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Firefighters and paramedics remove the driver from a car accident Monday evening along Maricopa Casa Grande Highway. Photo by Bob McGovern
A vehicle went off Maricopa Casa Grande Highway Monday evening, striking a wall behind a home in Senita.
The crash occurred about 5:40 p.m. just south of the Maricopa Unified School District administration building.
About a half-dozen personnel with the Maricopa Fire/Medical Department worked to extricate the driver.
The vehicle appeared to veer off the highway. It struck and collapsed a portion of the community wall behind a home on West Cowpath Road in Senita and came to rest on the upside of a deep gully along the roadway.
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Five are undeveloped.
In December, MUSD received $3.54 million from Arizona’s School Facilities Board to buy the Cortona property at the southwest corner of Murphy and Farrell roads near the far east edge of the district.
The SFB is also supplying more than $22 million approved by the state Legislature to help build the school.
MUSD closed escrow on the property Dec. 1, and hydrant flow tests began days later to determine design flow and pressure on the site.
Cortona is the latest in a series of land purchases and donations still in district possession that date back to the 1950s.
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MUSD board member Torri Anderson, right, talks with district Superintendent Tracey Lopeman during a September meeting. Photo by Merenzi Young / Eye of Odin Studios
When school resumes after Winter Break, students in the Maricopa Unified School District will be distance-learning â for the first week at least.
That was the unanimous decision Thursday night by the MUSD Governing Board, which met in special session to consider the latest COVID-19 transmission data and decide how students will learn.
Board members agreed their decisions should be data-driven. But there is one issue with the data provided by Pinal County. It is two weeks old when the board gets it.
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Heavy equipment works at the future site of the Exceptional Health Care hospital at Honeycutt Avenue and Maricopa Road. Photo by Bob McGovern
The city on Tuesday night approved the sale of 2.64 acres at the northeast corner of North Maricopa Road and Honeycutt Avenue to Exceptional Health Care Holdings.
The parcel, which sold for $1.38 million, provides the future operator of the city’s first hospital with land to expand. The $28 million hospital will open with about 10 emergency room beds, 10 trauma beds and a 24-hour emergency department. It is expected to be complete by late 2021.
Exceptional Health Care, a Texas-based hospital group, had closed on a 3.5-acre property near the southwest slope of the overpass in October 2019. But before ground was even broken at the site, the company said it wanted to acquire additional land for expansion, including a potential surgery department, MRI space, a specialty clinic and medical offices.