Posted: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Globe -- Holy Angels Hall was filled with music, food, dancing and lots of goodwill Friday night when area Filipinos hosted friends and co-workers from Globe, Miami and San Carlos.
Three young men, dressed in traditional Filipino shirts, greeted people as they arrived. Miguel Ciar, 13, who attends High Desert Middle School, said he has been working hard to make ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Globe -- At a special work session on Monday, the Globe City Council was updated on the city's salary compensation and classification study.
Interim City Manager Cynthia Seelhammer, who served until the city hired Brent Billingsley earlier this year as the full-time manager, had found inconsistencies with how some city employees were being paid. In a nutshell, some supervisors ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Globe -- The Globe Unified School District is paving the way to a more technologically enlightened future for local students.
Mike O‘Neal, director of Career and Technical Education, gave a presentation on the technology students in the CTE program are already using.
"The sky's the limit," O'Neal told the board as he introduced the iPads the students have been ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Globe -- The Gila County Cattle Growers Association would like to thank our crew for putting on another successful annual yearling sale. This auction is a once a year event that is unparalleled across the U.S. A team of 95 percent volunteers came together to sell 2,693 head of cattle grossing just over $2 million in a single day. ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Globe -- To honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice serving our country, the Arizona Silver Belt will publish a special Memorial Day section on Friday, May 24. The edition will hit newsstands early Friday morning, and be available through Wednesday, May 29.
This special, extra edition will feature information on local Memorial Day events, as well as stories ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Globe -- If you plan to run as a candidate for the upcoming Globe city council election you must file your nomination petitions by 5 p.m. on May 29 at the office of City Clerk Gina Paul.
Persons seeking to run as a candidate for City Council District 3 must have a minimum of 38 signatures of registered voters on their nomination ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Miami -- The Miami School Board had an unusually thick stack of Public Requests to Speak at Monday night's regularly scheduled school board meeting, which had to be moved from the library's back room to the MHS auditorium. More than 100 people sat in the audience. Six Sheriff's deputies were on hand as well.
In all, 14 Request to ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Globe -- The Copper Dust Stampede Rodeo was alive and kicking this weekend at the Gila County Fairgrounds. The weekend's festivities started with the annual parade through downtown Globe. ...more
Modified: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Globe -- Officer Kalen Trimble, who has been with the Globe Police Department for 18 years, has seen a variety of crimes in his day. Writing tickets for something like parking the wrong way on a neighborhood street may appear to many as more of a nuisance, especially for the person on the receiving end. But as Officer Trimble sees ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Miami -- Despite wind damage that ripped the roof off of Miami's Hostetler pool house last month, the historic attraction is set to open by Memorial Day weekend. Electrical improvements are being made in the filters and pumps and about half of the roof has been replaced.
The next step is to fill the pool with water in preparation ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Globe -- With Inspired Learning Academy calling it quits and moving out of the Holy Angels campus, many parents and students are hoping for other options for the 2012-13 school year.
One new charter school preparing to enter the scene is Sequoia Choice Arizona Distance Learning School. Sequoia Choice, which operates 17 schools throughout the state, offers both online learning ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Gila County -- The Gila County Board of Supervisors approved a Small Government Enterprise License Agreement with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) at last Tuesday's regular meeting.
The item was introduced by Public Works Division's Deputy Director Steve Stratton and then further explained by Tom Holman, the Public Works Division's technology person. ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Gila County -- The Gila County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution last Tuesday supporting projects described in the Arizona Department of Transportation's Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program. This programs currently includes the reconstruction and lane additions to U.S 60, the Silver King and Superior sections, to begin no later than 2015. ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Superior -- The Resolution Copper Company has published the following information about the land status of the Oak Flat area east of Superior, which is fee title land owned by the U.S. Government/Tonto National Forest based on the current official records of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and actions of record in the Federal Register. ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
In making reference to the alleged corruption/extortion trial of former Congressman Rick Renzi underway in federal court in Tucson, San Carlos Tribal Attorney Alexander Ritchie told the Globe City Council last week it was former Republican Congressman Rick Renzi who started the ball rolling on the issue of the Resolution Copper land exchange.
Quite the contrary -- our past news reports show different. It was Renzi who ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Globe -- A recent survey conducted among Gila County residents and health care providers indicates that at least three quarters of us consider ourselves to be in good or very good health.
About the same number get medical insurance through their employers, but even they might find co-pay costs prohibitive. Half of those insured have delayed filling their prescriptions ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Globe -- The Arizona Silver Belt will be raffling off this beautiful, hand-made quilt as part of its fundraising activities for the Relay for Life event, coming this June. The quilt was made by cancer-survivor (and Arizona Silver Belt staff member) Bethel Baker. Tickets are available for purchase at the Arizona Silver Belt office, 298 N. Pine Street, in downtown ...more
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