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- Tonto Natural Bridge is back!
- May 5, 2009
- Tonto Natural Bridge State Park will reopen on weekends starting Memorial Day, thanks to an innovative partnership between Payson and the state park system.
- Payson police squeeze budget
- May 5, 2009
- Payson Police will cut about $300,000 from this year’s budget and remain three officers under its full authorized strength — which largely reflects the impact of losing its contract to provide police protection for neighboring Star Valley.
- Pot grower reports wife, gets himself arrested
- May 5, 2009
- An intoxicated man who tried to turn his wife in for growing marijuana plants, ended up being arrested after admitting the plants were his.
- Animal shelter breaks ground, but still needs help
- May 5, 2009
- If you build it, they will come.
- Still-tight budgets squeezed
- May 5, 2009
- Already tight budgets will shrink or barely hold their own in the fiscal year that starts in June, according to preliminary budget figures presented to the Payson Town Council last week.
- Around Rim Country
- May 5, 2009
- National Day of Prayer observed Thursday
- Many made Optimist Fishing Festival a success
- May 5, 2009
- The Rim Country Optimist Club would like to thank the Arizona Game and Fish Department for all its help and all the merchants, donors and participants of the second annual Fishing Festival. The event was well attended with Game and Fish registering 536 participants, of these 270 were 19 or younger. Three registered from California, with representatives from White River, Pine, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, Tempe, Glendale, Gilbert, Mesa, Coolidge, Chandler and Star Valley.
- Customers should not abuse offerings of businesses
- May 5, 2009
- This letter is on behalf of the abuse of the wireless Internet connections and games provided at the Fireside Espresso.
- Opposed to subdivision
- May 5, 2009
- This letter is in reference to the property at 509 E. Park Dr. We own the property at 601 E. Park Dr. and we did not receive a letter of notice about the meeting on 04/24/09 as several other nearby neighbors did not, but we did attend.
- Do your own homework
- May 5, 2009
- It appears the letters to the editor no longer carry any message that does not agree with the editor/publisher. The same negative message about our current president and Congress. Words make it into the paper by tax protesters and from the cowboy logic of Jinx Pyle and the monthly editorials by Jon Kyl. But that does not leave room the other side of the story.
- Scouts helped with car show trash
- May 5, 2009
- With reference to Boy Scout Troop 7354. This weekend the boys of Troop 7354 volunteered to help keep the grounds of the car show in Green Valley Park clean. These boys did an excellent job. Their parents and scoutmaster can be proud of them. During the day they picked up and dumped 72 bags of trash.
- Heartbreak red …
- May 5, 2009
- Pete Aleshire knows how to bring tears to a couple who found love a second time around. Larry gave Shirley the red Mustang when she said “yes” in September of 2007. She moved to Payson, joined the car club and has been learning about classics ever since.
- Children plant tree of Earth Day
- May 5, 2009
- On Wednesday, April 22, the Community Presbyterian Child Learning Center children planted an apple tree outside one of their classrooms as part of their ongoing educational program that teaches the importance of caring for and improving our planet.
- Police budget raises questions
- May 5, 2009
- Does Payson have enough police officers?
- Park reopening triumph for Rim
- May 5, 2009
- Troubled waters. Big bridge.
- Traffic study will shape Payson’s future
- May 5, 2009
- Would a highway bypass solve Payson’s weekend traffic problems — but kill off vulnerable businesses?
- Insider’s view of deadly feud
- May 5, 2009
- Git A Rope Publishing will release Jinx Pyle’s latest book, “Pleasant Valley War,” on Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9 at the Payson Womans Club.
- Feature teacher- Donna Moore
- May 5, 2009
- Name: Donna Moore
- Teaching children healthy habits to last a lifetime
- May 5, 2009
- Teaching elementary physical education classes all day fails to wear out Donna Moore. She still steps two miles every day on the Stairmaster and weight trains at night.
- Neighborhood watch honored
- Block Watch party turns protection into recreation and gets new sign to recognize ‘outstanding’ turnout
- May 5, 2009
- So often today, people say they do not know their neighbors. But a block of homeowners was recognized Wednesday for their participation in a block party last year that got people out of their homes, talking, eating, learning and possibly stopping crime in the future.
- School librarians on cutting block
- Board members question elimination of library jobs
- May 5, 2009
- No more elementary school librarians?
- PRMC bringing in latest, greatest imaging technology
- May 5, 2009
- Payson Regional Medical Center is bringing some of the latest equipment to enhance its imaging services.
- Women’s Health Week events planned
- May 5, 2009
- National Women’s Health Week is a weeklong health observance coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health (OWH) and sponsored in Payson by Payson Regional Medical Center. With the theme “It’s Your Time,” the nationwide initiative encourages women to take simple steps for a longer, healthier and happier life.
- May is amazing month
- May 5, 2009
- Here we are in the aMAYzing month. Sunny, warm days without the oppressive heat of midsummer. Nights cool, but no longer the danger of frost nipping those tender plants. Beautiful clouds beginning to build in the afternoon foretelling the coming monsoon season. I had a moment of nostalgia last week when making May baskets for the Senior Thrift Store’s First Friday celebration. My mind went back to childhood days — every May Day I would make a basket of woven colored construction paper, paste it together (no scotch tape or Elmer’s glue in those days) and fill it with wildflowers from the woods around our house. Yes, even as a young child I was allowed to roam the woods unaccompanied and somehow I never got lost or hurt in any way. I searched for what we called May flowers (hepatica) and arbutus, and when the basket was filled, I presented it to my Aunt Lou who lived down the shore from us. Of course she made a big deal of it and I felt quite special. Precious memories …
- Noting historical milestones in the real estate industry
- May 5, 2009
- A particular radio announcer has an opening theme that asks, “Where am I and how did I get here?”
- Mae Morrison
- May 5, 2009
- Mae Morrison, 88, of Payson, died April 29, 2009 at Hospice Compassus.
- Bette Jean Tussing
- May 5, 2009
- Betty Jean Tussing, of Mesa, died May 2, 2009. She was born Oct. 16, 1931 in Cotton Center, Ariz. She was the oldest of five children born to Hadley and Opal Mills.
- Lady Horns earn 16th and final state seed
- May 5, 2009
- The 3A state tournament bracket has not yet been etched in stone, but the Lady Longhorns will probably play East Region rival Blue Ridge in the opening round.
- Swimmers can compete in first community meet
- May 5, 2009
- A first-ever communitywide swim meet will be held from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 30 at Taylor Pool.
- Horns head to state as 7th seed
- May 5, 2009
- “Play ’em one game at a time,” is a tried and true coaching adage that most obey as if it was carved in stone, housed in an ark and passed on from down high.
- PHS to host prep, middle school championships
- May 5, 2009
- Track and field action will be fast and furious at Payson High School this week.
- Ex-Devil runs to Zane Grey win
- May 5, 2009
- A 24-year-old former Arizona State University economics and accounting major ran his way to the championship of the Zane Grey Highland Trail 50-mile race.
- Inaugural Circle the Peak June 6
- May 5, 2009
- Glowing enthusiasm might the most accurate description of Mary McMullen’s fervor for the inaugural Circle the Peak walk/run event.
- Dozens of voices unite in beauty
- May 5, 2009
- The men, women and young people in the Payson Choral Society are a dedicated lot. Even before they present their big holiday concert at Christmas, they are planning for auditions and rehearsals for the annual spring concert.
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