How can it be time for new lunch boxes and backpacks already? As I check off the supply list for each returning student in my house, I recall my own youth in Minnesota, where the nip in the air was the first boding of the start of a new school year, not to mention the [...]
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The Kyrene district will welcome four new principals when the new school year starts Monday, Aug. 10. Longtime Kyrene del Pueblo Middle School principal Tom Sieger retired this summer after many years of service to the district. Assistant Principal Jama Nacke will take over Sieger’s vacated spot. Students at Kyrene de la Paloma Elementary School [...]
It took only one time for Demetrus Johnson to find himself sold on the latest discovery in maintaining peak physical condition. A wide receiver for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team from 2000-2005, Johnson moved here after the Arizona Cardinals added him to their lineup. But an injury cut short his promising career, [...]
The Great American Dodgeball Bash at Kiwanis Park Recreation Center managed to draw what, to me at least, seemed a huge turnout. It was a tournament-style, double-elimination contest, with the open-division winning team walking away with $1,000 ($500 for the co-ed division). Even though I don’t consider myself a dodgeball authority, it didn’t take long to get [...]
D.W. Higgins Institute will be marking its 12th year as a K-8 charter school by moving to a new campus on the northeast corner of Southern and the Price/101 Freeway. The new campus, which opens Aug. 10, features state-of-the-art technology, a 650-seat auditorium, a gymnasium that seats 500, new sport courts and age-appropriate playgrounds. An [...]
Corona’s 2009 football players may not quite be ready for prime time, but aspiring freshman players already have endured sweltering conditions to participate in a weeklong freshman football camp under recently promoted head coach Ken Olson. Olson took over the freshman program in June after his predecessor, Dave Vibber, retired in May. Four freshman coaches [...]
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The future of Kyrene Corridor home sales gained evidence of new optimism with the opening of a nearly 7,000-square-foot office by Hunt Real Estate ERA, Lucas Division, at the recently redesigned McClintock Fountains center in south Tempe. Officials of the 10-year-old brokerage say the new digs eventually will house as many as double its current [...]
Editor’s note: Corona del Sol, Marcos de Niza and other Tempe area high schools have been the beneficiaries of programs developed by the Tempe City Council’s Education Partnerships Committee, goal of which is to create collaborative alliances that enhance the quality and delivery of education in Tempe. The following update from Councilmember Ben Arredondo outlines [...]
