- Community needs mending
- July 3, 2009
- What this town needs is a good coffee shop
- School board weighs controversial cupcakes
- June 30, 2009
- Here’s the most irritating thing about kids.
- Turning spigots, changing ideas
- June 26, 2009
- Turn the tap. Fill the glass. Drink deep. So easy — deceptively so.
- GCC board needs more local control
- June 23, 2009
- Gila Community College’s recently approved popcorn budget — airy and without substance — is indicative of a broader problem. The college has no autonomy.
- Seeking birds, finding a father
- June 19, 2009
- The wind rustled through the spiny oak leaves as my father and I read the small sign beside the paved trail, which explained the greatest variety of birds occurs at the edge of two habitats — like oak woodlands and the grasslands.
- Mourning a teacher
- June 16, 2009
- So many people feel such deep grief at the loss of Cynthia Pool, a chemistry teacher at Payson High School.
- A flag woven from sacrifice
- June 12, 2009
- One day in 1908 as he dined outside of Philadelphia, President Theodore Roosevelt noticed a man wiping his nose with a small American flag.
- Which sort are you?
- June 9, 2009
- How many times have you hiked up some beautiful spot — let’s say the East Verde River — and shook your head in disgust at a discarded beer can, a trashed camp site, or a candy bar wrapper?
- Council’s courage key to housing
- June 9, 2009
- Poor Tantalus, punished for revealing the secrets of the Greek gods with eternal hunger and thirst. He stood parched in a room waist deep in water, which receded whenever he stooped to take a drink. He starved, never dying, beneath a great tree groaning with fruit, whose branches rose whenever he reached for them.
- Tax hearing: tough call, but right one
- June 5, 2009
- The Payson Town Council last night thought hard, swallowed twice — then did the right thing.
- Blue Ridge grant vital to our future
- June 2, 2009
- Go team! So it looks like Payson will be the first community in the state to actually spend its federal stimulus money – thanks to the marathon efforts of the town staff, spearheaded by Mayor Kenny Evans.
- Dialogue with public crucial
- May 29, 2009
- Fear-based policies are bad policies. Unwritten, fear-based policies are even worse. And unwritten, fear-based policies that violate existing, written policies? That is incomprehensible.
- Memorial Day: Words fail, but memory endures
- May 26, 2009
- The sun shone. The breeze blew. The bright orange poppies trembled. The children laughed. The smell of bacon and flapjacks lured teenagers out of their beds.
- Funny numbers
- May 22, 2009
- Let us get this straight. Lots of people have spent years working on a plan to make Main Street more pedestrian friendly — so it can serve as a busy street front for tourists and residents.
- Quiet revolution finished in Pine
- May 19, 2009
- Bucking broncs. Whooping cowboys. Roaring spitfires. Whirling helicopters.
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