After revealing the annual Yavapai County Overdose Fatality Review Board’s results for last year — a report that for the third year in a row showed a drop in accidental drug overdoses — MatForce Executive Director Merilee Fowler earned praise for the compassion her agency shows in addressing tragic reality.
With a looming deadline of midnight March 31, Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Group and Aetna insurance have yet to negotiate a new in-network contract for their patients.
An exuberant group of Bradshaw Mountain High School thespians gathered outside the Glassford Hill Middle School auditorium last Friday for what was to launch rehearsals for what for some seniors will be the final performance of their high school careers.
With an aim of offering every school in the district some additional leadership support, Humboldt Unified School District completed the hiring process for assistant principals so that elementary, middle schools and the high school all have the administrative support to enable the highest-caliber instruction.
On Sandy Perez’ wrists are tattoos – the left wrist reads “Daddy’s girl” and the right “Sand.”
The new executive director for Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters, Kristen Kerns, is no stranger to the Prescott community or non-profit agencies devoted to enriching the lives of the most vulnerable, be it children and teens, abused and discarded animals or veterans in crisis.
Humboldt Unified School District leaders are seeking faculty, staff and community help as they “embark on the exciting journey” of a district reorganization intended to offer its 5,500 or so students new academic, athletic and social enrichment opportunities.
U.S. VETS Prescott’s new executive director, Bryan Campbell, is well-versed from a 20-year career as a United States Marine who served multiple tours of combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan in what it means to be a leader.
MatForce Executive Director Merilee Fowler is a dogged advocate for sparing lives through a combination of substance abuse prevention education, advocacy and review of overdose deaths as a means to detect trends and create new consider new ways to combat addiction and its consequences.
Prom season is a rite of passage for many high school juniors and seniors.
When it comes to convincing teens reasons why they might not want to do something risky with their body, it seems like that message might be better heard from a peer rather than someone from their grandparents’ generation.
The Northern Arizona Veteran VA Health Care System Medical Director Steve Sample is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel who knows what it is to endure combat for the sake of ensuring this nation’s freedom.
For the second, and last time, Aliyah Alpert of Prescott will have a chance to wow viewers on a national stage with her penchant for spelling words most people would be clueless to find even armed with an electronic dictionary.
A once rebellious teenage girl in Colorado credits the adults in her life who were able to see beyond the adolescent tumult and push her to be someone better, a role model and leader for others.
Standing tall in a pair of tan spiked heels, Bradshaw Mountain Middle School Principal Samantha Opperman is always proud to highlight her “small, but mighty” school of star students, faculty and staff.
Coalition for Compassion and Justice Executive Director Allison Lenocker is psyched about manhole covers.
In observance of March as Women’s History Month, the Sharlot Hall Museum in downtown Prescott has plenty of exhibits and lectures for locals and tourists to visit and explore, including the Territorial Women’s Memorial Rose Garden.
Chino Valley Unified School District’s soon-to-be Superintendent Cindy Daniels recognizes that this coming year will require some numbers-crunching across-the-board to adjust to less federal grant money, limited staff increases and some decreased school enrollment.
The Humboldt Elementary School in Dewey-Humboldt built on former Iron King Mine property is one of the Environmental Protection Agency targeted properties for soil and water samples this week.
Prescott Unified School District leaders have invested in what they consider an educational secret weapon when it comes to offering teachers intervention strategies to improve proficiency goals for their students.
Drum roll! And the winner of the Humboldt Unified School District’s 2024-25 contest to name its new sixth-through-eighth-grade middle school is: Pronghorn Ridge.
With a focus on enhancing academic achievement, Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board members voted to approve the selection of several new assistant principals for the district’s elementary and middle schools, with the new elementary positions an effort to enable principals to engage more with instruction.
Called a “veteran volunteer extraordinaire,” United States Army Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient Dennis Spicknell devoted his retirement years to veterans and families.
At the Arizona Agribusiness & Equine Center Early College High School in Prescott Valley, Andrea Popejoy is touted as a trustworthy advocate for the entire campus family, a beloved leader valued for her compassion, guidance and willingness to go above and beyond for anyone in need of anything.
No one ought to be surprised that Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Center’s biggest cheerleader is none other than its president and chief executive officer, Dr. Anthony Torres.
In what is an early, philosophical vote on the proposed Prescott Unified School District 2024-2025 budget, the Governing Board on Tuesday night, March 5, voted 4-1 to approve a plan that will give a three-percent across-the-board raise to all employees.
Prescott Unified School District Testing Coordinator Renee Steingraber reviewed the state’s A-F letter grade system at the Tuesday, March 5 Governing Board meeting.
The first day for Yavapai County Governing Board candidates to collect packets at the Yavapai County Education Service Agency was Monday.
The heartbreak of the COVID-19 outbreaks in Yavapai County proved devastating for families who lost loved ones to the virus, as well as to health care providers seeking to mitigate the suffering from a global pandemic.
A white and blue ceramic sneaker. An Egyptian scarab printed on black construction paper. Charcoal portrait sketches. A weaved wall hanging framed between branches. A cardboard canvas of friendship lost.
One Wednesday lunch period each month, Prescott High School senior and baseball team captain Jack Burton takes a trip down memory lane — he returns to his elementary alma mater Abia Judd Elementary School to spend recess time with first graders.
The Prescott Unified School District Governing Board will be asked to give its preliminary nod to a proposed budget package for the 2024-25 school year at its Tuesday, March 5, meeting at 5 p.m. in the Washington School district office’s first-floor conference room.
Maggie’s Hospice in Prescott Transitional Care Specialist Mary Lou Hyatt counts it a “blessing” to be part of family’s final journey with a loved one diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Prescott High School Career and Technical Education Director Tiffany Boehle is all smiles after a week of introducing hundreds of students to career fields they can explore at no cost while earning college credits and industry certifications to benefit them wherever their paths might lead in the future.
Ask many a past guest at Prescott Area Shelter Services and they will say the agency proved a lifeline/lifesaver for them after striking a rock bottom that left them homeless and hopeless.
Come the start of the 2024-25 school year, Humboldt Unified School District will have a new school configuration that district leaders and Governing Board members expect will enhance and invigorate academic opportunities while promoting a culture that better connects students to their schools.
Ever wonder how this nation ended up with a February Leap year once every four years?
Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Group is currently in contract negotiations with Aetna insurance. The deadline to complete negotiations is March 31.
Humboldt Unified School Superintendent Christine Griffin announced late last week the new Glassford Hill Middle School principal she will recommend to the Governing Board is Jared Friedrich, who she hired in January amid a change in leadership to serve as the interim principal.
In her first year as the Humboldt Unified School District superintendent, Christine Griffin is wasting no time when it comes to implementing what she considers sound educational practices able to enhance student learning and school culture with new academic, athletic and career education opportunities.
On the corner of North Lee Boulevard across from the Pine Ridge Marketplace, Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Center has nearly completed its newest, free-standing specialty clinic space that hospital leaders expect to open later this summer or early fall.
The complexion of the school district governing boards across the tri-city area – Prescott, Humboldt and Chino Valley Unified — may change dramatically after the election this fall.
In second grade, Prescott Valley Acorn Montessori gifted elementary and middle school teacher Gretchen Donnell created a classroom business selling designer paper slippers to fellow students.
Meet Toby Chang. A BASIS Prescott senior, Toby serves on the Launch Pad Teen Center Advisory Council and its three-year “Better Together” campaign.
An avowed prankster with a penchant for magic and vintage toys, Prescott boy-turned-adult Brad James long dreamed of the day he might open his very own store featuring toys that don’t run on batteries but rather on the minds and creativity of the child able to buy or pick it out as a specialty gift.
In kindergarten, my loyal companion was a fluffy golden lion with plastic eyes, a long tail and plastic mouth with wire whiskers and a pull string so he could speak 11 phrases such as “I’m Larry Lion…Ooh, I scared myself … I’m ferocious, aren’t I? … I like children … I’ll protect you.”
Chino Valley High School leaders this week were proud to boast to the district’s Governing Board members about their student participation in a robust, career and technical education program.
Chino Valley Unified School District’s top instructional coach Julie Bryce was a happy lady Monday night.
In the first hour of Sharlot Hall Museum’s celebration of Arizona’s 112th birthday, some 10 people, including a both local and visiting adults, with a couple families expecting to join, participated in the museum’s first Arizona trivia quiz.
At 4 a.m. on Friday morning, U.S. VETS Prescott Executive Director Bryan Campbell was helping the kitchen crew with breakfast for some of the 130 or so homeless veterans who now live at the Liberty Pointe transitional and permanent supportive housing complex on Whipple Street.