The Flagstaff Fire Department plans on burning slash piles from fuel management thinning projects along the Lone Tree Road corridor today and Saturday if Flagstaff receives precipitation.
Whether the burn is ignited depends on approval from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and weather conditions.
Ignition would begin around 6 p.m. and last into the night.
Flames would [...]
November 30, 2007 | Posted in
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There’s another downside to the real estate slump. Real estate agents around the Valley have been finding finding abandoned pets in foreclosed homes.
Foreclosure fever is bringing out the worst in irresponsible animal owners who move without plans for their pets.
CBS 5 has found that people from Tucson to Flagstaff have started an e-mail network of [...]
November 30, 2007 | Posted in
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Pep Boys closed a total of 31 stores on Wednesday, including its only store here in Flagstaff.
On Tuesday, the automotive aftermarket retailer announced it was immediately closing underperforming stores in 16 states as a part of a larger five-year restructuring plan. About 550 employees are expected to lose their jobs.
The company announced its sales [...]
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FlagstaffSimple yet beautiful handcrafted artwork is the focus of the It’s Elemental Fine Crafts Sale and Marketplace. Now in its eighth year, the sale features works by artists participating in the It’s Elemental Fine Crafts Exhibition, which runs through Dec. 20. Free. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort [...]
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SAN JUAN COUNTY — An 83-year-old man was found shot to death in his home just south of Farmington Thursday morning, the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office said. Thomas Powell was discovered in the kitchen of his home with a single gunshot wound in the back of his head, Sheriff’s Lt. Tyler Truby said.Deputies [...]
November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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 WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., on Wednesday ordered flags on the Navajo Nation to fly at half-staff from Nov. 29 through Dec. 2 to honor Navajo Code Talker John C. Sells who died Friday. He was 92.
“The late John C. Sells was a Navajo Code Talker who served the United States [...]
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WILLIAMS – A small northern Arizona ski area that has been plagued with low snowfall in recent years has won approval to install tubing runs covered with plastic for year-round sledding.
Kaibab National Forest officials said Thursday they will issue a one-year permit to the Elk Ridge ski area on Bill Williams Mountain allowing two sled [...]
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The idea of a roundup is nothing new in Greenlee County. Such an event is part of local history that dates back more than 100 years and continues today.
However, no one wore chaps, nor were there horses involved at the unique roundup in Stargo on Nov. 20. It was Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep that were [...]
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Coconino Community College in Arizona has signed a five-year deal with information technology management firm CampusWorks, which will supply the college with a CIO and various technical personnel to oversee IT staff development.
According to the deal, CampusWorks will provide a CIO for Coconino and experts in Web technologies, instructional tools, networking, data security, and other [...]
November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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 It could be a long, dry and warm winter in Arizona.
“We’re in a la nina type of situation, which generally pushes the storms up to the northwest, up into Oregon and Washington, so that, unfortunately for us because we need the rain, we’re going to stay pretty much dry and warm as well,” said Arizona [...]
November 28, 2007 | Posted in
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