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Surviving and thriving through resilience, effort, discipline

Local businessman comes back stronger than before “When I woke, my nurse said we were worried about you; you’re in Room 1,” Glenn Jordan said of his first recollection after a hospital stay....

After closing homeless encampments, cities rethink and expand wide-ranging services

The recent dismantling of two large encampments of people without housing, including one in Tempe’s Salt River bed, may have resulted in the scattering of hundreds of individuals to other parts of...

Bakery’s promise: Sweet temptations

We've all driven past it multiple times without noticing this little hideaway of tasty dreams come true: It's Honeymoon Sweets, the now 20-plus-year-old birthplace of some of the dessert universe's most mouth-watering...

‘It takes a village’

A community united helps a new friend experience the American dream Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part story about a community member who fled his home in Tehran in 2021...

Waggoner fence question: A deserved case of compromise?

Commentary In recent weeks, the city of Tempe announced that plans were being developed, and neighborhood input invited, for proposed fencing at the east end of Waggoner Park, one of two city-owned areas...

Chilean emigre’s success advice: Believe in yourself

From a disruptive childhood to diving in to what's now a thriving pool business Very rarely does one’s first job become a lifelong career, but Jose Garcia, who emigrated from Chile, found his...

Arts Unite: Arizona Theater Company and Tempe Center for the Arts announce partnership

Arts Unite: Tempe’s Dazzling Pact with the Official State Theater of Arizona Sets the Stage for a Cultural Renaissance Tempe Center for the Arts and Arizona Theatre Company have announced details of...

Dan O’Neill receives warm welcome back to Tempe after 13,000 miles

Dan O’Neill, 68, arrived home to a surprise welcome of fanfare from family, friends, neighbors, the press and Tempe Mayor Corey Woods. O’Neill just completed a seven month, 13,000 mile bicycle trip around...
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