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Starting April 2, Pinal County Air Quality will only issue 3-day open burning permits.  All permits will expire by May 1 and Pinal County will suspend the issuance of open burning permits on April 26.

Burn permits allow for the disposal of plant material by open burning during limited daytime hours.

Mr Craig Krause purchased five Quick Pick tickets on Friday, March 22nd from the Fry's Food Store at Bella Vista and Hunt Hwy, in San Tan Valley.  On Monday morning, Krause checked his ticket and realized that the top line of his ticket had five matching numbers.  He then found out that his five matching numbers were worth $1 million dollars.

Krause, an Arizona snowbird from Colorado has been traveling to Arizona for the last three years.  He is hoping to pay off some bills and share the winnings with his family.

Well, I'm cuddly sometimes and adventurous other times.

That's pretty much the definition of a great cat, don't you think?

My name is Peggy-O and I'm waiting for you to adopt me.

Come meet me and all the lovely kitties at the county shelter.

Just as you should not judge a book by its cover, you should not judge a band based on one album. When REO Speedwagon released its mega hit album, “Hi Infidelity” in 1980, songs such as “Keep on Loving You” and “Take It on the Run” pigeonholed the group as a pop oriented band.

But as REO Speedwagon showed on Saturday evening, March 23, 2013 at the Good Life Festival at Encanterra in San Tan Valley, REO Speedwagon was first forged as a hard rocking, rock and roll band. Those roots have not been forgotten.

Parental anxiety rises and deservedly so whenever someone shares the discovery of an  illness, let alone a communicable one in their child with another parent. The words: hand-foot-and-mouth disease linked together in that sequence certainly evokes a suite of reactions from respect to bounding fear in the other parent listening. “Will my child catch it?”, “Oh! he had a fever last night too- he probably has caught it already!”. We want to address concerns like this in this post and share recent trends and disease patterns with this condition as we approach the fall season.

Looking for a way to enjoy the weather and help your local school? Combs Middle School PTO is hosting their first golf tournament! Please consider playing or becoming a sponsor!

Spring is the perfect time to get out and play a round of golf and the Combs Middle School is hoping for a great turnout for their first golf fundraiser. The tournament will be held at The Links Golf Club, located at 445 E. Ocotillo Road in San Tan Valley.

Notice has been posted on the doors of the SRP Service Center, located off of Combs Rd and Schnepf Rd notifying visitors that the San Tan Valley SRP Service Center, as well as the Tempe Center, were being closed.  The notice posted states:

On March 29, SRP will be closing the Customer Service Office located at:

On Saturday, March 16 from 11 am – 6 pm at the Anthem at Merrill Ranch Community Park in Florence, the Anthem at Merrill Ranch Community will host its fifth annual Spring Festival event, open to the public in the southeast valley.

Admission is free but attendees may choose to purchase tickets or unlimited wristbands to experience the attractions and rides.

Shots were heard this morning in the Circle Cross Ranch community. The situation has been resolved. Please continue reading for details.

This is Dana Hawman, Director of Public Relations for Florence Unified School District. This morning, about 7:30 am, staff members at Circle Cross Ranch K-8 reported hearing gunshots from within the Circle Cross community, and students reported seeing suspicious vehicle activity in the neighborhood park that is behind the school. Principal Sobkoviak immediately called 911, and the school implemented lockdown procedures to insure the safety of our kids.

Andrew Clegg’s commute from his Arizona City home to his former job in Maricopa County took 45 to 90 minutes on a good day — hours if there was a wreck on Interstate 10.

The Census Bureau this week confirmed what Mr. Clegg knew: It wasn’t the distance that made the trip so long, it was the tens of thousands of others heading in the same direc­tion at the same time.

A bureau report on commuting patterns last week said that more than half of Pinal County residents leave the county for work, with most of them heading to Maricopa County. The re­port estimates that about 57,000 workers make the trek every day.