The Marana Unified School District secondary music program and Mark Wood, recording artist, performer, producer, inventor, Emmy‐winning composer and music education advocate are pleased to present and perform an exciting and electrifying event on March 7 and March 8 at Mountain View High School auditorium, 3901 W. Linda Vista Blvd Tucson, AZ 85742.

On Monday evening around 6:23 p.m., deputies from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department San Xavier District responded to the 9000 block of West Delfina Drive to a report of a missing child.

Non-profit Tucson Values Teachers and Walgreens stores throughout Southern Arizona are spearheading the third "Tucson Supplies Teachers" campaign to stock classrooms and prevent teachers from having to buy school supplies with their own money.

The Tucson Padres are partnering with Tucson Values Teachers to provide complimentary tickets to area school teachers on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11. Teachers can show their school ID at the box office and receive two free box seats to either Friday or Saturday’s game. Both games start at 7:05 pm.

For the first time in about a decade, all schools in the Amphitheater Public Schools district began classes on the same day this year, and will end on the same day, too.

Special to The Explorer

March 22, 2006 - Barely old enough to vote, Alex Hoobler can pinpoint car troubles and fix most of them.

November 1, 2006 - It's a one-shot deal.

Sept. 1, 2004 - Turning down the winding, undulating road that leads to SaddleBrooke, it is clear the battle ground has been marked.

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

A lawsuit over a faulty wastewater treatment facility at Marana High School will head to court.

Oct. 13, 2004 - Population growth throughout Pima County has increased enrollment in the area's schools and put a strain on available resources. Meanwhile, state budget limitations have kept municipalities from providing necessary infrastructure to support newly built schools, a Marana official said at a recent council meeting.

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According to ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett, 90 percent of our children are “stuck” in terrible schools.

The second annual Marana Care Fair will be held Friday, Aug. 8, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Coyote Trail Elementary School, 8000 N. Silverbell Road.

A student at Friday's legislative forum at the Northwest YMCA asked Rep. Vic Williams a point-blank question.

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AMPHITHEATER SCHOOL DISTRICT

This year at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, 8650 N. Shannon Road, the Feast of the Epiphany was marked not by a journey of Three Wise Men, but by 20 preschoolers celebrating the journey of education.

Nancy Young Wright is running for the Pima County Board of Supervisors, District 1 in November.

Students returning to Ironwood Elementary School this fall will find the playground is a safer place in which to play thanks to a project by Todd Wickizer.

On Sept. 28, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department received a report of threats made by a 14-year-old freshman student. Deputies learned that the student had stated he would dress up as a serial killer on Halloween.

June 15, 2005 - Rick Belding's days are numbered. He is packing up and moving out of the office he has occupied for eight years as headmaster of Green Fields Country Day School.

April 5, 2006 - Hundreds of students in Northwest public schools walked off campus March 31 and joined in city-wide protests of efforts in Congress to crack down on illegal immigrants.

Several Arizona towns and school districts may finally have to pay attorney's fees in the Burke vs. The Arizona State Retirement System lawsuit, though only half the amount originally awarded.