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This week's Flagstaff History column.

The Food Product and Safety Lab was one of only five USDA inspected meat processing facilities in the state.

The monsoon is again pouring down on Arizona, affecting three counties with flash floods. Once more, Flagstaff and other areas north of the Valley are experiencing heavy rainfall brought on by the Arizona monsoon.

When I was a Texas farm boy, back in the late thirties and early forties, one of my daily chores was to round up the cows for evening milkings. Never mind that I rode bareback on a swaybacked, half-blind old horse through limited stretches of scrub oak and mesquite shinnery in search of four docile, dehorned critters with pet names like Olive Oyl and Daisy: I turned such bucolic expeditions into dangerous trail drives, shooting marauding Indians or cattle rustlers on the run, issuing cowboy yodels meant to soothe my spooked “herd” to avoid the inevitable stampede when lightening flashed a...

The Flagstaff City Council voted to approve a grazing lease for Red Gap Ranch, and postponed a decision on a rezoning of land off Lake Mary Road at their Tuesday meeting. The city purchased the Red Gap Ranch in 2005 after a voter approved bond due to a 100-year supply of groundwater, though projects to extract the water have been slow moving. The city approved an application for the grazing lease by the privately owned Bar-T-Bar Ranch based in Winslow, who will pay roughly $50 thousand per year to graze cattle. In addition, the council postponed a decision on whether to adopt a change to th...