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- Annual Relay for Life is tonight at high school field
- June 5, 2009
- Once again the track at Payson High School will be alive and alight with the annual Relay for Life festivities this weekend.
- Haught bucking for shot at national title
- Payson high school rodeo star hopes to lasso championship
- June 5, 2009
- Trevor Haught’s immediate career goal is to find a way to stay aboard a 1,500-pound wild, bucking bronc for eight seconds while clinging only to a braided rein.
- Concert series starts Saturday
- June 5, 2009
- We Paysonites are in for another musical treat this weekend.
- Around Rim Country
- Concert in the Park series begins June 6
- June 5, 2009
- The summer concert series kicks off Saturday, June 6 with a performance by The Brew City Sisters folk-rock band.
- Ode to a racing man
- Bud Matson was a NASCAR pioneer
- June 5, 2009
- Tucked away in the corner of Bud Matson’s hilltop home is a small sign that reads, “It’s nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.”
- Wild flowers blooming in the forest
- June 5, 2009
- This time of year is one of the best times to be living in the Rim Country.
- Taking aim at bull’s-eyes, charity needs, a flag in a hole
- June 5, 2009
- The Tonto Rim Sports Club Expo, set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, June 7 at the Jim Jones Shooting Range, is a great way to introduce teenagers and newcomers to target shooting, hunting and the safe handling of firearms.
- Bundles of cuteness ready for homes
- June 5, 2009
- The first batch of kittens have cleared their health checks, been spayed and neutered and have made their way up to the main house for adoption. There’s nothing in cat house #5 but bouncing bundles of pure kitten cuteness.
- All Stars: One more bow
- Game to reunite state champion coach, players
- June 5, 2009
- Rim Country sports faithful will soon have one final opportunity to cheer the core of prep football players who set Arizona on its face mask last season winning the 3A state championship.
- Fall deer, turkey, javelina, sheep hunt applications due soon
- June 5, 2009
- I know it is fishing season, but believe it or not, the fall deer, turkey, javelina and sheep applications are due next Tuesday, June 9.
- Public help sought to guide hunt guidelines
- June 5, 2009
- The Arizona Game and Fish Department is hosting a series of nine public meetings to solicit input on the proposed revisions under consideration for the hunt guidelines used for setting the 2010-11 and 2011-12 hunting season dates, structures, permit levels and more.
- Volunteers needed at Woods Canyon to help cleanup
- June 5, 2009
- The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests are offering an opportunity at Woods Canyon Lake for the public to learn about nesting bald eagles and osprey, and help these majestic raptors at the same time through a lake cleanup.
- Buy high and sell low: A formula for failure
- June 5, 2009
- It’s unfortunate but true: Many people are not particularly successful investors. Why? Part of the reason can be explained in these two words: Fear and greed.
- Business briefs
- June 5, 2009
- The Rim Country Regional Chamber of Commerce will hold its Business Buzz meeting Thursday, June 18.
- Crazy Eddie did things his way
- June 5, 2009
- If Crazy Eddie had been a horse, I would have thought he overindulged on loco weed.
- Spike one (for the Gipper)
- June 5, 2009
- An old cliché among high school football coaches is that championships are won in the summer, not the fall.
- When a slowpoke turns into a speed demon, look out!
- June 5, 2009
- He was one of the nicest guys I ever met. He was also one of the sleepiest.
- It took time, but mother of nine earns college degree
- June 5, 2009
- The course of Angela Parker has been steady, despite the tumult that life threw. The mother of nine children earned her bachelor’s degree this month from Brigham Young University — two online classes at a time.
- Lots to do in Strawberry June 12-14
- June 5, 2009
- Pine and Strawberry are definitely the places to be next weekend. The Strawberry Patchers Quilt Show, Strawberry Festival and Strawberry Valley Blues Festival are all taking place, promising a fun-filled time for the whole family.
- Help for little squirrels
- June 5, 2009
- Seven squirrels were born on Memorial Day. As our guests were loading up to leave last Monday, these little guys were slowly moving around the property.
- Tower climber facing charges
- June 5, 2009
- Camn Boal, the 40-year-old Payson man who climbed a communications tower Tuesday as a suicide threat, is in Globe jail on felony charges, police said Thursday.
- Star Valley council bucks deficit trend
- June 5, 2009
- Star Valley bucked the deficit trend Tuesday as it unveiled a projected $9.3 million budget, which included $2.9 million in carryover and a plan to a start a reserve fund despite a 15-percent decline in operating revenue.
- Hwy. 87 widening to start in June
- June 5, 2009
- In an ongoing effort to make northern Gila County roads safer, the Arizona Department of Transportation is moving ahead with plans to expand Highway 260 to four lanes to Heber and will start widening parts of Highway 87 to Pine where a number of accidents have occurred on the winding, narrow road.
- Water district buy in legal swamp
- June 5, 2009
- A Yavapai County Superior Court judge will soon be charged with deciding whether the Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District violated a court order to allow it to take over the two communities’ water companies and if sanctions should be placed against the district’s governing board.
- Vacation Bible schools
- June 5, 2009
- The “Sonrock Kids Camp” vacation Bible school will be held from noon to 3 p.m., June 15-19 at the Pine Strawberry School.
- Seeing the numbers can sometimes cause shock and awe
- June 5, 2009
- Closing out the school year, one that I believe has been quite successful, I get a chance to look at different numbers. I spend a fair amount of my time looking at numbers: budget numbers, bond dollars, class size projections, staffing requirements, AIMS scores. The list goes on, but some numbers are particularly interesting —perhaps even to the point of generating a little shock and awe.
- Tax hearing: tough call, but right one
- June 5, 2009
- The Payson Town Council last night thought hard, swallowed twice — then did the right thing.
- Council needs to fund the Humane Society animal shelter
- June 5, 2009
- In regards to the city wanting to cut the amount of the contract to the humane shelter by $50,000, I feel Sam Streichman’s approach to the problem, is simply ridiculous!
- Apology to YMCA supporters
- June 5, 2009
- Earlier this week, an e-mail under my name was passed around in support of the Humane Society of Central Arizona.
- What are we doing about the human suffering?
- June 5, 2009
- Dog pound or no-kill shelter. I know it’s not politically correct to use terms like dog catcher or dog pound anymore. Today it’s animal control and Humane Society that are preferred. No matter what they are called, I have complete respect for folks willing to take on this responsibility.
- Council may raise town property tax
- If Payson raised the property tax rate to the maximum, it would cost owner of a $200,000 house $4.86 annually
- June 5, 2009
- A divided Payson Town Council Thursday voted to start the potentially contentious process of boosting the town’s property tax rate to raise an extra $73,000 for next year’s stressed-out budget — a move that would add less than $5 to the tax bill on a $200,000 house.
- Crews turn lightning caused fires into controlled burns
- June 5, 2009
- Fire crews are letting two well-behaved lighting-sparked fires burn atop the Rim, taking advantage of the lingering effects of a three-inch downpour in May.
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