Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez would like to remind all voters in the Town of Marana that your ballot must be received by Election Day, Tuesday, March 12, 2013.

Contrary to (Marana) Mayor Ed Honea’s recent guest opinion (“Passage of SB 1171 would be great for business,” March 16, 2011) alleging that Pima County’s wastewater services system has not “…been run properly,” a quick check of the facts show that the opposite is true.

Pima County went from three to five county supervisors in 1972. Those original five districts have expanded and contracted following the population into different areas.

Air quality in Pima County was good in the winter of 2009-'10, with no unhealthy days recorded by the county Department of Environmental Quality.

Five candidates are competing to become the supervisor for District 1 in Pima County after current supervisor Ann Day steps down later this year.

The Northwest Fire and Rescue District and Pima County Sheriff's Department are working on an agreement that would add eight to 10 of the district's paramedics to the sheriff's elite SWAT unit - and do so almost entirely at the fire district's expense.

As we observe National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW), the Pima County Health Department would like to recognize local child care providers who have scored between 95-100 percent on their first immunization data report, which is a record of children immunized within their centers.

Governor Jan Brewer today appointed Toni Hellon to serve as the Clerk of the Superior Court for Pima County.

There’s a mystery embedded in the latest annual report by the Office of the Medical Examiner: More people died in Pima County in 2012 than in other recent years.

Name: Ally Miller

Name: Mike Hellon

More than 3,000 truck-scale records that indicate semi trucks from a Marana trash hauling facility were dangerously and illegally overweight in 2001 have languished for almost two years at the Pima County Attorney's Office without being prosecuted.

With the special election for Congressional District 8 just days away, early voting may prove to be the decider in the race to finish former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ term.

October 25, 2006 - Pete Hershberger, in his fourth bid for one of two Legislative District 26 House seats, seems to have the formula down pat.

Maybe the dry 2009 monsoon season will be the start of an unusually dry pattern of years.

Recently, the United States Postal Service announced cuts in service that include shutting down the Tucson Mail Processing Center in addition to other regional processing centers and post offices throughout the country. One of the justifications asserted by the United States Postal Service is that the elimination of the Tucson plant will cause only a slight delay for delivery of first class mail in Pima County. The post office claims that the current service level is one business day for delivery of first class mail and that the proposed changes will result in delivery time increasing to two business days.

Town officials confident ruling will hold

A former Marana police officer accused of computer tampering and trafficking in stolen identities has accepted a plea agreement that could result in a prison term.

The Town of Oro Valley has fired a longtime employee after she provided a town council member with a recording of a conversation taped at a cancelled town board meeting.

Oro Valley officials have requested a ballot reprint from the Pima County Elections Department after some town residents received mail-in ballots that did not include the Naranja Park bond question.

Pima County will spend up to $200,000 per property to buy-out or relocate Catalina residents whose homes were damaged by the unprecedented flooding that roared down the Canada del Oro Wash this summer.

Pinal County, a Democratic county encumbered with a history of corruption, has been viewed by many as primarily a rural void between Maricopa and Pima counties.  

District 26 Rep. Vic Williams has formed an exploratory committee to possibly run for District 1 of the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

The first meeting of the five-member Pima County Redistricting Advisory Committee is set for May 26 at 9 a.m. It will take place in the Board of Supervisors’ hearing room on the first floor of the Pima County administration building, 130 W. Congress St.

Late last month, Pima County elections officials began to send out vote-by-mail ballots to voters throughout the county.