Subject: Apache Junction

• Chill sweetens up Tempe

  March 4, 2008

• THE RED RIVER'S MAIDEN VOYAGETEMPE'S VERSION OF HEE HAW LIVES AT NEW OPRY HOUSE

  January 27, 1993

• THE HEMP IRE STRIKES BACK

  CANNABIS CLOTHIER, ACCUSED OF MARIJUANA SMUGGLING, IS ON THE LAM

  June 9, 1993

• DEAF AND TAXES

  NOBODY WANTED TO HEAR HOW THE RUN-DOWN ART COLONY WAS VALUED AT $10.5 MILLION

  June 16, 1993

• A FATAL CAE OF GOLD FEVER

  FRED SCHRADER WOULDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER IF HIS LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. UNFORTUNATELY IT DID.

  July 21, 1993

• GIVE 'EM HAIL, HURRY!

  FOR THE ARIZONA THUNDERSTORM CHASERS, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. AND THEREIN LIES THE RUB.

  August 31, 1995

• Say, What?

  May 23, 1996

• Letters

  October 31, 1996

• Dogie Bag

  January 23, 1997

• Impersonation Nation

  The Blues Brothers, Marilyn, The Killer, Ol' Blue Eyes, Der Bingle and The King himself! The "Legendary Superstars" revue takes a Las Vegas formula to Apache Junction and audiences are, well, doubled over.

  February 13, 1997

• Trashman

  Where unit-moving heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless sissies they really are

  February 27, 1997

• Carr Wrecks

  Richard Carr, president of a firm that wants to build the $350 million South Mountain Toll Road, has extensive experience in "public-private partnerships." Unfortunately, most of those experiences have been bad.

  April 10, 1997

• Second Helpings

  April 10, 1997

• Toll Road Kill?

  Contract for South Mountain tollway may depend on company's dumping of its president

  June 5, 1997

• The Trashman

  Where unit-shifting heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless poseurs they really are

  June 19, 1997

• Flashes

  July 10, 1997

• Letters

  From the week of May 27, 1999

  May 27, 1999

• Ambulance Chasteners

  Valley suburbs fight to bring slow emergency vehicle services up to speed

  July 15, 1999

• Best Day Hike to Help You Forget Phoenix

  Peralta Trailhead, seven miles north of Gold Canyon

  September 21, 2000

• Best Genuine Desert Golf Course

  The Snake Hole Golf and Country Club
  Near U.S. 60 and Idaho Road in Apache Junction
  480-982-1537

  September 21, 2000

• Letters

  Week of October 12th

  October 12, 2000

• You like us, you really like us

  A week in which we bask in the all-too-temporary glow of readers' compliments

  January 24, 2002

• Best Fall Family Day Trip

  Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park

  September 26, 2002

• BEST PLACE TO EAT AT THE BAR

  Superstition Saloon

  September 30, 2004

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 17, 2005

  November 17, 2005

• St. Patrick's Day Guide

  March 13, 2008

• Fear of a Black Prez and Crazy White Folks with Guns

  Why worry? As The Turner Diaries reveals, ofays and guns go together like grits and runny eggs. What the hell is wrong with white people? Numerous media reports of late have detailed a run on gun stores by crazed crackers who believe the new black President-elect will take their firearms away shortly after he's sworn in. In a piece for the Republic this week that echoed similar stories by the national press, an Apache Junction gun store owner said of the boom, "the day after the election, it w

  November 20, 2008

• Summer Guide: Checking Out the Library

  June 4, 2009

• A Fistful of Hollers

  June 5, 2008

• J.C. Loves Rodeo. Amen.

  March 13, 2008

• St. Patrick's Day Guide

  March 6, 2008

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 23, 2007

  August 23, 2007

• Patriot Games

  The grass has got to be greener someplace else

  October 18, 2007

• Hump Day

  Down home fun at Greyhound Park

  October 11, 2007

• The Earps

  Here Come The Earps
  (Big Bender Records)

  July 12, 2007

• Robin's Hood

  June 21, 2007

• Indian Takers

  A war for custody of 4-year-old Raven Laws includes a spurious Alabama tribe

  March 22, 2007

• Hell's Belle

  Satan's Angel has taken her flaming tassels out of retirement, to the delight of a new generation of burlesque fans

  September 28, 2006

• Hot Links: Solar Power, Polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs, and Arby's Assaults

  Phoenix may get its first solar power plant, if the city can procure about $1 billion in private investments. The proposed site for the plant is 1200 acres at the Valley's only active landfill, between Buckeye and Gila Bend...A Phoenix couple came home to find a body in their kitchen, and the murder suspect ordered them to bury the corpse. The suspect, Steven Barger, was a room mate of the couple, and was arrested after police caught the couple in the process of burying the body...The state of T

  April 15, 2009

• Heaven's Angels

  Choppers run for charity

  August 18, 2005

• Beer Run

  Hashers get exercise, too!

  January 13, 2005

• Gay Old Time

  Vern Johnson's rest home for homos is good news for the gay and gray

  December 4, 2003

• Apocalypse How?

  Jerry Brady predicts that al-Qaida will be coming to a power line near you

  June 20, 2002

• Harassment Supreme?

  Angry ex-employees say there's more than dinner cooking at the Pizza Hut of Apache Junction

  August 2, 2001

• Bar 'n' Gill

  Two-step your way to Superstition Skies in Apache Junction

  October 12, 2000

• Night & Day

  December 17 - 23, 1998

  December 17, 1998

• Grazing in the Grass

  September 11, 1997

• Phoenix Public Library Issues "Top Five Reasons" to Get Card

  ​ Are you broke, unemployed or just looking for cheap intellectual thrills? The Phoenix Public Library system is the perfect antidote to the bad economy. Even if you live in east Mesa or Fountain Hills, you can still get a Phoenix library card. (Sorry Apache Junction -- you have to be a Maricopa County resident). In the spirit of the Holy Grail of "free," we pass along these "Top Five Reasons to Get a Phoenix Public Library Card," which some librarian slaved over to entice you to join in

  August 28, 2009

• Page the Village Idiot Is Anything But

  October 1, 2009

• Hot Links: Standoffs, Ripoffs, and Blackouts

  ​A Yuma man is in custody after an almost nine-hour standoff with police. Michael McCormick was wanted in connection with several vehicle thefts and burglaries. When police tracked him to a motel, he fled and broke into a trailer home, where the standoff ensued. He eventually surrendered and was taken into custody about 4 p.m...A Tempe woman is accused of stealing more than $1 million from her employer over the course of eight years. Lorena Laverne Fortuna worked as a Human Resources Manager f

  October 7, 2009