At 102, Dewey resident Bert Grey is in an exclusive club: one of only about 1% of the nation’s World War II veterans still able to share memories of the days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Prescott-area philanthropists Jim and Linda Lee never had the chance to meet Robby Miller.
A tiny, but mighty woman was posthumously honored this week for devoting a big chunk of her life to helping people in the greater Prescott community navigate the challenges of care for elder loved ones.
At the installation ceremony for Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation on March 23, The Rev. Patty Willis will be treated to a special musical extravaganza — a performance of a homegrown interfaith choir birthed before a pandemic shut them down.
In the four years since her call to ministry in Prescott, The Rev. Patty Willis at Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation has proven to be a gentle, yet persistent voice for community connections built around diversity, inclusivity and multi-view conversation.
The process to hire a new Heritage Middle School principal in Chino Valley has so far not garnered the candidates district leaders expected, and so the search is on again.
Within the month, the Prescott Unified School District’s legal counsel will file a response to a state Attorney General’s investigation into whether or not district leaders violated open meeting law related to selection of a newly adopted K-12 social studies curriculum.
For the last 14 of a 32-year career, Kort Miner has called Humboldt Unified School District his educational home: three years as the Bradshaw Mountain High School assistant principal, eight years as its principal and three years as the district’s executive director of operations and human resources.
The Chino Valley Unified School District last week voted unanimously to spend $1 million to hire 17 new staff members for next year, a move the district superintendent praised as a “significant commitment.”
Singer, songwriter, educator and mental health treasure hunter David Simmons is gifted with a unique superpower — one he shares because he knows creativity is the heart of hope and resilience.
Twelve-year-old Robby Miller loved playing the French horn in the Glassford Hill Middle School Band.
Santé Ceolin’s French accent speaks to his roots — Italian born and from age 6, raised in France before he eventually landed in Phoenix in 1955; America and the state of Arizona his new forever home.
Prescott Unified School District leaders are elated they have been selected to pilot a workforce housing project expected to enable them to entice teachers who otherwise might look elsewhere due to market rents and housing prices beyond their financial reach.
A two-week Prescott Unified School District superintendent search survey closed with what their consultant suggests was “extensive participation, with 847 responses to questions ranging from the type of leader district employees and the community desire for the district to the challenges ahead.
All teachers and other certified employees who work for the quad-city public school districts are expected to be delivered contracts this week and next as a means for area district leaders to start planning on how to fill potential vacancies from retirements and resignations.
On a bustling afternoon at the Launch Pad Teen Center in Prescott, there is a short line of customers standing before the counter of the Moon Café awaiting their beverage and snack choices; a couple are awaiting heartier lunch fare, as this café is continually expanding its menu to suit its clientele.
Tuesday, March 7, the Prescott Unified School District and Humboldt Unified School District’s governing boards will be seeking approval to distribute contracts to existing certified faculty, the bulk of those are classroom teachers.
Strands of one Granville Elementary student’s silky blond hair spiked arrow straight above her head.
If you are a Prescott parent, grandparent, teacher, volunteer, business, civic leader or taxpayer, then the Prescott Unified School District Governing Board wants to hear from you about what you want in your next superintendent.
Amid some laughs and the creative use of sticky notes, magic markers and white boards, the Humboldt Unified School District this week tackled the very serious business of hiring their top educational leader.
The Prescott High School Band and Orchestra will host a fundraising Olive Garden spaghetti, salad and breadsticks dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9.
In 2015, Paula Sedillo Wise opted to parlay her family-inspired community outreach into a mission that today provides new shoes, socks, backpacks and children’s books to more than 3,000 children each year.
Three finalists have been identified to fill a vacancy on the Yavapai College District Governing Board for District 3, Yavapai County Tim Carter announced on Tuesday, March 1.
A humble, patriot and United States Army veteran devoted to honoring military heroes of all branches across America’s rich history, both in life and death, privately and publicly, Dan Tillmans has invested more than a half century with Prescott’s city’s American Legion Post 6 Honor Guard.
With the selection last week of the national superintendent search firm McPhearson & Jacobson LLC, the Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board is poised to launch the official search.
The local chairman and co-founder of the Arizona School Board Watchdogs and the two Prescott Unified School District Governing Board members opposed to a new K-12 social studies curriculum are seeking state intervention to overturn its adoption and require educators to begin a new selection process.
At his turn in a short, buffet-style lunch line, eight-year Vietnam-era United States Army veteran Walter “Butch” Scharff, 70, glides his portable wheelchair as he selects his customized salad and soup.
The assistant principal of a metropolitan high school in Las Vegas, Nevada emerged as the top choice from three candidate finalists to become the new Chino Valley High School principal for the 2023-24 school year.
In a 3-2 vote to launch its search for a new superintendent, the Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board, at a special meeting Thursday, Feb. 23, opted to select a national firm with a local consultant, one of four firms considered for the job.
The Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board will have a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Vista Room for the sole purpose of determining how to proceed with a search for a new superintendent.
At 86, retired hospice nurse Rae Ann Lund is a seven-year, stipend-volunteer senior companion who admits she regained a zest for life by befriending homebound seniors and sharing in their stories.
Robust, provocative conversation between teachers, principals, students, parents, grandparents, business leaders, clergy and elected official was the centrifugal force of Humboldt Unified School District’s Summit 2023 intended to offer insights so as to prepare kindergartners for life beyond their 2035 commencement.
One year after neighboring Prescott High School launched a pilot project with Yavapai College, Bradshaw Mountain High School, in the Humboldt Unified School District, will be offering academically advanced juniors and seniors a chance next year to attend Yavapai College to earn high school and college credit.
In the spirit of offering students more choice and 21st-century career focus in their learning experience, Bradshaw Mountain High School Principal Brett Dahl earned big kudos from a new governing board member Tuesday night, Feb. 14, after presenting four new courses for both freshman and upperclassmen.
In a show of solidarity for what they have been repeatedly advised is the most important decision they will make as school district leaders, the five-member Prescott Unified School District Governing Board voted unanimously Friday morning on the key search process steps in selecting a new superintendent.
All Humboldt Unified School District students, faculty and staff have one day left to scour their piggy banks for “pennies” intended to donate the district’s Hungry Kids Project that benefits children in need with weekend meals.
Chino Valley Unified School District will have two new principals next year — and the selection process for the new leaders at Chino Valley High and Heritage Middle School has narrowed to six candidates, with two of the middle school candidates also vying for the high school post.
A week of confusion over clinical operations at the Thumb Butte Medical Center off Willow Creek Road were clarified on Wednesday, Feb. 15, with a formal notice that the medical practice is now under new ownership by Prescott Medical Investment, LLC.
Chino Valley Unified School District Governing Board President Cyndi Thomas said she can imagine a time when the notion of armed security guards on school campuses would have seemed preposterous.
In its 17-year legacy of substance abuse prevention with focuses on youth education, trauma impact, positive parenting, mental health, mentoring and overdose fatality reviews — to name a few — MatForce and its Yavapai County coalition leaders and volunteers have emerged as “prevention champions.”
The top agenda item for the Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board at 5:30 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, Feb. 14, will be accepting the resignation of Superintendent John Pothast and voting on hiring a search consultant to begin the process to hire a successor.
U.S. VETS Prescott Executive Director Carole Benedict was delivered a big surprise last weekend — Gov. Katie Hobbs’ staff called her to let her know she was selected for two tickets to the 57th Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Sunday, Feb. 12.
The Humboldt Unified School District received an unexpected, stunning announcement on Friday afternoon: Superintendent John Pothast is resigning his position as of the end of the school year.
The concerted effort of a citizens’ group to defeat Prescott Unified School District’s educator-endorsement of a new, K-12 school curriculum failed to convince a majority of the Governing Board that it is historically inaccurate and will “brainwash” students with anti-patriotic sentiments and activism.
Long hours of negotiations over the course of the last week between Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona dissolved on Wednesday afternoon.
Some 50 speakers voiced a mix of opinions on a proposed, new K-12 Prescott unified School district social studies curriculum during a three-hour Prescott Unified School District Governing Board meeting Tuesday night, Feb. 7.
Yavapai College District 3 is seeking a new board member upon the resignation of Paul Chevalier, who stepped down on Jan. 30 and the application deadline to the Yavapai County superintendent’s office is Feb. 23 with an appointment to be made by March 10.
Progress on a new contract between Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona has yet to lead to an agreement that will maintain in-network coverage for some of the insurance carrier’s members.
With expectation of a large crowd for the Prescott Unified School Governing Board’s debate and potential vote on a new K-12 social studies curriculum at 5 p.m. Tuesday night, Feb. 7, district leaders will be opening up the Washington School gymnasium to accommodate interested guests.
With questions abounding over who will or will not be impacted if Dignity Health Yavapai Regional Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona are unable to settle on a new in-network contract by close of day Monday, Feb. 6, officials for the insurance carrier expect to go live this weekend with a new website to help their customers determine more about their coverage and options.
