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‘Friends’ ramps up effort to help parks programs- February 13, 2009
- Realtors and an anonymous major donor have so far provided about one-fifth of the money it will take to help Payson’s hard-pressed recreation programs make it through until next January.
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- Scam victims taken for $5,000
- February 13, 2009
- A Payson woman is warning Rim Country residents — especially seniors — of a scam that terrifies its victims into giving thousands of dollars for an injured relative.
- Payson council converts committees into commissions
- Members needed for various town appointments
- February 13, 2009
- What’s in a name?
- New participant might shake up Taste of Rim
- February 13, 2009
- Milka Vergara is a new face in the community’s culinary industry and she might just shake up the chefs competition in A Taste of the Rim Country.
- Webcams bring GED classes countywide
- February 13, 2009
- Web cameras for adult education soon to appear in rural libraries countywide are perhaps remarkable because the program is the first of its kind in Arizona.
- Teaching grants available
- February 13, 2009
- Need money for teaching? Salt River Project is offering up to $175,000 in grants for math, science, technology and social studies lessons.
- School board revisits, changes start dates
- February 13, 2009
- School next year will start a week later than anticipated after a flurry of parent complaints inspired the Payson Unified School District board to revisit the calendar it approved last month.
- Sometimes learning can be slow and painless, but at other times …
- February 13, 2009
- The trip from Japan to Pakistan when I was transferred to the American Embassy in Karachi was like a trip through a storybook.
- Residents want to own, operate water company
- February 13, 2009
- In the Jan. 9, edition of the Roundup, you have quoted Bob Hardcastle asking “Do local residents want to assume the substantial risk of owning and operating a water company?” In response to his question, our answer is, “Yes, the sooner the better because it is a far greater risk to continue under the management of Brooke Utilities and Bob Hardcastle.”
- Community is awesome
- February 13, 2009
- What an awesome community we have!
- Non-motorized trails needed
- February 13, 2009
- Recently a story ran on our advocacy toward non-motorized trails in the Payson region. That story created some negative feedback and controversy, so I am writing this letter in hopes of clearing that miscommunication.
- ‘Meth Messenger’ looks at abuse through the eyes of an addict
- February 13, 2009
- Meth Messenger: How old are you? Mike: 25 MM: How old were you when you started using drugs?
- Heartening tale of kids and creeks
- February 13, 2009
- Ever-sensitive stoneflies. Fish with puffy cheeks.
- Around Rim Country
- Wilderness First Aid certification course
- February 13, 2009
- The Payson Parks and Recreation Department will present the American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid certification course from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 28 and March 1. This course teaches the skills needed to survive in an emergency medical situation until help is available, such as mountaineering, first aid administration in the wilderness, help signals, and dealing with weather conditions.
- Main Street road work will start next week
- February 13, 2009
- Ironically, water seems to be the Payson Water Department’s worst enemy. Water in all forms has kept the department busy for the last month with a water pipe burst in December weakening Main Street and now rainfall holding up repairs.
- Oldest continuous rodeo better than ever
- February 13, 2009
- After 125 straight years of rodeoing, Payson’s August Rodeo has seen its fair share of cowboys, cowgirls, clowns and bulls. But with 2009 marking the quasquicentennial of the event, organizers are pulling out a few new tricks.
- Four workers claim subcontractor failed to pay for school work
- February 13, 2009
- Four local construction workers have filed six mechanics’ liens totaling $12,994 for allegedly unpaid wages against a subcontractor working on Payson Unified School District’s construction projects. Two of the men also filed complaints earlier this month with the Arizona Registrar of Contract-ors.
- County: Lots of opinions, but no harmony
- February 13, 2009
- It’s not that Gila County supervisors are indecisive. In fact, each has definite opinions. They just don’t agree with one another.
- ‘Friends’ ramps up effort to help parks programs
- Major donors have already provided $10,000 of the $47,000 needed to save recreation programs this year
- February 13, 2009
- Realtors and an anonymous major donor have so far provided about one-fifth of the money it will take to help Payson’s hard-pressed recreation programs make it through until next January.
- Safeway supervisor named hero
- February 13, 2009
- Supervisor Tammy Miotto of Payson Safeway has been named a community hero by Safeway.
- Accounting firm has years of experience
- February 13, 2009
- With more than 80 years experience between accounts and staff, Seely, Mullins & Associates, P.C. is more than qualified to be the only certified public accounting and auditing firm in Payson.
- Christopher Creek became a winter wonderland
- February 13, 2009
- Christopher Creek got more than 2 feet of snow from Monday through Tuesday afternoon.
- Tonto Village snowfall measured at 36 inches
- February 13, 2009
- All the usual sounds in the village were muffled this past weekend. The snow started to fall early Sunday morning and when the snow stopped falling, there was about 4 inches of the white stuff on the ground. Naturally, the power went out for a few hours, but the APS crews were right on the trouble and power was back on sometime during the night.
- Snow just kept coming and coming
- February 13, 2009
- As I sit down to type this, the snow in Pine continues to fall. It’s hardly stopped since it began sometime Saturday night. Right now the conditions are a total whiteout (again). To think my kids were complaining last week that “we aren’t going to get any snow at all this year!” Well, they certainly have plenty now. We got the sleds out on Sunday and since there was no traffic and the plows hadn’t come through yet, we got to go down Alva — and that is one big hill!
- Humble beginnings
- First call turned out to be the current fire chief’s home
- February 13, 2009
- During the last year, Hellsgate Fire Department experienced a host of changes including the combination of two fire departments, a new name and a chief to oversee it all. Several firefighters quit along the way because of the changes, but what remained was a dedicated group of trained firefighters protecting more than 4,000 people in the Rim Country.
- Hospital, community history part of her story
- February 13, 2009
- When Betty Sue Conway leaves Payson Regional Medical Center in May to retire to Greenback Valley Ranch she will be taking a lot of history with her.
- World’s oldest continuous rodeo to be better than ever
- February 13, 2009
- After 125 straight years of rodeoin’, Payson’s August Rodeo has seen its fair share of cowboys, cowgirls, clowns and bulls. But with 2009 marking the quasquicentennial of the event, organizers are pulling out a few new tricks.
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