Also from July 20
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New zoning approved for airport land- July 20, 2010
- Disgruntled homeowners extracted a final flurry of concessions last week, before the Payson council voted its tentative approval of a bid to rezone 222 acres near the Payson Airport.
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- Kaibab, Coconino fire restrictions lifted
- July 20, 2010
- Beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Forest Service officials will lift campfire and smoking restrictions on the Kaibab and Coconino National Forests.
- GOP state senate candidates to face-off at CAC meeting
- July 20, 2010
- Republican candidates for the hotly contested state senate seat, incumbent Sen. Sylvia Allen and challenger Bill Konopnicki, will face off at Thursday’s Citizens Awareness Committee meeting.
- Old-fashioned Ice Cream Social set
- July 20, 2010
- There will be an ice cream social from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, July 21. The price is $2 and includes all the ice cream you can eat plus the toppings. There will also be sugar free ice cream and frozen yogurt as well.
- Contemporary tech class would help all keep up with gadgets
- July 20, 2010
- Here’s an idea for one of our local organizations — How about a program explaining contemporary technology to seniors?
- Payson, Star Valley intergovernment agreement on council agenda
- July 20, 2010
- A grant agreement between Payson and Star Valley could soon be signed, sealed and delivered.
- Seal the border – repeal health reforms
- Eight Republican congressional candidates vent outrage about immigration, health
- July 20, 2010
- Build a double fence along the whole border — seal it up as tight as the Gaza Strip. Then send the Army to patrol it, with shoot-to-kill orders.
- Payson gives builders time to pay hefty impact fees
- July 20, 2010
- In a bid to lure new development, the Payson Council has approved a new system that will allow developers to pay hefty impact fees over an extended period.
- Payson seeks to change image, attract new businesses to town
- July 20, 2010
- Payson is courting 19 businesses that have expressed an interest in coming to town, former councilor Mike Vogel told the town council last week in his first report as the town’s new economic development coordinator.
- Parks board still dreams of the future
- Session in Rim Country focuses on how to survive a 30 percent budget cut and hopes for the future
- July 20, 2010
- Get through the beating. But don’t stop dreaming.
- Lawsuit paints bull’s-eye on Fossil Creek grazing
- Environmentalists sue to force Forest Service to revoke permits to let 300-500 cattle graze on resurrected stream’s watershed
- July 20, 2010
- The Forest Service’s decision to let some 300 cattle graze near Fossil Creek violates the law and will harm the Chiricahua Leopard Frog and other endangered species, according to a lawsuit filed by the Centers for Biological Diversity.
- In search of a well-rounded governor
- July 20, 2010
- I don’t care who our next Arizona governor is, as long as he or she is intelligent, hard-working, articulate, as non-partisan as possible, puts the best interests of our state ahead of their own political ambitions, and can spell and actually put into action the word “compromise.”
- Many people to thank
- July 20, 2010
- There’s too many people to list so I want to thank all the fire personnel from Houston Mesa, Payson and Beaver Valley, Whispering Pines for the work they did on June 17 on my house fire.
- ACC loses sight of benefits
- July 20, 2010
- Thank you, C. Gail for correcting my solar terminology in your letter “solar cells don’t require water,” in the July 9 Payson Roundup. I really had the oranges and apples mixed up when I referred to “solar panels” in my letter of July 2.
- Thanks to PS water district board
- July 20, 2010
- As longtime residents of both Pine and Strawberry, we have witnessed and endured the often-uneasy transition of control and management of our water system from Brooke Utilities/Mr. Robert Hardcastle to our present elected board.
- Where’s the Tea Party?
- July 20, 2010
- In an article in the Payson Roundup on July 2, Debbie Paulk had plenty to say about the Tea Party not doing anything about the taxes in Gila County and the state of Arizona.
- Common sense or simple logic?
- July 20, 2010
- The subject: common sense or if you prefer simple logic.
- The ties that bind
- July 20, 2010
- Sometimes, we hang by a thread. Sometimes, we’re connected by a thread. Sometimes, it’s the same thread.
- Zimmerman Fire near Roosevelt Lake burns 375 acres
- July 20, 2010
- Tonto National Forest officials continue to manage the Zimmerman Fire, a lightning-caused fire that began July 15 and has burned an estimated 375 acres southeast of Asbestos Point in the Sierra Ancha Wilderness on the Tonto Basin Ranger District. Occasional precipitation has calmed the fire over the past four days.
- Quad accident claims Gilbert man’s life on FS Road 291
- July 20, 2010
- An 84-year-old man from Gilbert was killed over the Fourth of July holiday weekend after the quad he was riding flipped and landed on top of him.
- School starts largest solar project in Arizona
- July 20, 2010
- A small crowd gathered Friday for the symbolic groundbreaking of the Payson school district’s new solar system, baking under the same sun that would soon power most of the district’s energy needs. Everybody sweltered, some sat in seats that scorched their bottoms, others reached gratefully into a cooler that held bottled water.
- County increases property tax
- July 20, 2010
- Arizona’s state government will cost Gila County an extra $1 million in higher expenses and lost revenue this year, and Gila County homeowners will subsidize half of that, supervisors decided Wednesday.
- Even charities desperate as the hard times linger
- St. Vincent de Paul nearly out of money to help people avoid evictions as a result of lost jobs and medical problems
- July 20, 2010
- When the unemployment ran out, the bottom fell out for the Payson roofer who used to work steadily. His wife left him with their 3-year-old to raise.
- Search, rescue team called out three times this weekend
- July 20, 2010
- After a surprisingly slow Fourth of July holiday, rescuers were back on the trails this weekend helping dehydrated, hypothermic and injured hikers.
- New zoning approved for airport land
- Council makes final tweaks in plan for 222 acres near the airport to placate residents
- July 20, 2010
- Disgruntled homeowners extracted a final flurry of concessions last week, before the Payson council voted its tentative approval of a bid to rezone 222 acres near the Payson Airport.
- APS launches new rebate program for designers, builders
- July 20, 2010
- APS Solutions for Business recently announced a new rebate program for business customers who design and build energy efficient buildings that surpass current energy efficiency standards in non-residential structures.
- Store manager recognized for community service
- July 20, 2010
- Quinn Cremer, store manager of the Payson Walmart for six years, said goodbye to fellow employees Friday.
- Real estate quiz
- July 20, 2010
- Laws and facts are constantly changing in today’s real estate world.
- New boys coach named this week
- July 20, 2010
- Payson High School will soon have a new boys basketball coach at the helm of the program.
- Preseason programs for cross country and girls soccer
- July 20, 2010
- PHS cross country coach Jonathan Ball is inviting all prospective runners to participate in off-season workouts at 8 a.m. weekdays.
- Gridiron camp kicks off at Payson High School for 2010 season
- July 20, 2010
- Preparations for the 2010 prep football season kicked off yesterday morning, July 19 at the Longhorn preseason camp on the Payson High School campus.
- Friends remember Mike Barr
- July 20, 2010
- In the Rim Country and on the streets around small-town Arizona, Mike Barr is being remembered as the finest all-around athlete in Payson High School sports history.
- Lineman chooses links over football field
- July 20, 2010
- A Payson High student athlete who made a name for himself as a starring two-way lineman on the Longhorn football team has accepted a scholarship to play collegiate golf.
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