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Cavity-nesting birds, including Western screech owls, ash-throated flycatchers and Lucys warblers, have new digs in Green Valley thanks to Tucson Audubon’s Nestbox Program and its volunteers, who installed 96 nestboxes

Desert Trails RV Park: Fall Craft Fair

Its time for our annual quiz about the backstories of various Tucson places names and other lore, plus one Nogales question, too.

LAINE “LAINIE” MARIE VAN HOOZEN Lainie passed away on May 6, 2021 while recovering from heart valve replacement surgery. She was a full-time resident of Green Valley for five years and, the previous five winters, a “snowbird” at Desert Trails RV Park in Tucson. On May 23, 1953, Lainie was born in Seattle to Eloise Thomas (deceased) and raised in Redwood City, CA. After graduating from Cañada College, she became a Certified Medical Assistant. She worked in Stanford Hospita...

As many pet-owning marijuana consumers are well aware, dogs and doobies go together like spaghetti and meatballs, peanut butter and jelly, peaches and cream, etc. The folks over at Territory Dispensary have leveraged this insight into Pups and Prerolls, a fundraising event thatll be held this Saturday outside Territorys Mesa location. Basically, if you head over to 550 W. McKellips Road on Saturday, February 20, between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., youll find several dogs available for adoption courte...

I just wondered what happened? what happened all those years that she was in those classes? >> gretchen: youre not alone because a lot of parents asking the same question. its my understanding that your school is in the bottom 10% of the country. what did you decide to do to take action as a group of parents together? >> were not bottom 10% of the state. but what we decided to do as a group of parents, we all got together and we decided to contact parent revolution and through them, we learned t...

Wherever they come from, whatever their native language happens to be. jon: in l.a. for instance, they print ballots in seven different languages. congressman steve king, well keep an eye on this bill and see if it actually comes to the floor in this session. >> thank you, jon. jenna: if youre unhappy with your childs education this next story could be very important to you. a major legal victory with nationwide implications from parents simply fed up with failing schools. in california, a group...

gunning down 16 afghan men, women and children but the u.s. commander of multinational forces promises a full investigation by u.s. military authorities under u.s. law. and the u.s. defense secretary says that the death penalty is a possibility. leon panetta is in afghanistan now. all u.s. forces pass through there when they leave and enter afghanistan and told reporters and i told, war is hell and terrible events like this one on sunday are going to take place. well get live reports...