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- Work force being priced out of Payson
- Week 1: The economics of affordable housing
- April 27, 2006
- Like dominos knocking each other over from one side of the country to the other, the housing market has changed.
- After fatal motorcycle accident, widow slowly heals
- April 27, 2006
- March 2 started out like any other day. Teri Peterson, a medical biller, worked in her home office submitting insurance claims while her husband, Larry, tinkered with his remote-controlled model airplanes.
- Wrath continues for Senior Center president
- April 27, 2006
- Members of the Senior Center brought their complaints to the board of directors over the past several months — not making repairs to the facilities, board members not listening to complaints and personnel records being removed.
- Classic car show Saturday on Main Street
- April 27, 2006
- Rim Country Classic Auto Club hosts the 13th annual Beeline Cruise-In and Charity Car Show this weekend.
- Creating the Town of Star Valley: It’s in the details
- NEWS FROM STAR VALLEY TOWN HALL
- April 27, 2006
- When I heard of the job as the first Town Manager for the Town of Star Valley I was excited about the challenge of starting a brand new town. However, I was also concerned about being overwhelmed by all the work and small details involved. Boy, was I surprised.
- Vote for Diana Sexton
- April 27, 2006
- Vote for value. Be sure you make the vote count to your advantage.
- Deadline to sign up for new Medicare prescription drug program is May 15
- April 27, 2006
- As many seniors may already know, this year Medicare began offering new prescription drug plans to help seniors pay for the prescriptions they need. Seniors now have the opportunity to enroll in the new Part D Prescription Drug Assistance Program.
- Dogs won’t tell you when they’ve had enough
- FOCUS ON PETS
- April 27, 2006
- Always on the lookout for column ideas, I ran across several situations in my recent travels worthy of mention. In California, I saw a man exercising his dog using a golf cart. He was going a little too fast, I thought, but his little poodle obviously loved it and was accustomed to it. The dog knew to stay out of the way of the wheels.
- Looking backward like looking forward
- YOUR TURN
- April 27, 2006
- I was talking with Leonardo da Vinci the other day. No, not the one who lived in Italy during the Renaissance, the present-day Leonardo da Vinci who lives right across the street from me in Pine.
- May means Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day
- CHRISTOPHER CREEK
- April 27, 2006
- Join the Landmark on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6 for the Third Annual Salsa Challenge and Cinco De Mayo Festival. Who will make the best Salsa? The Salsa Challenge begins at 2 p.m.
- Building a cockpit for two
- PAYSON PEOPLE
- April 27, 2006
- In 1998, Rory and Donna Hansen unloaded the parts for an RV6 kit plane. The sheer number of parts was overwhelming.
- Photo Gallery: PHS Prom 2006
- April 27, 2006
- The Roundup presents a collection of photos from the Payson High School prom, Saturday, April 23, 2006.
- Lady Horns take meet by one point
- April 27, 2006
- Lady Longhorn track and field team members breathed a huge sigh of relief when the final scores of an April 25 four-way meet were posted.
- Sprints turn golden for PHS speedster
- April 27, 2006
- Todd Kreimeyer turned in a track and field performance most prep athletes only dream about.
- Pitch, Hit and Run champs bound for Mesa
- April 27, 2006
- Some of the finest young athletes in the Rim Country have qualified for the Pepsi Pitch Hit and Run Sectional Championships to be held May 13 at Rhodes Baseball Complex in Mesa.
- Superstars Basketball coming to Payson for first time
- April 27, 2006
- Superstars Basketball, a nationwide youth hoop organization, is coming for the first time to Payson.
- Good news for bass fishermen
- OUTDOORS UNDER THE RIM
- April 27, 2006
- It is approaching late spring and Roosevelt is a busy place with numerous bass tournaments going on almost every weekend.
- Play golf for football
- April 27, 2006
- Time to dust off the clubs, fine tune the swing and get ready for the fun, frolic and competition of Payson Youth Football Benefit Tournament.
- Fish trial takes strange twist
- April 27, 2006
- The trial of Harold Fish took a bizarre twist Thursday morning when one of the 11-member jury visiting the scene of the alleged crime found a spent .10 mm cartridge on the ground not far from where Grant Kuenzli’s body was found.
- Star Valley councilor calls truce with Payson
- April 27, 2006
- Star Valley resident and town councilor Art Lloyd addressed an audience, overflowing into the corridors of town hall, at the Payson Town Council meeting Thursday evening. He quoted Benjamin Franklin’s plea for unity, uttered during the signing of the Declaration of Independence: “We had better hang together or surely we will hang separately.”
- Theron “Gayle” Manning
- April 27, 2006
- Theron “Gayle” Manning, 82, of Payson, died April 22, 2006 in Payson. He was born Aug. 28, 1923 in Cross Plains, Texas.
- Pine water removes chairman
- April 27, 2006
- John Breninger was removed as chairman of the Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District board meeting April 20.
- Strawberry Festival will be held in Pine this year and volunteers are needed
- PINE-STRAWBERRY
- April 27, 2006
- Suddenly the real estate market in Pine and Strawberry is alive and active. You hear about a house going on the market and the next thing, it is sold. It is nice to know that property values are going up along with our property taxes.
- Payson Town Council action from April 27, 2006
- April 27, 2006
- Payson Development Group’s request for the rezoning of 8.2 acres for Mogollon Ridge subdivision at 2009 N. McLane Road, behind The Home Depot. The rezoning increases density from from one house per 4 acres to one house per 6,000 square feet.
- Phyllis Rae Miller Allen
- April 27, 2006
- Phyllis Rae Miller Allen, 70, died April 22 of cancer.
- David Paul Halchishick
- April 27, 2006
- David Paul Halchishick, 53, of Pine, died April 12, 2006 from Hepatitis C that he contracted 30 years ago. He was born June 2, 1952 in Bridgeport, Conn.
- Benjamin J. Wright
- April 27, 2006
- Benjamin J. Wright, known as “Gentle Ben,” died April 23, 2006 at University Medical Center in Tucson, after battling for three years with leukemia.
- Josephine (Jody) Ann Zang (Balestrere)
- April 27, 2006
- Josephine (Jody) Ann Zang (Balestrere), 57, of Scottsdale, died April 25, 2006. She was born Nov. 12, 1948 in Kansas City, Mo. to Buster V. and Rose (Marchese) Balestrere.
- Clearing the tinderbox around Star Valley
- April 27, 2006
- Knots of scrub oak snap like uncooked pasta underfoot and manzanita grows all around in lumps amid crispy, dry grass. It’s the perfect fuel for wildfire to burn hot and fast, and it surrounds Star Valley.
- Benefit concert brings opera to Payson May 7 at Rim Club
- April 27, 2006
- Residents of the Rim Country will be treated to “An Afternoon of Broadway and Opera” next Sunday.
- Still time to change direction of political wind
- April 27, 2006
- In recent weeks, if you’ve picked up the Payson Roundup, listened to local radio or turned on cable television, you’ve been bombarded by negative campaigning in our local mayoral race.
- Donated money seems to have disappeared
- April 27, 2006
- Upon hearing the news that my beloved Michael had passed away, a local venue in Star Valley immediately put up a donation bowl to help me with final expenses and taking care of Michael’s affairs.
- Don’t believe ‘towns grow or die’ myth
- April 27, 2006
- The issue in this election is the responsiveness of the current mayor and a majority of the town council to the will of the people of Payson.
- ‘Illegals’ should be arrested, deported
- April 27, 2006
- This letter is written regarding Our View on “The Golden Rule still applies in immigration debate.”
- We need Brewer for two more years
- April 27, 2006
- I am puzzled when I hear that our Town is in chaos. My husband and I participated in the Citizens Leadership Academy and have knowledge of how the town government and departments function.
- Vote for Bob Edwards
- April 27, 2006
- Make this clear. There are two people running for mayor, one for beauty, and the other to solve problems and make things run smoothly.
- Bob Edwards wrong again
- April 27, 2006
- Bob Edwards is still having problems with the facts.
- Now, for something positive
- April 27, 2006
- Denigrating slurs have been slung about in Payson for the last couple of months. Then again, admiring accolades have nearly filled the Letter to the Editor column of the newspaper. This seems to be a case of dirty politics that has many of us in our great town of Payson slightly nauseated.
- JRE principal dismissal should be reconsidered
- April 27, 2006
- I am writing to express my support for Julia Randall Elementary Principal Peggy Miles.
- Edwards responds to Brewer’s letter
- April 27, 2006
- In the April 25 edition of the Payson Roundup, Mayor Barbara Brewer wrote a letter accusing me of sending her an accusatory and scurrilous e-mail.
- Edwards guilty of every charge he raises against opponent
- April 27, 2006
- As I told Bob Edwards in February when he stopped at my door, even though I prefer Mayor Brewer to him for reasons we discussed, I thought well of him as a human being, and — so far as I knew at that time — as someone who comports himself with intelligence and dignity.
- Town needs to examine airport spending
- April 27, 2006
- As a concerned Payson citizen and pilot, it is my opinion the Town of Payson has done a complete turn about in their thinking regarding the airport expense issues.
- Property taxes getting harder to pay for seniors on fixed income
- April 27, 2006
- This letter is a rebuttal to Carpenter’s comment that property taxes are going down.
- Crowley’s numbers way off base
- April 27, 2006
- Don Crowley made comments at the beginning of the Town Council meeting of April 13. No speaker form was filled out, so no topic was given. He started out stating his opinion regarding the replacement of councilmember Barriger by the current sitting council. These comments were followed by his opinion regarding the Edwards/Blair campaign and how much money they collected.
- School board should reconsider Peggy Miles’ contract
- April 27, 2006
- This letter is in response to the recent decision of the Payson School Board to release Peggy Miles as principal. My question is why? I have not heard or seen a reason for this decision.
- Paysonites should add ‘recall’ to vocabulary
- April 27, 2006
- It was amusing, if not alarming, to read Felicia Megdal’s story, “Home Rule ballot issues buried under mayoral contest,” in the April 11 Roundup.
- Payson fire marshal completes FEMA course
- April 27, 2006
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) U.S. Fire Administration’s National Fire Academy announced that Fire Marshal Michael W. Winters of Payson successfully completed the Executive Fire Officer Program.
- Community pitches in to clean up lot
- TONTO VILLAGE
- April 27, 2006
- The spring cleaning bug has hit Tonto Village with full force. Not only was there a huge yard sale this past weekend, but also a huge cleaning effort on lot #151 by the Tonto Village volunteer firemen.
- Public comment requested for Shumway Mill Site
- April 27, 2006
- The Payson Ranger District, Tonto National Forest, is requesting public comment on the Final Report of the Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) for the Shumway Mill Site. All public comments are welcome and will be accepted until the close of business May 31.
- Lots of new varieties to get excited about
- GOOD GARDENING
- April 27, 2006
- Gardeners always get excited when they learn about new plants. Recently, I had the good fortune to see some of the new roses which will be available for purchase in 2007.
- Celebrating the first year of life
- April 27, 2006
- Gifts, prizes, cakes and clowns were abundant at the annual Tiny Toes birthday party at Payson Regional Medical Center hosted for babies born at the hospital in the past year.
- Concern over Young roads premature, Martin says
- April 27, 2006
- Gila County is conducting a Small Area Transportation Study, using the firm of Lima and Associates. The purpose of the plan is to look at the county’s existing roads and determine possible alternatives for routes in and out of growing communities, according to Tommie Martin, Gila County supervisor for District One.
- Heartbroken cat needs new start
- ADOPTION OPTIONS
- April 27, 2006
- If you have ever been to the Payson Humane Society animal shelter at 812 S. McLane Road, you can’t help but marvel at what an excellent job staff and volunteers are doing, considering the facility.
- Payson men help Kenyans get first fresh water
- LIVING
- April 27, 2006
- A trip to Kenya in 2005 changed the lives of Daryl and Mary Jo Oft, owners of Diversified Solutions of Payson and Globe.
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