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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By Joanna Dodder Nellans / The Daily Courier
June 28, 2009

To Donald Nelson, a Hopi who grew up in Prescott, Homol’ovi is not just another state park.

“Homol’ovi State Park to me is a very special place, in that it reaffirms the history of our migration as Hopi clans,” Nelson explained of the park, which sits along the Little Colorado River about 60 miles south of the Hopi mesas.

“I would not be sitting here today if it were not for the strength, the courage and the tenacity of my ancestors to live and to survive in such a rugged environment, guided by a very strong faith and guided by the assurance that we would be taken care of if we were to follow certain instructions,” Nelson said.

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By Jerry Herrmann, The Daily Courier

The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors Monday voted 2-1 to approve $585,000 in matching money for a new Community Health Center clinic in Cottonwood.

Community Health Services Director Robert Resendes said the federal government has made $585,160 in stimulus money available to the county for a new clinic.

The county has until June 2 to apply for the $585,160 matching grant.

“The Cottonwood clinic location is experiencing the greatest increase in demand for health care services of all of our clinic locations,” Resendes told the board. “This new building will allow for all medical and dental services to be co-located under one roof.”

Peggy Nies, Yavapai County Health Center director, said the number of people her office is treating in the Cottonwood clinic has tripled in the past two years.

“We’d like to have a real medical and dental clinic (in Cottonwood),” she said.

Nies reminded the board the county never had a dental office in Cottonwood before this past fall.

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