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GILA COUNTY- Join this year’s Globe-Miami STEMFest as an exhibitor or sign up to volunteer! The 2018 Globe-Miami STEMFest will again be held alongside Gila Community College’s Arbor Day festivities at GCC’s beautiful campus.  Help celebrate STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics–with hundreds of STEMFest attendees by becoming an exhibitor or volunteer.  …

GILA COUNTY- Last weekend’s volunteer clean-up of the Pinal Cemetery in Central Heights cleared 6,420 pounds of brush and other greenwaste from the area! Volunteers, including Supervisors Woody Cline and Tim Humphrey as well as Gila County Manager James Menlove, came together to spend the morning beautifying the areas in need …

MIAMI- Lighting the way for opportunity, the new perimeter and stadium lights recently installed at Bullion Plaza Museum, will further enhance Miami’s crown jewel. The lights are phase one of a larger plan to bring an amphitheater to this location. As a result of a collective effort by Miami Genesis Economic …

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Tom O’Halleran (AZ-01) sent a letter urging Reps. Ken Calvert and Betty McCollum, leaders on the House Committee on Appropriations, to strongly consider full funding for the Bureau of Indian Education’s New School Replacement Program. globemiamiThis content comes to you through GMTimes staff and/or contributed …

Globe Mayor Al Gameros highlights the recent and on going work on behalf of the city of Globe.  SIGN CODE A public meeting was held on January 8th to discuss the city’s sign code.  There were approximately thirty business owners and residents who attended to make suggestions and give their …

RCAC GRANT The City of Globe has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Rural Community Assistance Corporation for economic development.  This is a three-year grant that provides training in comprehensive community economic development, technical and financial resources and advocacy so rural communities can achieve their goals and visions.  There …

Each December, Gila County Recycling & Landfill Management presents the community with better-than-new, refurbished bikes, which get distributed to families in need throughout Gila County. This year, the county will distribute a record number of bikes– over 160. A 14 year long tradition, each bike giveaway represents a year’s worth of work …

If you enjoy driving Arizona’s scenic highways, you may often wonder why we honor certain people by naming roads after them, such as the Senator Hardt Highway. Read on, and you will wonder no more, at least about that one. August Valentine “Bill” Hardt was a champion of rural Arizona, …

GILACOUNTY-Recently Gila County Landfill staff has been finding lots of stuff besides recycling in the large green bins that are available to the public. From cactus to cat litter to sheet rock, the County employees who hand sort the contents of the bins have seen an increase lately in these …