In 1946, when Daisy Moore and Marietta Bryant were hired to teach African-American children in Globe and Miami, they didn’t know that they would be fired just a few years later after Arizona retracted the law requiring children from “African ancestry” to be segregated from “White” children in kindergarten through …
Read More »March 30, 2015 Dear Greater Globe Community, Globe Unified School District continues to press forward in its efforts to “Capture Hearts and Empower Minds”. There are many ways that the district is striving to live up to its vision statement. Chief among those strategies is the continuous implementation of our …
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It’s mid-day at the Bus Barn located on a hill overlooking downtown Globe. The parking lot is beginning to fill up with drivers coming in for their afternoon run. I’m here to do a ride-along with Marsha Cowan so I can get a better feel for what it’s like to …
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Globe native Darrel Yerkovich is one of four mentors of TigeRobotics, Globe High School’s robotics team. In this piece, he guides readers through the process of building this year’s robot, as well as this year’s team and team work space. This is the second year since the team’s inception that TigeRobotics will …
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Roberta Hunter-Patten is bracing herself to serve as the first Apache on the GUSD school board this January after winning last November’s election against Frankie DalMolin and Robert Howard for District 1. Total, Hunter-Patten has spent 30 years teaching students in kindergarten, elementary and junior high school. Until three or …
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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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“And it is precisely because of hip-hop’s ability to survive, to teach survival, to unite people, to give an expression for oppressed people, that it can be used as a culture of challenging oppression while raising consciousness.”Luis Rivas and Calvin Ratana Mention hip-hop these days, and most people think of …
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By now you may have read all about the buildings, the dates of additions, annexes and upgrades, and sports wins, but what about the people who attended or worked at Globe High School? Who were the heroes, the inspirations, the rags to riches stories, and those who gave back to …
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In the band room at High Desert Middle School, tennis shoes tap in sync on the floor to Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust.” Flutes, clarinets, saxophones, and trumpets blare. The music reaches a crescendo, and then suddenly comes to a halt. The tempo was a bit slow, says band …
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“And it is precisely because of hip-hop’s ability to survive, to teach survival, to unite people, to give an expression for oppressed people, that it can be used as a culture of challenging oppression while raising consciousness.” Luis Rivas and Calvin Ratana Mention hip-hop these days, and most people think …
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