Brooke Goldstein El Independiente As the cinnamon-enhanced butternut squash caramelizes in the pan, instructor Jenna Hollander demonstrates proper sautéing techniques to the class. Men and women of all ages sit and watch as she carefully demonstrates each step of the recipe. But the class does not yet fully understand. They need to try it for…
By C.J. D’Innocente El Independiente Pedaling under the hot Tucson sun, Karen Greene glances at the passing street signs as she bikes toward her destination. Today she is making her monthly visit to the Armory Park Senior Center. Greene works for the Pima County Public Library and while she is usually found at the Joel…
By KYLE KOCHEVAR Arizona Sonora News We’ve had a lot of “creepy clown” news since the end of summer. In a craze spreading through the country, pranksters and hooligans wearing leering white-face clown costumes were popping out of the woods to scare school children and created a wave of social-media hysteria that wasn’t the…
BY ALEXIS WRIGHT Arizona Sonora News Chug, chug, chug, chug. Whoosh. You can hear a rumbling beast in the distance. Children enjoying warm a Saturday afternoon run to catch a glimpse of it as it speeds by. Screech. Choo Choo! The train roars down the tracks, coming to a shrieking halt in front of sightseers…
By SYDNEY RICHARDSON Arizona Sonora News A cowboy, at least as the stereotype suggests, is a young, muscular man, riding a horse into the sunset. But at the Santa Lucia Ranch, 55 miles south of Tucson and 40 miles from the U.S-Mexico border, the cowboys are all above 60 years old out on the range…
