A New York developer has bought the Gladden Farms master-planned community in Marana for an undisclosed purchase price.

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Community Christian Church of Marana, which helped start ministries that eventually became the Marana Health Center and the Marana Community Food Bank, is getting ready to celebrate 60 years of service in Marana.

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Marana Founders' Day Festival is off to a great start. The four-day festival kicked off last night with the Rotary Heritage Awards Dinner and the opening of the carnival.

Input sought Thursday on ADC program

If your local restaurant starts offering healthier food options to children, you may have Haile Thomas to thank.

Marana residents who received letters from the town regarding the modernization of its Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) should mark their calendars with two important dates: May 5, the day the town will host a workshop detailing changes and what they mean to Maranans; and June 16, the day the new maps will take effect in Pima County.

Pima County officials have come out with another reason why wastewater treatment should remain under a single, region-wide entity — cost.

On March 8, Marana voters will determine who will fill two open seats on the Marana Town Council. Incumbents Roxanne Ziegler and Russell Clanagan are being challenged by newcomers David Bowen and Jeffrey Gray. Mayor Ed Honea is running unopposed.

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For nearly all of 2010, people have deluged the Marana Town Council with facts, opinions, emotions, protests and demonstrations about the Marana Regional Landfill.

A 10K run and half-marathon unfold for the second year on Saturday, Nov. 27, at the Gladden Farms Community Park in Marana.

For the fifth year, the Gladden Farms Community Association presents its "Country Fair," a day of family fun, this Saturday, Oct. 16.

Albert Vetere Lannon of Picture Rocks has become one of the most persistent, most animated critics of the Marana Regional Landfill proposal.

The Marana Police Department’s Mobile Command Post will be in the parking lots of the Continental Ranch Neighborhood Park (skateboard park) and the Sunflower Community Center this Saturday, Sept. 11.

A near-capacity crowd packed the Marana Town Council chambers on Aug. 17, ready to comment during a resumption of the public hearing on a zoning change that would allow a commercial landfill in Northwest Marana.

GOP has 'true conservatives,' and the RINOS

If the Marana Regional Landfill is constructed, the value of existing, nearby residential properties would likely be "negatively impacted at a greater rate of depreciated value" than that of subdivisions built next to previously placed landfills, according to an analysis by senior property appraiser Brian Johnson of the Pima County Assessor's Office.

The Political Action Committee for a Better Marana, a newly formed citizens group, is in favor of the proposed Marana Regional Landfill, according to a release issued Friday.

photos by Don Boorse/Special to the Explorer