Why on Earth would anyone drive an hour for a day trip with these gas prices? To get out of Southern Arizona’s 100-plus degree weather, of course.

As the fire on Mount Lemmon raged through the tiny mountaintop hamlets of Summerhaven and Loma Linda last week, the Northwest community below readily opened its arms and hearts to the displaced.

It’s no surprise that the newly reconfigured Oro Valley Town Council has denied a $360,000 construction tax rebate for Sanofi-Aventis, the pharmaceutical company building a $60 million-ish, energy- and environmentally conservative building in Rancho Vistoso.

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The Arizona Game and Fish Department next year will decide finally whether or not to put an end to efforts to replenish nearly extinct bighorn sheep populations on Pusch Ridge at the western end of the Catalina Mountains.

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Throughout my life, friends and family have commented on my sometimes unique “to do” list.  Setting goals and making a commitment to successfully achieve them has provided personal satisfaction and success in my life’s achievements.

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In Pat Hardin's backyard, a hummingbird lands, tentatively, on the branches of a scrub oak. The blue outline of the Galiuro Mountains rises to the east, beyond the rooftops scattered among Oracle's wooded hills.

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