Around the Rim Country
Members of the Church on Randall Place are seeking volunteers to help make sleeping mats for the homeless.
Good 2 Go
At 3 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday (unless otherwise stated), June 4 through June 27 there will be free films shown at GCC with time for a brief audience discussion after each film. (Titles subject to change according to availability.)
At The Movies-The Great Gatsby
This version of The Great Gatsby is the rarest of all movie birds, a heartbreaking human drama that has achieved a mass audience.
‘We will never forget’
Payson pays tribute to veterans
They are getting grayer each year and there are fewer of the most senior among them, but the chairs still fill at the annual Memorial Day tribute to veterans in Payson.
Rim youth have banquet of choices for fun
School will be out for summer this Friday, so what are the kids going to do? Some may be lucky enough to find summer employment; some might have to take remedial classes in one subject or another; some may be fortunate to spend time at a summer camp.
Garden time’s flying by
Increase your garden’s productivity even when space, time and energy are limited. Just follow these simple planting techniques for a more bountiful harvest.
Payson Summer Concert Series
The concerts are held in the beautiful, open-air setting of Green Valley Park’s amphitheater area. While the performance are held in the band shell, the audience can sit on blankets on the ground or bring a lawn chair.
Travel to explore
There are a growing number of travelers who are fed up with the crowds that are visiting the more popular destinations and so they turn to seeking destinations where fewer are going.
The Hise Family
Payson is named for Lewis Edwin Payson, an Illinois Congressman. But how did such a small place come to the attention of such a man? The answer is like Hise; as in John Hise and family. Here is a look at this man and his family.
Between the bull and the cowboy
The pounding stadium music swelled and the middling crowd at the Payson Spring Rodeo leaned forward for the single most dangerous moment in sports — the foolhardy attempt to sit on top of a furiously bucking, spinning, twisting, slobbering, kicking bull.
State guts vocational class plan
First the state Legislature slashed its budget and now the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) has gutted the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology (NAVIT) nursing and fire science programs for Payson High School students.
Five fires every day
With crews already snuffing out up to five small fires a day throughout the Tonto National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service announced fire restrictions would begin Wednesday.
Town targets fire marshal
Payson has 54 employees whose salaries and retirement benefits tally more than $75,000 — but the only one it can spare is the fire marshal, according to a budget study committee that reported its findings to the council last week.
Pine water doubles taxes, boosts water rate 33%
A sorrowful Pine-Strawberry Water Improvement District board Saturday doubled the district’s property tax rate and raised water rates by 20 to 33 percent, depending on usage.
Star Valley buys 5 acres for $200,000
On May 3, Star Valley bought five acres for $200,000 in a bankruptcy sale. At tonight’s council meeting, the council will figure out what to do with it.
Community Almanac
Northern Gila County Fair T-shirt contest
A painful necessity
The volunteer Pine/Strawberry Water Improvement District board spent an excruciating Saturday listening to the community vent its frustration about spiraling tax and water rates. Then the board members glumly approved a plan to double the property tax rate and boost water charges by about one-third for most homeowners.
A conspiracy or just plain stupid?
Maybe the Tea Party’s onto something. It just has to be a conspiracy. Consider the latest educational news from the state.
Payson school board yearns to be just average
The Payson School Board Monday adopted a plaintive legislative wish list that included the bold proposition that Arizona should strive to be, well, average.
Firefighters’ refrain: ‘What a dummy’
Wisconsin firefighters have poked, prodded and killed him more times than his rubber, pliable fingers can count.
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