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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 6, 2009
- The potential for a four-year college in Payson, which local leaders have been pushing for years, ballooned recently when Arizona State University’s president reportedly pushed for small, regional campuses around the state.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 6, 2009
- Payson High School’s band teacher predicts a renaissance.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 6, 2009
- The swearing in of a new Gila County supervisor Tuesday brought to a close Jose Sanchez’s 14-year political career, which was punctuated by serendipitous timing and dedication to the community he served.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 3, 2009
- Property owners beware: clean your blight or else.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 2, 2009
- Richard Meyer is certain that the vacated position of Payson High School’s coordinator for Arizona Academic Scholars will fill.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 2, 2009
- John Breaux drives circles in Payson for 28 hours each week. “I go home and I’m dizzy,” he said, laughing, the sleigh bells affixed to the bus’ ceiling ringing. He pulled into Walmart’s parking lot for the second time Tuesday, before heading to Bashas’, also for the second time.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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January 2, 2009
- The dark blue kitchen cabinets and the gold and burnt orange art deco décor inside Frances Rich’s Payson home belied the whimsical core beneath a sometimes gruff exterior. The gruff Rich fired many a household helper on her first day. The gruff Rich was stern, a sometimes isolated genius of an artist who sculpted the seven-foot Army-Navy Nurse Monument that sits in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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December 30, 2008
- After a three-year hiatus, band has re-started this year at Julia Randall and Payson Elementary Schools.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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December 30, 2008
- Gila Community College has officially joined the Arizona Community College Council after a snub — or oversight — originally excluded its presence.
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By Suzanne Jacobson
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December 30, 2008
- When millions of Americans pop the corks off champagne bottles in the first seconds of Jan. 1, those who make resolutions will officially be obliged to keep them.
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