Low-level meth dealer nabbed in traffic stop
jon@gilavalleycentral.net GRAHAM COUNTY – An admitted meth dealer was sent to jail July 14 after being stopped for failing to initiate her turn signal in…
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Officer accidentally demolishes stolen custom bicycle
jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – Elation turned to disappointment in a matter of seconds for a victim of theft when he learned his custom bicycle had been…
VFW hosts blood drive to help curb summer blood shortage
brooke@gilavalleycentral.net THATCHER – During a crisis, who better to aid our country than the veterans of foreign wars? The American Red Cross visited Veterans of…
Police chase down man in stolen SUV
jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – Philosopher George Santayana A Safford man was returned to jail…
Man picked up for warrant after falling asleep at the wheel
jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – The idiom “asleep at the wheel” describes someone in authority who has neglected some aspect of his or her role. For a…
The Great Arizona Puppet Show Theater will perform at the Safford Library
brooke@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – The Safford-City Graham County Library’s summer reading program has scheduled an end-of-summer party. Having scraped together a large chunk of its funding, the event…
Drage sentenced to nine years of probation; will likely lose medical license
jon@gilavalleycentral.net SAFFORD – After prescribing opiates without the supervision of a doctor, former physician’s assistant Mick Gene Drage, 46, will be getting a different form…
Local Safford mom to hold back to school clothing exchange
brooke@gilavalleycentral.net Safford – Mary Whitmer Richardson, a mother of three and Safford resident, is holding a back-to-school clothing exchange this Saturday. This will be her…
The Daily LOL: The Arizona Department of Corrections rises to the running man challenge!
brooke@gilavalleycentral.net Florence – “The officers in this video are not actors and definitely not dancers.” That is the disclaimer at the beginning of the…
Truck bursts into flames on Mount Graham
jon@gilavalleycentral.net MOUNT GRAHAM – A Morenci couple avoided an even worse consequence after fortuitously coming upon a Graham County Sheriff’s deputy on Mount Graham just…
