A “proactive” effort in August to reduce teen loitering at Chandler Fashion Center seems to be working, according to Chandler police. Police issued approximately 130 citations to teens for curfew violations on three successive Fridays in August, causing an uproar among frustrated teens and some of their parents.

Bob Denver, long beloved as Gilligan, finally escaped this particular cosmic island earlier this month. Or, to use an image preferable to the regrettably smaller number who treasure Denver for his greatest creation, Dobie Gillis' beatnik pal Maynard G. Krebs, he's gone to watch them eternally tear down that Old Endicott Building In The Sky.

For over a decade, Gene Ganssle has worked in the Valley as an actor, perfecting dozens of voices and routines. It is only now that Ganssle has gotten a chance to really let loose his talents in his first one-man show, “And Away We Go.” The show, in which Ganssle portrays the legendary comic Jackie Gleason, is also his first time producing a stage show.