Editorials

From book readings, book clubs, veteran town halls, study groups and garden talks to computer classes, adult GED tutoring and workshops dealing with dementia, the Prescott Valley Public Library has much to offer.

It is the kind of event residents love — hay rides, tractor pulls and a show, a pumpkin patch and corn maze.

Beyond the weather, if two seasons exist each year in the Prescott area they are prescribed burns and roadwork.

The Arizona Corporation Commission reviewed a drafted plan earlier this week that would block electric companies from shutting off their customer’s power if forecasted temperatures over the next five days were expected to rise above 105 degrees.

They are called smartphones. From time to time, when you call up the Weather app, it gives all of the information you want.

State lawmakers know Gov. Doug Ducey usually holds firm with his “find another way” stance when it comes to raising taxes.

Goodyear on Monday, Sept. 23, joined two other cities in Arizona acting on vaping. Tempe and Cottonwood are also working to protect our youth.

The state of education has it that still one in five classroom vacancies remain to be filled, and Arizona schools started this year with more openings than last year as more teachers chose to leave the classroom.

The Arizona Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the City of Prescott and the Town of Prescott Valley, just gave its commuters 70 hours of their lives back each year.

The Town of Prescott Valley has a new police chief.

The 22nd annual Empty Bowls event Sunday at the courthouse plaza in downtown Prescott is surely destined for a tasty-good time.

Residents have been offered a unique chance to meet four candidate finalists, who if selected, will be the next chief of police in Prescott Valley.

Today, the City of Prescott and Yavapai County welcome home the men and women of Arizona National Guard Charlie Company 1/158th Infantry from the theater of war.

Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) officers are the boots on the ground in the battle against narcotics in Yavapai County – including opioids and deadly synthetics such as fentanyl.

Ten days. That is how long you have until your ballot is due in the City of Prescott mail-in Primary Election.

Keeping housing affordable is a challenge for the entire Quad Cities, and it would go a long way in helping people stay here.

It is almost time for you to cast your votes in the Prescott City Council election.

Election season is upon us. In accordance with an established tradition of fair play, the Courier handles letters to the editor and talks of the town a little differently during election season.

With all the rancor in Washington, D.C., these days, it catches your attention when members of Congress reach across the aisle to get something done.

The national media reports have been numerous in recent days: “The FBI and ICE can actually access and scan your driver’s license picture, and get other information about you, using technology that’s the stuff of Hollywood.”

June’s “Monsoon Awareness Week” declared by Gov. Doug Ducey came and went like most thunderstorms do this time of year, except without the actual storms. And since then, the past month has seen little to no moisture.

While the Fourth of July is for picnics and entertainment, the celebration of our independence is rooted in people who were willing to risk everything.

We live in a nation of knee-jerk reactions.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the tragedy that claimed the lives of 19 of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

We regularly receive robocalls on our phones, and the phone companies have the technology to stop them.