Residents save community from Bighorn Fire

By Emma Brocato / El Inde It was a summer day just like any other: Relentlessly hot in Tucson, but cool on top of Mount Lemmon. When ascending via the Catalina Highway, you’re able to watch the vegetation change along with the topography. The desert scrub gradually turns into pine forest, and the temperature gets…

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150 feet underground in the San Xavier Mine

By Sara Richards / El Inde “Would you like to set off the blast?” Nicholas Carouso, site manager and engineer of the San Xavier mine asks me with a large grin on his face, clearly humored by the confusion on mine. The San Xavier Mine, located 20 minutes from the University of Arizona, is nestled…

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Chesed Amitie: A true kindness

By David Benjamin Lex / El Inde The line to meet with the Rebbe was as long as ever. Any time Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson would open his doors in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY to receive visitors, hundreds of people from all over the world would gather. Many were neatly dressed head to toe in…

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For the love of a coach

By Brianna Hall / El Inde Four years after graduating high school, a former cheerleader from Sierra Vista, Arizona, discovered what went on behind the competitions, cheer practices, and game days in the life of her coach — and how she persevered despite the challenges she faced.

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