Former Marcos de Niza quarterback Tommy Thornton has officially committed to the Wyoming football program. Thornton joined Marcos de Niza his junior year, moving from Parker, Colorado where he played two seasons of varsity football. He led the Padres to a 9-3 season in 2011 with 2,368 yards passing, 20 touchdowns and only five interceptions. [...]
Brother Todd Jr. and fellow football and basketball teammate Avery Moss will have to do without Andrus Peat at Nebraska next year. The 6-foot-7, 290-pound offensive tackle has chosen to be one of Stanford University’s 16 national recruits, surprising experts who were predicting he would choose the Cornhuskers. After receiving more than 30 scholarship offers, [...]
Editor’s note: Linda Wegener, a south Tempe resident and onetime candidate for the Arizona State Legislature, offers an introduction to the three candidates seeking election as Tempe mayor, along with an overview of their connection to the community. Tempe’s early election for mayor and City Council begins Feb. 16. This election, unlike some Arizona cities, [...]
January 25 was a historic day for Chandler. It marked the first time a sitting president of the United States visited our community. It was impressive to have the leader of the free world choose Chandler as a backdrop to showcase American ingenuity and free enterprise. I was proud to represent our city that day [...]
Five members of Tempe’s Buena Vista Mavericks 4-H Club were among the Arizona 4-H delegates who helped Arizona take seventh place High State at the Western National Roundup in Denver. The “Horse Classic” pitted the “best of the best” 4-Hers from 32 states and Alberta, Canada, against each other in individual and team competition in [...]
Paul Scowen sees stars, but definitely not from a bump on the head. The west Chandler resident is an associate professor in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, and astronomy is both his vocation and his hobby. Scowen is on tap to open the first in a new series of regular open houses at [...]
Consider this: One pair of un-sterilized cats, together with their offspring, can result in 420,000 kittens in seven years. One pair of un-sterilized dogs, with their offspring, can result in 4,372 puppies in the same time frame. Statistics also show that only one out of nine of these animals finds a good home, leaving the rest [...]
Thomas Hickey, local attorney and Rotarian, is back from a family visit to Finland with a renewed sense of friendship, plus some rekindled memories of his first trip there while he was still a teenager. “My junior year of high school (in Anchorage, Alaska) I applied as a Rotary exchange student and was accepted,” Hickey [...]
Joy and Fred Morse — Photo courtesy Morse family One day in 1957, 17-year-old Fred Morse was attending a church youth group meeting in Tucson when he spotted a 14-year-old young woman named Joy across the room. For Fred, it was love at first sight. “I thought ‘That is the girl for me, and I [...]
Dr. Brian Paterick We’ve all heard the mostly joking conjecture that an earthquake in California someday could make Arizonaa beachfront state. That’s the last thing Dr. Brian Paterick thinks about. Using an evolving medical science to treat patients who, so far at least, remain safely landlocked is Paterick’s No. 1 motivation. A board certified emergency [...]
