Also from April 10
Births
- Michael Blaze Herrera was born Dec. 31, 2008 in Payson to Michael Herrera and Charyee Cox. Grandparents are Danny and Carmella Cox, Raymond Herrera and Renee Romero. Great-grandparents are Faye Cox and Levi and Rosalee Herrera.
- Karlynn Rae Williams was born March 7, 2009 to Tawni Foster and Justen Williams in Payson. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 19 inches long.
- Denzhone Delight Burdette was born March 9, 2009 at Payson Regional Medical Center to Missy Burdette and Winters Burdette, both of Payson. Grandparents are Roy Kindrick and Mary Kindrick, both of Payson, and Vivian Burdette of Payson.
Couples
- Anniversary: Sweatt and Sweatt
- Wedding: Butler and Leas
- Wedding: Davila and Padilla
- Engagement: Echols and Moore
Obituaries
Photos
Lead stories
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Spouse abuse soars, shelter funds dwindle- April 10, 2009
- About four times a week, someone calls the Payson police to break up a family fight.
All stories
- Calloh! Callay! Trout stocking heralds summer
- Volunteers line up with buckets to help Game and Fish slosh rainbows into Tonto Creek, East Verde
- April 10, 2009
- Oh, frabjous day. Oh, spring: The wafting breezes, the blooming flowers, the budding cottonwoods — the slosh of water in plastic buckets.
- Pat Tillman run attracts young and old
- April 10, 2009
- Each year since the inception of Pat’s Run in 2005, enthusiasts from around the Rim Country have descended on Tempe to participate in the festive event.
- Recreation Roundup
- April 10, 2009
- When and Where: April 15-18 at Roosevelt Lake. The Payson Walmart is hosting the final day weigh-in festivities from 3 to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 18 in their parking lot.
- Climb over interest rate worries with bond ladder
- April 10, 2009
- As an investor, you need to look back no farther than last year to understand why it’s not a good idea to own only stocks.
- Spouse abuse soars, shelter funds dwindle
- Time Out provided 111,000 nights of shelter last year
- April 10, 2009
- About four times a week, someone calls the Payson police to break up a family fight.
- Top court removes Globe judge
- 178 court cases dismissed because of ‘significant delays’ in court proceedings
- April 10, 2009
- The Arizona Supreme Court has temporarily ousted Judge Patty Nolan from administrating the Globe Regional Justice Court after an audit revealed “significant delays” in issuing warrants and setting trials, among other things, according to an administrative order dated April 1.
- Vern Leis appointed to SV council opening
- April 10, 2009
- Three months after taking the helm of Star Valley’s Water and Sewer Commission, Vern Leis was appointed a council member at Tuesday night’s meeting in a 4-2 vote.
- Fuelbreak cutting starts April 13
- April 10, 2009
- Good news was announced last Friday, April 3 to the members of the Christopher Creek Fuelbreak Committee.
- Rim Country chamber to the rescue — group will finance July 4th concert
- April 10, 2009
- A couple of weeks ago I wrote that our wonderfully entertaining and highly attended Green Valley Park summer concert series, due to our constricted town budget, was about to take its last pure-air Payson breath and be quietly laid to rest.
- Mechanic keeps standards high, hauls in top shop award
- April 10, 2009
- For a trash service garage, Mike Frandsen keeps his shop immaculately clean. Every wrench, part and even screw is accounted for and properly stored. It may be a dirty, trashy world outside in the service yard, but inside his shop at Waste Management, you could almost eat off the floors.
- The Conflicker worm isn’t finished yet
- April 10, 2009
- Well, April Fool’s Day came and went, and so far we haven’t seen “Cyber-Armageddon.”
- Park closing having a tremendous impact
- April 10, 2009
- According to Rim Country Regional Chamber of Commerce Manager John Stanton, the State Parks Board continues to drag its feet regarding the re-opening of Tonto Natural Bridge.
- Easter is a time for great family memories
- April 10, 2009
- Easter week is here! When my children were little, it meant new clothes and new shoes, along with a new bonnet and purse. In many ways I miss those times when all the five kids would be dressed up and ready for church.
- Rotary track marks up for grabs
- April 10, 2009
- Maddie Nossek soared 16 feet, 4 inches in the long jump in 2007 to give Payson High its first-ever Payson Rotary Freshman-Sophomore Invitational meet record.
- Horns upset Blue Ridge
- April 10, 2009
- The powerful three-way punch of Ridge Halenar, Weston Gibson and Hunter Haynes forged the way for the Longhorn baseball team to crank out a pulsating 5-2 upset of the favored Blue Ridge Yellow Jackets.
- Yellow Jackets spank Lady Horns
- April 10, 2009
- A 10-0 loss to the Blue Ridge Yellow Jackets dropped the Lady Longhorn softball team into the East Region cellar with an 0-3 record.
- Invitational track meet renamed to honor longtime PHS coach
- April 10, 2009
- Longtime Payson High School coach Chuck Hardt isn’t a bit shy about telling the story of how he became head track and field coach in 1995.
- Girls soccer team shines at Valley tourney
- April 10, 2009
- Kerry Rizza is bursting with pride over the performance of the 14-years-and-under girls soccer team she coached March 28 in a Phoenix-area tournament.
- Shop re-merchandising to keep up with times
- April 10, 2009
- With shoppers favoring smaller, inexpensive items over large furniture and expensive antiques, one local shop is downsizing its merchandise and prices, but not its sense of shabby chic style.
- Payson graduate earns honors at NAU
- April 10, 2009
- Jessalyn M. Carpino, a 2008 Payson High School graduate, has recently been invited to the Northern Arizona Hispanic Honor Society, as well as The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, with inductions to be forthcoming in both honor societies.
- Starlighters, Jazz Trio performances slated
- April 10, 2009
- Colleen Brown and the Starlighters will be performing at Fireside Espresso, 614 N. Beeline Highway from 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 18.
- Military News
- April 10, 2009
- Army Pvt. Justin A. Krueger has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
- Puppies need patience, understanding
- April 10, 2009
- This week’s article is once again about puppies. The puppies featured are from two different litters that were brought in from the reservation in the last month
- Fugitive pleads guilty in Ohio courtroom
- April 10, 2009
- After a 30-year search and a brief three-day trial, an Ohio murder suspect who was living in Payson under an assumed name, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Wednesday, prosecutors said.
- Group hopes to reduce bacteria in creeks
- April 10, 2009
- Bacteria has been seeping into the Tonto and Christopher creeks through generations of cesspools and failed sewer systems, among other things, and a group is forming to help clean the water.
- Around Rim Country
- Easter Egg Scramble Saturday at Rumsey
- April 10, 2009
- The 16th Annual Easter Egg Scramble for children ages 12 and under begins at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, April 11 at Rumsey Park on North McLane Road.
- Beatings rise, funding falls
- April 10, 2009
- So, let’s say you had a big surge in hurricanes. What would you do?
- Tax increases should be last resort
- April 10, 2009
- Tax increases should be considered the very last, desperate alternative to solve the state’s fiscal problems.
- City, county officials were highly professional
- April 10, 2009
- On Wednesday, April 8, Ronald E. Stahlman, aka Jim O’Neil of Payson, pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the April 29, 1979 death of Bernard Williamson.
- A sincere thank you to the Pro Rodeo Committee
- April 10, 2009
- I remember arriving in Payson 17 years ago — and how thrilled I was to be living in such a great community.
- Thanks for the birthday party
- April 10, 2009
- I wish to publicly express my appreciation to Ernie and his staff from Charlie’s 50’s Diner for the wonderful 60th birthday party that they put on for my husband, Don.
- Three million pets euthanized
- April 10, 2009
- Did you know that more than 3 million cats and dogs in the United States were euthanized in 2008?
- An old cowboy tried to build an ark
- April 10, 2009
- And it came to pass that in the year of our Lord 2010, during the second year of the reign of King Osama Obama, Payson’s Main Street was revived.
- It’s a small world chock-full of coincidences
- April 10, 2009
- A couple of weeks ago, Dave Hold of Critters Etc. looked up from where he was prodding the ground in search of a tunnel belonging to the critter that was wreaking havoc with one of my four precious apple trees by gnawing at its tender roots.
- Former town manager’s suit against SV is dismissed
- April 10, 2009
- Nearly a month after Star Valley’s former town manager filled a lawsuit against the town for three months of lost severance, the lawsuit has been dismissed and the town won’t have to pay a cent.
- Pound of pot found in home
- April 10, 2009
- A pound of marijuana and a half-gram of cocaine were seized from a Payson home April 3, and two men were arrested.
- Rainfall and thrift produce a great water year
- April 10, 2009
- Rain falls down. Wells rise up. And Paysonites cut back.
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