Desert Garden Montessori, at the northwest corner of Warner Roadand the I-10, is not your average infant- to middle-school. For one, you’ll notice an all-organic garden as you enter the back of the campus, used for the students’ daily lunch periods. You’ll also immediately detect the different teaching style for students, allowing them to be [...]
All it means, really, is “object,” yet somewhere along the line in American pop culture the word “thing” came to mean something scary, a monster, a freak. Maybe it says something about humans that it’s what’s undefined, not consigned to a pigeonhole, which raises our collective gooseflesh. There were Lovecraft stories like “The Thing on [...]
Maybe it isn’t quite as mythic as getting spotted at the counter at Schwab’s, but Emilie Doering still has a pretty good story about breaking into movie work. The ASU freshman and Marcos de Niza grad literally talked her way from background extra to speaking part in the independent feature The Aum’s Law, now shooting [...]
Corona’s dive team already has Chloe Hacker in contention to repeat as the Division I dive champion, but crunch time is nearing for the Aztecs to get as many other divers and swimmers as possible qualified for the state meet, according to coach Ron Musgrave. “Hacker has consistently been one of the top finishers in [...]
If you’re into arts and crafts, you’ll be happy to know that a new Hobby Lobby opens Oct. 21 in west Chandler. The store will be located on the northwest corner of Chandler Boulevard and Country Club Way, across from Chandler Fashion Center. Vincent Parker is the director of training and customer service for the [...]
More than a hundred years ago, pioneers and longtime residents ofTempegathered for an impromptu potluck picnic, socializing with each other during the meal while sharing stories about their community, family and friends. The reunion was so enjoyable that it caught on as an annual event, a celebration held for the 103rd time again this year [...]
You may not know it, but your cell phone is part of the electronic wizardry helping you and other motorists gauge how long it will take you to reach your destination. Drivers headed west on Chandler Boulevard near Interstate 10 pass under digital overhead signs that have the ability to pick up signals emanating from [...]
In the not so recent past, local elementary schools had computer labs filled only with buzzing Macintosh computers with games that would seem weirdly ancient to today’s students. More astonishing to them would probably be the fact that the Internet didn’t exist, including such mass communication programs as Skype. Times have changed, though, and the [...]
When the subject of selling ads on the sides of Kyrene school buses first came up, we expressed our thoughts on the matter to district superintendent Dr. David Schauer and community education administrator Kelly Alexander, who had presented the Governing Board, at its request, with a proposal to hire a fulltime employee whose job [...]
Kyrene schools fell only one percentage point short of achieving the state’s highest rating for overall academic achievement, according to the Arizona Department of Education’s newest system utilizing standard letter grades instead of the previous method involving performance-level nomenclature. Using an A-F grading system, individual Kyrene schools earned mostly A and B grades, with a [...]
