Kevina Godfrey is somewhat of a hidden gem.

J’ontar Coleman wanted what he felt was rightfully his all along.

One of Desert Vista's own is coming back home to be a Sun Devil.

Whenever Esi Impraim’s mother made jollof — a rich, tomato-laced dish of meats, rice and sometimes seafood — the time it took to bubble away on the stove was always excruciating.

Charles William Roloff, 97, of Phoenix passed away on March 6. He was born May 10, 1915, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Renee B. Roloff, on Nov. 17, 2004.

Jontar Coleman's name was unfamiliar to me until this weekend when he surfaced as an interim head coach for the Desert Vista girls program.

The Desert Vista girls basketball will have a new coach on Tuesday evening in Jontar Coleman.

The Horizon girls volleyball team only lost one match to an in-state opponent this year, and Nikki Hess could do nothing to stop it.

A team of four Desert Vista High School students won first place at the Junior Achievement Student Stock Market Challenge in downtown Phoenix recently. Desert Vista juniors Jasmine Coro, Julia Hackett and Jared Bernat, along with senior Chris Kontos outperformed nearly 450 other Valley high school students at the Sheraton Phoenix Hotel in a fast-paced, interactive stock market simulation that included trades and data interpretation for 26 fictitious companies. It is the fifth consecutive year that a Desert Vista team won the championship. Coro, Hackett, Bernat and Kontos won by turning $500 start money into $1.8 million dollars, the highest net worth of any group. Business teacher Bernie O’Keefe led a Desert Vista contingent of 27 students who entered the annual competition.

I recently saw a post on Facebook from a friend who just became certified to foster. It was a letter from her licensing agency thanking her for her decision to foster and explaining the great need that there is now for adults to open their homes to kids in need.

If you were to go into a bookstore to find “Marcelo in the Real World,” by Francisco X. Stork, it would be shelved in the young adult section and while it is an excellent choice for young readers (receiving 15 awards since its publication in 2009), it is also a story that will touch adult hearts and keep them turning pages to see how a 17 year old deals with a moral crisis that deeply affects the adults in his world.

Few plants adorn arbors or trellises as beautifully as flowering vines. They also can enhance the landscape with fragrance, provide shade and screen unsightly views.

What’s not to like about Lorenzo Melvin.

I always knew that at some point in my children’s lives, we would have to say goodbye to our family dog.

Spring, well, sprang.

Spring, well, sprang.

It took almost half her life to grow it out, but that didn’t stop Ahwatukee Foothills resident Jade Buzinski from cutting off a significant portion of her hair on Saturday morning.

It took almost half her life to grow it out, but that didn’t stop Ahwatukee Foothills resident Jade Buzinski from cutting off a significant portion of her hair on Saturday morning.

Guest violinist Julieta Mihai and pianist Jasmin Arakawa perform Prokofiev’s Five Melodies, Debussy’s Sonate No. 3, Enescu’s Impressions d’Enfance, and Bartok’s Second Rhapsody.

In a meet defined by shattered records, it was host-Chandler's two squads that ended the 72nd Chandler Rotary Invitational as the ultimate winner.