“Rather than complain about it, why don’t we just pull together?” It seemed an obvious solution to a recurring problem. The idea from Chandler City Councilmember Kevin Hartke is providing a successful stepping stone for a community-based weed-elimination campaign, Let’s Pull Together, scheduled to get under way this month in neighborhoods citywide. Volunteers from area [...]
A careful consumer weighs the options for the family’s food budget– will it be hamburger or steak this week? In similar fashion, the Kyrene Governing Board continues to consider a list of budget balancing strategies to shore up a lean fiscal year and correct an expected shortfall of $8.9 million. Three of the strategies under [...]
This summer, amid wishes of bon voyage from friends and family, 32 high school students will undertake some serious globe-hopping to promote good will and cultural understanding through the Tempe Sister Cities’ Student Exchange program. Twenty of the students attend either Marcos de Niza or Corona del Sol high schools. All the student participants will [...]
South Tempe residents Thom and Kathy Coker, owners of the popular T.C. Eggington’s restaurant in Mesa, will celebrate the second anniversary of their newest entrepreneurial venture, NCounter, later this year with a sense that they’ve encountered—and conquered—a restaurant’s traditional first-year challenges. The breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant, located on the ASU campus, appears to be [...]
Museums usually don’t spring to mind as great places to hear new bands. Not so in Tempe. Tempe History Museum is emerging as one of area’s best places in town to hear interesting, unusual and awesome music. Performances at the Museum, a free concert by a band that represents a cultural aspect of life in [...]
Veteran fire-service administrator Greg Ruiz has been named Tempe’s new fire chief by Interim City Manager Andrew Ching. Ruiz served as interim chief following the retirement of Mark Simmons in April 2012. With 24 years in the fire service, including 19 years in Tempe, Ruiz brings a wide range of experience to the job, according [...]
Valley baseball fans enjoyed yet another spring training stint, and the Diamondbacks are seen by some sports mavens as possible playoff contenders this year. But among the parents of Tempe junior ballplayers, serious discontent is brewing. Leaders of Tempe South Little League, which puts more than 500 local kids on the diamonds every year, contend [...]
Arizona Business magazine has named Chandler Regional Medical Center its 2013 Hospital of the Year. The hospital was chosen from among hundreds of applicants based on its history, responsibilities, commitment to excellence and community involvement. Barrow Neurological Institute, Chandler Regional’s sister organization with an east Valley office, also was among the winners with a Lifetime [...]
Just three months ago, French forces chased out Islamic rebels who had seized Timbuktu and ransacked the city, including the schools, leaving students with no books or supplies. Since 1991, when Tempe and Timbuktu became sister cities, Tempe has funded fresh water wells, medical supplies, school building and school supplies. A fund raising event benefitting [...]
Using images from Tempe History Museum’s vast photographic collection, a soon-to-open exhibit visually explores the city’s relationship with the Salt River during the past 130 years. It’s called Ebb and Flow: Changing Views of the Salt River, and it’s sponsored by Tempe Historical Society starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 12. Vice Mayor Onnie Shekerjian [...]
