The Mountain Village Foundation (MVF) kicks off its Christmas in July Toy Drive July 1. Read more
Gila County Dist. 1 Supervisor Steve Christensen hosted Rim residents at a town hall meeting June 13. Held at the mai… Read more
The inaugural Pride Celebration in Pine will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on June 25 at the Randall House. Read more
The Gila County Board of Supervisors approved at its June 7 meeting a rezoning request that enables the Pine Creek La… Read more
The Gila County Board of Supervisors approved rezoning the sales office building and adjoining property in The Portal… Read more
It is a comeback year for Pine-Strawberry, and the Strawberry Patchers are hoping you will be a part of their Comebac… Read more
After a two-year hiatus, the community of Pine-Strawberry roared back to life with our first festival of the year. Read more
The Pine Cemetery has gone for years without a pole on which to fly the U.S. flag. That changed Thursday, May 19, whe… Read more
After three weeks of visiting friends and family, Strawberry resident Patrick Shearer flew back to Poland on Saturday… Read more
The 42nd Annual Memorial Day Juried Arts & Crafts Festival sponsored by the Pine-Strawberry Arts and Crafts Guild… Read more
The Isabelle Hunt Memorial Library, 6124 Randall Place in Pine, is making plans for its summer reading program, “Ocea… Read more
The Pine-Strawberry Fire District (PSFD) has entered fire restrictions, which means residents and visitors cannot bui… Read more
Firefighters declared it a successful Smoke Alarm Walk with 47 smoke alarms installed to keep residents in the Pine-S… Read more
Patrick Shearer arrived in Poland on March 3 intending to help a country and a people he felt a kinship with after vi… Read more
It is time for spring cleaning and what better place to start than with cleaning up your properties? Yes, the fire se… Read more
After nearly two months of an invasion, millions of lives are drastically changing and several Ukrainian cities, town… Read more
Bring a craft brewery to a small town and other businesses will thrive, says THAT Brewery and Pub owner Tamara Morken… Read more
Volunteers are needed for a variety of upcoming Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction events. The mission of PSFR is to redu… Read more
The Pine-Strawberry community is small, but mighty. Recently 42 Pine-Strawberry community members donated blood. One … Read more
Patrick Shearer, a retired police officer who served six years in the Army, isn’t done serving yet. As of Sunday, he … Read more
What started as a few friends watching NASCAR races at the local tavern with the loser buying a round or two has grow… Read more
Sitting on the porch of a friend’s home, sipping wine and solving the world’s problems is one of my favorite pastimes… Read more
The food truck craze, much like food delivery, is one thing that people who choose to live in a rural mountain commun… Read more
A strip of property in Strawberry deeded to the state by the county due to unpaid taxes was purchased by the county f… Read more
The Friends of Pine Library is hosting Pine-Strawberry Fire Department Capt. William Donald “Billy Don” Chester at th… Read more
The Payson Elks Lodge recognized Pine-Strawberry Fire Department (PSFD) Firefighter/EMT Bill Potter for his outstandi… Read more
The Payson Elks Lodge 2154 held two special events Friday, Jan. 21. The first was to recognize the schools and provid… Read more
Ronald McGhee and his partner Cynthia Coolidge ran to Payson for a few errands on Friday. They were only gone about a… Read more
Candidate for Gila County Board of Supervisors (BOS) District 1, Sherra Kissee, will be at the Local Pizza Shop in Pi… Read more
The Senior Citizens Affairs Foundation (SCAF) named Sharon Weir as their Volunteer of the Year for 2021. Read more
A snapped power line left most of Pine without power from about 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 8. A residen… Read more
The Gila County Board of Supervisors recently gave approval for zoning for a 16-cabin dude ranch in Pine. Read more
For our mountain hamlet, January through March is the quieter time in town. A few bursts of activity around the rando… Read more
“Pine-Strawberry Fire Department firefighters responded to a house fire on Dan’s Highway in Strawberry at 11:45 p.m. … Read more
As we leave 2021 behind Pine-Strawberry can be proud once again of the amazing gifts of time, food, toys and gifts pr… Read more
Thanks to Dottie Hearn, Pine-Strawberry took part in National Wreaths Across America Day for the first time on Saturd… Read more
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The Payson Police Department says it has arrested several more people in connection with selling drugs to minors. Read more
The volunteers at the Pine Strawberry Food Bank (PSFB) are grateful to our caring community for helping to provide Th… Read more
The Isabelle Hunt Memorial Library in Pine is selling See’s Candy as a fundraiser. Read more
Just saying the word COVID brings lots of reactions, none too positive. But thanks to COVID stimulus money, the Pine-… Read more
The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management and the Pine-Strawberry Fire District was scheduled to start a… Read more
More than 150 people visited the Pine-Strawberry Elementary School Fall Fest on Friday, Oct. 29 hosted by the eighth … Read more
Yet again, the kindness of a small town shines brightly. For the second time, Pine-Strawberry Fire Department (PSFD) … Read more
Halloween weekend is upon us and here is a quick reminder of the community events for you to join in on. Read more
Enjoy all that Pine-Strawberry offers in the coming week as the community hosts a series of events. Read more
The month of October is already half over, so that means there are only a couple of weeks left until Halloween and Ha… Read more
A Pine-Strawberry firefighter has once again placed among the top three in a statewide cooking competition. Read more
The month of October is already half over, so that means there are only a couple of weeks left until Halloween and Harvest events start. So ma… Read more
A Pine-Strawberry firefighter has once again placed among the top three in a statewide cooking competition. Read more
Pine-Strawberry’s Annual Fall Festival was Oct. 9 and 10 at the Community Center. Read more
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As Pine-Strawberry Fire Department (PSFD) Capt. Phil Paine was driving home Wednesday, he spotted a vehicle fire at the entrance to Portal IV … Read more
As the weather cools down, the activities are heating up. Read more
More than 200 mountain bike riders met up Saturday morning to take on the challenging Fire on the Rim race. Read more
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They spend hours and sometimes days out in the wilderness looking for lost and injured hikers and ask nothing in return. Read more
Thanks to community support, a disabled man far surpassed his fundraising goal for a 9/11 charity walk. Read more
The Central Arizona Association of Realtors has started its Eighth Annual Food Drive to help fill the shelves of area food banks. Read more
Last year, they canceled most festivals due to COVID and this year, wildfires, like the Backbone, drove many tourists away. Read more
Sixty-three-year-old Pine resident Rick Summers is nearly bionic, with titanium running from his shoulders to his tailbone. Read more
After the Backbone Fire threatened the community of Strawberry just a few months ago, it alarmed residents when they saw an orange glow in the… Read more
While driving on State Route 87 Saturday night with my daughter, Air Force airman Laynie Brogdon, EMT and medical technician, a woman in the r… Read more
book saleCome out Labor Day weekend for the Pine library’s annual book sale. The event runs Sept. 3-5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the library act… Read more
Arizonans watched Fox 10 News anchor Kari Lake deliver the news for more than 25 years, so when she resigned, it caused a dust-up of monsoon scale. Read more
Having grown up in Pine-Strawberry, Zach Graham took a culinary class offered at Payson High School, which led him to a career in cooking. Read more
The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers to plan for ongoing lane restrictions on portions of a 10-mile segment of State R… Read more
A gathering of grateful community members will take place from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, July 31 in the Cultural Hall, 3886 State R… Read more
Was your business impacted by the Backbone Fire? If so, consider applying for a low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Busine… Read more
The Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction crew is hosting an open house in the Cultural Hall at 3886 AZ-87, in the Pine Community Center from 9 a.m. … Read more
The first Monday of the month is a busy day for the 40 or so volunteers of the Pine-Strawberry Food Bank. It’s typically the day that the Unit… Read more
Pine-Strawberry restaurants have had to survive situations that most never even conceived of starting a year and a half ago. Owners had to ret… Read more
No one ever thinks about what wait staff will do when their restaurant closes due to an evacuation. Read more
APS wants to help teachers get a head start on the upcoming school year by providing $500 grants for school supplies. The grant application op… Read more
We have returned. Our town is not damaged. And we have a great many men and women to thank for that. “Thank You” and “Welcome Home” signs are … Read more
Gila County has seen a sudden increase in COVID-19 positive cases in the Payson, Star Valley and Pine areas, according to a June 25 report fro… Read more
Riding a horse on the mountain trails around Pine-Strawberry is amazing. Evacuating a horse from a smoke-filled town is the exact opposite. Hu… Read more
Though residents were allowed to return to their homes over the weekend, as the Backbone Fire evacuation of Pine and Strawberry stretched into… Read more
This weekend, as Pine-Strawberry residents are slowly moving back into their homes, smoky red sunsets are still the norm. But heavy smoke caug… Read more
Don’t think you need an emergency kit? Think again say families that needed one when the fires in southern Gila County bore down on Globe, Mia… Read more
The long evacuation of Pine and Strawberry came to an end as of 4 p.m., Sunday, June 27. Read more
Firefighters need lots of support and fire camps provide that. One important item is ice. Read more
This is what it looked like leaving home. But not what it felt like. A picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes. We’ve seen hundreds of pi… Read more
Members of the Arizona Flywheelers recently presented a $250 donation to Sharon Ballentine of the Pine Strawberry Food Bank. The money was ear… Read more
Since 1979 Jane Hock has been throwing pottery in the best way. Completely practical, usable and delightfully artistic, her custom pottery pie… Read more
The Pine and Payson public libraries launched summer reading programs last week. The theme for the “official” reading program is Tails and Tal… Read more
A small brush fire, reported at milepost 265 on Highway 87 just south of Pine on Monday around 1 p.m., brought out the best in passersby. Read more
Our communities’ best and brightest ended their elementary school career Tuesday night in the classic Pine-Strawberry Elementary School tradit… Read more
Because of a new fire code passed on April 15, Pine-Strawberry Fire Department firefighters can now issue a citation for those in violation of… Read more
ArtAFlame, an event that raised $1,200 for Pine-Strawberry Fuel Reduction, was held last Friday in Strawberry and the spectacle surprised most… Read more
The Isabelle Hunt Memorial Library’s Summer Reading program, Tails and Tales, is from June 1 through July 24 for all ages. Registration is open now. Read more
In 1861, Pyror and Katie Miller donated land for a cemetery to the Pine-Strawberry Community. In the last 170 years, many pioneers and local r… Read more
Gila County Public Works Road Department asks drivers to not park vehicles and trailers along roadways listed below from May 10-19 when paved … Read more
Visit the PIEbar, 5096 N. Hwy. 87, Strawberry from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, May 1 for a socially distanced outdoor fire art extravaganza. Read more
At its April 20 meeting the Gila County Board of Supervisors agreed to help the Hellsgate Fire District and the Pine-Strawberry Fire District … Read more
After 27 years of community service, Pine-Strawberry Fire Department engineer Stacy Figueroa is retiring. Read more
