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POLITICO Chaos and confusion: Back to school turns ugly as Delta rages Nearly 18 months into the pandemic, there’s no consensus on how to keep students and staff safe. Masked students work on computers at Tibbals Elementary School in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. | (LM Otero/AP Photo) Link Copied School boards are at war with governors over masks. Superintendents are developing contingency plans on the fly. And schools that only just opened have had to shut down. Welcome to sophomo...

Gary’s Glimpses: Goodbye, COVID; Hello, Arizona! A flag in Prescott, Ariz. Gary Herron photo. Finally — after two years without a trip out of state — we “got out of Dodge.” (A few years ago, we literally got out of town to visit Dodge … City.) But this much-needed trip was another adventure into a part of the West we’d never seen: Prescott, Ariz. (By the way, it’s pronounced, as we learned there, “Press-kit.”) It’s an extraordinarily clean city, although there were too man...

Prescott National Forest officials say bark beetles have infested thousands of acres of ponderosa pines in the area.

Contested Voter ID Bill Dies In State Legislature A contested bill that sought to provide new identification requirements for voters using mail-in ballots

Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested an Ash Fork man for allegedly pointing a gun at a car during a road rage incident Monday.

The U.S. Forest Service is investigating a significant die-off of juniper trees across much of central and northern Arizona. On the Prescott and Kaibab National Forests approximately 50,000 to 100,000 acres of junipers have been affected in the area between Paulden and Ash Fork along Highway 89 and I-40. Mortality has also been noted north of Williams along Highway 64. Most affected trees are shaggy bark juniper species, including Utah juniper and one-seed juniper. Mortality is varied, with mos...

Merrill Foto News Mark Henry Weddig Share: Mark Henry Weddig went to join our heavenly Father unexpectedly on April 26,2021 He as born on December 26, 1962 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to Henry and Caroline (Brabender) Weddig. He was predeceased by his maternal and paternal grandparents (Hattieand Henry Weddig and Sylvia and Eugene Brabender), his mother Caroline and sister Sandy. He is survived by his wife of 10 yea...

USFS notices big juniper die-off in northern, central Arizona USFS teams noticed thousands of acres of juniper die-off in northern and central Arizona. They attribute the death to water stress brought on by drought. (Source: Kaibab National Forest) By KOLD News 13 Staff | April 21, 2021 at 2:40 PM MST - Updated April 21 at 4:51 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Juniper trees across thousands of acres of Forest Service land are dying and investigators think they know the reason why: Rece...

Drought causing juniper deaths in central, northern Arizona April 22, 2021 GMT WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — Forest Service officials report significant die-off of juniper trees due to drought conditions affecting the evergreens across large areas of in central and northern Arizona. Between 50,000 acres (202 square kilometers) and 100,000 acres (407 square kilometers) of junipers have been affected in areas of the Prescott and Kaibab national forests between Paulden and Ash Fork and north of William...

True West Magazine Dale Walker’s Death Was the Black Horse, is an excellent biography Arizona’s, William O. Buckey O’Neill . In it is the story of Dennis W. “Gus” Dilda. During the summer of 1885 Gus, his wife Georgia, and two scruffy children, Fern and John, arrived by wagon to the Prescott at Williamson Valley. Gus a brooding loner. He wasn’t a sociable man with his neighbors. He built a one-room shack and they settled in. Pretty soon the neighboring ranches started missing chick...