Pima Pedestrian Bridge open for business, and business is good
By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net PIMA – If you build it, they will come. Nearly every morning since the gates were left open last week, the…
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EAC’s Summer Session II starts next week
By Erin Larson THATCHER — Eastern Arizona College’s Summer Session II begins Monday, June 26, and there are still many course offerings to choose from,…
Frye Fire sweeping through creek drainages
Fire now roughly 800 acres with 14 percent containment By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net MOUNT GRAHAM – The Frye Fire has grown to roughly 800 acres…
Heroin addict steals from family, pawns items for cash
By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – In a scene that has come all too familiar in the Gila Valley, a Safford woman was taken to…
City of Safford falls victim in email wire transfer fraud
FBI leading investigation SAFFORD – Scammers not only go after grandmas and grandpas, some tangle with the big fish, including municipalities with budgets into the…
SPD arrests drug dealers with more than a pound of meth
Drug worth $40,000 on the street By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – A special detail of the Safford Police Department intercepted two drug dealers Monday…
Lunt retires from Pima
By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net PIMA – “I’d still be in Pima if it wasn’t for my wife.” – Dennis Lunt. After 25 years of service,…
Mount Graham closure effective Thursday at noon
By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral MOUNT GRAHAM – The top of Mount Graham from the point where the pavement ends just past Shannon Campground all the…
DPS nabs Pinal County kidnapping suspects with a little help from Gila Valley residents
By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net THATCHER – Three men wanted in Pinal County on kidnapping, assault and robbery charges were apprehended by Arizona Department of Public…
Hell hath no fury . . .
By Jon Johnson jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The proverb adapted from William Congreve’s 1697 play “The Mourning Bride”…
