Editor’s note: New Herald/Review columnist John Chapman will share his expertise and knowledge for growing fresh, high-density, high-production veggies, fruits, nuts, berries, and raising chickens for eggs and meat on urban lots.
Editor’s note: New Herald/Review columnist John Chapman will share his expertise and knowledge for growing fresh, high-density, high-production veggies, fruits, nuts, berries, and raising chickens for eggs and meat on urban lots.
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One of Sierra Vista’s former residents recently earned a special title. Laura Diekema participated in her first beauty pageant and was crowned the United States of America’s Ms. Nevada (USOA Ms. Nevada) on Nov. 7.
SIERRA VISTA — The Sierra Vista Unified School District board addressed salary increases for employees, new scoreboards for Buena High School and approving the assembly of a committee to address the staff dress code.
When asked what a typical day might look like on the ranch, fourth-generation Cochise County rancher Fred Houston Davis somewhat incredulously replies, “We’ve been asked that a lot over the years from different media sources.”
Courts and Crime
- Man charged with sexual exploitation of minor to be sentenced
- Drivers carrying migrants endangering Cochise County, law enforcement says
- Woman accused of manslaughter released from monitoring after GPS issues
- Couple accused of leaving 11-year-old son home alone plead not guilty
- Migrants continue illegal flow into U.S.; Cochise County a hub, sheriff says
- Judge denies request to transfer accused child molester's case to juvenile court
- Trial date set in case of former BP agent accused of killing stepson in crash
- 3 more males come forward in sex abuse case against Tombstone man
- Accused serial rapist's lawyer wants prosecution's DNA information
- Parents arrested for leaving 11-year-old boy alone for weeks, Sheriff's Office says
- DNA is at center of case against retired BP agent accused of serial rapes
- Prospective jurors to get questionnaires in sex abuse civil lawsuit
- Lawyer requests jail release for teen accused of murder
- Child murder suspect acts up in court — again
- Sheriff's Office arrests Bisbee teen in fatal stabbing at Juniper Flats
- Former judicial candidate facing perjury charge seeks change of venue
- Cochise County Sheriff's deputy cleared in shooting
- AZ Supreme Court to review Corporation Commission 'dark money' case
- Teen accused of child abuse seeks transfer to juvenile court
- Mother of slain toddler arraigned in child abuse case
At this time of year, we all like to look back at the times of our childhood. We reminisce about all those “Christmas past” times that we remember from our youth. Somehow, winters always seem to have been colder, the snow deeper, the Christmas trees larger, the stack of presents bigger (or i…
Students from the Sierra Vista Unified School District spread some holiday joy during performances Dec. 14 at the Klein Center for the Performing Arts. The choirs from Buena High School and Joyce Clark Middle School sang and presented skits for an appreciative audience.
SIERRA VISTA — The Buena High School Band is back in full swing, rocking its way to perform at the 50th anniversary of the Fiesta Bowl parade this Saturday in Phoenix.
A comet’s brightness is quite difficult to predict, but all indications are that Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will reach naked eye brightness by the time you read this.
So there was this Big Bang. And sometime after that, humans appeared on this Big Blue Marble, also known as Earth, left to fend for themselves.
With Schieffelin’s early discoveries proving viable, a milling operation now had to be constructed to turn raw silver ore into the currency of silver bullion. Gird would choose the San Pedro River as the location for his mill, and the Corbin Mill would soon follow.
The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, or SPRNCA, is a great place to ride your horse. The Old West history of the area adds to the experience. You can follow in the hoof prints of the Earps and Clantons, Jeff Milton, Cochise, Geronimo and all the other famous people who once roa…
COCHISE COUNTY — After 25 years of devoted service toward maintaining the history and livelihood of the Carr House in Carr Canyon, the Friends of the Huachuca Mountains will be honoring founders Rosemary Snapp and her late husband, Ralph, during the members meeting Nov. 6.
Have you ever wanted everything “just right” before you get started? Did you start over countless times because your project needed “something” else? If so, you may be suffering from a prevalent mindset permeating every fabric of modern society: it’s called perfectionism.
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” had a memorable line of dialogue. John Ford’s classic summed up much of Western distortion in two sentences. Ford, who knew an aged Wyatt Earp, had the old gun fighter in mind with his end-of-movie revelation.
SIERRA VISTA — Local staircrafter Clyde Martin, owner of Top Tread Stairways, was recently honored for his work — his 33-foot slide and staircase won the “People’s Choice Award” and “Best Curved Stair Traditional” at the 2021 Staircraft Awards in Denver.
BISBEE — Although the artists of the Subway Gallery do not feel the times are safe enough to resurrect our gala opening night parties of food, drink and merriment — parties that made the Subway a favorite on the Art Walk in the days before the Covid pandemic — we have officially reopened. Th…
COCHISE COUNTY — Cochise College received an enthusiastic response from the hundreds that attended the 15th annual Pit Fire event Oct. 1. The event was canceled last year due to the pandemic.
This is a busy weekend for Dan Stearns of Hereford. Behind four tables at booth 52, Stearns is showing his beautiful lustrous wares.
There was a saying back when people cared about each other even if they were not related: “Good fences make good neighbors.”
HEREFORD — Theresa Warrell did not grow up on a ranch. But the rough and tumble ranching lifestyle with the days long and dusty and where nothing is typical except the unexpected is definitely in her blood.
Let me begin with an anecdotal omission of potential bias. I am a heavily-tattooed professional who wore long sleeve button-ups and full-length pants to work for many years to hide my tattoos.
“There is a school bus in my back pasture,” the lady of the manor exclaimed, grabbing her binoculars.
WILLCOX — Sonny Shores Jr. has run the Willcox Livestock Auction since 1995 when he, his wife and two business partners bought the auction from his dad, Sonny Shores Sr.
The world is in such a rush. We want everything instantly. Consequently, laziness and the desire for convenience created a population of sloths.
SIERRA VISTA — “The most beautiful place in the world is right there, where you are.”
Here we are, in the belly of summer. Time to make the most of the season’s bountiful produce before it’s gone!
Our lives are too predictable and somewhat mindless.
WILLCOX — Mary Peterson, a Willcox native and president of the Willcox Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, has a rather interesting hobby, the kind of hobby that any fan of the History Channel might equate to the two gentlemen of “American Pickers” fame.