While this week's discussion on bike lanes on Sixth Street was a virtual repeat of one that took place about four years ago, the Prescott City Council appears headed toward a different outcome this time around.

This morning, for the first time in months, Janelle Reidl gets to sleep in a little bit.Tax time is over.

PRESCOTT - A bewitching cast of characters lights up the Ruth Street Theatre Thursday evening for Prescott High School's performance of "Into the Night," directed by Louisa Nelson and Matthew Kiesling. The cast of 23 high school drama and choir students will dazzle audiences with songs, eye-catching stage sets and a host of special effects including flying.

Mark Drutz, the attorney representing Taylor Hedlund, 14, does not think a hit on the head with a chair was a spur-of-the-moment act.Taylor lost consciousness after a classmate hit her on the head with a metal folding chair in the lunchroom at the Achieve Academy in Prescott Valley on April 10.

"Indian Agent Roberts had a clerk, named May, who was found to be too fond of money and too willing to fire the Indian heart to be trusted on the reservation. He was detected selling liquor to Indians for lucre, and lost his clerkship and was ordered to leave the reservation."

Candida O. Edwards, 85, of Prescott, Ariz., passed away on April 11, 2008, at Mountain View Manor.

Fred L. Bristow Sr. passed away on April 13, 2008, from complications from a fall. He was 80 years young, as he was fond of saying.

John Michael Anderson, 58, of Humboldt, Ariz., born Nov. 27, 1949, in Walters, Okla., passed away April 4, 2008, in Humboldt, Ariz.

Eugene Bohannon went home to the Lord on April 13, 2008. Eugene was born July 20, 1932, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

PRESCOTT - Keith Conrad is making fitness a snap.Conrad is owner and operator of Snap Fitness at 2971 Willow Creek Road. The 24-hour fitness center offers cardiovascular and strength machines and free weights for people to use anytime they want.

CHINO VALLEY - The Chino Valley Planning and Zoning Commission this week will consider whether to recommend rezoning 14 acres at 1460 W. Road 4 North for a proposed commercial development at Windmill Farms.

Augustine O. Sanchez, 78, of Prescott, Ariz., born Aug. 28, 1929, in Williams, Ariz., passed away April 11, 2008, at Hospice Family Care of Prescott.

George William Yonkman, 78, of Prescott, Ariz., born Oct. 12, 1929, in Los Angeles, Calif., passed away April 12, 2008, at his home in Prescott, Ariz.

Forty-seven teachers from throughout Yavapai County are nominees for the 2008 Yavapai County Teacher of the Year and Outstanding First-Year Teacher. The Teacher of the Year nominee categories are grades pre-K-3, grades 4-8, cross-grades specialist, high school and small districts. A separate category is for outstanding first-year teachers.

Prescott Valley police officers arrested Jennifer Herbert, 27, and Douglas Coplen, 34, on charges of three counts of endangerment, two counts of unlawful discharge of a firearm, three counts of child abuse and three counts of disorderly conduct with a dangerous weapon. Child Protective Services took custody of three children, ages from three to nine years old.

Erin Lingo envisions a return to a time when people connected with the source of their food and involved themselves directly in the farming process.To that end, Lingo, 27, became the new coordinator of Prescott College's Community Supported Agriculture project, an unconventional model for farming that the college has been supporting for the past eight years.

Prescott Police are looking for Kenny Eugene Gipson, 58, in connection with two violent assaults against two Prescott women between Sept. 4 and 6, 2007. Gipson is a black man, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. Police consider him dangerous.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of National Library Week with the American Library Association (www.ala.org) and your library April 13 through 19.

PRESCOTT - A meeting to present the results of a "community visioning process" for the Prescott region of the Prescott National Forest will take place Thursday.The meeting is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, near Lynx Lake.

I want to thank the man who returned my driver's license, Medicare card and other insurance information. I don't know his name, but I live in Piñon Oaks and he drove a Hummer.

I appreciated the story, "Police put their lives on line," that appeared in the April 10 Daily Courier. So many times we citizens forget who is out there in the middle of the night while we sleep safely in our homes.

I frequently disagree with your editorial opinions and occasionally grumble to my husband or a friend about them, but the April 13 editorial, "The world is not a network of bike lanes," forces me to express directly to you my feelings, bordering on disgust.

I'll trade Robert Cape (April 11) some of our Williamson Valley Wonders for some of your speeders. We have many parades out here because the folks won't or can't drive faster than 30 mph.

Living in a rapidly growing area - even one suffering an economic slump - is full of vexation, especially when it comes to getting around.The road system hasn't kept pace with the rapidly increasing volume of traffic, and roads constantly are torn up for projects to help the road system catch up with the increasing traffic load.

Five Prescott High School girls' tennis players punched their tickets to the 4A-I State Tournament with a strong showing at Paseo Racquet Center in Phoenix on Tuesday.

Although Laredo managed a split on its home ice with a 3-1 win Tuesday night, the Arizona Sundogs put themselves in position to close out the series in Prescott Valley.Cory Urquhart extended his goal-scoring streak to 18 straight games in Arizona's Game 2 loss. In the long history of hockey in the NHL, AHL, ECHL and CHL, nobody has ever matched Urquhart's incredible streak.

In a late-season span that will see the Yavapai College softball team go 11 days between ACCAC games in the heat of the division race, the Roughriders lost some ground on Tuesday.

The price of gold is soaring - luring many to begin searching for that precious, elusive metal - the bonanza - the mother lode. Even the words bring as much excitement today as 150 years ago. The price of gold is hovering around $1,000 per ounce today and Arizona is feeling the rush of "gold fever" once again, according to Nyal Niemuth, chief mining engineer of the Arizona Department of Mines and Minerals.

A chapter in Yavapai County history closed Monday when the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors voted to disband the Champie Elementary School District. "It is sad that we have to ask for this," County Superintendent of Schools Tim Carter said before the board vote. "This is the slow erosion of a way of life."

Black Canyon City firefighters are now available for property assessment concerning the wildfire season. The wildfire season is coming more quickly than most think, said Shawn Smith, a firewise assessor.

If one could describe the multi-faceted Don Fernwalt in a word, it would have to be "gratitude," because that's what he projects. Fernwalt suffered the loss of a son, and the resultant crumbling of his 42-year marriage. He had to find his way through the grief, and literally rebuild his life.

The approximately 150 Cordes Lakes residents who squeezed into the Cordes Lakes Community Center for the incorporation meeting Saturday learned the group promoting the area's incorporation has not come up with a budget for the first year.

Twelve men from Mexico face illegal immigration charges and the driver of the van they were in also faces charges of human smuggling and possession of drug paraphernalia after a Chino Valley police officer stopped the van early Tuesday.

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