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…
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News On July 20, 1969, 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and say, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Little did NASA scientists realize at the time, but their historical feat had just inspired a new generation of scientists. Those…
El Independiente reporter Emily Ellis began investigating this story over the summer while studying Mayan K’iche in Nahuala, Guatemala. She continued interviewing Mayan migrants in Tucson after returning to Arizona. BY EMILY ELLIS Arizona Sonora News Every Sunday the residents of Nahuala, Guatemala, walk quietly through the pale dawn mist to the white church that…
