By Aimee Staten After a long year marked by the pandemic and a cold winter, it’s time to take a trip to the historic communities of Globe and Miami, AZ, as well as Roosevelt Lake and Peridot Mesa to take in the buttery gloriousness of the poppies. During the first-ever …
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In Memory of…
JANUARY 2021- This list is compiled from the records of both Lamont Mortuary and Bulman Miles Funeral Home for deaths in Globe and Miami. Obituaries have been edited. Complete details can be found at: (LM: Lamont Mortuary, BF: Bulman Miles Funeral Home) DOREEN THURLO, July 8, 1924 – January 1, 2021, …
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DECEMBER- This list is compiled from the records of both Lamont Mortuary and Bulman Miles Funeral Home for deaths in Globe and Miami. Obituaries have been edited. Complete details can be found at: (LM: Lamont Mortuary, BF: Bulman Miles Funeral Home) FRANCES GONZALES, May 13, 1939 – December 31, 2020, …
Read More »A Growing Business
“If it stays warmer than normal, like the weather service predicts, I‘ll have fairly good sales in January,” says Mike Shirley, owner of Golden Hills Nursery & Feed in Globe. According to Mike, the mild climate makes this a good time to plant bulbs, shrubs and trees however, the great …
Read More »A Knife Less Ordinary: The Bladed Broad
Kim Mitchell is a soft-spoken artisan with a gentle spirit and quirky sense of humor. She’s also an award-winning knife-thrower. That’s right: She throws knives. When asked how she discovered this unique sport, Kim credits her husband. She says, 15 years ago, “he was very big into bushcraft and picked …
Read More »Annual Light Parade canceled due to heightened COVID concerns.
After much deliberation, we at the Globe Downtown Association have decided to change gears for the 2020, 24th Annual Globe Downtown Christmas Light Parade. There will be NO formal organized light parade which encourages the gathering of many people both on the floats, and off. Instead, we are going to …
Read More »The Fear Right Here
When people hear that I’ve been traveling for the past four years, they’ll usually ask me two questions. First: What’s your favorite country? I never know how to answer that one. I love them all. The second question tends to be: Weren’t you afraid? That’s easier to answer: Yes. Of …
Read More »Investing Creatively and on the Cheap
Many folks one meets in Globe-Miami were born and raised here. Many moved somewhere else for a while and came back. There are folks here for short-term work and the “strange ones” who want to stay. “I came up here because I found a cheap house,” says Corey Busboom, 41. …
Read More »Second GenerationMiners: Bryan Seppala, Operations and Maintenance Manager Stakeholder Engagement Advisor
Randy Seppala, 65, a career-long mining engineer, is the Operations and Maintenance Manager at Resolution Copper in Superior. During his tenure at Resolution, he’s overseen numerous projects, including sinking the Number 10 shaft. Today, he oversees surface and underground operations and maintenance with two huge responsibilities: * Maintaining existing and …
Read More »SecondGenerationMiners: Wilbur Benally III. Operations Trainee
“We do the same thing every day,” says Wilbur Benally III, “you can’t forget what you are doing.” It’s one of the things he likes about his work as an Operator Trainee at the anode plant in Miami, AZ. There, copper is poured into concrete molds to create slabs 4 …
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