Linda Gross
Writer, photographer. Passionate foodie, lover of good books and storytelling. Lives in Globe. Plays in the historic district. Travels when possible.
Linda Gross
November 30, 2016
Government, Health&Spirit, Police
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 …
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Linda Gross
November 26, 2016
Living
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 …
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Linda Gross
November 18, 2016
Government, History
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 …
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Linda Gross
November 10, 2016
Business, Government
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 …
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Linda Gross
May 2, 2016
TaliesinProject
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 …
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Linda Gross
January 13, 2016
TaliesinProject
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, …
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Linda Gross
January 12, 2016
TaliesinProject
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 …
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Linda Gross
December 27, 2015
Living
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 …
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Linda Gross
December 26, 2015
TaliesinProject
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (Taliesin) announced just before Christmas that the school had succeeded in raising $2million dollars for the Campaign for Independence with over $785,000 coming from the Globe Miami community. The money raised in Globe-Miami for the campaign will be spent on projects in …
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Linda Gross
November 23, 2015
Living, TaliesinProject
“The Frank Lloyd Wright/Globe-Miami Project will bring innovative designs and sustainable solutions to many challenges our community faces,” says Linda Oddonetto, Board President. “We believe they have the ability to impact a wide range of local issues from youth programs, to community engagement and economic development and will benefit many agencies …
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