Also from February 27
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Tonto bridge faces indefinite state closure- February 24, 2009
- Tonto Natural Bridge State Park will shut down indefinitely on Friday to shift staff to other struggling parks, say park officials.
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- Golden Anniversary
- February 27, 2009
- Ken and Ruth D’Arcangelo recently returned from Hawaii where they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
- Shelter pets may develop depression
- February 27, 2009
- As the days get warmer, we begin to look forward to spring. But here, at the Humane Society of Central Arizona, we know what spring is going to bring — babies, babies and more babies.
- Next year’s school budget still a question
- February 27, 2009
- A tattered buoy has temporarily eased the threat of a budget tsunami in Payson schools’ stormy fiscal sea.
- Service key for businesses to survive
- February 27, 2009
- With businesses big and small crumbling under the weight of the economy, some look to costly layoffs and cutbacks to keep a business afloat, but experts at the Guerrilla Tactics — Business Financial Forum Tuesday said there may be a cheaper and easier way to draw customers in and keep them — customer service.
- Public Safety personnel honored
- February 27, 2009
- Several of Rim Country’s finest were honored Feb. 18 at the 10th annual Public Safety Awards Banquet.
- Legislators agree to Tonto bridge town hall meeting
- February 27, 2009
- As rangers on Thursday bolted an orange square blaring “closed” on the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park sign, Rim Country leaders rallied support to force a reversal of the decision.
- The icy secret of the M. B. Stewart
- February 27, 2009
- As soon as they told us we were shipping overseas, everyone in my outfit, the 103rd AC&W Squadron, began speculating where we were headed. Strangely, I never heard anyone mention Korea even though we were a Connecticut Air National Guard outfit put on active duty a year earlier when things began heating up over there.
- Quit throwing money at the problem
- February 27, 2009
- A friend just sent me a taped speech of Nancy Pelosi (speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) stating that we lose 500 million American jobs each month that we don’t pass her $800 billion stimulus package.
- Community deserves accurate information before purchase
- February 27, 2009
- Since early last November I have been trying to get the PSWID board to correct six major errors in the Economists.com cash flow and rate impact analysis, or explain to me why they aren’t errors. Mr. Dan Jackson of Economists.com sent me an unsatisfactory response to my questions about those errors.
- Government experts at prescribing treatment before diagnosis
- February 27, 2009
- He is a fool who prescribes treatment before diagnosis. He is demonstrating a value of “comfort” over “cure.”
- Left-wing media doesn’t ask about president’s flagrant expenditures
- February 27, 2009
- All the left wing media people made a great deal of adverse comments when the CEOs of GM and Chrysler used their company Gulfstream to fly to Washington, D.C. to seek bailout funds and I think that they were justified in doing so.
- Concerned about Payson code enforcement
- February 27, 2009
- I am concerned about the way our zoning enforcement is handled.
- Fond memories of Payson
- February 27, 2009
- I have fond memories of the two years I lived in Payson in the late ’70s.
- California’s problems created by environmental laws
- February 27, 2009
- California can easily solve all of its problems that have painted (the state) into a corner of its own doing by letting the enviro/wackos and socialists take over the state.
- Rally around natural bridge
- February 27, 2009
- The political theater swirling now around the absurd decision to close Tonto Natural Bridge State Park would be funny, if it weren’t so serious.
- Around Rim Country
- Book fair at FES through March 4
- February 27, 2009
- The Frontier Elementary School Scholastic Book Fair is from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through March 4, in the music room. There will be an evening at the book fair from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 3, which will also be the school’s Family Fun Night of the Art Extravaganza and Dinner. Dinner choices are Indian fry bread or hot dogs.
- Restaurateur hospitalized after Highway 87 rollover
- February 27, 2009
- The owner of Cardo’s Italian Restaurant went spinning off Highway 87 Thursday morning in his silver BMW, authorities said.
- Readers: Celebrating good people, great services
- February 27, 2009
- Each year the Payson Roundup invites its readers to tell us what and who provide the best in the Rim Country. In the past the poll has been called “The Best of Payson,” but this year it’s “The Best of Rim Country” because there are good people and good services in all the communities of this beautiful piece of Arizona.
- Time Out breaks cycle of violence
- Minister reveals painful past as shelter recaps 111,000 nights of refuge for 163 women, children
- February 27, 2009
- Donovan Christian, 10 years old, sat quietly in the church stairwell praying that one of the grownups stepping past him to climb the stairs would suddenly stop, look down at him huddled in his misery, and ask: “What’s wrong, son?”
- Spark sets home on fire
- February 27, 2009
- A Tonto Basin man lost his home Tuesday morning in a devastating fire after the ammunition he was loading sparked, catching fire to the 1960s home and leaving him with second- and third-degree burns.
- Sheriff, Payson seek to protect Star Valley
- Town council has two bids for police protection
- February 27, 2009
- Star Valley residents will be paying nearly 50 percent more for police service under bids from the Payson Police Department and the Gila County Sheriff’s Office.
- Obama unveils homeowner affordability, stability plan
- February 27, 2009
- President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to help stabilize the housing market and keep millions of borrowers in their homes.
- Web sites offer rental tips
- February 27, 2009
- Do bank failures, corporate bailouts and home foreclosures make you nervous? Does it make you wonder if there are any worthy investments out there?
- Eagle Mountain Gifts moves to Swiss Village
- February 27, 2009
- If you’ve recently strolled the Swiss Village shops on Highway 87, you may have noticed a new shop — Eagle Mountain Gifts. While Eagle Mountain is hardly new to the area, it has a new location.
- Warm week will make for nice crappie fishing at Roosevelt Lake
- February 27, 2009
- The end of February is upon us and Crappie Time is right around the corner on Roosevelt Lake.
- Men’s golf gearing for week-long Turkey Shoot
- February 27, 2009
- When we last saw the Payson Men’s Golf Association in action, members were wrapping up the 2008 links season with a three-week long Turkey Shoot and an appearance in the Prescott Country Club Jamboree.
- Little League tryouts take place Saturday
- February 27, 2009
- Tomorrow, Feb. 28, is sure to be a big day in the life of Little Leaguers.
- Fast-breaking Chinle team awaits PHS
- February 27, 2009
- The first step most small-town Arizona basketball coaches take when playing reservation teams is to prepare their players to defend fast break offenses, attack swarming full court pressure defenses and contest from three-point land.
- Authorities searching for overdue four-wheeler
- February 27, 2009
- Authorities are searing for a 29-year-old Scottsdale man that was last seen at the Jakes Corner Store Wednesday morning and may be four wheeling in the Four Peaks area.
- Lady Longhorns to host Monument Valley
- February 27, 2009
- If there is a certainty in tomorrow’s Feb. 28 state second-round playoff game between Payson and Monument Valley, it is that hordes of reservation-area fans will show up in Wilson Dome to support their beloved Mustangs.
- Special Olympian takes gold at winter games
- February 27, 2009
- An Olympic-sized smile graced Christine Sexton’s face as she climbed atop the victory stand to accept the gold medal she won at the Special Olympics 2009 World Winter Games.
- Harry sees his shadow — winter is over and spring is on its way
- February 27, 2009
- Harry, the Christopher Creek ground squirrel, has seen his shadow. You know what that means — winter is over spring is on the way.
- Hellsgate firefighters praised for helping accident victim
- February 27, 2009
- Hellsgate Fire Department was called out on Sunday afternoon about 4 p.m., Feb. 22, to the Ellison Creek area for a quad accident. Stations #22 and #23 responded to the call.
- Melting snow filling up creeks and drainages
- February 27, 2009
- All of the creeks and drainages are full as the snow melt continues.
- Seems like every week there is a great musical event taking place
- February 27, 2009
- We certainly are very privileged in the Rim Country to have so much musical talent available for our entertainment, aren’t we? It seems like nearly every week there is a great concert or some other type of musical performance in the area that’s coming our way.
- Jo Johnson has left the building
- February 27, 2009
- If you were to look at Jo Johnson, smile at her effervescent cheer or admire her long, brown locks, you would not picture her flying headlong into the wind on a motorcycle while wearing a leather jacket — especially since if you saw Jo Johnson, you would likely be sitting through a long, county supervisors meeting.
- Chasing wildflowers: Rare enough to treasure
- February 27, 2009
- I confess. I’m hooked, addicted, helpless in the grip of my need. Blame the poppies. Not the French Connection heroin poppies — but the tiny seeds that can wait for decades with indestructible patience in stoney desert soils for a year such as this — a mild spring following along behind a decently wet winter after a decade of drought.
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