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The Flagstaff Independent Business Alliance (FIBA) invites interested business owners and citizens to their kick-off open house and party on Thursday, September 7 from 5:30 to 7PM in Room B34 (next to registration desk) at the Coconino Community College’s Fourth Street Campus.At this event, you will hear a brief [...]
August 31, 2006 | Posted in
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The number of Arizonans without health insurance shot up more than 40 percent from 2000 to last year, the Census Bureau says.
Local experts say they are skeptical that the ranks of the uninsured have grown that much.
But the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest report on poverty, income and the uninsured shows more than 1.2 million Arizonans [...]
August 30, 2006 | Posted in
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The summer’s monsoon hasn’t ended the drought that has gripped Arizona for more than a decade, but recent rains will leave a far greater impact than monsoons usually do.
Water levels in key reservoirs across the state have climbed by about 4 percent since Aug. 1.
In a typical year, storage during August declines by 5 percent [...]
August 30, 2006 | Posted in
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The manager of a Flagstaff Mexican restaurant was arrested after a customer discovered a video camera set in the ceiling of the women’s restroom.
Cameron E. Lauck, 21, was booked into the Coconino County jail on five felony counts of unlawful videotaping on Aug. 18 and has since been released.
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August 28, 2006 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, Sept. 6 starting at 7:30 p.m. Lowell Observatory will host a special program on Pluto for Flagstaff Night (the first Weds. night of every month). A Lowell planetary scientist and other Lowell Observatory astronomer(s) will discuss the science of Pluto and the outer solar system. This program will also touch on the recent [...]
August 27, 2006 | Posted in
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Despite Pluto’s recent [reclassification], observatory scientists are buoyed by ongoing discoveries. Reporters across the country called the observatory Thursday to ask if the decision was a major setback for the observatory known for Pluto. “Lowell Observatory has many other strings in its bow other than the discovery of Pluto,” [observatory director Bob] Millis said.
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August 26, 2006 | Posted in
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The American astronomer who put Pluto on the solar system map would have accepted its demotion to non-planet status because he was a good scientist, his widow said on Thursday.
“Clyde said, ‘Well, it’s there. You can do what you want with it,’” Patricia Tombaugh, 94, said from her home in Las Cruces, New Mexico, after [...]
August 24, 2006 | Posted in
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Two officers with the Department of Public Safety Gang Intelligence Team Enforcement Model, (GITEM), fired on a car they say attempted to run them down, Saturday night.
The driver, Kyle R. Garcia, 23, died of his wounds shortly thereafter. Garcia’s family question why police did not use non-lethal responses. A state police investigation is under [...]
August 22, 2006 | Posted in
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A cosmic identity crisis: [from the Arizona Republic, editorials, Monday, 21 August 2006]
“One little number is about to change, and it’s a mental earthquake. The solar system has 12 planets, not nine… The ninth planet is dear to Arizonans; after all, it was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff… Is Pluto a planet? To decide, [...]
August 22, 2006 | Posted in
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The Flagstaff Municipal Water System had a treatment technique violation for chlorination. The chlorination system at the North Reservoirs Filtration Plant went into emergency shut down on 7-13-2006 at 10:45 PM and was returned to normal operation 7-14-2006 at 8:00 AM. As a result finished water entering the 250,000 gallon clear well at the plant [...]
August 16, 2006 | Posted in
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