Tom Brossart Editor
Recent stories
- Day Hike
- Spend a day taking in the beauty of Willow Springs Lake
- December 2, 2009
- Sometimes the simplest hike can reveal nature at its finest and a surprise or two. Walking through the ponderosa pines and breathing the forest air is one the benefits of living in the Rim Country. Miles of trails, which can take you through the pines, the desert or the red rocks, are close and an ultimate high for a photographer or anyone who enjoys the outdoors.
- Fall’s fire
- October 21, 2009
- The fire of fall is filled with scarlets and golds, bronzes and browns.
- A view to forever
- Easy Rim Vista Trail provides stunning views
- June 17, 2009
- It is not the hardest trail you will ever take, but it could be the most scenic.
- Rim trail offers a view to forever
- Easy Rim Vista Trail offers stunning views
- May 1, 2009
- It is not the hardest trail you will ever take, but it could be the most scenic.
- 225 million years of history
- Petrified Forest National Park
- March 6, 2009
- It is hard to imagine viewing something 225 million years old, but that is what you can do at the Petrified Forest National Park in northern Arizona, just east of Holbrook. Only two hours away from Payson, you can see one of the largest concentrations of colorful petrified wood and the multi-hued Painted Desert, along with some historic buildings and archaeological sites.
- Bosque of the birds
- Every winter morning 100,000 birds take flight from the still waters of this New Mexico refuge
- November 28, 2008
- It’s a cold, crisp predawn, with the temperature in the 20s in the central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Then the silence cracks, with a single quack from the rustling snow geese, then another and another. Soon, a cacophonous chorus of snow geese and sandhill cranes fills the morning air — the signal the fly-out is about to begin.
- Shooting demos
- October 8, 2007
- A member of the Arizona Mounted Shooter Association demonstrated the sport during an exhibition at the Payson Event Center Sunday.
- Roundup has new editor
- July 19, 2007
- I began my newspaper career as a photojournalist and moved into an editor's role by chance when my editor left and the publisher kept coming back to me, asking me to take the job. Finally, I did, and I have been an editor, managing editor, assistant publisher, publisher and photojournalist ever since.
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