Sahuarita: A young person’s playground?

Who would have thought that Sahuarita would become more than a sleepy bedroom community?  Sahuarita was incorporated as a town in 1994 with about 2,000 residents. Twenty-four years later, it boasts 30,000 residents, making it one of the largest communities southeast of Tucson. Sahuarita saw a 600 percent increase in population between 2000 and 2010….

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The big hole of Bisbee

Left with a hole, what’s a town to do? Bisbee – with its tunnel, red rock, hippies, stairs, the Copper Queen Hotel, motorcycle geeks singing Fleetwood Mac, slag, the coffee roaster with dreadlocks – is here because of a mile-wide hole on the town’s edge. The city built quickly around a hill that mining tore open. Now…

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