City of Globe official candidate packets for the 2016 primary and general elections are now available. Contact Globe City Clerk Shelly Salazar at Globe City Hall (150 North Pine Street) from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm or call 425-7146 Ext. 21. Autumn GilesAutumn Giles is a freelance writer and recipe …

“The leadership aspect is one of the best parts about DECA… It’s a goal setting environment. It very much pushes you to be better than who you already are,” says Miami High School Senior Madison Farley. Farley and the three other Miami students who recently attended the state DECA Career …

“Arizona is amazing,” says Tom Foster, executive director of Bullion Plaza in Miami. “Arizona is just this great repository of pretty much anything you can ever think of in the way of minerals. Not only stuff that is marketable, like copper and gold and silver, just all sorts of really …

“I’m still as happy as I was when I started,” says Globe Fire Chief Al Gameros who will retire at the end of January 2016 with 29 years of service to the Globe Fire Department, 18 of those as chief. “That’s important. You’ve gotta love what you do or don’t …

It’s undeniable that being from Globe impacts Tanner Yeager’s work as a photographer—how he runs his business, his subject matter, and more. Yeager, who was born and grew up in this area, says that being from a small town gave him an “an opportunity to know what it feels like …

When Bill Holmquist was hired to work on the 1997 Oliver Stone film U Turn, he lied and said he knew where Superior, Arizona was in where the film was set to be shot. “I had no idea and I had lived in Mesa for about 15 years,” he says …

Mike Montiel’s descriptions of his mushrooms fall somewhere between a good scotch and an alien lifeform. He calls oyster mushrooms “earthy and nutty” and speaks endearingly about the lion’s mane’s “pillowy, long tendrils. Each one of the tendrils grows out and as they grow out they grow together,” he says. …

At its January 5 meeting, the Gila County Board of Supervisors approved a partnership with the Gila County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) to apply for the highly-competitive Promise Zone designation. Awarded to only one rural community per year, the program would give organizations in our area a vital leg-up when …

Darrel Stubbs, a long-time participant in the All American Cookoff at the Gila County Fair, explains the first order of business on competition day: “one guy smoking gets out there in the morning and fixes everyone breakfast and gets the smokers going.” Even for folks like Stubbs who have been …