The Cobre Valley Collaborative, a group of community leaders and government officials met Tuesday morning at Dream Manor Inn to share in the results of a 3-month planning process. The work, which began in January, focused on bettering our community in three key areas; education, recreation and housing. The planning …
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CASA volunteers needed in Gila County
(Globe, AZ—April 24, 2019) April is National Volunteer Appreciation Month, and to celebrate, on Wednesday April 24, 2019 CASA of Gila County showed their appreciation for the volunteers who are donating their time to be Court Appointed Special Advocates for local children in foster care. “From our actively assigned CASAs …
Read More »Helping others to overcome rough patches
Malissa Buzan finds a way to fill needs. Serving the community can be a complex task. But for Malissa Buzan, the Director of Community Services for Gila County, the approach is simple. “Find a need and fill it,” she says. “I don’t like to duplicate services. But when there’s a need, …
Read More »U.S. Census reports on field ops.
“Data literally shape the future of your community. That’s why it’s so important that everyone understands that responding to the 2020 Census is safe, easy and important,”
Read More »Forum on Water to be held April 9th
While water resources in our region have historically been managed separately, a new urgency is at hand due to water scarcity and legal determinations on the horizon for communities and water users to agree on the status of water resources, and to establish priorities for their management and coordination. Since last …
Read More »Barcon says there is plenty of time to get TRSD project right.
By: Fred Barcon I am shocked to watch a project as heavily flawed as the TRSD project move forward despite having numerous fatal flaws. Any one of the flaws should have caused USDA to halt the project, and yet it moves forward full speed. USDA has pumped fear to Tri …
Read More »Residents encouraged to contact Congressman O’Halleran to resolve TCRSD flaws.
By: Fred Barcon I receive a lot of calls and messages from concerned residents regarding the TCRSD project. A lot of people have picked up on the severity of the mistakes made by the TCRSD board, and USDA, and would like to elevate this matter to the attention of the …
Read More »Barcon lays out his case against current TCRSD plan calling it ‘nonsensical.’
Submitted by Fred Barcon A lot of people have been asking me how I’m involved with the TCRSD project, what expertise I have to critique the project, and if I am for or against the project. The Tri-City area has wastewater issues, that is a fact. Those issues need to …
Read More »Sanitary District schedules meetings to answer questions
Tri-City Regional Sanitary District (“TRSD”) has scheduled two more Community Outreach Meetings to be held on Wednesday December 5, 2018. These meetings are designed to answer questions which residents have based upon recent notices published in the Arizona Silver Belt and posted along the proposed routes of the wastewater collection …
Read More »Local leaders come together to host community meeting Nov. 20th regarding tragic shooting at Jammerz Bar.
The City of Globe will be hosting a community meeting to discuss the recent tragic events of Sunday, November 11th, at Jammerz Bar, where three members of our community have been taken from us. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together community leaders to start a dialog on …
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