By Peter Corbett / AZCentral.com
August 8, 2009

Arizona’s desert dwellers with summer cabins are the lucky ones.

They can escape when dawn breaks with temperatures uncomfortably close to triple digits.

Cabin owners flee to their high-country retreats near Flagstaff, Prescott, Payson and the White Mountains for a weekend or a week.

They drive a few hours to where daytime highs are more than 20 degrees lower than in the Valley and overnight temperatures dip below 50.

“It’s the best of both worlds,” said Tom Taggart of Gilbert and Flagstaff. “Down here we have our pool and palm trees, and up there we have our cabin in the woods.”

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The Daily Courier
August 18, 2009

PRESCOTT - The first event of the Arizona Aircraft Expo will take place at Prescott’s Ernest A. Love Field this week.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, models of the newest general-aviation aircraft will be on display at the airport’s fixed base operator, Legend Aviation, 2020 Clubhouse Dr.

Prospective buyers and the general public will be able to see 10 different single-engine aircraft from Cessna, Cirrus, Diamond, Mooney and Piper.

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By Joanna Dodder Nellans / The Daily Courier
July 25, 2009

A 200-acre ranch in the heart of the Agua Fria National Monument was two days away from the auction block this month when the Trust for Public Land completed a deal to step in and save it from potential development.

“It could have been disastrous,” said Christopher Byrne, Arizona project manager for the Trust for Public Land (TPL).

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has wanted to acquire the historic Horseshoe Ranch ever since President Bill Clinton created the monument nearly a decade ago.

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