By Naomi Hatch Last week, the Snowflake Town Council approved an amendment to a special use permit requested by Mark, Jay and Norman Flake for a gravel mining operation. The permit was originally approved on July 19, 2011. The Planning and Zoning Commission heard the amendment request on April 2 and unanimously approved it. Planning Read More…
By Naomi Hatch Following a spirited discussion April 23, members of the Snowflake Town Council agreed to table a resolution in support of Governor Jan Brewer’s Medicaid plan, and not to revisit the issue unless the majority agreed to do so. The resolution was originally on the council’s April 9 agenda, but was tabled as Read More…
By Nick Worth Officials of Passport Potash Inc. announced last week they have completed the first phase of their drilling program on lands owned by the Hopi Tribe. The company reached an agreement with the Hopi Tribe to explore for potash resources on 13,000 acres of the tribe’s land, which is “checker-boarded” with Passport’s own Read More…
By Naomi Hatch Passage of a bill last year required the Snowflake Town Council to make a one-time change to shorten council terms by six months or lengthen them by 18 months. Once these terms are completed, four-year terms will resume. House Bill 2826, passed by the state legislature, consolidates elections. Cities and towns are Read More…
Hopi Planting Day will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 5, at the Hopi Cultural Center in Second Mesa. Planting Day is an educational and hands-on event about Hopi farming, an ancient tradition that continues to the present day. Stanford Lomakema will be on site to discuss the significance and symbolism of Hopi Read More…
By Julie Wiessner There have been questions raised concerning the Common Core Standards that many schools across Arizona have begun implementing. Some groups, such as Stop Common Core in Arizona and Arizonans Against Common Core, wonder if Arizona educators created these standards or if Achieve, an independent, non-profit education reform organization based in Washington, D.C., Read More…
By Nick Worth For sale: Complete recycled paper mill previously producing 337,000 tons per day of recycled newsprint and uncoated specialty papers. The Catalyst Snowflake paper mill, once employer of more than 300 people in Navajo County, is officially up for sale and the seller, a consortium led by Hackman Capital, LLC, Capital Recovery Group Read More…
The Doc Fawcett Benefit Car’d Run will be held on Saturday, May 18. All are welcome, including bikes, cars and trucks. The fee is $25 per hand, with a 70/30 split. Sign up at 11 a.m. and finish by 5 p.m. The starting point will be the Senior Baseball Field on the corner of Highways Read More…
By Nick Worth In an anticlimactic ending to a hotly contested issue, the Navajo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a special use permit for Overgaard Compassion Care to operate a medical marijuana dispensary at a location 11 miles east of Overgaard on Highway 277. It was the third attempt by OCC owners to secure Read More…
