Salt River Fields is offering fans a chance to purchase an exclusive season ticket package for its 2012-13 entertainment lineup, featuring more than 10 major events for $65.

Salt River Fields is offering fans a chance to purchase an exclusive season ticket package for its 2012-13 entertainment lineup, featuring more than 10 major events for $65.

Salt River Fields is offering fans a chance to purchase an exclusive season ticket package for its 2012-13 entertainment lineup, featuring more than 10 major events for $65.

Salt River Fields is offering fans a chance to purchase an exclusive season ticket package for its 2012-2013 entertainment lineup featuring more than 10 major events for only $65.

You know what they say about Arizona’s weather: It’s paradise, except for the three months when we languish mercilessly in the triple digits. Options for getting out and about do dwindle in the summertime, but we more than make up for it the rest of the year — when we pick peaches, race ostriches, dance at outdoor concerts, browse arts festivals, run foot races and navigate corn mazes.

You know what they say about Arizona’s weather: It’s paradise, except for the three months when we languish mercilessly in the triple digits. Options for getting out and about do dwindle in the summertime, but we more than make up for it the rest of the year — when we pick peaches, race ostriches, dance at outdoor concerts, browse arts festivals, run foot races and navigate corn mazes.

Get your pitchers ready because Oktoberfest is back with a bang.

Cooler weather has brought pumpkin patches, corn mazes and haunted houses to the Valley, but you can find fall color and seasonal frights farther afield. Get your autumn on with a day or weekend trip to these destinations not (too) far from home.

Cooler weather has brought pumpkin patches, corn mazes and haunted houses to the Valley, but you can find fall color and seasonal frights farther afield. Get your autumn on with a day or weekend trip to these destinations not (too) far from home.

Cooler weather has brought pumpkin patches, corn mazes and haunted houses to the Valley, but you can find fall color and seasonal frights farther afield. Get your autumn on with a day or weekend trip to these destinations not (too) far from home.

With carnival rides, wiener dog races and nonstop live music, there’s plenty to see and do at Tempe’s annual Oktoberfest celebration. But it’s the beer — specifically, the authentic German beer — that could be the main draw.

Wickenburg Children’s cultural Organization will stage an Oktoberfest celebration for its fall Music in the Park on the grounds of the Garcia Little Red Schoolhouse.

Wickenburg Children’s cultural Organization will stage an Oktoberfest celebration for its fall Music in the Park on the grounds of the Garcia Little Red Schoolhouse.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce may consider doing Red, White and Boom a little differently in the future and is thinking about using outside help to do it.

Tempe wants Valley residents to know its Beach Park for the Town Lake, its numerous festivals, a historic baseball diamond - and now, solar panels.

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