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An appetite for art: Diners will feed on restaurants’ generosity

By Joyce Coronel Chandler has come up with a delicious way to support the arts, local businesses and youth programming all at the same time. “Eat Your Art Out Chandler” involves 11 local...

Tempe series offers aspiring writers a voice

The next J.K. Rowling or Stephen King could be discovered at the Tempe Public Library. In fact, the library could be their first publisher. Tempe Public Library and Arizona State University have...

Discovering their super powers

On a recent Saturday, the downstairs of the Tempe Public Library looked like it was packed not only with readers but with characters from the shelves. Superheroes, aliens, sword-wielding warriors and zombie...

Surprise kudos honor Tempe officer for his career keeping school campuses safe

Connolly Middle School’s campus resource officer got a standing ovation at a recent school assembly—a welldeserved round of applause, as it turned out. Officer Larry Baggs was selected as the Law Related...

Apartment fears not based on current zoning map for Corona/So. Tempe Character Area, notes planner

Editor’s note: Nancy Ryan, project management coordinator overseeing the development of Tempe’s Character Area Plan, has issued a response to residents opposing what they feared could be the possibility of apartments being...

From Arizona to Greenland and back Prospectors’ rewards weighed in more than gold

By M.V. Moorhead There’s all this gold lying around out there; you just have to go pick it up. It’s that easy.” Josh Feldman is being a bit facetious, of course. Getting gold...

South Tempe prof uses $1 million grant to dig deep into Earth’s history

Among the nation’s premier biogeochemistry scientists, including the many to whom recognition would propel vital future research, only a handful ever make the grade. In recent weeks, south Tempe resident and ASU...

Christmas trees help preserve memories of seasons past

Each ornament and light on the two Christmas trees that will mark the holiday season at Tempe History Museum, 805 E. Southern Ave., this month will not only represent a story in someone’s life—it will help preserve the...
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