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Project Graduation needs contributions

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 12:01am

By Eric Petermann

Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA —With two weeks until Buena High School graduates line up to enjoy one of the unique community events of the year, the organizers of Project Graduation are voicing concerns that too few donations have been received.

Dee Foster, a spokeswoman for the event, said at least 300 items are usually available through the “Buck Store,” the place where seniors trade their “bucks,” for graduation
gifts.

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Learn how to play disc golf this summer

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:10am

Matt Barron-Ratz demonstrates a “turbo” putt at the A.V. Anderson Park Joint Service Clubs Disc Golf Course in Sierra Vista on Monday. Barron-Ratz will be instructing city-sponsored disc golf classes starting in June. (Photo by Beatrice Richardson)

Adam Curtis

Herald/Review

About a year-and-a-half after establishing the first course in Cochise County, the City of Sierra Vista is offering classes to teach local residents how to play one of the fastest growing sports most people have never heard of.

Disc golf is just like traditional golf in terms of its rules, only it is played with a plastic discs, which are smaller and heavier than a Frisbee, that players toss into baskets fitted with hanging chains. Disc golf is also typically more affordable and more beginner-friendly than traditional golf.

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West End Fair offers more of everything

Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:01am

Cochise College Dance Club Vice President Joey Jarboe leads the way as club members cut the rug on Fry Boulevard during Saturday’s West End Fair. (Mark Levy • Herald/Review)

By Jacob Petersen

Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA — Created as a way to showcase the many businesses that call the west side of Sierra Vista home, the 7th Annual West End Fair went off without a hitch on Saturday to the delight of countless locals and visitors alike.

Held in the middle of Fry Boulevard between North Garden Avenue and North Street, the fair featured more vendors, more food, and more fun than it did last year. And despite a little wind, the weather also seemed more favorable than it had in past years.

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Midweek Morsels: Comics on your computer

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 12:10am

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

Quote of the day: “Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.”

— Rene Yasenek

A character in the novel “You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story.”

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Change is good and with the start of May you’ll find a couple of changes at your Herald/Review.

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Modern day ‘Gatsby’ by Bravo

Musings of a pop-culture junkie

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 8:26pm

From Wikipedia.com

By Garrett Mitchell • for the Herald/Review

Garrett Mitchell is a senior at Buena High School and editor of the school newspaper, The Pegasus. He is also a student at Cochise College and has been accepted into the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism to begin classes this fall at Arizona State University.

As a lover of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s signature novel, “The Great Gatsby,” which presented the lifestyles of the rich and decadent in the Roaring ‘20s, it only makes sense that I have also spawned an addiction to Bravo reality TV shows.

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A milestone is met

Colts take down Eagles for 10th win on senior day

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 10:42pm

Mark Levy Herald/Review Buena first baseman Matt Monge gestures toward the bench after clouting a first inning double over the Santa Rita right fielder Tuesday at Coppola Field.

By Matt Hickman

Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA — The gradual and enduring effort of rebuilding the Buena baseball program passed a key milestone on Tuesday, as a 6-1 win over Santa Rita gave the Colts their 10th win of the season.

“Double-figures in wins was one of our goals,” second-year Buena head coach Johnny Bess said after the senior day win. “From two wins to 10 wins in just over a year shows we’re making some progress.”

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Internet provider offers buffer-free service in the boonies

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 12:01am

HP-AZ.net president Curt Vincent and Chief Enginerr Jeff Tyloer, left, perform maintenance work on one of their service towers in Hereford on Saturday. (Mark Levy • Herald/Review)

By Jacob Petersen

Herald/Review

“We did this for ourselves because we didn’t like the alternatives,” said Curt Vincent describing the idea behind HP-AZ.net, a company that provides Internet access that he and his friend Jeff Tyler created and now manage.

Offering high speed Internet described on their business flyer as “faster, cheaper, and more reliable than our competitors,” Vincent and Tyler are in the business of providing online access to the rural areas south of Sierra Vista; and they are good at it.

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Council hopefuls address the issues

Mon, 04/23/2012 - 12:10am

Adam Curtis

Herald/Review

When four candidates addressed a local Republican club on Friday night, one voiced a significantly different view from the other three on many key issues.

John George, Fredrick Stickler and Laura Bouchard all started their campaigns early in the election cycle, so many community members have likely heard their concerns regarding the city’s debt, which they assert is too high. Rachel Gray’s take on this, and several other issues, was different, as she voiced a desire to keep the city on a fiscally conservative path, which includes the use of “healthy debt.”

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Dialogues: The path to dystopia starts with reality TV

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:10am

Matt Hickman

The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review

Few, if any films in history, have been as derivative, cliché and unoriginal as “The Hunger Games.”

But it’s because of these creative defects that its message resonates so powerfully.

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Reader View: Why free enterprise is preferred

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 12:01am

To the Editor:

The economy of our nation now stands at a crossroads, and we will make a decision soon, whether we do it consciously or otherwise. This decision will be simple, but far-reaching. It has to do with the role of government in out economy. It all comes down to this: socialism or free enterprise. I do not agree with the “Time” magazine cover of three years ago announcing that “We’re all socialist now.” When I say that one, I didn’t know whether to regurgitate, wind my watch, or go back to bed.

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