By DANYELLE KHMARA Arizona Sonora News A year ago, Adrianne Cooper opened Cooper’s Credit Repair Nerds out of her home in Hereford, a small town in rural Cochise County, less than a half-hour drive from the Mexican border. Within nine months, her business – helping people budget their finances and fix credit issues — moved…
By NICHOLAS A. JOHNSON Arizona Sonora News Back in 2013, the Bashful Bandit, a bar on Speedway Boulevard popular with motorcyclists, was chosen to be featured on a new national cable TV program called “American Roadhouse.” The producers’ idea was to take their cameras into “dive bars” around the country, and give each of them a remodeling…
By GENESIS LARA Arizona Sonora News Desert Survivors looks like any other nursery in Tucson – a section with potted plants and cactuses for sale out front, greenhouses filled with trees and flowering bushes out back. But there is more to Desert Survivors than that. Founded in 1981, Desert Survivors is a non-profit organization where…
Arizona Sonora News Like most Americans with an interest in Old West history, you probably think you know the basic story of the Gunfight at O.K. Corral that made Tombstone famous in the late 19th century, and continues to be the centerpiece of Tombstone’s attraction for visitors today. But like many fables, there are various ways…
By CHASTITY LASKEY CASCABEL, Arizona –Wikipedia dismisses this tiny village in the desert behind the Rincon Mountains east of Tucson as “a ghost town in Cochise County. ” It is an outpost in the middle of nowhere, framed by rugged cliffs, 70 miles from Tucson. It’s the last place you would expect to encounter 796 splendidly…
