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April, 2014

  • 8 April

    GUSD Science and Engineering Fair 2014 Thank You

    GLOBE, Ariz. – The Globe Unified School District (GUSD) Science and Engineering Fair (SEF) was held on Friday, January 31st in the High Desert Middle School Gymnasium and Auditorium.  Competing for the opportunity to advance to the regional level were over 190 entries, the largest in the three year fair …

August, 2013

  • 27 August

    1963: March on Washington

    Fifty years ago, a throng of 200,000 people — both black and white — descended on the Washington Monument to call for a program of civil rights and equality, which this nation had failed to achieve despite its lip service to lofty ideals. Our nation’s pledge of allegiance, which every school …

  • 15 August

    Save the planet, Baby!

    We’re all worried about the environment– even those folks who drive big honkin’ Hummers and keep the AC going full blast at the summer house until January, while simultaneously lighting the fireplace. Perhaps they’re even more concerned than the Average Joe because the world now has only about two and a half …

July, 2013

  • 18 July

    Inspired Learning Academy thanks GMT

      Thank you so much for your support of and enthusiasm for the Inspired Learning Academy and its bright future at the High Desert Middle School Campus for the 2013-2014 school year. We are sharing our strengths with the community and serving a growing student body with this year’s Pilot …

  • 3 July

    The American Experience

    Reflecting on what “American” means with Bill Hing Fourth of July is here again. I can already remember last year, standing awkwardly in the kitchen of someone I hardly knew, where every table and counter top was covered with pies, chips, dip and potato salad. I was invited, sure, but …

  • 2 July

    Are we endowed to have always have more?

    By: Susan Handa In my lifetime, being an American meant being a member of the richest and most powerful nation on earth; endowed by birth with rights to which other nations could only aspire, and fully anticipating that my rightful ‘pursuit of happiness’ would result in an even more comfortable …

May, 2013

  • 5 May

    New parking violation angers local couple

    Dear Editor: Last Wednesday, May 1st, a police officer stopped in front of our home at 9:30am and put a violation notice on our truck windshield for parking “the wrong direction” on our street.  We have parked this way for the past twelve years as have many who live in …

April, 2013

  • 3 April

    Real Life takes place in community

    by Desmond Baker I spend most of my real life waiting around for my real life to begin. Truth be known, if any of us live our lives long enough we will eventually discover that a good chunk of it (maybe like 75% of it) consists of the “not about …

  • 1 April

    What’s really important in the world: Part 1

    Darin's take on the things that really matter in life: like real telephones, wacky table lamps and lunch boxes.

October, 2012

  • 6 October

    The Thing called Home…

    There was a restaurant in Chicago, where I lived many years ago, called ‘Home’. That name was the most pompous, eighties cliché I’d ever heard, and when friends asked me to join them for dinner one evening, I declined. They then offered to treat, and I graciously accepted.Expecting yards of …