Prescott Valley Tribune

It was an intensely mournful day when we ended the life of Lucy recently, our “middle” beloved canine family member. When we moved into the area some seven years ago, we had three Black Labs. We are now down to one.

Meet Red Dog, an approximately 4-year-old Lab/cattle dog mix. Red Dog is amazing!

One day while Tim Vree was working with a homeless family, he noticed the look of shame on a young girl’s face when her parents came in seeking services.

Congratulations to John Olivares for being this week’s Humboldt Unified School District Student of the Week.

Prescott Valley resident Marla O’Driscoll plays with her three dogs, Cinnamon, Roxie and Harley Mae, at the Mountain Valley Dog Park Monday, Feb. 18, 2019.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10227 plays host to Stick a Fork in Cancer fundraiser for cancer research from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at the post, 2375 N. 5th St., Prescott Valley.

Tuesday Planners are back. Each Tuesday at 9 a.m. the planners will meet at the Community Center, 16357 S. Cordes Lakes Drive to plan for events, such as Cookies with Santa.

If you have kids, or work, in the Prescott or Prescott Valley district schools, it’s likely you are linked into the parent and staff portals and get needed information about events, emergencies, and snow days, via text, email or phone call.

The Prescott Valley Town Council gave the mayor an expanded power at its Feb. 14 regular council meeting.

Eventually Viewpoint Drive will extend from the Prescott Valley Civic Center to Highway 89A.

The Friends of the Prescott Valley Public Library is conducting a winter raffle with the winning ticket to be drawn March 1.

In what might seem as counterintuitive, nationally renowned educators have determined homework is not a predictor of academic achievement, particularly in young children.

PHOENIX — Arizona voters could get yet another chance to create a new position of lieutenant governor.

U.S. Marine veteran John Epstein was clear at the local VA’s Town Hall held in the Prescott Valley library last week that he didn’t come to bash the staff or leadership.

The debate ensues — whether children should be vaccinated or not. Decades ago it was without question. If you wanted your child to attend school or just be healthy you took them to get their shots.

Editorial cartoon (1): Feb. 18, 2019

Editorial cartoon (2): Feb. 18, 2019

Weather permitting, the Dewey-Humboldt Historical Society will lead a short trip through part of the General Crook Trail of Saturday, Feb. 23.

Five Orme School mathletes scored in the Top 10 students, and in several other categories, with first and second place overall individual winners in the Yavapai County Mathematics Contest Jan. 24 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

House Speaker Rusty Bowers is blowing off a threat by the Gila River Indian Community to pull out of the drought contingency plan — and deny the state its water — if he pursues his own legislation on forfeiture of water rights.

Judith Hanson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, died in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on Feb. 5, 2019.

DelRae Ross was born in Prescott, Arizona, and died in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on Feb. 5, 2019.

More than 300 top high school musicians from Northern Arizona spent two and a half days at Yavapai College participating in the annual Arizona Music Educators Association’s Northwest Region Music Festival.

Republican lawmakers and their business allies are moving once again to put new hurdles in the path of citizen groups that want to propose their own laws.

As Kermit the Frog would say “It’s not easy bein’ green; it seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.”