Also from February 24
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Polls
Are you in favor on the school override vote?
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 56% | |
| No | 39% | |
| Undecided | 4% | |
| Total | 257 | |
All stories
- Celebrate Red Cross month at variety show
- February 24, 2010
- The Grand Canyon Chapter of the American Red Cross is celebrating Red Cross Month during March. Efforts are focused on raising awareness about preparedness and recruiting new volunteers, as well as blood and financial donors.
- Medal of Honor comes with sacrifice, bravery
- February 24, 2010
- U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert E. O’Malley got his Wikipedia entry the hard way. As a Medal of Honor recipient, O’Malley is credited with singly killing eight Viet Cong then safely evacuating his wounded squad to a helicopter all while being wounded three times.
- Payson council loosens water sale rules
- New policy that could help neighbors — including Star Valley, Mesa del Caballo
- February 24, 2010
- The Payson Town Council has cleared the way for the town to help bail out the water woes of its neighbors — for a price.
- Eye education
- February 24, 2010
- The Good Samaritan Society Majestic Rim is hosting guest speaker Dr. Troy Ford of Payson Eye Care Center at 4 p.m., Friday, Feb. 26. His topic will be “The Aging Eye.”
- Senior Circle provides plenty of fun activities
- February 24, 2010
- The Payson Regional Senior Circle offers a variety of programs for its members and membership is very affordable. Members of Senior Circle receive many discounted benefits both nationally and locally.
- PHS student raising money for trip to Africa
- February 24, 2010
- Payson High School senior Emily Hill is planning to volunteer this summer in Mozambique, Africa through a humanitarian organization called Care for Life.
- Culinary students participate in ‘A Taste of Rim’ this week
- February 24, 2010
- Payson High School’s culinary arts students will be busy in the coming weeks.
- Making a difference with students is important to teacher
- February 24, 2010
- I love science. I enjoy my students. It keeps me young. I can really make a difference.
- Students get double dose of science
- February 24, 2010
- Although seriously cool, out of this world, things occur in Scott Davidson’s combined math and science class, the class itself is not overly serious.
- Our kids matter
- February 24, 2010
- Jordan slouches at her desk glimpsing at the elephant-shaped cloud wishing her art instructor will teach her how to paint. Logan listens to the notes spinning around in his head, praying that he will learn to play the saxophone. Pipe dreams for these two or reality … the voters in Payson will make this choice for them.
- Great display of talent
- February 24, 2010
- This past Saturday evening we attended the Tonto Community concert and we witnessed a great display of talent by the Payson High School jazz ensemble, or if you wish, band. The music chosen was to impress we senior citizens (aka old folks), which it did. I knew that it was a pitch to support the override. I didn’t hear any sour notes or missed notes and they played without a director except at start and finish.
- Support the override
- February 24, 2010
- Upon my retirement as superintendent of Chandler Unified School District, my wife and I purchased a home in Whispering Pines, which is served by the Payson Unified School District. I know from my past experience that an override can become an emotional issue with voters residing within the district.
- College is good for Payson
- February 24, 2010
- So what’s wrong with a college being located here? I don’t get it.
- New people needed in Washington
- February 24, 2010
- “Fool me once — shame on you. Fool me twice — shame on me.” Too many of us have been fooled time after time by politicians.
- Concerns with extension of the school board override
- February 24, 2010
- I would like to take this opportunity to express my concerns with the proposed override.
- Repainted building looks nice
- February 24, 2010
- I recently noticed that Wendy’s hamburger restaurant had repainted their building. It looks wonderful and fits in with our “mountain” town of ponderosa pine. The color is subdued with a nice trim and the roof was painted copper, which is appropriate as Gila County at one time produced 20 percent of the world’s copper.
- College would be good for Payson
- February 24, 2010
- This is in response to a Feb. 9, opinion regarding the proposed ASU campus. Mayor Evans was accused of “hatching a scheme” to make Payson a college town and the commentary ended by asking “Would you rather have a stable population of retired people, most of whom are pretty well off financially, or a transient population of starving students?”
- Payson needs calm, rational approach
- February 24, 2010
- This year we have four candidates in the Payson election for three council seats, three incumbents and a former town manager. All have experience in town government and no one seems to be disagreeing on town issues.
- State needs adult education, GED testing
- February 24, 2010
- If K-12 education was meeting the needs of Arizona’s citizenry, would the state have an annual dropout rate of 23,000, as stated recently in The Arizona Republic?
- Thanks for giving me the bike
- February 24, 2010
- To Hike, Bike and Run and the Payson Roundup. Hi, my name is Garrett Lance and I just wanted to thank you guys for choosing me to win the (Free Agent Devil 24) bike. I have already got it all muddy and everything, and it is an awesome bike. I love it so much that I keep it inside.
- Town can’t maintain services fixed at 1980 prices
- February 24, 2010
- It is that time again, when the citizens of Payson have their opportunity to speak out on how their money is spent by the powers that be at town hall.
- Payson won’t take it out on the students
- February 24, 2010
- The bad news continues to mount for the schools that will determine the future of this community. Most recently, elementary schools in the Payson School District have been cutting key programs, struggling to cope with reductions in state funding.
- Community Almanac
- February 24, 2010
- The Star Valley General Plan Committee is holding a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m. to go over any last-minute changes to the general plan before it is submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission. Peter Armenta, community development director with the Central Arizona Association of Governments, announced that the meeting agenda includes introductions, plan review and then review of changes that still need to be made.
- Pine-Strawberry School hoping state cuts miss them
- February 24, 2010
- Scrapping pre-school and reorganizing middle school arose as two possible options Monday night as the Pine Strawberry School Board explored ways to cut costs.
- Elementary schools grapple with fewer resources
- February 24, 2010
- To avoid having 30-plus students in fourth-grade classrooms at Payson Elementary School this year, Principal Will Dunman had to disband two popular discipline programs that focused on teaching kids appropriate behaviors.
- FBI seeks clues to identity of ‘High Country Bandits’
- February 24, 2010
- A duo the FBI once thought was responsible for only Arizona bank robberies is now believed to have committed four out-of-state robberies as well as eight in-state.
- Governor: Budget woes won’t crash state’s centennial
- February 24, 2010
- A state’s 100th birthday only happens once, and the current budget crisis shouldn’t stop Arizona from ringing it in right, Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday.
- Main St. raffle going strong
- February 24, 2010
- Payson Main Street Guild members have drawn winners for the first of three Pot O’ Gold raffles. The fund-raiser is being held to help keep Tonto Natural Bridge operating. The next drawing will be March 5.
- State of the town impacts property values throughout
- February 24, 2010
- You have to love old sayings because in most of them there is often a grain of truth.
- What once was old is new again at furniture store on Main Street
- February 24, 2010
- After searching throughout Northern Arizona for the right place to open his first used furniture store, Ken Maxfield settled on Payson’s Main Street for its charm and reasonable rent.
- Mule deer seminar set at Mountain Bible
- February 24, 2010
- The second of the inaugural “Shoot for the Heart” seminars hosted by Mountain Bible Church is expected to yield unique perspectives about Rocky Mountain Mule Deer and their declining numbers.
- Broken promise could lead to broken bones
- February 24, 2010
- Only those with their heads plunged deep in the sand and outfitted with oversized blinders would not realize there is a growing under swell of grumbling about the school board’s decision last spring to not install Fieldturf artificial playing surfaces on the three high school sports fields.
- Winslow scrimmage launches softball season
- February 24, 2010
- The best that can be said about the onset of the 2010 softball season, which begins Feb. 25 in a controlled scrimmage against Winslow, is that it will help erase some of the sting of last season when the Lady Longhorns failed to make the 16-team state tournament.
- Lady Horn looking for challenge to close prep career
- February 24, 2010
- Maddie Nossek admits she is among the many Payson High School upperclassmen now pondering, “I was just a freshman, I blinked, and I’m a senior.”
- Scholarship help for aspiring Little Leaguers
- February 24, 2010
- Longtime Little League Vice President Slade Gibson knew baseball-softball season had arrived almost the minute he showed up Saturday morning at Rumsey Park.
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