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Speed, lack of attention top accident cause - March 13, 2009
- What is the most dangerous section of Highway 87? The stretch of roadway from Payson to Pine with its numerous dips and winding curves or from Payson to Rye with the deadly Corvair Curve?
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- Payson residents love parks, police
- March 13, 2009
- Payson residents love the outdoors and parks, feel perfectly safe, get most their local news from newspapers, but aren’t too happy about the condition of the streets, according to a just-released, random resident survey.
- Program choices narrow for Women’s Wellness Forum
- March 13, 2009
- There are only a few programs with room for more participants at the 2009 Women’s Wellness Forum, which is this Saturday, March 14 at Payson High School.
- Payson library has loads of March events for young people
- March 13, 2009
- Anime-Manga, a Young Authors program and a video game tournament are all on the schedule for March at the Payson Public Library.
- Payson library has loads of March events for young people
- March 13, 2009
- Anime-Manga, a Young Authors program and a video game tournament are all on the schedule for March at the Payson Public Library.
- Exchange students find everything in America ‘big’
- March 13, 2009
- Foreign exchange students Kirsti Walstad, 18 and from Norway, and Philipp Leibundgut, 17 and from Switzerland, arrived in America for the school year expecting everything to be big — and it was.
- Dental care for children, pregnant women available
- March 13, 2009
- A new state agency that aims to help children under 5 years of age receive quality health care will begin in July to spend this year’s allotment of $438,000 for Gila County.
- Government is feeding wrong end of the elephant
- March 13, 2009
- I remember back in 1998 the stock market was booming. Some all-knowing Wall Street buccaneer by the name of Wade B. Cook had written a book called “Bear Market Baloney,” the gist of it being the current bull market was locked in and could never end.
- The way I figure it, minimum medicine is the best medicine
- March 13, 2009
- I pulled over, parked in front of the building from which we had started, and shut off the engine, waiting to see what the tall man sitting next to me would say about the driving test I had just finished.
- Established zoning should not be compromised
- March 13, 2009
- Recently I attended a Star Valley Planning and Zoning meeting.
- Congratulations to Jinx Pyle and the Roundup
- March 13, 2009
- First I want to congratulate both you and Jinx Pyle for getting together and providing us with his outstanding writings of Western and local lore laced with a down home sense of humor. As most of us know, Jinx and his wife Jayne are successful writers and have both published a number of books.
- Omnibus spending bill adds up to ‘real money’
- March 13, 2009
- “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”
- Tonto forest wins jackpot
- March 13, 2009
- The Tonto National Forest filled its inside straight and we get to cash in our chips in the form of another reduction in the grave fire danger facing residents of Rim Country.
- Around Rim Country
- Hike Cypress and Boulders Trail
- March 13, 2009
- Parks and Recreation hiking instructors will lead a free Payson Area Trails System (PATS) group hike on the Cypress and Boulders Loop Trail starting at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, March 14 at the Cypress Trail Access at the east end of Phoenix Street
- TCCA presents ‘American Jukebox’ concert March 22
- March 13, 2009
- The Tonto Community Concert Association invites its subscribers and the public to celebrate the very best of America’s top pop music with Matt Davenport Productions’ acclaimed show, American Jukebox. The program is at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 22 at the Payson High School Auditorium.
- Town appointments now peaceful topic
- Payson council names slew of citizens to committees, without
- March 13, 2009
- How things change.
- Woman shoots herself in leg
- March 13, 2009
- An investigation is continuing into why a woman shot herself in the leg outside her home Thursday afternoon.
- State budget cuts could hit hospital
- March 13, 2009
- The ripple effect of state budget cuts could cause a big wave to come crashing down on Payson Regional Medical Center.
- Tonto: $3M for thinning forest
- Federal stimulus will create more than 100 Rim Country jobs
- March 13, 2009
- The effort to keep wildfires from swallowing up Rim Country communities got a big boost this week, with word that the Forest Service will get $3.1 million in federal stimulus money to thin some 8,000 acres of forest.
- SV mayor resigns
- March 13, 2009
- The mayor of Star Valley announced Friday morning he was resigning due to health and family reasons.
- Speed, lack of attention top accident cause
- Payson to Rye most dangerous section of Hwy. 87
- March 13, 2009
- What is the most dangerous section of Highway 87? The stretch of roadway from Payson to Pine with its numerous dips and winding curves or from Payson to Rye with the deadly Corvair Curve?
- Storms have knocked down many trees, collapsed a carport
- March 13, 2009
- Last week I mentioned how warm the weather had been. I was a bit premature.
- In three days, 300 quilts were completed
- March 13, 2009
- The DPS Angels Quilt-A-Thon last week was a huge success.
- Creekside, Kohl’s food well received at chefs competition
- March 13, 2009
- The Taste of the Rim Country at the Payson Public Library was a success.
- Concert series is no more
- March 13, 2009
- As I typically do to start my three-hour, Thursday morning volunteer shift at the Rim Country Chamber and Visitor Center, this past week I browsed through the postings on the walls of the office to see what new was happening in the Rim Country.
- CEO builds healthy programs for Rim
- March 13, 2009
- Surrounded by her prized antiques and collectibles in a tiny office in the back of a building, Judy Baker answers phones, signs invoices and takes walk-ins, all with a vibrant smile on her face.
- Draft horses pull a way of living
- March 13, 2009
- It’s becoming more difficult for Bill and Lori Brown to find horse-drawn farming equipment. In a world where horsepower measures the strength of engines, the Browns’ hobby seems anachronistic. They travel to auctions in Colorado and Arizona, buy horses from Amish friends, and restore early 1900s-era farming equipment, some of which used to be Lori’s yard art.
- Many ways to help homeless pets
- March 13, 2009
- The days are getting warmer and longer. Kitten season is right around the corner, as is puppy season. There is already a litter of each of these tiny babies at the shelter.
- Fossil Creek Creamery wins award for goat cheese
- March 13, 2009
- Fossil Creek Creamery in Strawberry was honored by Edible Phoenix magazine for its artisan goat cheese.
- Wells Fargo offering $50,000 in grants
- March 13, 2009
- Wells Fargo Community Partners (WFCP) is accepting grant requests from Arizona nonprofit agencies that provide job-related resources such as job skills training for individuals who are entering the work force, and materials and education for unemployed individuals.
- Get ready to give your investment portfolio a spring cleaning
- March 13, 2009
- Spring is almost here — time to spruce up your house and get rid of your clutter.
- Suns fans enduring frustrating season
- March 13, 2009
- Phoenix fans have endured some tough times, but none as frustrating as what is occurring this season.
- Popular team roping clinics at event center will fill up fast
- March 13, 2009
- A pair of team roping clinics is expected to be among the most popular of the town’s myriad of spring and summer recreational offerings scheduled at the Payson Event Center.
- Spring break for Longhorns means traveling to Miami
- March 13, 2009
- While most Payson High School students are kicking back and enjoying the district’s spring holiday break, maybe sunning on a Rocky Point beach, the Longhorn baseball team is in Miami today, March 13, battling in nonregion games against San Carlos and host Miami.
- Big field expected for Haught classic
- Lady Longhorns to showcase skills against 11 other 2A-5A teams
- March 13, 2009
- The largest field in the four-year history of the Gracie Haught Classic will show up March 20-21 to showcase their skills in a hometown softball tournament that is drawing rave reviews around the state.
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