Also from October 2
Lead stories
8:05 a.m.
Ag building bids sought by school- September 29, 2009
- Soon Payson High School agriculture teacher Wendell Stevens won’t have to sneak dogs into the computer-crowded room where he now teaches animal science.
1:24 p.m.
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‘Breakthrough’ in talks on college in Payson
- October 2, 2009
- A “breakthrough” in the long, careful negotiations between Payson and Arizona State University should lead to an agreement within two weeks to build a branch campus here, perhaps by 2011, according to a source close to the negotiations.
All stories
- County examines four-day work week
- October 2, 2009
- The trend is growing — switching to a four-day work week to save money.
- Our ‘onlys’ only want to be loved
- October 2, 2009
- Today’s article is focusing on a group of animals we refer to as “onlys.” Onlys are an animal that does not care for the company of another animal. They are devoted and loving to people but, for whatever reason, do not get along with other animals.
- Fossil Creek fishing: Now any chub’ll do
- October 2, 2009
- Roundtail chub? Headwater chub? Not to worry. Catch that chub, too — any chub’ll do.
- It’s not the chubs, it’s the chumps
- October 2, 2009
- A chub — by any other name — still smells fishy. But in this case, we suspect there’s less than meets the eye in the thrashing about in the waters of Fossil Creek inspired by the recent “wrong chub” debate.
- Budget cuts, ed reform needed
- Groups at town hall meeting say Arizona needs to fix budget deficit
- October 2, 2009
- Arizona needs to make sweeping changes in both its budget and education systems to lower the more than $1 billion deficit and improve test scores, speakers at a taxpayer town hall said Sept. 25.
- Sense of community in the mountains
- October 2, 2009
- It looks like summer isn’t going away without a fight this year. The Valley is still having days where they reach around 110 degrees. I had a feeling we might be in for an extended summer since it seemed to start a little later than normal this year. This is likely great news for Rim Country businesses since the hotter it is down there, the busier we stay up here in the high country.
- Tonto Village resident wins NASCAR trip
- October 2, 2009
- I have enjoyed the nippy mornings and evenings, and I know that the temperatures will be steadily dropping from now on.
- Permit required to burn brush, yard clippings
- October 2, 2009
- After spending last weekend visiting family and shopping in the Valley, it sure is great to be back home! There is something so wonderful about heading back up the hill after a couple days battling the crowds and the heat. It is like a breath of fresh air to get into the cool pines where folks aren’t in such a mad rush all the time.
- Saturday should be ‘A Good Day to Run’
- October 2, 2009
- Do you live on the west side of the Beeline Highway in Payson? If you do, there is a good chance that if you look out of your front window early this Saturday morning, you will see a horde of sweaty, gasping-for-air athletes sprinting by your house.
- Keeping kids safe online
- October 2, 2009
- There is a lot of precedent for keeping kids safe in everyday situations: We have learned that it is important to remind them that they shouldn’t talk to strangers, we know that it is important to hold little children’s hands as they cross the street, and it is common knowledge that hot dogs must be cut up into really small pieces when given to toddlers. What may not come quite as easily to our parental sensibilities is how to keep our children safe on the computer. Internet safety was obviously not an issue back when we played the Atari, so we are all treading on new ground here.
- Seven-day, 24-hour prayer vigil starts Friday
- October 2, 2009
- Approximately 26 churches in the Rim Country will take part in a weeklong, around-the-clock prayer vigil starting today, Oct. 2
- Sunday brunch at the Rim Club to benefit Mount Cross Lutheran Church
- October 2, 2009
- The Rim Club will open to the public for Sunday brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18.
- Lady Horns nip Elks
- October 2, 2009
- Tanya Olsen’s successful goal shot from 10 yards away with less than two minutes remaining in the second overtime lifted the Lady Longhorn soccer team to a 2-1 win over the Round Valley Elks.
- Six Payson youths on the way to NFL event
- October 2, 2009
- A contingent of six Payson-area NFL Punt, Pass and Kick winners have their sights set on Northern Arizona University and later the Arizona Cardinals University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.
- Full team effort necessary to get a win over Snowflake
- October 2, 2009
- The return of highly-talented running back Payson Herring to the Longhorn line-up has football faithful around the White Mountains wondering if he is enough of a difference-maker to lift PHS over the highly favored Snowflake Lobos.
- Chance for postseason success a possibility for boys cross country
- October 2, 2009
- Forrest Wadington is drawing praise from cross country coach Johnathan Ball as a runner capable of leading the Longhorns into the rarefied atmosphere of the postseason promised land.
- Moggie: the essence of unconditional love, support
- October 2, 2009
- Yesterday, my wife Kay and I planted in our front yard a stunningly beautiful fir tree our children and grandchildren had given her a few days earlier as a birthday present.
- Keet Seel
- Couple discovers history intermixed at Indian ruins
- October 2, 2009
- When Phyllis and Morris Brown decided they needed another challenge after their 24-mile trek across the Grand Canyon in one day, they looked to northern Arizona for inspiration.
- Parks & Recreation Department has plenty of fun for all this fall
- October 2, 2009
- The Payson Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department is offering three different youth basketball programs starting soon. Registration is taking place now.
- Rim Country fishing is fine in fall
- October 2, 2009
- Fall is finally here with shorter days and cooler temperatures and that is good news for the fishermen in the Rim Country. Even though the hunting seasons are in full swing, don’t put away that fishing gear quite yet.
- State PMGA play
- October 2, 2009
- In a state qualifying two-man scramble the team of Frank Szakal and Phil Wagner swung their way to low-gross honors while Popeye Clay and Jim Dalgleish took the low-net title.
- When should you rebalance your 401(k)?
- October 2, 2009
- Your 401(k) plan is an excellent retirement-savings vehicle — so don’t let it stall out.
- Myofascial brings relief to patients
- October 2, 2009
- Richard Standt, an occupational therapist at Payson Care Center, offers a special kind of therapy to outpatients as well as residents at the facility — myofascial release.
- KFC introduces customer appreciation days in October
- October 2, 2009
- Who doesn’t want something for free? Arizona KFC Restaurants are showing their appreciation for their customers with a free KFC’s Ultimate Value Menu item.
- County fire districts struggle with funds during lean times
- October 2, 2009
- With its line of credit in limbo, Hellsgate Fire Department is joining other county fire districts in feeling the pinch to keep its fire departments operational.
- Drive launched to help food banks
- Leaders plan fund-raising drive as empty shelves face 300 homeless
- October 2, 2009
- Community leaders on Tuesday agreed to launch an emergency campaign to raise $20,000 and collect 50,000 pounds of food to rescue five regional food banks.
- community news briefs
- October 2, 2009
- This will include refrigerators, freezers, washers, dishwashers, dryers, portable trash compactors and water heaters. Other metal items will also be accepted, say officials from the Gila County Public Works division.
- Pine Strawberry water company purchase completed
- October 2, 2009
- The Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District’s long and taxing quest to take control of Pine and Strawberry water companies from Brooke Utilities peaked Wednesday, Sept. 30, with the board paying the purchase price of $3.5 million.
- Community Almanac
- October 2, 2009
- The Payson Unified School District’s office is now located in the historic Julia Randall rock building at 902 W. Main St. As part of the First Friday on Main Street festivities Oct. 2, the school board and staff invite the community to an open house from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. There will be tours and refreshments.
- You cannot be serious
- October 2, 2009
- There are two articles I have read recently in the Roundup that have truly shocked, dismayed, and terrified me.
- It is payback time for Obama
- October 2, 2009
- Obama and his entourage on Air Force One, plus a smaller jet with his wife’s entourage, all at taxpayers’ expense, are in route to Copenhagen for a meeting with the 2016 Olympic Committee to push for the Olympics to use Chicago for the 2016 site for the games.
- Jinx spreading hatred and lies
- October 2, 2009
- It’s a shame and a tragedy that the Roundup uses Jinx Pyle to spread hatred and lies about our president and the unbelievable comparison to Hitler who killed millions of innocents.
- Farmers Market thanks supporters
- October 2, 2009
- An open letter of thanks from the organizers and vendors of the Payson Farmers Market.
- Thanks for all the help
- October 2, 2009
- The organizers of the Bow Wow Boogie would like to thank all of the people who made it possible to raise $6,130 for the Humane Society of Central Arizona.
- Bypass needed for highway safety
- October 2, 2009
- As the four lanes are being added to Highway 260, it is becoming a main route for traversing central Arizona. Evident by the many large vehicle and semi-trucks are using it more and more.
- No more Band-Aids
- October 2, 2009
- Our health care system has a broken arm, and Congress is trying to find Band-Aids to fix it. What we need is a new health care system, rather than patching a broken system.
- Just being yourself works — most of the time
- October 2, 2009
- When I began teaching other people how to teach, I was often asked a question that I suppose all teaching-methods teachers get. “What’s the best way to get along with the students?”
- Busy cowboy decides to stop writing column
- October 2, 2009
- For some time now, my wife Jayne has been running our Git A Rope Publishing Company with little or no help from me.
- Student recipes sizzled with success
- PHS student chef wins junior chef of the year title at competition
- October 2, 2009
- Weeks of preparation in the kitchen paid off for two Payson High School students who participated in the American Culinary Federation competition last weekend.
- Photographer offers prize-winning fair photos for good cause
- Ribbon-winning photographs will be sold to benefit Kids with Cameras program
- October 2, 2009
- Jeff Robbins, a former Associated Press photographer and reporter, recently made a good showing at the 2009 Northern Gila County Fair with his work.
- Free series on alternative wellness practices offered
- October 2, 2009
- Gila Community College will present a series of programs offering information on alternative approaches to overall wellness starting this week. The program, “Mind, Body, Spirit Exploration” will take place at 6 p.m., Thursdays through Nov. 5. The programs are free and no registration is required.
- Rim Country woman wins national recipe contest
- Karen Fausz’s Scalloped Corn recipe selected by Libby’s after national contest
- October 2, 2009
- Karen and Bill Fausz of Thompson Draw I are the typical Rim Country retirees. They bought their little cabin in the mountains while living and working in the Valley — Karen in education and Bill in sales — and then retired to become full-time residents of the area six years ago.
- Different kind of church makes a difference in lives
- Congregation gets $50-$100 from Expedition Church
- October 2, 2009
- Expedition Church formed a year ago in July as a different sort of church.
- Bids too high, county to revamp women’s jail design
- October 2, 2009
- County officials will revamp the design for a new women’s jail in Globe after the lowest bid for the project returned roughly $200,000 over budget.
- O ho — it’s a pirate’s life for me!
- October 2, 2009
- If a pirate’s life’s for you, then there’s a party bounding over October’s waves headed your way. The annual Gracie Lee Haught Children’s Memorial Fund Costume Party is Oct. 17 with the theme of Pirates and Bounty of the Sea.
- Star Valley in good financial shape
- October 2, 2009
- Despite a drop in revenue from photo enforcement tickets, the Town of Star Valley ended fiscal year 2008-2009 in good financial shape, according to its financial advisor Glenn Smith.
- ‘Breakthrough’ in talks on college in Payson
- October 2, 2009
- A “breakthrough” in the long, careful negotiations between Payson and Arizona State University should lead to an agreement within two weeks to build a branch campus here, perhaps by 2011, according to a source close to the negotiations.
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