Summer jobs, free Chromebooks, free COVID-19 vaccines, free youth transit-ride passes, chalk art and cultural performances, Chamber Business Excellence Awards finalists and a Girl Scout Gold Award -- it's all right here in this loaded installment of Tempe briefs.
Large groups of homeless cats are becoming common throughout Tempe, where Councilmember Lauren Kuby plans to propose spending $148,000 on an animal-welfare program.
Chandler full-time employees will get a one-time, $3,000 performance bonus after the city fared better fiscally than expected through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tempe joins Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff in keeping a mask mandate in place despite Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's March 25 Executive Order prohibiting mask mandates by local governments.
After a long year thwarted by the COVID-19 pandemic, live music is back as the 22nd annual Chandler Jazz Festival comes to downtown Chandler April 8-10 to open the celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month.
An estimated 5,000 books will be available for purchase at sharply discounted prices 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 10 at Tempe Public Library during the Friends of the Tempe Library’s annual sale.
