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Nine libraries in Pinal County will be getting 165 new computers and wireless laptops as a result of a federal grant to the county.

You have seen the name, but some of you do not know who we are or what we are about. We hope to change all that; we want to improve the senior's life in Maricopa, not by our words but by our deeds.

The hottest 30-plus-year-old women will strut their stuff at the AiRIA Nightclub in the Cash 4 Cougar Contest this summer. 

The Pinal County Board of Supervisors honored the achievements of two Health and Human Service directors last week. Donna Beedle and Tom Schryer were given Health and Human Service's Award of Excellence.  

It took eight years for the Phoenix railroad branch to be completed, and, in the meantime, freight and passengers from all over the northern territory were transported to and from Maricopaville by stagecoaches, wagons and freight teams.

 

 

Welcome to June - the month of weddings, celebrations, vacations and hot days with less hot nights. In the governmental arena, it's also the month of tentative and final budgeting and - this year - the time of serious political campaigning.

Steve Smith (a Tea-Party Republican candidate running for state senator) met with the mayor of Maricopa, Anthony Smith, to discuss many of the issues facing the city, including transportation, jobs and the ever-growing cost of utilities.

 

 

Twenty students from the Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology's Law Enforcement Program attended National Police Week in our nation's capital May 12-16. 

 

 

Molly has a sad history.

 

In 2008, there were 6,757 alcohol-related vehicle crashes across the state. More than 4,700 people were injured and 324 people were killed.

The Maricopa Veterans Center is in need of blood donors for their Community Blood Drive, which is scheduled for Monday, June 14.

 

 

 

County Leadership Institute sessions begin on June 1 and continue through the week. Therefore, the supervisor will be unable to meet with his Maricopa constituents in the Maricopa City Hall until July 6. 

Arizonans are certainly familiar with warm weather and the hazards it can pose. 

Danielle Casey, CEcD, EDFP, economic development director for the city of Maricopa, was recently voted by the Arizona Association of Economic Development (AAED) membership at its spring conference to its board of directors as a non-metro community representative for a two-year term.

The Chinese was the largest group of immigrants to the West. Immigrants worked in a variety of trades, such as mining, small businesses, farming, ranching, and especially with the railroad.

Due to the increasing danger of wildfires, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has implemented fire prevention restrictions within central Arizona.