April 2009
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Flagstaff’s Ten Year Plan
The city of Flagstaff is gearing up for the next ten years.
City and neighborhood planners are developing a plan to address concerns for Flagstaff and the surrounding area. The plan will last until the year 2022 when it will need to be revised and rebuilt. The ten year plan will take two and a half [...]
Ohio Man Rescued After Fall at Grand Canyon
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — An Ohio man who was peering over the edge of the Grand Canyon and lost his balance was rescued after falling 60 feet.
Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge says the 47-year-old man had planned to hike to a backcountry camping area below the South Rim on Tuesday [...]
Updated: One Case of Swine Flu Reported in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — A northwest Phoenix elementary school student on Wednesday became the first person in Arizona confirmed to have the swine flu, but the 8-year-old boy has already recovered from the illness and never required hospitalization.
Nonetheless, his 800-student school was ordered closed for a week on Wednesday to prevent other students from coming down [...]
Tuesday Prep Results
Tuesday’s Complete Results in High School Softball and Baseball
Havasu Horror Movie Looking for Extras
A casting agency is searching for extras to appear in a movie about a lakefront community terrorized by prehistoric piranhas.
Shooting is scheduled to begin May 11 on “Piranha 3-D.”
Travis McAfee of Good Faith Casting says Lake Havasu will be called Lake Victoria in the movie. An initial casting call was aimed primarily at Lake Havasu [...]
Body of Missing Boater Found at Lake Powell
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Search crews have found the body of an Arizona man missing since Saturday after a boat with six people aboard sank in Lake Powell in southern Utah.
The body of Terry Michael Taranto of Prescott Valley, Ariz., was found Monday morning, according to Brian Sweatland, a spokesman for Glen Canyon National [...]
Newspaper Circulation Decline Accelerates
NEW YORK (AP) — Circulation declines at the nation’s newspapers are speeding up.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations said Monday that average daily circulation declined 7.1 percent in the October-March period from the same six-month span in 2007-2008. The latest figure represents data from 395 daily U.S. newspapers that reported in both the current and year-ago [...]
Sunset Point Rest Area Reopens
PRESCOTT – There’s some welcome news for travelers along Interstate 17 between the Phoenix area and Cordes Junction. The popular Sunset Point Rest Area has reopened to visitors following a much-needed renovation project.
The Arizona Department of Transportation says travelers stopping at Sunset Point Rest Area, about 50 miles north of metro Phoenix, now have a [...]
Four Corners Mistake May Lead To Rise in Tourism
Park manager DeWayne Johnson said tourism to the monument has dropped steadily in the past decade, but recent media coverage exposing a surveying error has increased it.
“Overnight, we got more visitors after the media got this,” Johnson said. “I think we might be getting a big rush this summer. Already we have more visitors per day than we did this time last year.”
I-40 Update
The Arizona Department of Transportation again had to close Interstate 40 this morning between Flagstaff and Winslow due to high winds and low visibility near Winslow earlier today. ADOT has closed the stretch of highway from Two Guns to just west of Winslow several times over the past month when blowing dust has created a [...]
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