Rachel Marie Leichty, 77, passed away on Saturday June 11, 2011, at her home in Winslow. A visitation was held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Greer’s Mortuary in Winslow. A memorial service will be held at 10 o’clock this morning (June 15) at the First Baptist Church in Winslow. Interment will take Read More…
Tera Lynn Gardner, 30, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at her home in Snowflake. Funeral services were held June 11 at the Snowflake Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment followed at the Snowflake cemetery. Tera was born to Dennis Pawlik and Alisa Sandberg on Nov. 5, 1980, Read More…
William Edward Ferguson, 86, of Flagstaff passed away on Monday, June 6, 2011. Funeral services were held June 11 at the United Methodist Church in Holbrook. Interment followed in the Holbrook Cemetery. Bill Ferguson was born in Holbrook on Dec. 12, 1924. His father was William E. Ferguson Sr. His mother was Lula Ferguson. He Read More…
Betty Jeanne Crider-Sanders, 81, passed away on Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Green Valley. Friends and family are invited to show their respects at the Dallas Cemetery, located at 2065 SW Fairview Ave. in Dallas, Ore., on Saturday, June 18. The funeral service and burial will begin at 2 p.m. Betty was born July 9, Read More…
By Teri Walker– Spend any amount of time with Holbrook City Manager Ray Alley and two messages come through loud and clear: “If there’s work that needs to get done, let’s just cut to the chase and get it done,” and “I don’t see much sense in paying others to do work that we’re more Read More…
By Tammy Gray-Searles– Navajo County spends $221,882 more on salaries for top officials than it did five years ago, for a total of $1,115,417, not including benefits, stipends and take-home vehicles. The spending increase includes the addition of two new positions, an assistant county manager and a government affairs director, as well as a large Read More…
By Linda Kor– The Wallow Fire, currently the second largest in state history, continues to rage through northeastern Arizona and as of Wednesday remained at zero containment. The blaze that began near Alpine on May 29 has grown to encompass more than 389,000 acres, and threatens the communities of Eagar, Springerville and Luna, N.M. As Read More…
The Arizona Department of Transportation began a project on Thursday (June 9) to repave nine miles of Interstate 40, approximately 20 miles east of Holbrook between Petrified Forest National Park and Pinta Road (mileposts 309-319). The $8.2 million project will include removal of a layer of the existing pavement and applying a new layer of Read More…
By Linda Kor– Janet Farnsworth and Bernadette Heath realized many years ago that the road less traveled is the road they wanted to be on. Farnsworth, a travel writer who resides in Snowflake, and Heath, a photographer from Payson, have traveled extensively for publications such as Arizona Highways and the Las Vegas Review. Their adventures Read More…
By Linda Kor– With the Wallow Fire raging through more than 389,000 acres in northeastern Arizona, District 5 State Representative Brenda Barton and Senator Sylvia Allen are questioning whether nonfeasance is the true root cause of the fire, currently the second most catastrophic fire in Arizona’s history. “My heart is broken for the loss Arizona Read More…