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Breaking News: Two Linden men believed to be the notorious “High Country Bandits” were arrested by FBI agents at 9 o’clock this morning in connection with a four-state spree of armed bank and credit union robberies that began with the robbery of the Bank of the West branch in Heber last September 8. ---See the Wednesday, March 17, issue of The Tribune-News for full details.

Park Closures Would Have Economic Impact On Area

With jobs being lost, education and health care funding being cut, and families losing their homes at an unprecedented rate, saving state parks may not seem like a priority. Their impact on a community, however, goes far beyond providing recreation....Read more...

These fearsome dinosaurs, who are usually known as music-loving members of Holbrook Park Elementary School’s Park Performers, showed their claws and teeth, and gave their loudest roar during a performance of “Dinostars! A Musical Variety Show” on March 19. Donning brightly colored dinosaur suits, the Park Performers put on musical acts that included “Raptor’s Rap,” “Dinosaur Rock” and “T. Rex in the Neighborhood.”

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County Jail’s GED Program Gives Inmate Chance At A Bright Future There are not many individuals who would be happy to find themselves in jail and even fewer who would be thankful for the experience. The exception to this would be Kamaya Lane. The 20-year-old... Read more...	Law, Shumway And Flake Honored By Snowflake Heritage Foundation The 13th annual Snowflake Heritage Foundation Awards Dinner honored those Community Bridge Builders associated with music in the community. The dinner was held on Friday, March 13, the same evening... Read more...
Whiting Is Appointed To Snowflake Town Council Jason Whiting was appointed to the Snowflake Town Council last week following interviews with five of the six applicants for the post. The vacancy was created earlier this year by the resignation of... Read more...	Winslow School Board Tables Item On Changes For 2009-10 The Winslow School Board tabled an item which was likely a good part of the cause for an overflow crowd at its March 18 meeting. There was a promise that the issue would be addressed in a place and... Read more...
Weapon Used In Shooting At Walmart Is Recovered A weapon discovered at the scene of a suicide in New Mexico has been confirmed through forensics as the weapon used to shoot and kill Simmone Deprins and injure her husband Armand Deprins, both 74,... Read more...	Snowflake Council OKs Variance, Permit For Temporary Dwelling Requests by Janet Flake for a variance and special use permit met with opposition from neighbor Jay Flake, but were approved by the Snowflake Town Council last week. Zoning Administrator Dale Call... Read more...
Variance Allows Smaller Parcel To Keep Heavy Industrial Zoning Travis Tenney of Tenney Door recently sold two acres of land in Snowflake zoned for heavy industrial use to David Black, owner of Sassy Trucking. The parcel is smaller than that required for such... Read more...	Snowflake Town Manager Comments On Consolidation And Budget Cuts “It’s been an interesting meeting this evening” said Snowflake Town Manager Paul Watson March 17 as he offered his report to the town council. Watson noted that there is a lot of anticipation on the... Read more...

Sports

Wrestler Markos Serna Takes Second In Phoenix Nationals When you think of Holbrook wrestling over the past decade you think of the name Serna. Nick,... Read more...	Lady Bulldogs Earn Crown At Bojo’s/3C’s Tournament The Winslow Lady Bulldogs won the Bojo’s/3C’s Softball Tournament 6-5 at home last weekend on... Read more...
WHS Golf Team Fares Well In Match With Show Low, Payson The Winslow High School golf team played a match March 18 at Holbrook with teams from Show Low and... Read more...	Bulldogs Take Second In Estrella Foothills Tourney The Winslow Bulldogs won four games and lost one to finish second in the Estrella Foothills... Read more...
SHS Lobos Win Title At Track Meet In Winslow Snowflake’s track and field teams had just one meet last week, competing with four other teams at... Read more...	Lady Lobos Take Third At Winslow Invitational The Lady Lobos of Snowflake went 5-1 over the weekend at the Winslow Invitational softball... Read more...
Lobos Win Golf Match With Blue Ridge And Holbrook Playing nine holes at Silver Creek, the Snowflake Lobos continued their domination in region play,... Read more...	Lobos Look Good As They Win Over Scouts, Redskins And Elks The Lobos had a nice week on the diamond heading into their spring break, with three wins in as... Read more...

Obituaries

Norma Tanner Norma Lee Tanner passed away on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Funeral services were held March 23 at The...	Valencia Natoni Valencia Natoni, 43, passed away on Saturday, March 14, 2009, in Birdsprings. Funeral services were...
Renee Galvan Renee Ami Galvan, 35, passed away on Sunday, March 15, 2009, in Phoenix. Graveside services were...

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