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Area NAACP to hold Juneteenth celebration

Sat, 05/22/2010 - 10:16pm

SIERRA VISTA — The Greater Huachuca Area Branch NAACP will have its annual Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 19, at Tompkins Park, located at South Seventh Street and Buffalo Soldier Trail.

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Egg drop combines fun with creativity

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:01am

Stephanie Hargon secures her egg for the big drop with the help of Village Meadows Elementary School second-grade teacher Rene Alleg’s during Monday’s science project. (Beatrice Richardson • Herald/Review)

Village Meadows Elementary School students on Tuesday put their creativity to work in a fun, educational way, as the school held an egg drop challenge.

Students created science projects with the goal of using them to prevent eggs from breaking when they were dropped from a height of 50 feet. Of course, the eggs had to be raw … no hard boiling … to make the competition fair.

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Judge corks Tombstone lawsuit for water access

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:01am

By Jonathon Shacat

Herald/Review

BISBEE — A federal court judge in Tucson has ruled against the City of Tombstone in its lawsuit that sought to prevent the U.S. Forest Service from interfering with its ability to adequately access water in the Coronado National Forest.

Last summer’s Monument Fire destroyed vegetation, and subsequent rainfall caused large rocks and debris to slide down the mountain and then damage Tombstone’s water system in the Huachuca Mountains.

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Record scholarship total highlights Buena Class of 2012

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:01am

ADAM CURTIS

HERALD/REVIEW

SIERRA VISTA — The Buena High School graduating class of 2012 has been offered a record breaking amount of scholarships, totaling about $6.5 million.

The seniors beat the previous record, which was set last year, by about $2 million.

Yet the truly remarkable news is that they did it without any of the large — about three quarter million dollar — military academy appointments, Principal John Schreur said. “It’s pretty impressive to me.”

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Upper San Pedro Partnership hears CAP argument

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:01am

By Shar Porier

Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA — In order to finish the Bureau of Reclamation’s feasibility study on the Sierra Vista subwatershed, estimated to cost $2.8 million, local governments are asked to chip in $1.540 million during the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years.

At last week’s Upper San Pedro Partnership (USPP) meeting, members were provided an update by the Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) Eve Halper.

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New fire station shows fort’s progress

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:01am

Guest speaker, and former Fort Huachuca’s Fire Chief Kevin Baylor, right, talks to Maj. Gen. Gregg Potter, commander of the Army Intelligence Center of Excellence and Fort Huachuca, on Tuesday during the Fort Huachuca’s Fire Station 2 ribbon cutting. (Beatrice Richardson • Herald/Review)

By Bill Hess

Herald/Review

FORT HUACHUCA — In 1941, a fire station was built on this southern Arizona Army post.

It was meant to be a temporary structure.

But, from the time it was constructed the word temporary took on a whole new meaning — it almost took on permanent status.

Today, the more than 70-year-old building, which has been renovated and added on to, is coming close to being torn down.

About a block away, a new $6.8 million complex for the fort’s Fire Station 2, was dedicated, after years of trying to obtain military construction funds for the facility.

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EOP upgrade at center of debt debate

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 12:10am

Bryan, left, and Jim Fitzpatrick, with Endo Steel Inc. in Gilbert Arizona, work on a new control structure, as a part of the upgrade to the Environmental Operations Park on Monday. (Beatrice Richardson - HERALD/REVIEW)

A dissenting vote cast last week against the city’s financing deal funding the upgrade of its wastewater treatment facility demonstrated how the once routine use of municipal debt has become a divisive political issue in Sierra Vista.

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Monument fire caused by humans

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 12:10am

(FILE: Monument Fire on June 16, 2011)

While officially the investigation into last year’s Monument Fire is “closed-unsolved,” there is no doubt it was human-caused. What is not known is whether it was accidentally started, or was lit as a diversion for criminal activities involving drug or people smuggling, Coronado National Forest spokeswoman Heidi Schewel said.

“We know it was human-caused, there was no lightning in the area,” Schewel said during a telephone interview with the Herald/Review Monday.

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Suspect charged in fatal wreck

Driver reportedly going 100 mph when he hit victim

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 12:10am

A 26-year-old Sierra Vista man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a Fort Huachuca soldier who was struck by a car on Highway 90 nearly two months ago.

Charged by the Sierra Vista Police Department on Sunday was Paul Koerber IV for causing the death of Spc. Jonathan Thomas, 23, of the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion who died on March 15.

According to the SVPD investigator Cpl. Armin Lewis, Koerber was questioned again on Sunday, after a traffic stop, at the police station, where the suspect was read his Miranda rights.

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Crowd gathers for Mother’s Day Walk for Life

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 12:10am

JoAnna Christiansen credits Care Net Pregnancy Center for her “beautiful little girl,” 9-month-old Faith. Pushing the blond-haired, wide-eyed baby in a stroller along Fry Boulevard Saturday morning with about 200 walkers, Christiansen recounts how she and her boyfriend were faced with an unplanned pregnancy about 18 months ago.

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Driver reportedly going 100 mph when he hit victim