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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By Coty Dolores Miranda / AZCentral.com

The Ahwatukee Foothills Concert Band is a dream come true for 26-year Ahwatukee resident Crawford McClue, who founded the community musical group for musicians of all ages in 1991.

The band also is a source of joy to McClue, who celebrated his 98th birthday Wednesday , and still attends area concerts by the group.

“Having seen them when they first started, I’m amazed,” laughed McClue, a former organist listed in the band roster as “official kazoo player.”

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By Jon Hutchinson / CVBugle.com
July 7, 2009

COTTONWOOD — A new 6,500-square-foot Community Health Services clinic is coming to Cottonwood, thanks, in part, to a federal stimulus grant. In fact, the Yavapai County Health Department and the Prescott Free Clinic, which are partners in the Yavapai Community Health Service operations, have been trying to work out plans to build a new clinic in Cottonwood.

Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick said, “Rural Arizonans are being underserved by our current health care system and this sort of investment helps us reduce our costs and improve our quality of care.”

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PRESCOTT - The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors Monday plans to discuss setting a future hearing date for a Development Services’ “permit amnesty program.”

It plans also to discuss the county’s economic condition and payment plan for construction projects and could vote on a five-year road plan.

A permit amnesty program would allow homeowners and property owners that built a building or addition without a permit, or bought something built without a permit, to apply for the required permits without having to pay a penalty. It would not waive the cost of any permits, but would for a period of time save the applicant from paying a fine, Land Use Manager Steve Mauk said.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Strives to bring levels into compliance

PRESCOTT - Even though the real estate market is in a slump, the Yavapai County Assessor’s Office raised the full cash value (FCV) on some commercial property owners, while at the same time lowering the FCV on residential property.

“We went up on commercial values in some areas because we have been historically too low,” County Assessor Pam Pearsall said. “Commercial properties have been selling higher than their assessed value, and the Department of Revenue told us to bring the values into compliance.”

Treasurers use the assessor’s 2010 value to calculate property owners’ 2010 tax bills.

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January 26, 2009

By Joanna Dodder Nellans, The Daily CourierPRESCOTT - Members of Yavapai County’s new state centennial committee had no trouble coming up with a wide range of ideas Monday to celebrate statehood’s 100th birthday in 2012.

The commission’s nine members met for the first time Monday at the county government offices in Prescott. The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors appointed three people from each supervisor district.

Committee Coordinator Bev Staddon already did quite a bit of work before Monday’s meeting, including a list of local websites and books.

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