This week I received some emails from folks wondering where their license plate refund is. Yes, money.
Earlier this week I took a break to walk over to the intersection of Highway 69 and Robert Road. Demolition crews were tearing down the old Circle K there and I needed a photo; it had stood vacant for about two years.
Ten years ago today, May 8, 2012, I received word that fire was gripping Whiskey Row.
Another wildland fire, more lessons learned. Let’s count the ways:
What's all that black smoke on the east end of Prescott Valley? It is a large pile of vehicles burning in the U-Pick-It yard.
Note – Tim is out of the office this week; he left us with this column from May 2017.
• BUSY BUSY – As we all pray for a little less wind this week, and that the Crooks Fire south of Prescott comes to a quick end without harm or destruction (and let’s say, that it stays “south”), consider the amount of information we have at our fingertips.
Philanthropy. It is a word that means a desire to improve the material, social and spiritual welfare of humanity, especially through charitable activities.
I have watched with interest, it was cringing worthy each time, the developments involving a certain trial on the East Coast over the past three weeks.
We have all heard about the Great Resignation, which is a phenomenon thanks to the pandemic — an ongoing economic trend in which employees have voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse, beginning in early 2021.
As I read this weekend about support and opposition to the Biden Administration’s planned (May 2022) sunset of Title 42, I was reminded of the following column from 2013: The hot topic for decades — illegal immigration and what to do about it — is evolving into a push for driver’s licenses.
OK, so most of us have seen or heard about actor Will Smith slapping emcee Chris Rock at the Oscars on stage this past weekend.
It was not what the Prescott City Council wanted: a new name for the Centennial Center with hitches.
It never fails — no matter where you go, that’s the place with the “worst drivers.”
• GASOLINE — It was like stepping from a time machine — coming out of the mountains last weekend to see a whole new world.
In recent weeks — months, if you count the Prescott City Council working on guidelines for naming buildings in the city — the renaming of the Centennial Center has been in play.
You may have heard people talking about it: COVID is waning. That means it is not spreading or surging like it was a few weeks or months ago.
Earlier this week I met John Moore, the longtime mayor of Williams, who is running for Congressional District 2. Very energetic, willing-to-help cowboy-type of guy!
Oh, what a difference 10 years makes! In this space in 2012, we published this:
As the prices at the pump continue to fluctuate (higher?), and the suggestion has surfaced to suspend at least temporarily the federal gas tax (more than 18 cents per gallon)...
We have all heard about increases in the minimum wage. In Arizona, it has been ratcheting up over the years and now stands at $12.80 per hour. Across the country have come calls for $15 per hour or more.
Lately law enforcement agencies have been conducting “enforcement details” to make sure the motoring public is following the laws they’re supposed to.
The threat of death changes a man, or at least the way he lives his life.
School districts here in Arizona are facing a quandary. This spring, unless the legislature enacts a spending-limit exemption by March 1, they will have to cut about 17% from their budgets.
“Too often in the name of ‘progress,’ which in my opinion is merely a synonym for ‘profit,’ we forfeit not only our liberties and personal rights, but we also sacrifice the reasons we live where we live.”
David Stringer, who sought to defeat Sheila Polk in 2020 in the race for Yavapai County attorney, has been reprimanded by an Arizona Supreme Court Presiding Disciplinary Judge for using mailers unethically in his campaign.
This year, 2,236 liens are listed for a Feb. 8 Yavapai County online auction.
Like Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS), I do not believe in coincidences.
Less than one month after Kenneth W. Thompson was killed in prison, the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, Jan. 19, ruled on his death penalty appeal, affirming his conviction and sentence in a Prescott Valley double murder.
’TIS THE SEASON — We are getting a lot of inquiries this year: “What’s that smoke from?”
As some readers of the Courier have noted lately, yes, fatalities in the Quad Cities seem to be increasing.
Every now and then I come across a tidbit that makes me nervous but warms the heart.
Kenneth W. Thompson, 38, who in 2019 was convicted in a Prescott Valley double-murder case and sentenced to death, has died in prison and his death is being investigated as an apparent homicide, the Arizona Department of Corrections said Thursday, Dec. 30.
Over the years I have seen news events, tragedies and issues of concern come and go, in waves.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Affinity RV Service & Sales has just become part of a larger group, with its sale to RV Retailer LLC in November.
A group of local ladies have started something they call the “Blessing Brunch” — and they’re lighting up the holidays in a unique way.
You’ve gotta love the Prescott-area Christmas traditions.
Details are emerging surrounding Arizona’s first known case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant — which is in Yavapai County — such as officials believing more omicron-positive individuals likely exist locally.
We are seeing a shift. The Prescott City Council is expected to have a “call to the public” soon (at the beginning of the meetings), and the Prescott Unified School District is open to public comments, as long as they’re respectful and relevant.
I cannot let this one pass.
Sheriff David Rhodes pleaded guilty on Thursday, Dec. 2, in federal court to operating a boat while under the influence of alcohol.
I wonder sometimes about, let’s call it, a theory I heard many years ago: What Wall Street does is an indicator of what is to come in six months or so.
Oh, the silly season is upon us! Shopping, that is … people clamoring for things they don’t truly need?
The Prescott area is heading into the holidays — Thanksgiving and Christmas — with an ongoing COVID surge as well as family gatherings and community events.
It happens every year, and each year we get complaints — about controlled burns on the forest.
Remember the juniper tree on Interstate 17 just north of Sunset Point, decorated annually for Christmas? Chino Valley has a similar “tradition,” where a family years ago adopted the three horses in the roundabout at Highway 89 and Outer Loop Road.
When it comes to violence in schools, one solution exists that seems to be perfect.
The Friday Catchall: • SHOTS – With great consternation, it seems, people read the recent Courier story about Dignity Health-Yavapai Regional Medical Center pushing its vaccination-mandate-for-employees deadline from November 2021 to February 2022.
Goldwater Lake, located south of downtown Prescott, has experienced a fish die-off similar to recent fish kills at smaller lakes in the Prescott National Forest — including Mingus, Granite Basin and Horsethief Basin.