Also from June 26
Lead stories
7:24 a.m.
Brooke boss, PSWID to meet in open meeting- June 23, 2009
- In one of the more bizarre twists to occur in the cantankerous water war between Brooke Utilities President Bob Hardcastle and the Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District, Hardcastle has requested a meeting with no lawyers present.
2:00 p.m.
Bankruptcy filing leaves Rim, Chaparral Pines in limbo- June 26, 2009
- A bankruptcy filing has left Rim Golf Club members and employees in limbo as negotiations take place on the continued operation of the facility, which is complicated by not one, but two bankruptcy filings.
All stories
- For the love of golf
- June 26, 2009
- Bob Purkey hopes to teach kids something they can keep with them the rest of their life — the love of golf. For the second year, Purkey has a four-week opportunity to instill this passion and maybe a little discipline along the way.
- Retired police officer goes back to work
- June 26, 2009
- After working for the Payson Police Department for nearly three decades, it is no surprise that when Sgt. Todd Bramlet could finally retire in March, he could not tear himself from the organization that had strongly shaped his life and personality.
- Mountain lion spotted in Hunter Creek area
- June 26, 2009
- A mountain lion has been spotted in Hunter Creek. Jo Armistead has heard the cat over the last two weeks and Ralph and Dottie Christofferson said every morning it wakes them up below their home making an awful sound.
- Anonymous Bear Flat camper ignores no shooting signs
- June 26, 2009
- Summer is now in full swing.
- Help keep our forest clean
- June 26, 2009
- A couple of weeks ago the Roundup ran a story about the cleanup efforts of the East Verde River and the incredible amount of trash that was removed.
- Summer reading for the 21st Century
- June 26, 2009
- The classics were written hundreds of years ago, but we can enjoy them even more with modern-day convenience.
- Small Café switching up dinner scene
- June 26, 2009
- One of Payson breakfast institutions, the Small Café, is switching gears and menus to stay afloat in the economic times.
- Investment tips for single parents
- June 26, 2009
- When it comes to investing, single parents share basically the same concerns as two-parent families.
- Happy ending for Gia; siblings still here
- June 26, 2009
- Gia was the first to arrive. We had heard through the grapevine that there was a litter of 12.
- Around Rim Country
- Free concert in the park Saturday
- June 26, 2009
- The Summer Concert in the Park series continues Saturday, June 27 with Moonshine Mafia, featuring southern rock and country.
- A new ‘Aversive Conditioning Tool’
- June 26, 2009
- Alan Armistead was at my ranch at Canyon Creek, NM for the second time that spring of 2001 to investigate wolf attacks on livestock.
- Some duty assignments are just a bit different
- June 26, 2009
- A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a very young Army corporal who was sent over to the American Embassy in Karachi by mistake. It was not supposed to happen.
- Women’s services at PRMC get high-tech boost
- June 26, 2009
- Payson Regional Medical Center took a giant leap forward in its Healthy Woman services recently. PRMC has added Selenia™ digital mammography from Hologic™ to the growing array of imaging resources it has available to Rim Country residents.
- Mike Vogel rotates into Payson’s vice mayor position
- June 26, 2009
- Town councilor Mike Vogel was appointed last week by a unanimous council to the largely ceremonial position of Payson vice mayor. He succeeds Councilor Ed Blair.
- Bears, javelina make unwanted visits to residents
- June 26, 2009
- Recently a number of residents around Payson have had unwanted visits by bears and javelina.
- Camp brings softball players to Rumsey Park
- Sun Devil camp attendees come from as far away as Indiana
- June 26, 2009
- A stroll through the Rumsey north parking lot reveals many parked cars and trucks sporting out-of-state license plates — New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and even Indiana.
- Ex-Longhorn wrestlers come back to help out
- June 26, 2009
- It was welcome home week in the old Payson High School gymnasium.
- Golf tourney raises thousands in scholarship money
- June 26, 2009
- The Jack Morris Memorial Golf Tournament was a success attracting 13 foursomes and earning thousands of dollars for great causes.
- Hall of fame coach yearned for Longhorn football job
- June 26, 2009
- Over the years, I’ve met many of his ex-players and they wear the “I played high school football for Jesse Parker” label like a huge badge of honor.
- Torrens, O’Neill join to win women’s tourney
- June 26, 2009
- Susan Torrens and Kelly O’Neill hooked up to win first-place honors in one of the Payson Women’s Golf Association’s premier summer classics.
- Healthier, wetter national forest is helping wildlife
- June 26, 2009
- Watching those thunderheads build in the latter half of May and the late spring rains that followed were certainly a welcomed sight. Most locations under the Rim received a total of 2 inches of moisture, while the area on top of the Mogollon had over 4 inches in the rain bucket.
- Tonto Tribe pays for school sidewalks
- June 26, 2009
- A no-strings gift from the Tonto Apache Tribe will enable Payson to complete sidewalks around Payson High School and Rim Country Middle School.
- Bankruptcy filing leaves Rim, Chaparral Pines in limbo
- Owners and employees left wondering about future
- June 26, 2009
- A bankruptcy filing has left Rim Golf Club members and employees in limbo as negotiations take place on the continued operation of the facility, which is complicated by not one, but two bankruptcy filings.
- GCC to furlough staff four days each month
- June 26, 2009
- Gila Community College’s Senior Dean Stephen Cullen told the board Thursday that the college will save $526,000 by furloughing administrative and support staff four days each month.
- Water forever says Walker
- Payson will have plenty of water for even a population of 44,000 when Blue Ridge pipeline delivers in 2016
- June 26, 2009
- “We should be OK forever,” said Payson Water Department Director Buzz Walker of the town’s water supply — providing the town never has more than about 50,000 residents.
- Offensive music, words lead to three arrests
- June 26, 2009
- An altercation that broke out in the Walmart parking lot Wednesday night over racially offensive music ended with three arrests, police said.
- Fifteen-year-old dies while hiking in West Clear Creek Canyon
- June 26, 2009
- A 15-year-old Boy Scout from Las Vegas died Saturday while hiking in a canyon east of Camp Verde.
- Turning spigots, changing ideas
- June 26, 2009
- Turn the tap. Fill the glass. Drink deep. So easy — deceptively so.
- Zoning should not be changed
- June 26, 2009
- This is a commentary of the article covering the proposed Underwood rezoning.
- Too much of a hurry?
- June 26, 2009
- What is our little town coming to when one neighbor almost runs another neighbor over?
- Woes of Payson
- June 26, 2009
- Fellow residents and citizens of Payson, just how much abuse are we expected to endure from the so-called “powers that be” in this town?
- Camper warning
- June 26, 2009
- While camping at Woods Canyon Lake’s Spillway campground recently, I had my Honda 2000 generator stolen in the middle of the night. It was attached to my motor home with a heavy steel cable which was cut.
- Hold dog owners responsible
- June 26, 2009
- About some dog owners not being held responsible (re: letter to the editor from Kathleen Kelly, June 19 Roundup), I think they should be held responsible for it. Either that or they should put a leash on the dog or put a fence up.
- Community needs to go to legislature to help GCC
- June 26, 2009
- I wish to commend you for your editorial “GCC board needs more control.” You point to long standing problems in the way the laws were set up governing community colleges in Arizona. Perhaps the rules governing provisional community colleges seemed to make sense, but history has proven them to be deeply flawed, and we in Gila County, and Payson in particular, are paying the price.
- Friends and neighbors were a big help during illness
- June 26, 2009
- What a blessing friends and neighbors can be.
- Don’t understand the rhetoric
- June 26, 2009
- Did anyone but me have trouble marrying meaning with rhetoric in Pastor Mike Amundson’s letter to the editor last Friday?
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