Also from July 24
Births
- Colten Craig Boyle was born at 8:47 p.m., Friday, June 26 to Michelle Weathersby and Preston Boyle. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19-1/2 inches long. He is the grandson of Joseph and Debra Weathersby, Craig and Lisa Boyle, and John and Edna Bebout, all of Payson, and Yolanda Boyle of Flagstaff.
- Mack Cailliau was born at 4:04 p.m., Monday, July 6 to Andrew and Angela Cailliau. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19-1/2 inches long.
- Izabella Sage Zimmerman was born at 7:42 a.m., Monday, July 13 at Chandler Regional Hospital. She is the daughter of Pine residents Greg and Jen Zimmerman and the sister of Tyler Zimmerman, age 9. She’s also the newest grandchild of Marg and Bud Cushman and Kay Zimmerman, all of Payson. The parents extend thanks to Payson Regional Medical Center Labor and Delivery and Dr. Cynthia Booth for providing support care during the pregnancy.
Couples
- Wedding: Stoll and Walden
- Anniversary: Nielsen
Obituaries
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All stories
- Search of truck nets $2M in drugs
- July 24, 2009
- A routine traffic stop on Highway 87 Saturday afternoon yielded two arrests and more than $2 million worth of marijuana, heroin and cocaine.
- Sewer master plan goes forward in SV
- July 24, 2009
- What will $26,000 buy you? A Mazda Miata? Down payment on a home? For the Star Valley Town Council, it could provide $50 million worth of sewer advice.
- Payson’s tax rate unchanged
- July 24, 2009
- The Payson Town Council Thursday balked at raising the town’s property tax rate, despite facing a tight budget with almost no reserves.
- Semi truck rollover shuts down Highway 87
- July 24, 2009
- A semi tractor-trailer carrying crushed cars closed southbound Highway 87 for more than six hours Thursday night after it overturned, shooting debris across four lanes of traffic.
- Family greets Fish as he walks out of prison
- July 24, 2009
- A retired schoolteacher convicted of second-degree murder after shooting a Payson man during a trailside confrontation five years ago was released from prison around noon Tuesday, July 21.
- County session is curious, curiouser
- July 24, 2009
- “It would be so nice if things made sense for a change.” —Alice, from Alice in Wonderland. The Gila County Board of Supervisors this week went tumbling down the rabbit hole of the bewildering Pine Strawberry water wars.
- Some government workers do know how to cooperate
- July 24, 2009
- Guess we should count our blessings.
- Get on the ball if you don’t want to be clobbered
- MY HORSEBACK OPINION
- July 24, 2009
- I was recently contacted by someone who called himself a neoconservative Republican and warned me about my extremist, old-fashioned Republican views.
- One plus one can equal trouble if you’re counting sons
- YOUR TURN
- July 24, 2009
- My mother used to say that whenever my two oldest brothers, Bill and Frank, got together it wasn’t one plus one equals two, it was one plus one equals “… more trouble than the Good Lord should put on the shoulders of a poor hard-working widow.”
- Thanks to those who put on the Ring of Honor
- July 24, 2009
- I would like to recognize the people who put the Ring of Honor together and give them a big thank you. Farrell and Mary Hoosava, Jinx and Jayne (Peace) Pyle, Chuck and Hallie Jackman and all others who helped make this possible. What a wonderful evening the Mazatzal Casino hosted for myself and others to be inducted to the Payson Rodeo Legends Ring of Honor.
- Cap and trade bill is nothing but a tax increase
- July 24, 2009
- I want to commend Sen. Jon Kyl on his wise column against the cap and trade bill that is now in the Senate.
- Jinx is the best entertainment Payson has to offer
- July 24, 2009
- As a 3- to 4-year-old visiting Grandpa on his farm, I was asked to catch some chickens for dinner. My brother and I managed to round up three of the cluckers. Grandpa ambled to the chopping block and without notice came down on the block with the ax … lop went the first head and we watched in stunned silence while that first chicken ran in two great circles, minus head, and then straight into the sack my grandpa had for transporting. Grandpa held that bag up and declared that bird the winner and our next meal.
- Frustration and concern over handing out copies of Constitution
- July 24, 2009
- After reading the article by Pete Aleshire, my first thought is “brouhaha”? That conjures up a sense of commotion or uproar, but it is an eye-catching title for a newspaper story. Yes, there definitely has been a determination to get facts on what the policy or ordinance is for handing out public information (copies of the Constitution in this case) at the town park, but a brouhaha?
- Pine Strawberry water board seeks open meeting with supervisors
- July 24, 2009
- To Shirley Dawson: The Pine-Strawberry Water Improvement District (PSWID) is very astonished, surprised and disappointed that the Board of Supervisors (BOS) chose to hold a “workshop” recently, July 21, concerning water issues in the Pine-Strawberry area without so much as even advising the district of the scheduling of such meeting.
- Rental tax stays in place in Star Valley
- July 24, 2009
- It took several months of back and forth discussion between the Star Valley council and town manager, but the town has finally come to a resolution regarding its 2-percent rental tax.
- Payson Art League education program to benefit from ice cream social
- July 24, 2009
- Down the Street Art Gallery is hosting an Ice Cream Social Friday, Aug. 7 to benefit the Payson Art League’s Arts Education Program which donates art supplies for our local schools. While many art programs are being cut due to budget constraints, these supplies are even more important, organizers said in a press release.
- Prep players in Payson for football camp
- Longhorns joined by teams from Casa Grande, Dysart and Sunrise Mountain
- July 24, 2009
- Two-a-days are the bane of every high school football player. Three-a-days are absolutely brutal. But that’s what has been happening this past week at Payson High School where almost 200 prep players from around the state gathered for a preseason camp.
- Come one, come all – all are welcome for home run derby
- July 24, 2009
- Age restrictions have been removed from one of the summer’s most hotly contested athletic events.
- Women’s outdoor program now just one day
- July 24, 2009
- Mary McMullen is hoping that cutting the Women’s Step Outside program from two days to one day will allow for more participation.
- Youth football players need to register July 25
- July 24, 2009
- Payson Youth Football officials will host two upcoming player and cheerleader registrations, from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow, July 25, and those same hours on Aug. 1.
- The perfect combination for stream fishing
- OUTDOORS UNDER THE RIM
- July 24, 2009
- Summer stream fishing for trout in Arizona could be comparable to a military low crawl training session in the jungles of some far off country.
- School board puts off override decision
- July 24, 2009
- Continuing legislative uncertainty convinced the Payson Unified School District Board to put off deciding whether to seek approval of an override voters flunked in November.
- Group forms to save Tonto Natural Bridge
- July 24, 2009
- Arizona State Parks may shut down entirely before October, but Rim Country leaders say they’ll keep Tonto Natural Bridge State Park open no matter what happens to the rest of the system.
- Payson to build third fire station
- July 24, 2009
- The Payson council Thursday voted to build a third fire station at the eastern edge of town with $1.5 million in bonding authority approved by voters in 2003.
- While installing fire alarm, cut gas line starts fire
- July 24, 2009
- It was a worst-case scenario for a former U.S. Forest Service firefighter turned fire alarm installer Wednesday, when he inadvertently started a fire at Payson High School.
- Visions turned into mission statement by school board
- July 24, 2009
- They have a mission, they have a vision, and they’re ready to roll.
- Community Almanac
- July 24, 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.
- Summer delights: Transient treasures
- July 24, 2009
- Summer’s treasures are transient — the monsoon storm and the rainbows left to shimmer in its wake; the perfect, starlit night filled with the smell of a great barbecue and music floating in the air from who knows where. And then there are summer’s precious gems, the glorious, gleaming gifts cultivated with care in our gardens or surprising and delighting us on the banks of bar ditches along the roadside — flowers.
- School days are just a week away
- Schools, teachers provide needs list
- July 24, 2009
- The groans are getting louder. School starts in just a week in Payson and Pine.
- NPG Cable named independent operator of the year
- July 24, 2009
- NPG Cable, Inc. was selected independent operator of the year by CableFAX magazine.
- Edward Jones ranked highest in investor satisfaction
- July 24, 2009
- For the fourth year, financial-services firm Edward Jones ranks highest in investor satisfaction with full service brokerage firms, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study.
- Protect your 401(k) after a layoff
- FINANCIAL FOCUS - MIKE BLAES
- July 24, 2009
- Are you retiring soon? Changing jobs? Leaving your company? Or think you may be laid off? If so, here’s one of the most important questions you’ll need to ask yourself: What should you do with your 401(k) or other tax-advantaged retirement plan?
- Pets in need of a happy ending
- ADOPTION OPTIONS
- July 24, 2009
- Monsoon season has arrived. The badly needed rain is such a blessing. Unfortunately, the thunder that comes along with it has really been tough on the dogs. Just today we have received three different dogs that were found running down the road after the early afternoon storm.
- Rim Country water stewards program offered at GCC
- July 24, 2009
- If water affects your life in any way, from the quality of what you drink and recreate in to knowing there’s enough for you, your neighbors, the forest and its creatures, then the Master Watershed Steward is for you.
- Author gives guide to lasting happiness
- July 24, 2009
- Author Ed Feyereisen calls it his baby — it was six years in gestation and six months in childbirth. “It” is his book, Living Life With No Regrets, a guide to lasting happiness.
- Dance the night away at Family Days Celebration
- July 24, 2009
- If you’re looking for something fun to do tomorrow night (Saturday), come on over to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (next to the hospital) from 7 to 10 p.m. The church is hosting a family dance night (where I’ll be spinning the tunes) as part of its Family Days Celebration.
- Temperatures creeping upward in the Village
- July 24, 2009
- The temperatures in the Rim Country have been extremely hot! The town of Payson has hit 100 degrees-plus just about all this past week. Tonto Village has almost reached that mark, but not quite. Unofficially, the temperatures have been around 95 degrees. That temperature is still pretty darn warm!
- Forest visitors urged to pack out garbage
- PINE/STRAWBERRY HAPPENINGS
- July 24, 2009
- Normally, we try to avoid places like Fossil Creek on the weekends, but a baptism coupled with the intense heat got us down there last Saturday. As it turned out we found a great “new” swimming hole and managed to have an awesome day cooling off in the crystal pools away from the mobs.
- Volunteers make Bible school a success
- KREEK KAPERS
- July 24, 2009
- Last week was Vacation Bible School in Christopher Creek. Thirty-four children could not wait to enter the chapel for an exciting week of learning and fun. This year’s theme was Boomerang Express, “It all comes back to Jesus.”
- Private Daniel Neff
- July 24, 2009
- Private Daniel Neff graduated from United States Marine Corps basic training on July 2.
- Izabella Sage Zimmerman
- July 24, 2009
- Izabella Sage Zimmerman was born at 7:42 a.m., Monday, July 13 at Chandler Regional Hospital.
- Mack Cailliau
- July 24, 2009
- Mack Cailliau was born at 4:04 p.m., Monday, July 6 to Andrew and Angela Cailliau.
- Colten Craig Boyle
- July 24, 2009
- Colten Craig Boyle was born at 8:47 p.m., Friday, June 26 to Michelle Weathersby and Preston Boyle.
- Majerle, Kempton rodeo parade ambassadors
- July 24, 2009
- The 2009 Rodeo Parade will celebrate the 125th year of the World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo.
- Water district takeover urged
- Pine Strawberry district critics want county to step in
- July 24, 2009
- The Gila County Board of Supervisors should take over the Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District, insisted critics of the district’s attempt to buy the private water company.
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