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Man, dog rescued from Box Canyon - March 5, 2010
- A rushing, frigid creek, sheer cliffs, a stranded dog and a near-hypothermic man all added up to one challenging rescue for the Tonto Rim Search and Rescue squad. On Wednesday, TRSAR had its hands full with its first mission of the new year.
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- Taste best of Rim Country
- Chefs offer up specialties to benefit Payson library
- March 5, 2010
- Payson will be a foodie’s Mecca this weekend. Fans of good food and culinary adventurers descend on the Payson Public Library Saturday night to sample the showcase wares of professional and aspiring chefs of the Rim Country.
- Snowflake alum takes over its football program
- March 5, 2010
- The Snowflake Lobos have called upon one of their alumni to take over the reins of the football program.
- A distinctive new performer in the ’70s
- March 5, 2010
- Did you happen to see the KPNX, Channel 12 news team visiting Payson’s Vita-Mart this past week? It’s always great, isn’t it, to see our local businesses featured in “big time” media?
- Great fishing at Roosevelt just waiting
- March 5, 2010
- March is here! Roosevelt Lake is at 100 percent of capacity, and the warmer temperatures are starting to return to Arizona. To the warm-water angler, this means bass will be heading to the spawning grounds of shallow water, and great fishing is right around the corner. The migration of bass boat owners from northern communities, which have been digging out of numerous winter storms, is on the increase daily, because the word is out.
- Payson team competes in Ragnar Relay
- March 5, 2010
- The Del Sol Ragnar Relay was to be a fun run through red rock cliffs, Ponderosa pines and saguaro cactus for the 12 members of the Payson Mile High Running Club.
- Payson Regional Home Health celebrates 20 years
- March 5, 2010
- Payson Regional Home Health agency is proud to celebrate its 20th anniversary of providing excellent service and quality care.
- Construction at Capps Middle School has resumed
- March 5, 2010
- The snows we received a week and a half ago have receded to patches where the plows have concentrated it.
- Chili cookoff in the works
- March 5, 2010
- The Christopher Creek Visitors Association has decided on the three main community events it plans to sponsor. On Saturday, May 1, a chili cookoff and wine tasting event is planned.
- Kudos to P/S firefighter
- March 5, 2010
- Congratulations to Captain Mike Brandt of the Pine-Strawberry Fire Department. Mike was recently voted the Best Firefighter in the Payson Roundup’s reader’s poll and I can’t think of a more deserving individual.
- Paving of Control Road approved
- March 5, 2010
- There is wonderful news for Tonto Village this week. If you were listening to KMOG radio on Monday morning, you heard Gila County District 1 Supervisor Tommie Martin talking about the Control Road.
- Meet George Jetson with today’s technology
- March 5, 2010
- Remember George Jetson? He was the cartoon guy who had everything. He had things we had never thought possible — flying cars, robots, videoconferencing, and more. Shortly after we met the Jetsons, we reached what we thought was the pinnacle of technological advances — the ’80s.
- Church plans letter-writing campaign
- March 5, 2010
- The Mount Cross congregation plans to add an extra element to the recently completed Payson Area Food Drive.
- Report says county ranks as least healthy
- March 5, 2010
- Gila County residents are more likely to get pregnant as teenagers and die young than other Arizonans, but less likely to binge drink, a recently released report found.
- Women’s Wellness Forum is March 13
- March 5, 2010
- Since its inception 12 years ago, the goal of the annual Women’s Wellness Forum has been to get women — the primary caregivers — to take time to give themselves some special care.
- Challenge: Can you spell better than a fifth-grader?
- March 5, 2010
- The Rim Country Literacy Program (RCLP) is inviting businesses, clubs, organizations, church groups and others to participate in its annual Community Spelling Bee in March.
- Community action group says free tax help site now open
- March 5, 2010
- Payson Community Action Program (CAP) will offer free tax help to area residents.
- Red Cross offers tips on disaster planning
- March 5, 2010
- The America Red Cross Grand Canyon chapter will be offering a free presentation on the three actions everyone can take to help make a difference when disaster strikes.
- Nominees for 2010 Business Awards announced
- March 5, 2010
- Excellence in business is a combination of passion, long hours, hard work, excellent customer service, great hiring techniques, loyalty and a whole bunch of other attributes that all businesses strive to achieve.
- Considering bonds? Be aware of “call risk”
- March 5, 2010
- When you buy a bond, it’s yours until you sell it or it matures, right? Not always.
- Cat adoption special offered this month
- March 5, 2010
- Well, the house is full at the Humane Society of Central Arizona shelter. We have so many beautiful animals just waiting for a chance to start a new life. We have a dog for every lifestyle — from someone to just sit quietly with you, to someone who’ll happily run 20 miles per day with you.
- Mesa del may get water help from Payson
- Proposed temporary pipeline could avert summer shortages
- March 5, 2010
- Payson is negotiating a deal with Brooke Utilities to supply Mesa del Caballo with up to 85,000 gallons of water a day this summer to help that unincorporated community avoid the shortages and expensive water that plagued homeowners last summer.
- Community Almanac
- March 5, 2010
- For the convenience of the voter, since Town Hall is closed on Fridays, on March 5 there will be a ballot box for the Town of Payson Election ballots to be dropped off at the Gila County Recorder’s office at 201 W. Frontier.
- College suffers more double talk
- March 5, 2010
- Big tuition increase. Big enrollment drop. Gee: Who would’a figured? Anyway you look at it, the latest enrollment figures from Gila Community College (GCC) are depressing.
- Health care reform can only possible with bipartisanship
- March 5, 2010
- President Obama has argued recently that the failure of Congress to pass the Democrats’ health care bill is a sign that our legislative process no longer works. Alluding to the legislation during a campaign event in Denver, the president complained about a “broken” system, accused those who disagree with him of trying to “gum up the works,” and claimed that the Senate “doesn’t get anything done” because Republicans “say no to everything.”
- New kind of college
- March 5, 2010
- Sun City came to Arizona some years ago with an idea of “active retirement” I liked the idea that maybe growing old could still be fun.
- Passing the override is important
- March 5, 2010
- Several persons have written about the forthcoming school budget override stating that they have long since paid for their children’s education through property taxes and, therefore, it should not pass.
- Don’t waste money on the eagles
- March 5, 2010
- I’m too lazy to research how much money is wasted each year for a bunch of government employees to keep Arizonans away from eagles.
- Health means life and freedom
- March 5, 2010
- Life and freedom are moral issues. It’s time for us to talk about health in those terms, beyond the wonkish phrases bantered about by those who oppose change in our present health care system.
- Thank you for your service to your country
- March 5, 2010
- While I do not personally know the young soldier in Friday’s news article, Dugan Eckstein, I would like to thank him for his service to our country. And while sending letters and packages are kind and uplifting to the spirits of our boys overseas, our prayers for them do more.
- Soccer is good for youth
- March 5, 2010
- Soccer can be good for your health, especially for kids and young people, because sometimes when they start playing, they realize that smoking is not good for them, and can stop them from being good at soccer because their lungs are hurt by the smoke, and they can get dizzy and not run so well.
- Think twice about voting no on the school override
- March 5, 2010
- I am a student in the Payson area. I have been reading all the letters to the editor about the school override. To all of you who are thinking about voting no, I would just like to put this out there and hope you will think twice about your “no” vote.
- Ross McDowell was the military man’s version of a genius
- March 5, 2010
- One thing I discovered in the military was that every once in a while you come across a guy who knows exactly how to handle any situation — sort of a military man’s genius.
- GCC board members want public to speak first
- March 5, 2010
- Gila Community College board member Tom Loeffler cracked the Iron Curtain at a recent board meeting when he approached the podium during the public comment period.
- Rodeo committee hopes development group will take over parade
- March 5, 2010
- With a spring and fall rodeo to plan as well as several fund-raising dances at the Oxbow Saloon, the Payson Pro Rodeo Committee’s 120 members are spread a little thin this year.
- Payson Red Cross holds care benefit March 11 to raise money
- March 5, 2010
- When a disaster strikes, like the recent flooding in Tonto Basin and Gisela, Red Cross volunteers are some of the first responders, offering devastated families a warm place to stay, a hot meal and, most importantly, support.
- Bankruptcy may force SV council to buy town hall or seek new home
- March 5, 2010
- With the revelation that Star Valley’s town hall lease is up in three months, no definite plans have been laid and the property is in bankruptcy court, the town could soon be without a home.
- Payson approves Tonto Bridge plan
- Council gives nod to ‘handshake’ agreement for town to keep Tonto Natural Bridge State Park open through the summer
- March 5, 2010
- The Payson Town Council Thursday unanimously approved a “handshake” agreement to take over operations of Tonto Natural Bridge State Park to avert its scheduled shutdown in May.
- School officials nervously await override vote
- March 5, 2010
- As remaining time dwindles until ballots are due back for the Payson schools override election, school officials are nervously awaiting their fate.
- Routine traffic stop leads to discover of marijuana stash
- March 5, 2010
- A Payson man is under arrest, accused of possessing four pounds of marijuana for sale.
- Payson pioneer, Dorothy Pyle dies
- March 5, 2010
- Dorothy Eunice Lovelady Pyle, 89, born July 28, 1920 on the Hammond Ranch in Payson, died March 2, 2010 in Surprise, Ariz. Funeral services will be held for her at 11 a.m., Saturday March 6 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Payson. Interment will follow immediately at the Payson Pioneer Cemetery.
- Benefit softball tourney has its biggest field ever
- March 5, 2010
- Gracie Haught Classic Tournament Director Charlene Hunt has released brackets and game schedules for what she is predicting will be the finest prep softball tournament in the five-year history of the shoot-out.
- Figueroa makes All-Region
- March 5, 2010
- Ever Figueroa cracked the hardwood big time with his selection to the 3A East All-Region Basketball Team.
- Girls may be first Payson athletes to swim for college scholarships
- March 5, 2010
- Julie Gibson and Emily Giarrizzo could be the first-ever Payson athletes to earn collegiate swimming scholarships.
- Local athletes race to a bittersweet finish
- March 5, 2010
- At 3 a.m., as we wearily headed for the next relay point in our 36-hour, 200-mile relay race, everything changed.
- Man, dog rescued from Box Canyon
- Swift water sweeps duo down creek
- March 5, 2010
- A rushing, frigid creek, sheer cliffs, a stranded dog and a near-hypothermic man all added up to one challenging rescue for the Tonto Rim Search and Rescue squad. On Wednesday, TRSAR had its hands full with its first mission of the new year.
- Flores takes over Maricopa County case against supervisors
- March 5, 2010
- Gila County Attorney Daisy Flores ha agreed to take over prosecution of two Maricopa county supervisors after a judge ruled the Maricopa County Attorney could not prosecute because of a conflict of interest.
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