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Rezoning the 1.94 acres from Rural-43 to I-2 industrial plan of development was approved unanimously by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in a Jan. 13 public hearing consent agenda with other items.
Light-industrial rezoning approved at Mesquite, 202nd in east Mesa
Property on the southwest corner of Mesquite Street and 202nd Place in east Mesa has been rezoned to light industrial for a contractor yard with RV storage. Rezoning the 1.94 acres from Rural-43 … more
Ground Control owners Ian and Stephanie Harwell, photographed outside their restaurant, beer, coffee and wine bar in November, have applied for a $10,000 COVID-19 Relief Grant from the city, and have asked the council to recommend that the state approve their request to expand operations outdoors through June.
Litchfield Park council eyes COVID-19 grant, Ground Control expansion requests
Litchfield Park’s City Council has a packed night Wednesday, Jan. 20, with a regular meeting that will see reelected incumbents Ron Clair, Ann Donahue and John Romack taking their oaths of office and selection of a vice mayor among seven action items and numerous presentations, project updates and monthly reports. more
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Naval Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps members from Apache Junction High School at a parade.
March military orientation trip to Washington approved for Apache Junction NJROTC
Six to 10 Apache Junction High School students will travel March 8-12 to Washington, D.C., for a military orientation trip. The travel for members of the Naval Junior Reserve Officers’ … more
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Surprise City Hall Chambers
Surprise City Council special meeting to focus on own government
The Surprise City Council has scheduled a special meeting to discuss how its council-manager form of government works. more
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Surprise Vice Mayor Chris Judd was a member of the Surprise Rules Committee, which made recommendations to update the city’s Policies and Procedures Handbook.
Surprise clarifying social media rules for council
The Surprise City Council is trying to use social media a little more responsibly than some politicians. more
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Goodyear Recreation Campus Phase I construction at the 86-acre site on Estrella Parkway between Van Buren Street and Yuma Road, is expected to be completed this summer.
75 years of progress: Major city projects under way in Goodyear
Goodyear experienced tremendous growth in 2020, with dozens of industrial and housing projects wrapping up or getting under way, and small businesses opening, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The new year is expected to bring more of the same, and the city itself has some major projects that will come to fruition or get under way in 2021. more
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Photo by Arianna Grainey
In less than 1 year Scottsdale approaches 20,000 COVID-19 cases
Numbers provided by the Arizona Department of Health Services on Jan. 18 show 19,133 total cases of COVID-19 mapped to Scottsdale’s nine ZIP codes. City-wide, compared with numbers last week … more
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The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office needs dozens more patrol vehicles and hundreds more detention officers and sergeants, Sheriff Paul Penzone told county supervisors in a budget meeting last week. [Arianna Grainey/Independent Newsmedia]
Sheriff: MCSO needs 50 vehicles, hundreds more detention officers
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office needs dozens more patrol vehicles and hundreds more detention officers and sergeants, Sheriff Paul Penzone told county supervisors in a budget meeting last … more
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Scottsdale artist Emma Garcia painted the heart representing the 2000s at Falcon Park, 15050 W. Indian School Road.
Goodyear to kick off 75th anniversary celebration with virtual ceremony
The city of Goodyear will kick off a nearly year-long 75th anniversary celebration of its Nov. 19, 1946, incorporation with a small ceremony streamed live from its oldest park at 10 a.m. Jan. 22. more
Surprise City Hall Chambers
Recycling update to highlight next Surprise City Council meeting
A packed agenda awaits the Surprise City Council at its next meeting Tuesday, Jan. 19. Items include an update on the city's suspended curbside recycling program, the selection of a new vice mayor … more
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96-lot townhomes subdivision planned in Apache Junction
Two-story townhomes with two-car garages are to be constructed in an Ironwood Station gated subdivision near the southeast corner of Ironwood Drive and Superstition Boulevard. Rezoning 7 acres … more
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Donate blood Feb. 10 in Apache Junction
The city of Apache Junction will hold its next blood drive 6:30-10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10. The Vitalant bloodmobile will be in the City Hall parking lot, 300 E. Superstition Blvd. Donors are … more
Desert Vista Elementary School, 3701 E. Broadway Ave. in Apache Junction, will receive a one-time payment of $124,560.88.
Apache Junction, Gold Canyon elementary schools receive result-based funding
Two Apache Junction Unified School District schools — Peralta Trail Elementary and Desert Vista Elementary — have qualified for more than $213,000 in results-based funding. The schools … more
Amalia Ayala, front, a resident of Las Brisas Sunset senior apartment complex in San Luis, Ariz., deposits saliva for her COVID-19 test during the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Free saliva tests engineered by Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute are administered in Yuma County's small border city of San Luis to disabled and older people living in subsidized housing. The tests have also been given to hundreds of farmworkers. (Cesar Neyoy/The Yuma Sun via AP)
Military nurses, tests coming to help hard-hit Arizona city
PHOENIX (AP) — Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma, Arizona, regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they don't have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital … more
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Recreation Centers of Sun City West General Services Manager Katy O’Grady, governing board Vice President Sue Fitzsimons, General Manager Bill Schwind, Chief Financial Officer Pete Finelli and Environmental Services Manager Todd Patty address the community virtually in the mid-year meeting Jan. 13.
Taking a look at progress
With fiscal year 2020-21 halfway complete for the Recreation Centers of Sun City West, now comes the time to update the community. more
Surprise City Council Chambers
Upcoming city, school meetings in Surprise
Here are upcoming public meetings held in Surprise. more
The request by Dan Bonow, representing D.R. Horton Inc. and the Arizona State Land Department, proposes the city annex an area generally south of the Elliot Avenue alignment, east of Meridian Drive, north of the State Route 24/Frye Road alignment and west of the Central Arizona Project canal.
6,600-acre annexation into Apache Junction topic of Jan. 19 council meeting
Annexing 6,600 acres of State Trust Land and homebuilder-owned property into the city of Apache Junction will be discussed at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The hearing for discussion and … more
The 27th Annual Scottsdale Celebrates MLK Jr. Living the Dream event was held virtually on Jan. 14.
‘Free Hugs Guy’ encourages Scottsdale to keep embracing inclusion
While the ambiance was different for the 27th Annual Scottsdale Celebrates MLK Jr. Living the Dream event — a popular attraction that usually has gospel singers, a lavish dinner with clips showing Civil Rights footage in the background — the message of unity remains the same. more
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New weekly COVID-19 cases in Litchfield Park down slightly
The Arizona Department of Health Services reported the number of COVID-19 cases in Litchfield Park 85340 was 2,845 as of Friday, Jan. 15, a 11.65% increase over last Friday and 2.56% increase over Thursday. That represents an increase of 297 new cases over the week and 71 cases overnight. more
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COVID-19 cases in Goodyear continue spiraling upward
The Arizona Department of Health Services reported the number of COVID-19 cases in Goodyear’s 85338 and 85395 ZIP codes was 8,355 as of Friday, Jan. 15, an 11.7% increase over last Friday and a 1.25% increase over Thursday. That represents an increase of 876 new cases over the week and 103 cases overnight. more
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