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White wins constable race; Allen scoops Senate- 9:33 p.m., August 24, 2010 Updated 8:59 a.m.
- Former Gila County Sheriff’s deputy Colt White celebrated his win over three Republican challengers in the constable race late Tuesday night with family at his side.
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- Primary results: Let the battle begin!
- August 27, 2010
- State Sen. Sylvia Allen saved her seat during Tuesday’s primary election against challenger and former Rep. Bill Konopnicki despite losing the race in Gila County.
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- Drunk drivers mar peaceful rodeo weekend
- 12:48 p.m., August 27, 2010 Updated 10:04 a.m.
- Despite a rainy, rodeo-filled weekend, the streets and bars of Rim Country were relatively quiet.
- Border security surge gets mixed reviews
- Arizona lawmakers portray $600 million boost only a start as crime, crossings decline
- August 27, 2010
- A $600 million package to boost border security and hire more than 1,000 more Border Patrol agents roiled the political waters in Arizona this week.
- First no slot bass tournament a success
- August 27, 2010
- More than 20 years ago, the slot limit program was created for Roosevelt Lake by the Arizona Game and Fish Department to improve the declining fishery.
- Regional football star shines for Nevada
- August 27, 2010
- During a recent vacation stop in Las Vegas, I learned that former Round Valley High School football standout Travis Trickey has moved from linebacker to fullback on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas football team.
- St. Johns Redskins vs. Payson Longhorns will be a toss-up Friday
- August 27, 2010
- Around the state, scribes, armchair quarterbacks, fans and football junkies are calling tonight’s Payson vs. St. Johns non-region clash a toss-up, mostly because both teams are relatively unknowns this season.
- Soccer team play kicks off — finally
- August 27, 2010
- Payson High School soccer team members are chomping at the bit to begin play and finally line up against someone other that their own teammates.
- Roadrunners no match for Lady Horns
- August 27, 2010
- Rallying on stellar serving that included four aces each from sisters Megan and Kaitlyn Wessel and three by Rachel Creighton, the Lady Longhorns opened the 2010 season successfully routing Holbrook 25-9, 25-15 and 25-19.
- Demolition Derby promises to be fair highlight again
- August 27, 2010
- One of the wackiest entertainments ever seen in the Rim Country has become a much-anticipated event that attracts to the Payson Event Center crowds of more than 2,500 spectators and some of the state’s finest adrenaline-crazed drivers.
- Rodeo support a lifesaver for former queen
- August 27, 2010
- Donna Everhart has covered some rocky ground in the 26 years since she won the crown of Payson Rodeo Queen for the centennial anniversary of the World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo.
- Pine suffers delays
- Hour-long delays leave drivers fuming
- August 27, 2010
- Road paving made for another disruptive day for residents in Pine Monday. Road crews closed off one lane of roadway to lay down a final layer of asphalt.
- County vs. the Feds: All bark, not much bite
- August 27, 2010
- Can the county government order around federal agencies?
- You can fool all the people … once! Part II
- August 27, 2010
- Last week I was talking about a practical joke I played on the guys in my barracks. Some of them actually believed I had jumped off the second floor balcony and flown over to the supply building, 150 feet away.
- Roundabout needed at Highways 260/87
- August 27, 2010
- A roundabout instead of all the traffic lights
- Board, well owners have verbal agreement
- August 27, 2010
- In an Aug. 17 letter to the editor the Pugels and the Randalls, the owners of the Milk Ranch Well, ask that I prove the existence of a signed document that PSWID is going to pay them $570,000 for the Milk Ranch Well. This is puzzling since I have never said that such a document exists.
- Lessons from California
- August 27, 2010
- We hope the Payson bureaucrats are taking a lesson from Bell, California!
- Thanks to participants of the Awakening Earth Expo
- August 27, 2010
- To all of the participants of the Awakening Earth Expo — Thank you so much for being a part of the Second Annual Awakening Earth Expo in Pine. It was great to have you there with us as a part of the festivities and we really appreciated your help in keeping the energy flowing and growing!
- Speak English
- August 27, 2010
- For more than 20 years I was engaged in international business. My travels have taken me to 31 countries.
- Why I support the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
- August 27, 2010
- People hear “Ground Zero Mosque” and they think Mecca in the back yard and a loud call to prayer and they take umbrage.
- Thanks for the donation in memory of our mother
- August 27, 2010
- We recently learned that a bench has been donated to the Payson Senior Center in memory or our mother, Norma Bowman, and her friend, Evelyn Morrison, who were both very active members of the Senior Center.
- Understanding and identifying our enemy
- August 27, 2010
- “[T]he first rule of war is to know your enemy.” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reminded us in a recent column. “If you don’t,” he went on, “you wander into intellectual cul-de-sacs and ignore the real causes that might allow to you prevent recurrences.”
- Dear candidates: Tell us the truth
- August 27, 2010
- Yes, Virginia — there really is a Santa Claus. And honest to goodness, kids, the Easter Bunny loves you.
- Community Almanac
- August 27, 2010
- Dresses, skirts and lamps will be on sale for one-half off the marked prices through Aug. 28 at the Pine/Strawberry Thrift Store, 3916 N. Highway 87 in downtown Pine.
- Officer’s demotion hearing delayed
- August 27, 2010
- With the town’s conflict attorney bowing out of Payson Police Lt. Donny Garvin’s appeals case, a scheduled hearing has been pushed back at least a month.
- Chilling tale of murder on the run
- Details emerge of double killing in bizarre escape that nearly ended in a Rim Country gun battle
- 12:14 p.m., August 27, 2010 Updated 09:40 a.m.
- The would-be Bonnie and Clyde fugitives who’d led police on a wild, three-week chase began talking soon after their capture in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests last week.
- Congress: Fierce fight looms for Rim Country’s district
- August 27, 2010
- Political novice Paul Gosar parlayed endorsements from Sarah Palin and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio into something of an upset victory in the Republican primary race in the first Congressional District.
- State House: Voters face stark choice
- August 27, 2010
- Arizona House District 5 voters will face a stark choice in November, after contending slates locked up their parties’ nominations for the two open seats.
- Primary results: Let the battle begin!
- State Senate: Allen beats challenger
- August 27, 2010
- State Sen. Sylvia Allen saved her seat during Tuesday’s primary election against challenger and former Rep. Bill Konopnicki despite losing the race in Gila County.
- Pacific Coast now 1st National Bank
- August 27, 2010
- Pacific Coast Mortgage is now First National Bank.
- Explore municipal and Build America Bond options
- August 27, 2010
- Tax season officially ended on April 15. Yet you can explore tax-smart investment opportunities year-round.
- Sweet delights at My Sister’s Bakery
- August 27, 2010
- Move over all vegetarian options and small, hard cookies. A new baker is expanding the former Red Elephant’s menu selection from classic European baked goods to all-American, just like Mom used to make.
- Purr-fect time to adopt a kitten
- August 27, 2010
- Well, the kittens are ready! We have any type of kitten you can imagine! And they are all ready to start their new life in a loving, forever home.
- Annual duel, buffet lunch was a huge success
- August 27, 2010
- This past week has been a trying one for my family with the loss of our grandson-in-law Christopher John Walk, also known as CJ.
- Northern Gila County Fair coming in September
- August 27, 2010
- Well the road crews are back in Pine and Strawberry. I’m sure there’s a perfectly logical reason why both towns were completely shut
- Dominoes and Sonni’s Sightings around the creek
- August 27, 2010
- Twenty-five ladies attended the annual Domino Duel between the Christopher Creek domino group and the Domino Divas at the Christopher Creek Bible Fellowship on Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 1 p.m.
- Looking forward to the end of hot August nights
- August 27, 2010
- Monsoon season certainly has been good to the Rim Country this year, hasn’t it? It’s brought much-needed rainfall to our parched land. For this, we can be very thankful.
- Recycling event slated for Saturday
- August 27, 2010
- Intermittent rain has been infrequent even with the hopeful clouds we see every day. On Monday we were visited by a storm that may have left .10 of an inch of precipitation.
- Rim Country storms ease drought
- Storms push totals to near normal despite drought on Colorado
- August 27, 2010
- A weekend storm dumped an inch of rain on Payson and turned the rodeo arena into a bog — but despite the wave of cloudbursts, the region has gotten only an average amount of rain since January.
- It’s Greek to them
- Library cooking class offers budget Aegean culinary tour
- August 27, 2010
- The Greek isles are alluring; the history and myth of Greece enthralling. And the trendy “Mediterranean diet” phrase nets 835,000 hits on Google (compare that to the 303,000 hits when you do a search for “Creole cooking”).
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