Tempe police and courts
employees have partnered with
Tempe schools and the Tempe
non-profit animal shelter Lost Our
Home to generate nearly 10,000
pounds of food for abandoned or
vulnerable animals.
Lost Our Home founder and
executive director Jodi Polanski...
By Sally Mesarosh
Mesa Community
College student
Amanda Fahy
believes there’s more to
a college education than
just academics.
This past semester
she took time from her
studies to volunteer at
Care Partnership, a nonprofit
that helps nearly
20,000 people every
year.
Fahy helped out
in the...
By Chase Kamp
As a new resident to the Bay
Area, it’s still a strange thrill to see the
Twitter headquarters on Market Street,
or to know that my Words with Friends
tiles are bouncing around inside...
By Hayley Gorman
One book can change the life of a child.
In Latin American countries there aren’t
nearly enough children’s books. McClintock
High School is helping promote literacy
in such countries by collecting money for
a non...
By Chelsea Martin
A new breath of life is generating renewed
enthusiasm for Tempe’s future, thanks to a
recently adopted general plan that creates a
planning roadmap through 2040.
Nancy Ryan, project management coordinator
for Tempe’s General Plan...
By Don Kirkland
Their successes may not always be Page One
fodder but what they accomplish for people in
need has made news for years.
They make up the roster of East Valley Women’s
League, whose 55...
By M.V. Moorhead
Earlier this month a sinkhole of rather Biblical
proportions opened in the floor of the National
Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., and
swallowed up eight cars.
Not to worry, though. The folks at...
Story by Sally Mesarosh
In 1993, volunteers from 26 Tempe
schools constructed the Lo Piano
Bosque Habitat, a 13-acre site
named after former Tempe Mayor
William LoPiano, a supporter of
environmental issues.
Located just north of the 202
freeway between...
