The closing of the city’s lone hospital was the talk of the town. It’s been nearly four months since the closing of Cochise Regional Hospital in Douglas, but some Douglas residents talk about it like it happened yesterday. “People were shocked and appalled,” said Tom Allen, owner of a local café in town. “Suddenly, they didn’t…
It was supposed to be a busy Labor Day weekend for the Tombstone Oil and Vinegar Co. The holidays always brought a surge of tourists into the old western town. But when the wall of a next door business collapsed, so did the oil company’s revenue for the weekend. “We were forced to close because…
The town is noticeably quieter, the streets more empty. Allen Street hasn’t felt the same since the shooting in the Helldorado festival. “Tombstone just hasn’t felt like Tombstone without gun skits in the streets,” said Councilman Armando Villa. In a gun reenactment skit held by the Tombstone Vigilantes, a nonprofit that holds outdoor gun skits…
There hasn’t been an easy day for Robert Devere since he’s taken over as the superintendent for Tombstone Unified School District. “He’s been working on how to make everything work with the state’s proposed budget cuts,” said TUSD’s Business Manager John Livingston. “That’s been his big project over the last couple of months.” In the…
