The first-year teacher’s fifth-grade classroom is alive with color and student projects. “I completely fell in love with the kids and curriculum,” Carrasco says. “They are just getting smarter and the teaching is so rewarding.”
Sondra Porter
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A Moving El Dia de Los Muertos at the Patagonia Community Garden
As people moved through the gazebo, individuals who had placed photographs of departed loved ones on the ofrenda (altar) explained who was being remembered. “That is my mother. Look at her smile.” “These are my two sons who died within a year of each other.” “This was my father, a veteran of the Korean War.”
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Community Preps Summer Lunch Program for Kids
Local community organizations and volunteers in Patagonia are banding together to offer free lunches to local kids starting June 9.
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Art Center Gala Honors Patagonia’s Artists
The April 5 Patagonia Creative Arts Association event celebrated the work of dozens of local artists over the last 25 years.
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From Audubon, a Plan to Help Ranchers Help Grasslands Birds
At a recent gathering, Audubon Southwest Executive Director Jonathan Hayes outlined how local residents and ranchers can support grasslands birds, whose numbers are in decline.
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Attention Little Leaguers: Play Ball!
The Santa Cruz Little League officially kicked off its 2025 season Saturday at the Sonoita Fairgrounds with opening ceremonies, team pictures, a couple of home runs, and—you guessed it—hotdogs.
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Council Approves Rate Increases
Patagonia’s town council voted unanimously on Mar. 12 to raise water and sewer rates 17%, with four more increases scheduled through 2030. No one from the public spoke for or against the increase.