Pete Aleshire Staff Writer
Recent stories
- Payson saves Tonto Bridge State Park
- March 19, 2010
- The State Parks Board on Wednesday approved a deal with Payson that will keep Tonto Natural Bridge State Park open five days a week all summer.
- Potholes abound in bleak Payson budget
- Council reviews five-year plan that patches carpets and streets, defers ambitious projects
- March 19, 2010
- The Payson Town Council this week visited the corpse of its five-year capital improvement plan, filing past the embalmed remains like spooked visitors to Lenin’s tomb.
- Show Low heart doctor aims to unseat Rep. Kirkpatrick
- March 19, 2010
- Show Low cardiologist Steve Mehta wants to apply a little CPR to politics — starting with the increasingly rancorous debate about health care reform.
- Rodeo war breaks out
- Groups line up lawyers to vie for right to stage Payson’s rodeo
- March 16, 2010
- A new range war has broken out between two groups each hoping to stage the August Rodeo.
- Sales taxes rise, spending falls
- Payson digging out of deficit as revenue rises and furloughs cut costs
- March 16, 2010
- Payson’s bleak budget picture brightened in February, according to a financial report released on Monday.
- Former mayor critiques council, wants more salary cuts
- March 16, 2010
- Former Payson mayor Bob Edwards offered a post-election critique of the council as three council members listened grimly, but many of the questions focused on whether the town should allow seven-story buildings.
- Neighbors protest housing for seniors
- First big project in a year would build 20 homes for low-income seniors and give nearly dead construction business a $6-million infusion
- March 16, 2010
- Neighbors appealed to the Payson Town Council recently to block the first major construction project in town in nearly a year — a 20-unit apartment complex for low-income seniors.
- Deaths shadow condors’ long comeback tale
- Lead poisoning claims three Grand Canyon condors out of wild flock of 74
- March 12, 2010
- The dreaded signal sounded just after Christmas — the sustained tone that indicated Condor 127 had stopped moving. Word passed quickly through the tight ranks of the small team of biologists that have labored for the past decade to re-establish condors in the wilds of the Grand Canyon, from a release site atop the Vermillion Cliffs.
- Carpenter, edges out Vogel in close vote
- March 12, 2010
- Former Town Manager Fred Carpenter edged out Vice Mayor Mike Vogel in Tuesday’s election, according to final tallies released on Thursday.
- Unemployment dips 5th month in a row
- Rim Country rate is below county average
- March 12, 2010
- In a heartening sign that the recession may have bottomed out here, Rim Country’s unemployment rate in January dipped to 8.9 percent, below both the state and national averages.
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