It was only 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and already the parking lot was full and the lights were on at Bealls Outlet in the Walmart center.  Select families with small children were arriving for their appointed shopping spree thanks to the White Mountain Lodge and a program they …

In small towns it is not unusual to see the downtown business district close up at five and go home. Yet, for the last year, Superior merchants have been lighting up the downtown district and staying open late for Shop Superior 2nd Friday. There are deals to be had, as each …

Heroin and opioid use in the Globe-Miami area has escalated to the point that no amount of arrests can slow its advance, and experts at a recent Town Hall meeting want the community to be aware and concerned. “We can’t arrest our way out of this problem,” Globe Police Chief …

Santa and his elves arrived in Globe this morning driven not by eight reindeer but the Globe Fire Department. They arrived on schedule at the train depot where a line of kids waited with anticipation to give him their requests for Christmas. Linda GrossWriter, photographer. Passionate foodie, lover of good books and …

It’s time to turn the clocks back for many, but not for us here in Arizona. And while people still grumble about the inconvenience, the reason behind Standard Time solved a very big problem when it was first adopted nearly 150 years ago. The year was 1883 and railroads were quickly becoming …

This afternoon you are invited to hear about the latest grant money awarded in the Globe-Miami community to help assess environmental contamination in many of our old and/or abandoned buildings. The event is hosted by the Gila County Industrial Authority (IDA) and will include remediation expert, Tod Allwin who has …

The first of four planned ‘Paint the Town’ events to take place every year wrapped up on Saturday. The event, which is part of a four-year studio collaboration between Taliesin and Globe-Miami, left Miami awash in color after this last weekend when over 100 local volunteers, service organizations and community groups …

The studio program was part of a “Campaign for Independence” at Taliesin, under which they needed to raise $2 million in funds for the school, so that it could operate independently from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Building support for the campaign and the Globe-Miami Studio Project fell to Donofrio, …

Part I in a two-part series regarding a recently announced four-year studio project between the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and Globe-Miami, Arizona, beginning in 2016 and extending through 2019. The unlikely pairing of an internationally recognized school of architecture and a small rural mining community over the next …

Originally published in the Fall of 2006. The old Globe Café at the corner of Broad and Bailey has been undergoing renovations since 2005, when fate and investor/owner James Dowly stepped in to rescue the building from becoming another casualty of neglect. At the time, anyone looking at the building …