Also from July 21
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Homes destroyed, heavy smoke fills town- July 21, 2009
- Despite battling dense smoke, sweltering temperatures and heat exhaustion, firefighters managed to save one Chaparral Pines home Saturday evening, but lost two neighboring high-end homes during a three-hour fight.
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- Water supply, sewer system needed to help SV grow
- July 21, 2009
- Does Star Valley want to remain the sleepy, small town with ranch properties, limited commercial growth, aged septic systems, limited water sources and a single revenue source of photo enforcement tickets?
- New water district created by Gila County supervisors
- July 21, 2009
- Gila County’s newest water district does not yet have either a water company or a sworn-in board.
- Gene Granville Cooper (1933-2009)
- July 21, 2009
- Gene Granville Cooper, formerly of Payson, died July 12, 2009 in Bennington, Okla. He was born Aug. 7, 1933 to Granville and Alma Cooper in Phoenix.
- Jack W. Bushno (1926-2009)
- July 21, 2009
- Jack W. Bushno was born March 11, 1926 in Chicago, Ill. He lived and was educated in Rock Island, Ill.
- Nine-year-old Payson swimmer has goals set high
- July 21, 2009
- If there’s a budding Jenny Thompson in Payson, it’s Emily Giarrizzo.
- New girls basketball coach takes over team that lost all its starters
- July 21, 2009
- A woman who learned basketball from her high school coaching father has been tapped to head the Lady Longhorn hoop program.
- Angler lands six good rainbows at Rim lake
- July 21, 2009
- A really good day in Don McFarland’s retirement years is spent leisurely angling for rainbow trout on the scenic shores of Woods Canyon Lake.
- ADOT volunteer given trip to D-backs game
- July 21, 2009
- John Dryer’s first trip to an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game in Chase Field is one he won’t soon forget.
- 3D archery shoot will be Aug. 9
- July 21, 2009
- With big game seasons just over the horizon, it’s time for archery hunters to begin fine tuning their skills.
- Re-Runs moves to bigger location on Main Street
- July 21, 2009
- With the huge success Re-Runs experienced during its first year on Main Street, owners Andy and Cindy Kofile found themselves running out of space.
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- REAL ESTATE - Ray Pugel
- July 21, 2009
- Real estate, Goldilocks and the Three Bears … Oh my!
- Merchants celebrate national cowboy day
- July 21, 2009
- The Payson “Wagon Wheel Territory” group of businesses will celebrate the National Day of the Cowboy from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, July 25. The businesses will host a series of musical performances throughout Payson. A decorated wagon wheel in front of their establishments can easily identify the Wagon Wheel businesses.
- Educational opportunities for area senior citizens
- Senior Moments
- July 21, 2009
- Life used to be so simple. If you wanted to contact someone, there were three ways: physically go see them, call them on the telephone or write a letter.
- Local rodeo greats form Ring of Honor
- Living legends, legendary riders alike honored
- July 21, 2009
- Even before she got inducted into the Cowgirl, Cowboy and Pro-Rodeo halls of fame — Payson’s own Nancy Sheppard could bring ’em to their feet in the rodeo arena doing rope tricks atop a cantering horse.
- PSWID approves $9M budget
- July 21, 2009
- The Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District board, at its July 16 meeting, approved a 2009-2010 budget of $9,401,000.
- Potential cuts, control on college board agenda
- July 21, 2009
- With a looming deficit and little power of its own, Gila Community College board members will discuss Thursday both potential budget cuts and new ways to exert influence over their affairs.
- Gila Community College classes
- July 21, 2009
- The Gila Community College - Payson Campus is offering new classes for the Fall semester.
- Freshman Orientation at Payson High School
- July 21, 2009
- All freshmen entering Payson High School are required to attend Frosh Orientation Tuesday, July 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the old gym on the PHS campus.
- Act now – don’t wait for disaster
- July 21, 2009
- Pop quiz: What’s the biggest danger to Payson, Star Valley, Pine and Strawberry? Photo radar? Hardly. Meth-heads? Not even close. Earthquakes? Locusts? Plague?
- Feds flaunt the law
- July 21, 2009
- New rules, guys. No bank robbing — unless you really need the money. No beating people up — unless you’re really mad. No running red lights — unless you’re in a big hurry.
- The right path to health care reform
- July 21, 2009
- The continuing health care debate in Washington is centered on how we can assure all Americans have access to quality health care, while also making health care more affordable and reducing costs.
- To our friends in Payson
- July 21, 2009
- All the persons noted below wish to thank the wonderful people of Payson for the heartfelt warmth extended to us over the recent passing of Cynthia Anne Watkins Pool.
- Thanks, Jinx
- July 21, 2009
- Thank you, Jinx Pyle, for your love of God, country and fellow man!
- Real estate appraisers did not cause the bubble
- July 21, 2009
- “Unscrupulous appraisers played a key role, manipulating value estimates …” The typical appraiser did not cause the real estate bubble. Appraisers use recent sales to determine market value. Strong demand causes higher prices. Appraisers do not set value, the market does.
- Bashas’ is big help to communities
- July 21, 2009
- I don’t know about you, but I would surely hate to see Bashas’ go out of business, here or anywhere.
- Where’s the water?
- July 21, 2009
- I’m not one to write my opinion to a newspaper, but, at this point, I need to know that I am not the only one feeling this way.
- New czars have all kinds of power
- July 21, 2009
- Some of the newfangled moves in our government have me really confused. These so-called czars apparently have all kinds of power, aren’t confirmed by our elected representatives and aren’t standard U.S. civil service employees.
- Payson wannabes are …
- July 21, 2009
- Just who are the Payson wannabes? Payson wannabes are people who reside in and around the Payson area who simply want to be able to …
- Sorry to hear about The Small Café closing
- July 21, 2009
- I was saddened to hear of the closing of The Small Café.
- Another huge success for Payson Fourth of July!
- July 21, 2009
- The Main Street Merchants Guild would like to extend their sincere thanks for everyone that came to the first of many Main Street 4th of July parades.
- There was no brouhaha, but there should have been
- July 21, 2009
- After hearing the story about the Payson Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department saying the Payson Sons and Daughters of Liberty could not pass out booklets of the Constitution on the Fourth of July at Green Valley Park because the paper might blow into the lake, I decided to go to parks and rec office and ask for a copy of their regulations. I was told “they have no written regulations.”
- Payson man drowns in south fork of Brazos River
- July 21, 2009
- Divers recovered the body of a 35-year-old Payson man from a Texas lake Monday morning.
- Fossil Creek fish in legal limbo
- Verde trout endangered, but feds have no money to complete listing studies
- July 21, 2009
- The Verde trout, once common in Rim Country streams, is endangered after all, U.S. Fish and Wildlife has concluded.
- Rim towns lag behind in wildland fire codes
- July 21, 2009
- Despite Payson and Star Valley sitting in the middle of a ponderosa pine forest at high risk for a devastating forest fire, both communities lag behind in adopting a set of wildland fire codes, says the Arizona State Forester.
- Reserves help county balance budget
- $2 million needed to bring $100-million budget in line; $9-million bond will expand jail facility
- July 21, 2009
- Gila County will scrape through this fiscal year by using $2 million in reserves to balance a $100-million budget that aims to maintain services while expanding facilities with a $9-million bond.
- Homes destroyed, heavy smoke fills town
- July 21, 2009
- Despite battling dense smoke, sweltering temperatures and heat exhaustion, firefighters managed to save one Chaparral Pines home Saturday evening, but lost two neighboring high-end homes during a three-hour fight.
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