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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Annual race for victim aid cash underway

Advocates for victims of crime not only have to fight for the safety and empowerment of their beneficiaries, they also have to fight each other. A competitive selection process began on Feb. 1 to determine which Arizona programs would receive money from the Crime Victim Assistance fund. Public and tribal agencies as well as private, non-profit organizations…

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