Suzanne Jacobson Staff Writer
Recent stories
- ‘At-risk’ kids make gains
- March 19, 2010
- Initial results from the highly hailed early intervention program launched in Payson schools this year show promising progress.
- For the love of Horses
- Women help riders gain experience, confidence
- March 19, 2010
- Pint-size McKenzie Randall held the reins of a tall horse, her tiny frame inspiring incredulousness.
- Fed earmarks for roads, flood work sought
- Supervisors want feds to fund $17 million worth of work
- March 16, 2010
- Gila County supervisors have requested $17 million worth of projects from the federal government, including a study to solve problems associated with Tonto Creek flooding and a plan to relocate part of Houston Mesa Road.
- EAC changes course, will pay teachers on time
- March 16, 2010
- Eastern Arizona College plans to move its paydays to comply with state law following the complaint of an adjunct faculty member, according to a letter sent to the state labor department.
- Students working during spring break to improve grades
- March 16, 2010
- About 100 students at Rim Country Middle School will work mornings during a week of spring break to improve bad grades.
- Boot camp gives students time to refine skills
- Two-week sessions help with math and reading skills
- March 16, 2010
- The boot camp in Stacey Summers’ classroom began in the late afternoon, but these seven elementary school students weren’t squatting to build leg muscles or performing push-ups.
- Override votes bring smiles to school officials’ faces
- March 12, 2010
- School advocates and officials in Rim Country rejoiced this week when voters overwhelmingly approved the once-defeated budget override.
- Gila college teacher files wage complaint against EAC
- Eastern is violating law in withholding pay, says complaint
- March 12, 2010
- A wage dispute at Gila Community College concerning adjunct faculty members has led one teacher to file a complaint with the state labor board.
- Vocational building for PHS will break ground in May
- Money comes from voter approved bond fund and vocational institute
- March 9, 2010
- The Payson Unified School District’s brand new vocational building could be completed by October.
- Home values plunge, taxes may not
- March 9, 2010
- Rim Country home values fell in some neighborhoods as much as 44 percent in the past year, according to information released this week from the county assessor’s office, but that doesn’t necessarily mean taxes will fall.
Recent photos
Chef Gerardo Moceri, of Gerardo’s Italian Bistro shows children at an Arizona Virtual Academy organized field trip how to make pizza dough.
Students on the field trip were able to take a hands-on approach to the making of pizza dough.
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