East Valley Tribune - Local News

Chandler Boys & Girls Club is 'green' giant

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:04 -0700

The Boys & Girls Club’s new $7 million downtown Chandler facility is the organization’s largest in the East Valley and the most environmentally friendly in Arizona.

Buyer emerges for East Valley Tribune

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:13:40 -0700

Freedom Communications has received a letter of intent to purchase the East Valley Tribune and keep the Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper and Web site operating, Publisher Julie Moreno said Friday.

Mesa project: Cleaner streets, safer streets

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:46:21 -0700

On a quiet residential street in Mesa Saturday morning, three teenaged boys crouched with spray paint cans at the ready only a few feet from police officers. One of them sprayed, marking the street with white paint, and fully following the letter of the law. Hundreds of volunteers swarmed residential areas, apartments, fields and parks in Mesa to clear debris, spray paint addresses on curbs, refurbish homes and cover graffiti.

Q.C. Town Council TV broadcasts to resume

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:02:38 -0700

Queen Creek residents who haven’t been able to get their Town Council meeting fix on Channel 11 should see videos up and running again early next week.

Price of Thanksgiving dinner way down from '08

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:05:58 -0700

It may not make up for having to hear Uncle Harold’s war stories for the umpteenth time, but it’s going be cheaper — a lot cheaper — to feed the family this Thanksgiving.

Food banks brace for busy Thanksgiving

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:49:45 -0700

Every first and third Saturday, hundreds of people line up at Main Street and Extension Road in Mesa to receive bags of food from Resurrection Street Ministry/Manna Food Bank.

“They usually start lining up between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m., even in cold weather,” said Bill Berry, the organization’s director of programs. “It’s really a sight to see.”

Mesa’s Paz de Cristo gets grant from donor

Mesa's Paz de Cristo gets grant from donor

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:52:06 -0700

Paz de Cristo Outreach Center in Mesa received a grant from an unnamed donor that will bolster food supplies for the nonprofit just in time for its annual Thanksgiving Day dinner.

Parents of 8-year-old rape victim arrested

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:58:03 -0700

The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who police say was raped by four boys have been arrested on felony child abuse charges.

Valley new-home sales up, prices down

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:12:18 -0700

The Valley's new-home market included higher sales and a lower average price last month compared to September, according to the latest Phoenix Housing Market Letter by analyst RL Brown.

Police investigate drive-by shooting

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:57 -0700

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting that took place near a west Mesa intersection Friday afternoon.

Crowd protests possible Mesa school closing

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:32 -0700

More than 30 people, mostly students, from west Mesa's Powell Junior High School protested the possible closing of their neighborhood school on Friday.

Council narrowly OKs Washington Street plan

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:13 -0700

Designs to punch Washington Street through a low-income downtown Chandler neighborhood narrowly received City Council approval Thursday.

Sign code lawsuit sent back to lower court

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13:40 -0700

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Friday sent a Gilbert church's lawsuit over town sign regulations back to U.S. District Court after affirming part of the lower panel's ruling.

Berman to court: Cut my property tax bill

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:23 -0700

Former Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman was in court this week to argue his case against the Maricopa County Assessor's Office over the appraisal value of his Gilbert home.

Q.C. has budget surplus for first quarter

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:53:08 -0700

Queen Creek is operating in the black after the first quarter of the fiscal year, although revenues are down 23 percent from this time last year.

SRP to build solar power plant in E.V.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:09 -0700

Salt River Project said Friday it will build a 20-megawatt solar power plant in the East Valley that will give its electric customers an alternative to rooftop solar panels if they wish to use renewable power.

Woman dies in fire; child critically burned

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:21 -0700

A 22-year-old farmworker died in a mobile-home fire Friday and her 1-year-old daughter was critically burned.

Police seek white SUV in double hit-run

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:56:09 -0700

Chandler police are looking for the driver of a white SUV involved in a double hit-and-run that injured a man in a bar parking lot Friday.

Auditorium fire averted at Red Mountain High

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:46:02 -0700

Quick-thinking, fast-acting staff members at Red Mountain High School averted a large-scale fire when they put out a burning curtain in the school's auditorium Thursday.

It's always 'Senior Night' for Hamilton football

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:04:18 -0700

It's a fall Friday night in the retirement community of Sun Lakes. Some residents are playing bingo. Others have settled in for a quiet night in their homes. About 50 of the retirees, however, have something different in mind.