Pima baseball assistant coach Ernie Durazo and three Pima pitchers went to Thornydale Elementary School on Tuesday morning to read with 1st grade classes.

Pima Community College assistant coach Ernie Durazo and three pitchers will visit Thornydale Elementary School (7751 N. Oldfather Road) on Tuesday to talk to 1st graders at the school. They plan to arrive at 9:30 a.m.

Store representatives from Marana-based Wal-Mart surprised Thornydale Elementary staff on Friday, Sept. 28 during the school's Friday assembly.

On two visits, the Marana Rotary Club has repainted the inner courtyard awning at Thornydale Elementary School, 7751 North Oldfather Road.

Robert Folino, store manager of OfficeMax #741 at Thornydale and Ina, wheels in a large box of school equipment and supplies to the room of Thornydale Elementary School sixth-grade teacher Jeannette Pagel as part of the Office Max program "A Day Made Better," which is "working to erase teacher-funded classrooms." OfficeMax has more than 1,000 stores, and every store donates $1,000 worth of equipment and supplies to a local school in its community.

 Members of the Pima Community College baseball team visited Thornydale Elementary School on Tuesday for Love of Reading week. Three players visited nine classrooms total to go read to kindergarteners, first and second grade classes.

March 30, 2005 - The big leaguers aren't the only players using the spring weather in Arizona to ready themselves for the upcoming baseball season. Throughout the Northwest, thousands of little leaguers are dusting off the batting gloves and breaking out the pine tar.

Students returning to Thornydale Elementary and Roadrunner Elementary schools will see some new faces as each school in the Marana Unified School District has a new principal for the 2012-2013 school year.

Delta Kappa Gamma is an international organization of women educators whose purpose is to promote the professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education. Aligned with that purpose, Delta Kappa Gamma/Alpha Chapter will host their first annual “Early Career Educator” appreciation and recognition brunch recognizing 16 outstanding early career educators from the Marana Unified School District. The brunch will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.

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Delta Kappa Gamma is an international organization of women educators whose purpose is to promote the professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education. Aligned with that purpose, Delta Kappa Gamma/Alpha Chapter will host their first annual “Early Career Educator” appreciation and recognition brunch recognizing 16 outstanding early career educators from the Marana Unified School District. The brunch will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.

June 21, 2006 - For the third year in a row, the Marana Unified School District anticipates a significant cut in state funding for impoverished and disadvantaged students.

Engineers are proposing the “jug handle” over the “S curve” to reconfigure the intersection of Magee and La Cholla roads north of Foothills Mall.

No employees of Marana Unified School District will be arrested or cited for the way a school bus driver's alleged molestation of a 10-year-old girl in May of 2003 was reported.