While the Orion spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida yesterday morning, 20 kids built and launched their own rockets at Globe Public Library, thanks to a little help from Globe’s TigeRobotics team. Jenn WalkerJenn Walker began writing for Globe Miami Times in 2012 and has been …
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Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off This Saturday Imagine swimming in a thick pool of household cleaners and fertilizers. It would be an awful experience, if not a deadly one. Yet, every time this stuff winds up down the sink, toilet, drain, or gutter, it is very well on its way to …
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Bert Archer has always been a craftsman and artisan of sorts. As a general contractor in California for nearly 30 years, he designed, built and installed custom kitchens and cabinetry. However, a heart attack several years ago left him unable to return to the demands of that job and ultimately …
Read More »You can’t blame a child for thinking that a toastmaster is someone particularly adept at browning bread. An adult might picture someone who finishes an impromptu wedding reception speech with a hearty “cheers!” or “salud!” as he raises his glass from the head table. Ask one of the 270,000 members …
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Globe’s 1910 Territorial Jail reveals history, attracts tourists A crude message scratched into the concrete walls of a cell is a melancholy reminder of prison life in the old jail. Lest he be forgotten, one prisoner chose to write his story on the walls, “Bob D. in for rape 1964…15 …
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum to the Rescue: The effort to save the Wallace Desert Gardens Boyce Thompson Arboretum recently announced that it is part of a massive effort to save the plant collection of Wallace Desert Gardens. Located in north Scottsdale, this garden contains 12 acres of more than 7,000 cultivated …
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And continues to grow from small beginnings ******* Before the Center for the Arts became the dazzling white gem of Broad Street, serving both as the creative pulse of this community and the core of so many events, it was on its way to becoming one of downtown Globe’s forgotten …
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This interview with Miami alumni, Randy Chapman, was conducted and transcribed by Joyce McBride as part of our Centennial coverage planned for Globe High School in September of . Here, Randy picks up from describing the long line of cars which would snake from one end of Broad Street to …
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Part Two of ‘Cruising Broad Street’ with Miami Alumni, Randy Chapman. This series was done as part of GMTimes coverage of Globe High School’s Centennial celebration; September 2014. The interview was done by Joyce McBride. 7JM: Did you guys drink? Were you guys drinking? RC: Oh, ABSOLUTELY! Oh my …
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This interview with Miami alum, Randy Chapman, was conducted and transcribed by Joyce McBride as part of GMTimes Centennial coverage of Globes High School celebration in September. Here she talks with Randy about his memories of cruising Broad Street in Globe during ’64 -’67. The interview is published in three …
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