PHOENIX – Mayors around the state said they welcome the $441 million in COVID-19 relief funding released by the state last week – they just wish they could have welcomed it sooner.
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CASA GRANDE – The city of Casa Grande is asking for public input on how to use its $6,731,338 share of the $1.86 billion in federal CARES Act the state received.
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CASA GRANDE – The two Republican candidates for Pinal County assessor clashed in a heated debate Thursday evening.
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CASA GRANDE — A large vacant warehouse in Casa Grande near Interstate 10 caught fire Friday afternoon, sending up a plume of smoke visible for miles.
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The Governor’s Office issued a press release before his press conference Thursday announcing he was releasing more than $440 million in federal aid to cities and towns.
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SIGNAL PEAK — Math instructor and Casa Grande resident Omar Villa has been named Faculty Member of the Year by Central Arizona College.
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FLORENCE — The number of coronavirus cases in Pinal County topped 800 Friday as the state reported a dramatic one-day increase.
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors expressed a desire to continue a strategic goal of cutting the primary property tax rate another four cents in the new budget year to $3.75 per $100 of net assessed value.
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CASA GRANDE — The Pinal Regional SWAT team on Wednesday responded to an incident on Shadow Ridge Drive.
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CASA GRANDE — An unlicensed 14-year-old driver is facing several charges after a single-vehicle rollover early Wednesday morning.
COOLIDGE — Within the span of just over two months, COVID-19 transformed the way car dealers, educational institutions, restaurants, grocery stores and other organizations operate.
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PHOENIX -- With a possible lawsuit by Pinal County looming, Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday finally let go of some of the federal cash he got for local communities.
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CASA GRANDE — The Groundwater Users Advisory Council for the Pinal Active Management Area is accusing the Arizona Department of Water Resources of “steamrolling” the fourth iteration of the area’s water management plan through the approval process without enough time for public comment.
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SIGNAL PEAK — From skunks nesting near the Pence Center ticket office to hawks soaring overhead and snakes slithering into empty dorms, area wildlife seem to appreciate the quiet of Central Arizona College’s nearly empty campuses.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series.
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CASA GRANDE — A 3-year-old child was saved from drowning Sunday evening on North Via Del Cielo in Casa Grande.
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CASA GRANDE — The Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative, or RALI, has donated 8,000 safe disposal kits to help Casa Grande families stay safe and healthy while practicing social distancing during the coronavirus crisis.
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CASA GRANDE — Rick Gibson had a new master’s degree in plant protection from the University of Arizona when, in 1981, he accepted a position as a horticultural agent for the University of Arizona’s Cooperative Extension program in Pinal County.
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CASA GRANDE — A man was able to escape unharmed before a fire engulfed a home near Casa Grande Sunday night.
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A great horned owl is suspected of swooping in and snatching a pet dog in Apache Junction, much to the horror of the pet sitter. The brazen, but natural, event has caused much consternation in the northern Pinal County community.
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Boys Choir will present a concert entitled “Voices of Valor Virtual” to be released on Monday, Memorial Day.
CASA GRANDE — A candidate for Pinal County assessor is showing he can let his hair down. Mike Cruz is one of several Casa Grande Elementary School District employees who participated in a district lip sync video contest over the last few weeks.
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PRESCOTT — Officials last week marked the completion of a long-awaited federal land exchange that will allow for the expansion of an eastern Pinal County copper mine while adding to wilderness in three Arizona counties.
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CHANDLER – U.S. Senator Martha McSally, R-Ariz., and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt met with Gila River Indian Community leadership Friday and viewed their plans to safely reopen the Community.
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CASA GRANDE — The Casa Grande Elementary School District Governing Board will have a new face at its next meeting.
CASA GRANDE — With six full semi-trailers packed with fresh produce, meat, bread and other foods, Lighthouse Ministry plans a food distribution event from 6 to 10 a.m. Saturday in the former Kmart parking lot, 1214 E. Florence Blvd.
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PHOENIX — Two Arizona cities are among the top gainers in population since the last decennial count.
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CASA GRANDE — Local exercise fans will be able to move out of the garage and back into the air conditioning after the city of Casa Grande reopens its Community Recreation Center next week.
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CASA GRANDE — A 40-year-old man was arrested by deputies after he allegedly cut his girlfriend’s left forearm during a domestic altercation.
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CASA GRANDE — A clerk and another person have been arrested for stealing a credit card a man accidentally left at a Casa Grande convenience store.
CASA GRANDE — A recent Vista Grande High School graduate has been named the DECA western regional vice president.
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CASA GRANDE — The exact impact of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order on city revenues hasn’t been determined yet but the city is planning for a decrease in revenues for its 2021 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
SIGNAL PEAK — Nineteen Central Arizona College students were recognized as members of the 60th nursing class for completing the college’s nursing program recently.
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CASA GRANDE — A traffic stop on Interstate 10 resulted in the largest drug bust ever for the Casa Grande Police Department.
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CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande Mayor Craig McFarland will be making another appearance on Facebook Live on the Casa Grande Dispatch Facebook page at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
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CASA GRANDE — The City Council has approved the purchase of 12 additional in-car cameras for the Casa Grande Police Department at a cost of $93,515.09.
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CASA GRANDE — The city will not make the owner of the historic S.S. Blinky Jr. building repaint it.
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CASA GRANDE -- When her home telephone rang at 7:30 one morning a few weeks ago, Susan Wortman considered just letting it ring.
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CASA GRANDE -- Samuel Clarke sailed the seas with the British Navy. He died fighting with the U.S. Army in France.
CASA GRANDE — A Mission Heights Preparatory High School senior has been named as the recipient of the 2020 Zonta International Young Women in Public Affairs award.
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CASA GRANDE — Bernard Francis Johnston IV was arrested by Casa Grande Police March 31 while in the possession of sexually explicit photos of children.
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CASA GRANDE — A group of six volunteers with American Legion Auxiliary Unit 8 has made 5,000 red paper poppies in anticipation of National Poppy Day, set for May 22.
CASA GRANDE — The inside dining room for the Seeds of Hope hot lunch program has reopened. And when lunch recipients step inside for a hot and hearty free lunch, they’ll notice a new look to the facility.
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CASA GRANDE — Lucid Motors has started installing the equipment for the assembly line for its electric luxury sedan at its new manufacturing plant in Casa Grande.
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors met Friday morning and ordered litigation seeking federal funds from the governor that are needed to combat the COVID-19 global health emergency.
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CASA GRANDE — A Casa Grande man was arrested by police after he allegedly attacked another person with a hammer.
CASA GRANDE — A Casa Grande man is relieved that city sanitation crews are back on their regular schedule for picking up bulk trash in alleyways.
CASA GRANDE — Police have arrested a Casa Grande man for an armed robbery last September in which a gun was discharged.
