Also from March 30
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Polls
Do sports play and important role in high school education
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 68% | |
| No | 29% | |
| Undecided | 1% | |
| Total | 171 | |
Lead stories
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School district cuts 9 staff- 8:27 a.m., March 30, 2010 Updated 12:33 p.m.
- The Payson Unified School District will lay off nine people, including Payson High School Principal Roy Sandoval and Frontier Elementary School Principal Paula Patterson.
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- Payson Elementary gets award from state school chief
- March 30, 2010
- In town on a multi-pronged visit, Arizona’s top schools official Tom Horne presented Payson Elementary School with an award Monday for earning the state’s “performing plus” label.
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- PHS athletics not being cut, fees will be about $200
- March 30, 2010
- Payson School Board member Rory Huff and Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Bobette Tomerlin want to quell rampant rumors that athletics will be cut at PHS next year, coaches will not be paid and exorbitant “Pay to Play” fees will be charged student athletes.
- Business Briefs
- March 30, 2010
- Finalists for the fourth annual Rim Country Business Awards have been announced.
- Candidates for governor call for budget cuts
- Standing room only Payson crowd listens to Dean Martin and Buz Mills stump for GOP support by attacking Gov. Brewer
- March 30, 2010
- Slash state spending, get much tougher on the Mexican border and get rid of Gov. Jan Brewer, urged two Republican hopefuls in a joint appearance in Payson on Monday.
- Community Almanac
- March 30, 2010
- Payson Community Action Program (CAP) has free tax help available for area residents.
- Lower insurance rates for Hellsgate homes
- March 30, 2010
- Property owners within the communities of the Hellsgate Fire District should see a reduction in their insurance rates after the Hellsgate Fire District was awarded an Insurance Services Office (ISO) re-grade.
- Payson considers 20% increase in water rates
- Council on Thursday evening will also consider a 5 percent jump in tax on hotel rooms, rental cars
- March 30, 2010
- The Payson Town Council will meet Thursday to consider a 20 percent increase in water rates and new taxes on hotel rooms and rental cars.
- Payson Elementary gets award from state school chief
- March 30, 2010
- In town on a multi-pronged visit, Arizona’s top schools official Tom Horne presented Payson Elementary School with an award Monday for earning the state’s “performing plus” label.
- Kids hooked at Fishing Festival
- March 30, 2010
- Mother Nature didn’t cooperate with sunny, warm spring weather, but the efforts of a bevy of volunteers, several civic organizations and the Arizona Game and Fish Department rendered the Fourth Annual Rim Country Optimist Club’s Fishing Festival an overwhelming success.
- Yellowjackets vs. Longhorns matchup will be a classic and critical
- March 30, 2010
- The opportunity to take a big step toward the East championship is at stake today, March 30, when the Longhorn baseball team (7-7 overall, 4-1 in the region) plays host to the Blue Ridge Yellowjackets (10-2; 2-0).
- Football coach resigns
- March 30, 2010
- Payson High School athletic director Jason Lobik confirmed yesterday, March 29, that Longhorn football coach Matt Mayo has resigned.
- Superintendent explains cuts to school district
- March 30, 2010
- The passage of the override averted catastrophic cuts to our district, but it has not fully resolved our budget dilemma.
- Horns stave off 2A champions on links at 2010 Metro Invitational tourney
- March 30, 2010
- Defending Class 2A state golf champion Scottsdale Christian’s late charge wasn’t enough to overtake the Payson Longhorns in the battle for runner-up honors at the 2010 Metro Invitational Tournament.
- Wildlife Fair will take place May 8 at GVP
- March 30, 2010
- The spring recreation scene peaks 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 8 at Green Valley Park where the 15th Annual Payson Wildlife Fair will offer a myriad of free activities including fishing and outdoor games.
- Who’s responsible?
- March 30, 2010
- After years of observation, it is hard to arrive at a conclusion as to who’s responsible when something goes awry?
- Stargazing astronomy program at Tonto National Monument
- March 30, 2010
- Tonto National Monument in cooperation with the Tonto Basin Ranger District is once again sponsoring a professionally presented astronomy program.
- Level two sex offender now living in Pine
- March 30, 2010
- John Corey Boyle, a level two-sex offender notified the Gila County Sheriff’s Office he is living in Pine.
- Legalities hogtie rodeo
- Rival groups file lawsuits for rights to World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo, threatening organizing efforts for August Doin’s
- March 30, 2010
- The Range War over who owns rights to the longest-running rodeo in the world erupted into a crossfire of lawsuits in Gila County Superior Court.
- SV may lose its town hall
- New owners cancel lease agreement, want five-year commitment from council
- March 30, 2010
- On Monday, the Star Valley Town Hall was a shell of its former self. With boxes stacked against the walls, and pictures and posters removed, the stale, white interior hardly looked like a town building.
- Payson’s participation in census above national average
- March 30, 2010
- Just as soon as they arrived in the mail several weeks ago, more than half of Payson completed their census forms and mailed them back. According to a new Census Bureau Web site that tracks the participation rate of communities, 56 percent of Payson residents returned their forms as of Monday.
- Outraged over attack on program
- March 30, 2010
- In response to Ms. Rothenbach’s letter on March 23. Her attack on the Payson Community Kids and Chris and Suzy is an outrage.
- Kirkpatrick is a quick study
- March 30, 2010
- Rep. Kirkpatrick is a quick study! Only last August I sat across from her at a card table set up in the parking lot at Safeway, and heard her tell me and my wife and others standing around, that … Yes, I agree with the fact that any type of meaningful reform to health care would have to include substantial legal tort reform!
- The great transformation
- March 30, 2010
- Well our glorious leader and commander Obama and his two commissars Pelosi and Harry Reid have just made their first major great transformation of our great country, most likely into a socialist utopia, similar to the one in Hugo Cheva’s Venezuela.
- Thanks to Rep. Kirkpatrick for helping Gila County
- March 30, 2010
- Representative Kirkpatrick, thank you for all you have done for the Payson area, for Gila County, and for all Americans. Those of us who worked so very hard for your election have been greatly rewarded. You have not disappointed us.
- Health care bill will help seniors
- March 30, 2010
- In Tuesday’s newspaper Pete Aleshire writes that 118,000 people in the First Congressional District will be helped with the new health care bill.
- Vote for true conservatives this November
- March 30, 2010
- The benefits in the health care bill will start showing up only a few short weeks before the November midterm elections.
- Physical education needed at high school
- March 30, 2010
- My name is Michael McWilliams. I am in the eighth-grade at Rim Country Middle School. Before spring break I went to the high school to register for my next four years. I was surprised to find out that physical education was not offered to boys.
- Red Cross Winter Relief Show was a success
- March 30, 2010
- I would like to thank everyone who came to the Red Cross Winter Relief Show. The amount collected after expenses was about $700.
- Forest Plan revisions shared in open house meetings
- March 30, 2010
- Springerville — Next month the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (ASNFs) will host four open house-style meetings to share information and gather feedback on forest plan revision.
- Paving project on Highway 87 south of Payson to begin March 31
- March 30, 2010
- The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is scheduled to begin a repaving project on state Highway 87 on March 31.
- Students escape classroom to learn about fishing
- March 30, 2010
- For fifth-graders Fernanda Reyes and Drew Micolites, the elementary school fishing festival held March 26 at Green Valley Park was an opportunity to escape the classroom and enjoy a bit of newfound liberties.
- Fishing hooks removed, ducks released at Green Valley Park
- March 30, 2010
- When a concerned citizen noticed a Green Valley Park duck had one severe kink in its neck, they did the only thing they could think of, they called the ducktor.
- Gila County judicial nominees announced
- March 30, 2010
- With Gila County’s judge pro tempore retiring in July, a selection committee has selected three candidates to fill the position.
- Celebrating Easter
- March 30, 2010
- Youngsters participating in the annual EGGS-travaganza will be on the hunt for 6,000 plastic Easter eggs filled with candy and toys and just waiting to be hidden by the Easter Bunny — and its helpers from the Payson Main Street Guild — during the annual EGGS-travaganza Festival and Egg Hunt in Green Valley Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 3.
- Senior Circle members need to pay gym dues
- March 30, 2010
- The Senior Circle Tonto Gym memberships are due. Please drop by the Senior Circle office during the month of April to renew or sign up for your discount at the Tonto Gym. The cost is $52 and will cover the months of May, June and July. If you are not a member of Senior Circle and would like to take advantage of this great discount, just come on in to the Senior Circle and become a member. It’s just one of the advantages of our program. The Senior Circle is at 215 N. Beeline Highway.
- Governor Brewer has harsh words for Arizona’s AG
- March 30, 2010
- Official statement from Governor Jan Brewer Today, the Arizona Legislature has undertaken initial efforts to join in my defense of the citizens of the State of Arizona against one of the most intrusive and costly federal mandates in U.S. history.
- School district cuts 9 staff
- High school, elementary principals face lay off, sports will be pay to play, parents to pay kindergarten tuition
- 08:27 a.m., March 30, 2010 Updated 12:33 p.m.
- The Payson Unified School District will lay off nine people, including Payson High School Principal Roy Sandoval and Frontier Elementary School Principal Paula Patterson.
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