy As we go to press, our community is in the throes of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic while struggling to understand why it is so difficult for Pima County to receive adequate vaccines for our population and an efficient system to dispense them into the arms of all of us. Particularly frustrating is the vaccine availability-or...
