Lack of pay for Arizona teachers problematic
A decrease of teachers and shortage of money will have an impact in Cochise County as retention rates continue to plummet in the state.
A border wall could dry up profits for two border town bars
In two quirky border town bars 160 miles apart, the concerns are the same. Will Donald Trump building a wall on the Mexican border hurt their towns? First in Sasabe… “Cinco pesos?” says Deborah Grider, as she rings up customers in her general store, which lies less than a mile from the Mexican port of…
Remnants of Benson Highway still standing
Dusty roads, flickering motel neon lights and old cafes fill the empty region that used to be an attraction to visitors all over the country – old Benson Highway. Connecting the country from the Pacific in San Diego to the Atlantic in Tybee Island, Georgia, U.S. Route 80 was one of the early transcontinental highways…
Risk takers taste their luck in Tombstone
John Marshall and Laure Johnston are hoping their new businesses are lucky in the town too tough to die. The odds of their success could be small ,according to experts, but this is a risk worth taking in order for their dreams to become reality. Marshall and Johnston are striving for the ventures not to…
Cascabel rejects development
CASCABEL — A proposed residential community would mean big business for Benson but the people living north along the San Pedro River in Cascabelwant none of it. The Villages at Vigneto, sited just south of Benson, would potentially boost the population of the small town of 5,000 people to over 70,000 in the space of…