The story of Santa and his 8-legged horse
Friday, Dec. 25, is Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Yehoshua, a poor Jewish carpenter’s son, in the backwater Hebrew village of Bet...
The Verde Valley will get vaccines in three phases
This week the Food and Drug Administration is likely to approve a vaccine for COVID-19, developed by Moderna, a biotechnology company based in Cambridge,...
School districts determine fate of learning on campus
We commend the Sedona-Oak Creek, Cottonwood-Oak Creek and Clarkdale-Jerome school districts governing boards for voting Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 7 and 8, to remain...
Children suffer emotionally out of school
Verde Valley school districts are deciding whether or not to keep children in school or return to virtual learning at home due to an...
Bring light to nonprofits in a dark year
We once looked to 2020 as “the future” — flying cars, in-house androids making meals and doing the laundry, lifelike virtual reality, trips to...
Local businesses need our spending to survive in 2021
With Thanksgiving now a day behind us, we turn our attention to the holidays and the related gift-giving.
Most local shops are decorating their stores...
Vaccine news shows a light on the horizon
This Thursday, Nov. 26, is Thanksgiving.
While this year has been one of the roughest globally, perhaps since the Great Recession or even the end...
Eating apart, remember the spirit of the meal
As the country’s busiest national holiday almost 400 years after its first celebration, Thanksgiving is more than a celebration of friends and family. It’s...
