The most asked question I get from people is "why would you want to run for Mesa City Council?"

Longtime businessman Vic Linoff announced Wednesday he will run for the Mesa City Council to represent District 4, which encompasses downtown and the area south of downtown.

Christopher Glover will be Mesa's newest face on the City Council after the 23-year-old waged a campaign that touted endorsements from state Sen. Russell Pearce and other conservatives.

Vic Linoff thinks of himself as a historian who sells old things. His eclectic Mill Avenue bookstore, Those Were the Days!, is a museum of sorts with thousands of out-of-print antiquing books shelved among miscellaneous antique signs and items with descriptive tags.

Nearly a month after the Diving Lady was again restored to her perch high above Main Street, the focus of the Mesa Preservation Foundation has shifted to restoring and reopening the also-historic Buckhorn Baths Motel.

The sole competitive City Council race in Mesa pits two candidates against each other who most voters have never heard of, yet each has amassed endorsements from some of the region's more influential people.

Nearly a month after the Diving Lady was again restored to her perch high above Main Street, the focus of the Mesa Preservation Foundation has shifted to restoring and reopening the also-historic Buckhorn Baths Motel.

While the pool, which once sat in the center of the courtyard of Mesa’s Starlite Motel, has long since been filled in, the Diving Lady will again plunge from her perch on Main Street this coming Tuesday.

The effort to preserve the historic Buckhorn Baths should stay on track despite owner Alice Sliger’s death, according to those working on the plans.

History buffs in Mesa have gotten a reprieve. The Mesa Historical Museum will stay open at least for the rest of this year despite plans that it would soon close because of a funding shortfall.

As 23, Christopher Glover always knew he was the underdog in his bid for City Council.

The Mesa Historical Museum will shutter its doors to the public early next year, leaving its building a warehouse for a vast collection of artifacts.

Those Were the Days!, a 35-year-old antique store and fixture in downtown Tempe, closed its doors today.

After a 35-year run, Vic Linoff, owner of Those Were the Days in downtown Tempe, officially closed the popular book and antique store on Tuesday.

For those of you who know Vic Linoff, president of the Mesa Preservation Foundation and past president of the Mesa Historical Museum’s Board of Directors, you know that he is an “accumulator.”

 Mesa is studying whether an old post office building can become the site of a third museum in the downtown area.

Voters across the nation are heading to the polls to oust incumbent politicians, but many East Valley residents won’t have any challenger to choose from if they are in a throw-the-bums-out mindset.

Tempe's Historical Museum is a bit too stuck in the past, even for the history buffs who oversee it. Their problem isn't the 1919 Ford fire truck, artifacts from the Territorial Normal School or blown-up photos of early Tempe.

From hemp jewelry to caricatures, peddling without a permit is getting tougher in downtown Tempe.