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Teacher dies in cycling accident- June 12, 2009
- Students, teachers and administrators in Payson Schools are mourning the loss of one of the district’s most beloved teachers.
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- Become familiar with wealth-transfer strategies
- June 12, 2009
- To retire comfortably, you need to save and invest regularly.
- Free soccer clinic offered by British group Saturday
- June 12, 2009
- A golden opportunity awaits Rim Country soccer hopefuls tomorrow, June 13, at Rumsey Park.
- Every once in a while, age restrictions make sense
- June 12, 2009
- It was a comment that was to be repeated a large number of times over the next few days as people met our teenage warrior.
- Teacher dies in cycling accident
- June 12, 2009
- Students, teachers and administrators in Payson Schools are mourning the loss of one of the district’s most beloved teachers.
- Where is the outrage?
- June 12, 2009
- Most of us will remember the excoriating remarks made by senators about the automaker CEOs coming to D.C. in their respective corporate jets. Yes, that was company bucks
- Sean Cuniff covers 4-mile run in 19:32
- 40 take part in National Trails Day hike, run
- June 12, 2009
- About 40 hearty Rim Country residents celebrated National Trails Day on June 4 with a four-mile jaunt on the Monument Peak Loop Trail.
- Top prep cowboys, cowgirls in town for rodeo
- June 12, 2009
- The Arizona State High School Championship rodeo will draw some of the finest prep cowboys and cowgirls from around the state and also from New Mexico and Colorado.
- Big changes for youth football
- June 12, 2009
- There are big changes going on in Payson youth football.
- PHS athlete finishes 14th at Southwest meet
- Maddie Nossek among top competitors at New Mexico track and field competition
- June 12, 2009
- New Payson High School track and field coach Jonathan Ball is convinced Maddie Nossek can become one of the state’s finest all-around athletes.
- Just one free Arizona fishing day left on June 13
- June 12, 2009
- Get the tackle ready and load up new fishing line on the reel — there is still one more free fishing day for Arizona on June 13 so you can celebrate National Fishing and Boating Week.
- Fishing report
- June 12, 2009
- Fishing is was pretty good during the Memorial weekend, with some float tube anglers doing exceptionally well. The lake was stocked last week with catchable-size rainbow trout. There are also larger hold-over trout.
- Is 72 hours long enough for your pet?
- June 12, 2009
- There’s been a lot of focus on us lately — focus on how long we hold animals; focus on how much it costs on a daily basis to operate our facility.
- One hectic week
- June 12, 2009
- This past week has been very hectic for the Snyder household. My husband, Bill, gave me and my family a bad scare when he had a severe warning regarding his heart. He was well taken care of by the personnel at the Arizona Heart Institute and the Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix.
- Pay raises, new budget passed for fire district
- June 12, 2009
- Monday night’s fire board meeting was a mixture of those for the budget and those against it.
- Business briefs
- June 12, 2009
- Wells Fargo is conducting a summer food drive in Arizona to collect donations for food banks in the state including the Food Bank of Payson.
- Around Rim Country
- Rim Country packed with fun, festivities
- June 12, 2009
- The 19th Annual Strawberry Patchers Quilt Show is June 12, 13, and 14 at the Pine Community Center. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
- Counselors, cops narrowly avert tragedy
- Cell tower climber highlights mental health crisis needs
- June 12, 2009
- There were signs, of course, but people often ignore signs until something happens.
- Payson faces critical shortage of housing
- Despite slump in home prices, average house still costs nearly twice as much as average worker can afford
- June 12, 2009
- Despite the recent decline in home values, the average Payson worker can’t come close to making the payments on the average Payson home, according to a just-concluded study.
- Large pipe moving through town backs up traffic
- June 12, 2009
- A large refinery pipe snarled up traffic in town Tuesday afternoon as police and DPS authorities worked to snake the oversized load under lights and through intersections.
- Rim fire buffers Pine area
- June 12, 2009
- Normally, when you get a 1,200-acre fire in June that burns to within two miles of Pine, you’d have evacuations, panic in the street and anxious residents wetting down their roofs.
- Vandals overturn benches, egg, graffiti restrooms at Payson library
- June 12, 2009
- Vandals are escalating the scale of their attack on the Payson Public Library. Thursday night, June 11, some of the benches in the front of the building were turned over and one was damaged. The building was also egged.
- A flag woven from sacrifice
- June 12, 2009
- One day in 1908 as he dined outside of Philadelphia, President Theodore Roosevelt noticed a man wiping his nose with a small American flag.
- St. Paul’s thanks community
- June 12, 2009
- St. Paul’s Episcopal Church would like to thank the community of Payson for its generous support of our annual Marketplace which was held May 15 and 16. A special thanks to Cliff Potts for his donation of the use of the former “Git a Rope” building on the Beeline Highway.
- Global warming myths
- June 12, 2009
- There is no argument that the earth has been warming for the past 50 to 100 years or so. The consensus seems to be that man-made greenhouse gases will cause this warming to continue until we are roasted alive or we reduce our greenhouse gases to very low levels.
- Thanks for hosting foreign exchange students
- June 12, 2009
- I would like to personally thank Michael Buskirk/Daria Mason and sons Kit and John, Carl, Laura, Clint, Jake and Jason Hacker who have hosted exchange students, this year through EF Foundation for Foreign Study.
- Challenge for Payson residents
- June 12, 2009
- Have you ever criticized our Payson Police Department or heard others doing so? I have heard the criticisms and it angers me a lot.
- It is time to look at the waste
- June 12, 2009
- I just heard that APS is giving the school district a break on the electric bill.
- Mentioning some things that I am for
- June 12, 2009
- Those of us on my side of the political spectrum have grown to recognize certain political phrases and questions from the left side of the trail for what they really mean.
- Of books and cooking
- Library director leads program based on noted Arizona author’s work
- June 12, 2009
- Fans of reading, Mexican food and cooking had a red-letter day last month at the Payson Public Library with the Capirotada Cooking Class and Book Discussion.
- Computers put TV programming on your schedule
- June 12, 2009
- How many times have you forgotten to set the DVR while on vacation, been stuck in a late meeting with no escape, or been invited to dinner with a long-lost friend — only to discover that you missed a crucial episode of your favorite show? The stranglehold that television has on our lives is a topic for another article — but missing a results show on “American Idol” or a pivotal hour of “Lost” can be frustrating. Technology, as usual, comes to the rescue.
- Lots of good fishing, activities in Rim Country
- June 12, 2009
- Oh the wonderful lazy days of summer! One of our favorite things to do at this time of the year is go fishing.
- Christian school awarded early childhood funds
- June 12, 2009
- The Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board recently voted to approve $23.3 million in emergency child care scholarships statewide to immediately shore up the stability of working families and their children.
- Green Valley Park concert features top pop, rock ’n’ roll, Motown hits this Saturday
- June 12, 2009
- If you are a fan of the golden oldies music of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s; this Saturday evening’s Parks and Rec’s concert at Green Valley Park is for you. The Higher Power Band, out of Phoenix, will be performing some of the top pop, rock ’n’ roll, Motown and country hits from yesteryear.
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