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Plans to build a 20-room motel in Pine is drawing considerable interest from residents, evident during a recent meet and greet event last weekend as well as an earlier online meeting. Two dozen residents came out for the meet and greet Saturday at the Rusty Pine Cone and 90 people attended a Zoom hearing Feb. 22 hosted by Gila County’s planning and zoning commission. Everyone is interested to learn what property owner Marc Pendergraft has planned. Pendergraft has applied for a special use permit, the first step in the process to build a 20-room motel project on a commercially zoned prope...

Templeton moved to Arizona in 1979, where he continued his art education at the University of Arizona. “I just kept moving north,” he said, finally landing in Pine about 18 years ago. He bought a “handyman’s special” home, as he described it, brought it from a run-down shack to a quaint rustic cabin, then he built a tiny chapel on his property Templeton was transitioning — leaving a fast-paced and wild life for the peace and inspiration found in Pine-Strawberry. His goal was to be an artist full-time. “I had to protect the investment in myself,” he said...

Pine-Strawberry Health Services, Inc. oversees the building and general operation of the Pine-Strawberry Medical Clinic. This clinic came about by way of a dream. In 1979, the community was classified as a medically distressed area. With a growing population, the Pine-Strawberry Chamber of Commerce starting in 1980 spent considerable time and money to locate a doctor for the community. The days, then the months passed, and yes, years passed. In early 1983, a group of residents got together and did something once and for all. They created a steering committee of dedicated community minded peop...