Apache Maid Trail: the route to Casner Butte
There are two popular stories on how Apache Maid Trail got its name. Both involve troops from Camp Verde. Of course, both involve an Apache female.
VERDE HERITAGE: VERDE VALLEY FAIR
The first fair was at the Cottonwood park with exhibits in the Cottonwood Community Club House.
Be Fit Fit! Volunteering Magic Hands
Multiple times a year, I participate in long-distance endurance races.
Life in the Slow Lane: Tool Time (again)
As you, my patient readers, may recall I recently stretched my "I can build it" muscles and added flooring to my stairway. In that process I conquered my fear of a table saw. For more than forty years I'd been haunted by the two missing fingers on my first father-in-law's hand. He had removed them while using a table saw. I need all ten of my fingers to do my job and I know very well that I am a certifiable Klutz. That, and nothing else, is what has kept me from venturing too deeply into the massive workshop that fills my front barn.
VERDE VALLEY EDUCATOR OF THE WEEK: Calliandra Brooks
Calliandra Brooks says that as a third-grade teacher at Camp Verde Elementary School, she encourages her students “to build a growth mindset which allows them to take risks and work as hard as possible.” VVN/Bill Helm
VERDE HERITAGE 1917-1924: COTTONWOOD PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
The old organization was dissolved then the new organization was formed on Tuesday, April 15, 1924.
What’s Happening: April 20, 2018
Contra Dance to Under the Bridge on Saturday, April 21st. Sonja Whisman and Rhonda Hotop are on fiery fiddles fueled by Ron Barton on his galvanizing, toe-tapping guitar. Michael Barraclough will teach and call each dance.
VERDE VALLEY EDUCATOR OF THE WEEK: Selyna Pringle
With 11 years of teaching under her belt, Pringle is in her first year at American Heritage. She says she was a small child when she first wanted to be a teacher – and an Avon lady.
Sedona Pathways Our Daily Journey: April 11, 2018
Beauty a thousand years ago is beauty today and the progression of change on this planet is at a pace that because of our limited life span seems not to change although it is ever changing
Life in the Slow Lane: Bear Necessities
For the record it turned out that six sheep is better than simply sufficient. Having just the new moms and their babies has been both peaceful and easy. Tiny only calls now when one of her babies is lost (this usually means on the wrong side of a fence) or she wants me to open a gate.
VERDE HERITAGE 1973: COTTONWOOD A & W RESTAURANT
A & W Drive-In became the A & W Restaurant during 1973.
A & W Drive-In became the A & W Restaurant during 1973.
VERDE VALLEY EDUCATOR OF THE WEEK: Deb Goepfrich
First grade teacher Beaver Creek School, Rimrock
Before the current school year began, Deb Goepfrich wrote out a postcard to each of her students. That is when Beaver Creek School Principal Katrina Sacco knew that her first grade teacher was special.
Gold King Mine’s Big Bertha roars again (with video)
JEROME -- Don Robertson is smiling in his race car in the sky as Big Bertha is again roaring above the hills of Gold King Mine.
VERDE VALLEY EDUCATOR OF THE WEEK: Mary Frewin
If there’s anything Mary Frewin doesn’t like about being a teacher, it’s when one of her fifth-grade students proves her wrong.
Life in the Slow Lane: Eight is Enough
Tiny, as usual, was late but efficient. Her lambs finally made their appearance on March 28th. At birth both of them were larger than Mari's little guys. That didn't stop Tiny from pushing them out one right after another with less than 5 minutes in between.
Sedona Pathways Our Daily Journey: April 2, 2018
The gap between Casner and Black Mountains is one of my favorite places and the view from about 5800’ looking into Sycamore Canyon through the gap is about as nice as it gets.
MVP student wins Future Chefs Challenge
Creating specialty dishes such as Melissa’s Amazing Salad, Mango Coconut Curry and Asian Mex Salsa, the eighth annual Future Chefs Challenge was an opportunity for five Cottonwood-Oak Creek students to compete for prizes and bragging rights. Wednesday, five C-OC students prepared their Asian-inspired meals at Dr. Daniel Bright Elementary School in Cottonwood.
Sedona Pathways Our Daily Journey: march 30, 2018
On the way home from Flagstaff this afternoon a number of thoughts were running through my mind … the shoot this morning with several friends at Dead Horse State Park, getting more photos of the beautiful Vermillion Fly Catcher, the flight down Copper Canyon, all the good things that people do for each other and the few who simply seem incapable of doing good.
VERDE HERITAGE1973: NEW WESTERN TOWN
"Bitter Creek" is a western movie set located on the Bradshaw Ranch west of Sedona.
Sedona Pathways Our Daily Journey: March 28, 2018
Rules … not an uncommon thing and even down at Bubbling Ponds there are a few rules, but apparently they do not apply to all who visit the area.
5 things to know about the Verde Valley Job Career & Education Fair
Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce is partnering with Yavapai College and businesses all over the Verde Valley in organizing a career fair next month to rally employment opportunities for job seekers.
The Star Method: Interviewing with confidence essential to successful job search
Interviewing with confidence is a skill. Taking the time to learn and practice interviewing is essential to having the confidence needed to impress your next potential employer.
Job hunting strategies for high school students
One of the best strategies for finding a job as a young adult is attending a job fair. Imagine a room filled with potential employers waiting to interview and accept applications.
Skills most sought after by employers
Job seekers wish they knew a secret formula that could assist them in securing employment. What is often wondered is what combination of skills and values do I need to help me attain my career goals?
Local employment resources
Arizona @ Work great place to start on job-search trail
After you have lost a job, a person can face many challenges in returning to self-sufficiency. Individuals can seek assistance within their community, through services available from government, state, private agencies, non-profit organizations, and religious organizations.
- Traffic passable, but delayed, following two-car crash on AZ 260 and Fir in Cottonwood
- Cottonwood man arrested for heroin possession, intent to sell
- One person seriously injured in Perkinsville Road rollover
- Cottonwood police seek suspect in $100,000 Old Town Association fraud
- Cottonwood man arrested for assaulting, stabbing landlords
- Man arrested for burglary after arriving to update sex offender registration
- Local man arrested for alleged thefts at Cottonwood Cemetery
- Sedona investigation results in felony indictment against couple charge in sexual abuse of 7-year-old girl
- Cottonwood votes 4-3 on sales tax hike
- Grassland fire destroys shed, causes extensive damage to vehicle
- Second suspect arrested in Cornville counterfeit money operation
- Cottonwood man arrested for assaulting, stabbing landlords
- Police seek public’s help in locating high risk level 3 sex offender
- Driver from tour jeep rollover dies from injuries
- New delay in 21-year-old murder case
- 4 homes reportedly on fire in blaze near Prescott Valley
- Sheriff’s office seeking to identify human remains found near Verde River
- Cornville woman arrested for operating counterfeit operation
- Traffic passable, but delayed, following two-car crash on AZ 260 and Fir in Cottonwood
- 3 suspects arrested in Cottonwood following weapons offense
