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My friend, Bob, called the other day, saying that he had a visitor and he and his cat were not quite sure what to do with it. A fellow working in the yard found this tortoise (pictured). Bob was hoping that I might have an answer for him. I did not.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 63-year-old female in very good health. Admittedly, I smoked for 22 pack-years, but that is pretty far in the past. I have had two CT lung scans as a result of a pneumonia diagnosis last fall.

Dear Annie: We have a son and daughter-in-law who live in Wisconsin, while we live more than 1,200 miles away in Florida.

What is the difference between “yard art” and junk? This question has pitted neighbor against neighbor and has evidently caused quite a few heated debates.

Last school year Lake Valley Principal Aimee Fleming notice a need for a “brain break” by her students with sensory issues.

Dear Annie: I want to change my career path to pursue what I really want to do in life. I have two kids, a 2-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter.

From June 6-8, Chino Valley High School Future Farmers of America members donned their blue corduroy jackets and attended the Arizona FFA State Leadership Conference (SLC) at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

At one time, Arizona’s rivers and streams teemed with native fish species.

Two weeks ago, I was planning to tell you about some interesting petroglyphs but something else came up instead. So, today it’s back to those petroglyphs.

Three things you might want to know about Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s new chancellor Dr. Anette Karlsson.

My son is 9 and he’s obese, according to his doctor. I was worried about a hereditary problem because he’s eating so much.

Dear Annie: My family moved from Shanghai four years ago and have settled in a lovely home in California.

When Vueling Airlines delays David Levine’s flight, it owes him compensation under European regulations. Why isn’t it paying him, as promised?

Emmanuel Lutheran Church will be having a 5 p.m. Worship Service on Saturday, Aug. 17.

President Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania on Monday while Bernie, Liz and Biden tore it up in Iowa.

Dear Annie: I have been with my boyfriend for six years.

School officially started August 3 in the Prescott Unified School District, and we’ve all heard the saying, “School started this week, which means next week is Halloween, which means that basically it’s Thanksgiving and Christmas, so you had better start making cookies and fudge NOW, as well as write down all your New Year’s resolutions.”

Dear Annie: Several years ago, after my late husband passed away, I reconnected with an old friend whom I’d dated in high school.

This upscale community features spacious lots, elegantly designed homes, and exceptional amenities, all set among Prescott’s famed Granite Dells.

How do you create a space conducive to creative thinking?

Stones in the garden are pretty, but their colors and forms emerge dramatically when low-growing, drought-tough plants are added among them.

I have a head of cabbage that’s getting so swollen I know it’s going to split.

I have existing tile in the kitchen, living and dining room areas and I am considering polished concrete flooring.

Food Program at the Cordes Lakes Community Center, 16357 S. Cordes Lakes Drive, is Aug. 29.

The sculpture’s title is “A Nesting Place.” It is from “The Forest Floor” series, a royal woodland character that “mothers” birds and looks after others.