- Meaningful goals for teachers needed
- September 3, 2010
- This week the Payson School Board once more found itself mud wrestling a vexing topic: How should it distribute bonuses based on teacher performance?
- Enrollment rises anyway
- August 31, 2010
- Whew. Turns out increased tuition at Gila Community College’s didn’t squelch enrollment after all
- Dear candidates: Tell us the truth
- August 27, 2010
- Yes, Virginia — there really is a Santa Claus. And honest to goodness, kids, the Easter Bunny loves you.
- Rodeo shows we’re doing fine after all
- August 24, 2010
- Man, they had cowboys flying every which way. And ain’t no doubt — the bulls won this round. But cowboys ain’t happy unless that bull’s darn near too tough to ride — and the mud not quite deep enough to drown in.
- Ignore the candidates and they’ll ignore Rim Country’s needs
- August 20, 2010
- Consider the disturbing implications of the short, out-of-town list of people who want to represent us in the Arizona House of Representatives. We have two open seats.
- Volunteers show town’s heart
- August 17, 2010
- Someone else’s problem. Someone else’s tragedy. Someone else’s life. Easy enough to heave a little sigh of relief, when you hear some terrible news — like a 4-year-old boy going missing in the woods.
- Dirty pool is still dirty pool
- August 10, 2010
- A masse’ shot in billiards is when the player strikes the top of the cue ball with enough force to produce a tremendous amount of spin.
- The future trudges back to school
- August 6, 2010
- Ah — summer falters too soon — as the big yellow school buses renew their diesel trudge and motorists must now keep an especially sharp lookout for kids traveling to and from their schools.
- Ag building a victory for all
- August 3, 2010
- Pop a cork on the champagne — or the sparking cider — or the moonshine — whatever the Future Farmers of America uses to celebrate.
- Town visionaries champs already
- July 27, 2010
- So, let’s say you’re scripting a movie about a team of lovable misfits that against all odds made it into the Super Bowl. No one gave them the smallest chance. But they played with such heart and courage that they’re on the very brink of winning it all.
- Our jails have become response to insanity
- July 23, 2010
- The horrific images make the soul shudder: A man sits huddled behind concrete and iron, waiting for any chance to kill himself.
- 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.
- ADOT has Pine by the throat
- July 16, 2010
- Normally, the Arizona Department of Transportation is pretty delicate about the way they grip us all by the throat.
- Pine-Strawberry escapes clutches of water shortfall
- July 13, 2010
- Funny thing happened in Pine and Strawberry this summer: They didn’t run out of water. In fact, residents who have had to pay the huge costs of hauling water in dry summer months for years now, have so far never gotten beyond the Stage 1 conservation level.
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