Bracker, County Engineers to Discuss Permitting for South32’s Road at Patagonia Event
The County Supervisor, as well as County Manager Jesus Valdez and other staff, will hold an open house meeting Sept. 27 regarding the controversial Cross Creek Connector road being constructed by South32 just north of town.
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COMMUNITY
A Drink for Our Pollinating Bats
It’s that season again – when the migrant pollinator bats empty your hummingbird feeders at night. Here’s how you can support them.
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A ‘Desert Rat’ Takes Charge at Research Ranch
Meet Steve Prager, the new director of Audubon’s 8,000-acre ranch in Elgin.
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Step By Step
Trails around Patagonia have been given some love recently by several organizations, often aided by local residents.
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How Grapes Become Wine
Most larger wineries process their own wines, but for some, a custom crush facility like Elgin’s Deep Sky Vineyard makes economic sense. Here’s a look at Deep Sky’s winemaking process.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Kids’ Art on Display
This summer, participants at the PCAA’s Summer Art Camp learned how to make kites, work a sewing machine, and create ceramic bird bells — and they got to cool off in Sonoita Creek.
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Kiyo Taylor, Sky Island Silversmith
Trained as a teenager by a family of Navajo silversmiths, this Elgin artisan has built a loyal clientele from all over the world. Here’s how she did it.
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A poem by Lily Armenta
Lily Armenta wrote this prize-winning poem for the recent Sonoita Library poetry contest.
Read more…Recent Releases by Local Authors
Elizabeth Bernays and M. T. McGuire have new books out. Here’s what they’re about.
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COLUMNS
The Heat Is On
What does this summer’s unprecedented heat wave mean for our Sky Islands’ native flora and fauna?
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Bearanoia
Spending a great deal of time around the Rocky Mountains, my biggest fear is getting mauled, and perhaps eaten, by a grizzly bear.
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Project Walkway
Our columnist finds the ancient process of laying down stones to make a flat surface to walk upon to be a pleasantly contemplative one.
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Glimpses Into Our Past: The Elgin Oil Well
The “road to flowing wealth” was partly laid in an Elgin field, claimed Nogales Oil & Gas Company in 1922. What happened next?
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Discovering Truths
The next step in humanity’s fact-finding mission about how the universe formed, and how it will continue to evolve, is upon us.
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OPINION
Cone of Devastation
The magnitude of South32’s “dewatering” plan for its Hermosa Project is truly terrifying.
Read more…Better Late Than Never
Residents of Rio Rico have begun to experience the same frustration with Santa Cruz County’s Board of Supervisors that we in eastern SCC have been experiencing for years. These Rio Ricans aren’t standing for such treatment.
Read more…We Are All in This Together
It’s time for citizens across Santa Cruz County to organize and fight for their communities against the negative impacts of South32’s plans. Here’s what to do.
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How We Can Keep Our Communities Unique
Growth and change are a constant. But future growth does not have to destroy what we care about most.
Read more…What Has Happened to Recycling?
It is with considerable disappointment that lately I see little evidence of recycling activity in and around Patagonia.
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FROM THE PRT ARCHIVES…
The Vintage Duo
Organist Bernice Pomeroy, aged 95, and pianist Sonia Johnson, 82, have been playing together at Patagonia United Methodist since 2001 (with one six-year hiatus). They credit the congregation for keeping them happily at their instruments.
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In Memory of Windmill
In 2011, a crisp color photo at the Sonoita post office announced that a blue tick coon hound named Windmill was looking for a forever home. She had been found in the Bradshaw mountains by some hikers who had come across her. She was frightened, dehydrated, and had been bit in the face by a rattlesnake.
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Grayce Left Her Mark On the Town She Loved
The son of Grayce Noteboom Arnold—legendary founder of Grayce’s Gift and Candle Shop in Patagonia—recounts highlights from Grayce’s remarkable life.
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Residents Share Stories at Lochiel School
During two days in mid-June, the past met the future in the tiny border settlement of Lochiel in the San Rafael Valley south of Patagonia.
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Local Nature Sanctuary Offers Unique Experience
Vince Pinto and his wife, Claudia Campos-Pinto, have devoted the last eleven years to creating a unique wilderness experience for visitors to their 42-acre nature preserve near Lake Patagonia.
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SCHOOL NEWS
Showcasing Our Graduates — 2023
Photos of graduating classes from PUHS, Patagonia Elementary, Elgin School and Patagonia Montessori, plus the PUHS sports award winners.
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2023 PUHS Valedictorian Plans to “Start Fresh” in NYC
As Nick Dekhtyar prepares for his move to New York to study physics at Columbia, he thinks back on his experiences at Elgin School and PUHS.
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2023 PUHS Salutatorian Heading to the Midwest
Elizabeth (Lizzy) Urias reflects on her education and upbringing in Patagonia—and looks ahead to studying ultrasonography at Newman University in Kansas.
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Anne Stradling Equine Foundation Announces Scholarship Winners
The Foundation is awarding a total of $10,000 to four stellar youth to help further their education.
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