Also from October 6
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Weekend fire damages home- October 6, 2009
- Fire officials say following a few simple tips could have prevented a small bathroom fire over the weekend.
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- Lady Horns in critical game today
- October 6, 2009
- Lady Longhorn volleyball coach Arnold Stonebrink is sure the outcome of a non-region showdown today, Oct. 6, against Fountain Hills will be crucial to his team’s quest for a postseason berth.
- PMGA hosts fun play for couples
- October 6, 2009
- The Payson Men’s Golf Association-hosted Buck and Doe tournaments are annually some of the most festive and fun-filled links frays.
- Fishing Report
- October 6, 2009
- The new winter stocking report is now available on our Web site at http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/stocking_schedule.shtml. Enjoy.
- Horns soundly spanked by Lobos
- October 6, 2009
- Longhorn football players and coaches saw enough of Snowflake’s Robby Martindell on Oct. 2 in Lobo land to last them a lifetime.
- Bikers get ready to roll in Rim Country
- October 6, 2009
- A pair of former Payson High School coaches are experiencing different degrees of success with their new teams.
- Rim Country races a success
- October 6, 2009
- Bradford Brooks’ Rim Country Half-Marathon winning time of 1:32.18 didn’t come close to last year’s record-setting pace of 1:18.10 set by Brandon Day, but it was good enough to win the event by about a two-minute margin.
- Weakened team loses to Holbrook
- October 6, 2009
- The Longhorn soccer team, still reeling from the loss of four starters, was upset 2-1 by the Holbrook Roadrunners Oct. 3 at Rumsey Park.
- GLH Fund to benefit from medical flights
- October 6, 2009
- The Gracie Lee Haught Children’s Memorial Fund will receive approximately $15,000 in January from Native Air, a division of Omniflight Helicopters, Inc.’s Flight for a Cause fund-raising program.
- Vita Mart doubles size in new space
- October 6, 2009
- After only two years in business, BJ and Christine Bollier of Vita Mart have doubled their number of products. Now they have doubled the size of their store to fit all of the merchandise and add a few new surprises.
- Updated real estate tidbits
- October 6, 2009
- We have seen multiple offers on homes in recent weeks with some selling above the asking price.
- Free Edward Jones foundations of investing seminar Oct. 13
- October 6, 2009
- Fear of the unknown sometimes prevents people from investing in the future. Developing an understanding of the basics simplifies the process of getting started in an investment program.
- District sees laptops in every student’s future
- New fiber optic cables put high-speed Internet in middle and high school classrooms
- 03:00 p.m., October 6, 2009 Updated 02:45 p.m.
- The future at Payson Unified School District could include laptops for every student, and paperless textbooks accessed via the Web.
- Weekend fire damages home
- October 6, 2009
- Fire officials say following a few simple tips could have prevented a small bathroom fire over the weekend.
- SV general plan draft nearing completion
- October 6, 2009
- After getting an earful from Star Valley residents over ATV trails at the last general plan meeting, Wednesday’s meeting went relatively smoothly.
- Election on agenda tonight
- October 6, 2009
- It is getting to be that time of year again when politicians kick off campaigns. In Star Valley, three council seats and the mayor’s chair are up for contention in 2010.
- Domestic violence shelter seeks help to replace cuts
- October 6, 2009
- Rim Country’s only domestic violence shelter hopes private donors can help make up for public cuts to shore up a program that in the past year has provided 10,000 nights of shelter for women and children fleeing abusive relationships.
- County to maintain reservation roads
- Supervisor criticizes plan as poor use of tax dollars
- October 6, 2009
- Gila County Supervisors clashed Tuesday over whether to honor a recently surfaced 2004 agreement between the county and the San Carlos Apache Tribe that requires the county to blade the tribe’s dirt roads.
- Community Almanac
- October 6, 2009
- Learn about fall outdoor photography from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15 at the parks office in Green Valley Park, 1000 W. Country Club Drive.
- Time to wake to terrible toll of domestic violence
- October 6, 2009
- First, she could not believe he would hit her. Then, she could not believe he would not change. Finally, she could not believe she had no escape.
- Bypass, toll road would be economy killer
- October 6, 2009
- After hearing and reading about the bypass I can keep silent no longer. From what I have read and have heard, the only justification I hear about building a bypass is inconvenience on the part of some citizens on Friday afternoon and some holiday weekends in getting to the grocery, hardware or gas station because of the heavy traffic.
- Payson has year’s supply of affordable homes
- October 6, 2009
- I read in your newspaper that there is a move to raise the maximum building height in Payson to seven stories. The reason given is the need for affordable housing.
- Residents’ rights week
- October 6, 2009
- Oct. 4-10, is National Long-Term Care Residents’ Rights Week, a time to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices many long-term care residents have made to better our community. This year’s theme: Hear Our Voice — Residents Speak Out About Residents’ Rights, was selected to call attention to the fact that residents of long-term care facilities have a voice; and that voice should be part of decision-making in long-term care facilities.
- Students make ornaments for Christmas
- PES class constructs decorations for U.S. Capitol Christmas tree
- October 6, 2009
- Like Santa’s elves working quickly for the upcoming holiday, for the last two weeks, a handful of fourth- and fifth-graders at Payson Elementary School have busily been creating ornaments for the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree.
- Feature Teacher
- October 6, 2009
- I would love to meet Benjamin Franklin. I think he was born way before his time and he was so full of new and creative ideas. Can you just imagine what he could accomplish if he were around today?
- JRE teacher nominated for teacher of the year honor
- October 6, 2009
- From a pool of hundreds of deserving teachers, one Payson teacher is in contention to be Arizona’s 2010 teacher of the year.
- PRMC open house debuts latest technology
- October 6, 2009
- Six months ago you could not find a medical facility anywhere in the country with some of the equipment Payson Regional Medical Center now boasts. At an open house last Thursday, the PRMC administration and staff showed off some of the latest and greatest medical equipment now available to patients.
- Community News Briefs
- October 6, 2009
- The Payson Rimstones Rock Club presents its 12th annual Gem and Mineral Show Oct. 10-11 at the Mazatzal Hotel and Casino Event Center Bingo Hall located on the Tonto Apache Reservation just south of Payson off of Highway 87.
- Arrest made for threatening message on high school bathroom wall
- October 6, 2009
- After four threatening messages were discovered on the bathroom walls at Payson High School, police say they have charged a teen for one of the messages.
- Embattled frog making last stand in Rim stream
- Biologists fight mysterious decline of amphibians by putting Chiricahua Leopard Frogs in Ellison and Clear creeks — with help from ranchers
- October 6, 2009
- He’s back. Ribbet. Ribbet. Thank goodness.
- Prescribed burning season has arrived on the forests
- October 6, 2009
- Springerville — The arrival of fall on the forests typically means cooler temperatures, changing colors, and the start of the prescribed burning season. Prescribed burns help remove excess and hazardous fuels from the forests, and it is one tool the Forest Service uses to make these lands more resilient to wildfires.
- Kids discover catch-and-release fishing along Fossil Creek is fun
- First day of fishing for chubs declared big success, despite threat of lawsuits
- October 6, 2009
- Big schools of chub — little schools of kids. No lawsuits — so far.
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