Miami’s Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary this month and is preparing to celebrate what has become a centerpiece of the town’s identity. The building that started out as a segregated school has become a gathering place for celebrations and festivals, but is also one of …
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AG asked to weigh in on Gila County’s regulation of short-term rentals
BY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY – MARCH 1, 2024 2:03 PM Gila County’s regulation of short-term rental properties is drawing scrutiny from one of the county’s GOP legislators, who wants the attorney general to weigh in on whether the county is following a state law limiting local regulations of rentals. Late last year, the …
Read More »Honoring the Globe Hotshots: 1974 – 2024
The Globe Hotshots are hosting a 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday, March 23 from 1-5 p.m. at Besh-Ba-Gowah Park, 460 Hagen Road. All alumni and family members are welcome to attend. The focus of the celebration will be “hearing stories from those who were on the crew years ago, and …
Read More »National CTE Month highlights career training programs
In recognition of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, schools throughout the Copper Corridor will celebrate the programs designed to give students hands-on training to prepare them for a modern workplace. The Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) plays a vital role in supporting programs in schools from San Carlos …
Read More »Miami High School ag program building for the future
On a recent cool January day, Miami High School agriculture instructor and Future Farmers of America (FFA) advisor Jimmy Crosby was hard at work. Moving across a small area of the campus that overlooks the railroad tracks on the northern edge of the campus, he was taking measurements to determine …
Read More »Students thrive in non-traditional career instruction at CVIT
There was a time in American primary education when boys took shop classes and girls studied home economics to prepare them for a world with clearly defined gender roles. But changes in demographics and more acceptance of women in the workplace have blurred the lines of what constitutes jobs appropriate …
Read More »Duo behind I Art Globe create nonprofit Love Where You Live to expand positive vision
Regina Ortega-Leonardi and Thea Wilshire are not content to rest on the laurels of the successes in their mission to make Globe and the entire Copper Corridor a more attractive place for people to live and love. The pair is expanding their vision of “radical hope, gratitude, and defiant resilience” …
Read More »Make a Little Change
Long ago, a man named Diderot lived in Paris. Diderot was a middle-aged man and had lived all his life in poverty, working as a writer and philosopher. But one day, Diderot came into money unexpectedly. All of a sudden, he had six figures in the bank and a generous …
Read More »CVIT adds program to help instill leadership in students pursuing health occupations
The Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) has introduced a new dimension to its medical curriculum that will add leadership skills training to some of its most successful programs, re-establishing its chapter of a global organization dedicated to help students succeed in their chosen field. Participants in the Nursing and …
Read More »Age Is Just a Number: Crossfit Legends Are Senior Superstars
If you’ve heard of Crossfit, you most likely associate it with a bunch of fitness-crazed twenty- and thirty-somethings who drag themselves out of bed every morning to do a flurry of burpees, pull ups, and kettlebell swings. So you may be shocked to discover there’s an equally fanatical group of …
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