Honoring Our Vets Retired Major General Moisio (left) and General Wess Chambers Some 450 people gathered at the Elgin School on November 7 to celebrate Veterans Day. School Superintendent Christopher Bonn served as host for the program, which the Fort Huachuca 62nd Army Band opened with a selection of patriotic music, followed by the Posting […]
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Sonoita & Elgin (Nov. 2014)
The Duke Comes to Sonoita Fred Moreno poses with John Wayne at the movie event in the star’s honor at Sonoita Fairgrounds. John Wayne fans of all ages gathered at the County Fairgrounds in Sonoita on Saturday, October 18, to view a documentary about John Wayne and a feature film starring the legendary film star. […]
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Sonoita Valley Water Customers Told to Cut Water Use by 50%
Sonoita Valley Water Company (SVWC), a privately owned business with 85 customers, issued a Stage 2 water restriction order in May, requiring a 50-percent reduction in water consumption. Service can be disconnected if a customer uses water on lawns, shrubs, or trees— even with drip or misting systems—or to wash vehicles or fill pools, spas […]
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The Price We Pay for What We Throw Away
The landfill’s new retaining wall allows for double the number of roll-off containers. Of the three landfills in Santa Cruz County, Sonoita’s is the most costly. Its balance sheet over the past few years indicates an annual average of $120,000 in operational expenses and $80,000 in revenue from recycling. Do the math. Sonoita’s landfill has […]
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Elgin Schools Aim High
The Arizona Department of Education recently released the results of the AIMS testing from last April and Elgin Elementary School once again scored a high B. AIMS stands for Arizona Instrument for Measurement of Students and is used to measure their proficiency in reading and math. Grades 4 and 8 also test in science, but […]
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Elgin K-2 Students Log In to Learn
Elgin School second graders at work on their IPads. Elgin Elementary School District Superintendent Christopher Bonn announced this week that every student at the school will now have access to computer technology. Students in grades K-2 will have an Ipad assigned to them as part of their classroom materials. All students in grades 3-8 will […]
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School Year Begins in Elgin
Christopher Bonn, School District superintendent and principalof Elgin Elementary School As the school year begins on August 4, Elgin Elementary School welcomes 118 students, two new teachers—math teacher Manuel Gatica and Angela Brown, who will teach the fourth grade—and a new principal. Christopher Bonn has a double assignment as superintendent of the Sonoita School District […]
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Memorial Service for Daniel Hershberger
More than 100 friends and associates crowded into the Elgin Club meeting hall on June 28 to pay their last respects to longtime resident Dennis Paul Hershberger. They came from all over Arizona, as well as from Las Vegas, Nevada, and from as far away as Maryland. Dennis was originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He married […]
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The Chuckwagon Is Open in Sonoita
The Chuckwagon’s owner, 12 Bobby Douglas Local resident Bobby Douglas, a former owner of restaurants and ice cream stores in Tucson, has recently opened the Sonoita Chuckwagon Grill and Ice Cream Parlor in Sonoita. He offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. His morning menu includes such […]
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Learning to Live With Killer Bees
Festus Kahn, exterminator with A.S.K. Pest Control In 1952, 26 Africanized bees escaped from Brazil and made their way north at a speed of one mile a day. In 1985 they hit California, and by 1994 they had arrived in Tucson. Within three years almost 90 percent of the honeybee population in Arizona was Africanized […]