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Pine-strawberry water district files takeover suit against Brooke Utilities- November 26, 2008
- The Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District Board has filed suit to condemn the water companies serving the two communities and has asked the Arizona Corporation to revoke owner Brooke Utilities right to operate the two systems.
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- Centennial quilt on display at museum
- November 28, 2008
- The quilt made for the 1982 Payson Centennial is now on display in the gift shop at the Rim Country Museum.
- Star Valley nearly finished with hazard mitigation plan
- November 28, 2008
- After cataloging nearly 33 years of disasters, Star Valley’s multi-hazard mitigation plan is nearly complete.
- Rim Country garter snake labeled endangered
- Feds decide Northern Mexican Garter Snake is endangered — but the Fish and Wildlife Service has no money to protect it
- November 28, 2008
- Oops. Turns out, the Northern Mexican Garter Snake holding out in Tonto Creek and the Verde River is endangered after all, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
- Homeless man gets home for the holidays
- Just in time for winter storms, man moves out of car and into donated trailer
- November 28, 2008
- A homeless man who never asked for much, but always gave away what he had to others in need, never expected to receive so much in return from the community.
- Town pressure to make ‘contribution’ could prove illegal
- November 28, 2008
- Can Payson pressure property owners to contribute money to provide affordable housing without actually imposing a development fee?
- I once knew a man whose eyes grew four sizes overnight
- November 28, 2008
- What’s the most surprised you’ve ever been?
- FAN Club thanks supporters
- November 28, 2008
- The FAN Club would like to extend a sincere thank you to all the people who bought 50/50 and couch tickets, and who helped sell 50/50 tickets at all of the Payson High School home games.
- Thanks for voting
- November 28, 2008
- I would like to thank all of people who turned out and exercised their right to vote in this last election. I would also like to thank everyone for their support during and after my campaign.
- God favors nations that honor Him
- November 28, 2008
- As I sit here practicing Christmas carols for the upcoming holiday season, my mind jumped to a billboard on the side of a bus. The news clip CNN showed was of a happy-go-lucky guy in a Santa suit, lifting his right hand to the words that said, “Why believe in god? Just be good for goodness sake.”
- The ‘Y’
- November 28, 2008
- Now that the “Y” has gone away, to perhaps return another day, it’s time to see what happened, and just why.
- Radiothon raises nearly $10,000
- November 28, 2008
- “Hip, hip, hooray!” to everyone who helped make our fifth annual radiothon, “Up, Up and Away with Domestic Violence” a success. Chapman Auto, KMOG and KRIM deserve an extra hooray for supporting us all day long in our effort to collect funds for children who have been involved in domestic and family violence.
- ‘Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body’
- November 28, 2008
- In a letter bearing the inscrutable heading: “Votes against school override; YMCA we an aberration,” (Nov. 18 Roundup) the writer stated: “The votes against the school override and the YMCA were an aberration and cast our town as being anti-youth and against progress.”
- Hospice care was exceptional
- November 28, 2008
- Having read Bonnie Pease’s letter I felt compelled to share the experience my family and I had recently with RTA Hospice & Palliative Care.
- Longhorns are winners already
- November 28, 2008
- What a ride. And now it’s all on the line.
- Around Rim Country
- Pine, Strawberry crafters set sale
- November 28, 2008
- The Pine-Strawberry Arts and Crafts Guild has a Christmas boutique at the Pine Community Center Arts and Crafts Room from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 28 and 29 and Saturday, Dec. 6, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 30.
- Thanksgiving was all about giving
- November 28, 2008
- More turkey! More mashed potatoes!
- Blue Ridge pipeline plan clears hurdle
- Forest Service accepts Payson’s proposal, federal loan now possible
- November 28, 2008
- Payson received good news on two fronts this week in its effort to build a $30-million pipeline from the Blue Ridge Reservoir.
- Lady Longhorns open with easy win over Holbrook
- November 28, 2008
- Coming off a 22-8 season and all five starters returning, the Lady Longhorns basketball team was expected to be good.
- New fire board members sworn in
- November 28, 2008
- Last week at the Christopher/Kohls Fire Department, the new board members were sworn into office by Chief Electra Van Eckhoutte. The three new members are Debbie Dawson, Margo Holmes Fish and Jim Oliver.
- Bosque of the birds
- Every winter morning 100,000 birds take flight from the still waters of this New Mexico refuge
- November 28, 2008
- It’s a cold, crisp predawn, with the temperature in the 20s in the central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Then the silence cracks, with a single quack from the rustling snow geese, then another and another. Soon, a cacophonous chorus of snow geese and sandhill cranes fills the morning air — the signal the fly-out is about to begin.
- Everyone can help with national count programs
- November 28, 2008
- Bird lovers can enjoy migration events in their own back yards through a number of national programs.
- Nativity scenes on display beginning next week
- November 28, 2008
- I hope that you all had a really nice Thanksgiving with friends and family this year.
- Lots of fun and foolishness in the village
- November 28, 2008
- Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone!
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