A Tempe Union High School Governing Board member last week slammed students for using a form letter to beg for the reopening of high schools, linking their pleas and protests to the volatile eight-candidate campaign for three board seats up for election in November.
The former treasurer of the Monte Vista Elementary School PTO faces an initial Superior Court appearance Oct. 1 on two felony charges accusing her of embezzling $61,438 through four different schemes between August 2017 and May 2019.
Tempe Union teachers are baring their souls a bit as the district’s schools remain closed and only online learning is available.
The South Mountain Freeway is in the running for two national awards, competing against projects in 11 other states.
Six months after they were closed at the onset of the pandemic, the seven fields at Pecos Park reopened last week, joining the tennis and pickleball courts, the outside basketball courts and the dog park – which were never closed in the face of the pandemic.
Just over 2,600 of Kyrene’s youngest students will return to classrooms for the first time since mid-March as the district’s rolling reopening begins Thursday.
Just over 2,600 of Kyrene’s youngest students will return to classrooms for the first time since mid-March as the district’s rolling reopening begins Thursday.
No one skipped a beat last month during the early part of Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course owner Wilson Gee’s testimony in his contempt of court hearing when he matter-of-factly disclosed that one of the parties interested in acquiring the site “told me that God told him to buy it.”
State officials are trying to stave off what they fear could be a spike in suicides, possibly linked to the COVID-19 outbreak and the depression that can go along with that.
City Manager Ed Zuercher has rejected an organizer’s proposal to place a Black Lives Matter street mural in downtown Phoenix, similar to those that have popped up across the country in the wake of demands for racial justice.
The lawyer for Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course owner Wilson Gee’s company has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider “whether a court order requiring the owner of private property to operate a business on the private property violates the involuntary servitude provision of the Thirteenth Amend…
A proposed policy that would involve monitoring Foothills HOA residents’ comments about their board and the Foothills Association is emerging as a potential issue as the board enters its election season.
Since June, members of the East Valley Blue Line Supporters have stood at a corner at Gilbert and Warner roads for weekly rallies in support of police.
Scottsdale Police have arrested a Chandler man on felony charges that he allegedly attempted to scam his friends, police officers and prosecutors into believing he was dying of an incurable illness.
COVID-19 metrics in ZIP codes – especially some feeding Mountain Pointe and Tempe High – continue to drive Tempe Union’s cautious approach to partially reopening classrooms.
The pandemic-driven shutdowns and education funding largely dominated what could be the only debate this election season has for the men and women who want to represent Ahwatukee in the State Legislature the next two years.
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