The 9am meeting is open for public discussion and comments, and may also be attended via Zoom. Here are the details.
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Annual Audit Features in Lengthy Agenda for Town Council’s Dec. 17 Meeting
Patagonia’s Town Council will also hear an overview of the Feb. 2026 Daydreamer footrace event and discuss joining a lawsuit involving Barksdale’s exploratory mine drilling permits in Humboldt Canyon.
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County Sees Wins in Ongoing Gutfahr-Related Lawsuit Against State, AZ Auditor General
The Board of Supervisors said they would continue to seek in court “accountability for the systemic failures that allowed a decade of theft to go undetected despite the Auditor General’s yearly audits of the County finances.”
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Elgin Couple Opens New Feed Store in SonoitaÂ
Livestock, pet and horse owners have a new local option for all their feed and supplies, thanks to Tanner and Autumn Lyman, owners of the new Sonoita Feeds store.
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Activist Dora Rodriguez Speaks at Library
The humanitarian leader’s talk centered on her new memoir, which recounts fleeing El Salvador’s civil war for safety in the U.S. in 1980, including the harrowing desert crossing that nearly took her life.
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LNP Opens New Medical Office in Sonoita
Sonoita resident Helene Heneger, ANP-BC, a self-styled “Christian-based practitioner,” is now accepting patients at Patriot Internal Medicine.
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Town Council Meeting Notes – Dec. 2025
News from the Nov. 19, 2025 public meeting of the Patagonia Town Council.
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[Press release] UA, South32 Launch ‘Community Health Impact Assessment’
“A 12-month Health Impact Assessment will be initiated before mining operations to help protect community health throughout South32 Hermosa’s full lifecycle,” said a joint Dec. 2 press release.
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An Espresso Bar Is Born
Patagonia Bikes owner Noe Mencias has opened his shop’s side door on Third Avenue in Patagonia as an espresso mini-cafe called Visitors Coffee.
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Rep. Grijalva, Tribal Elders, Activists Rally Against New Border Wall
Roughly 130 people, including the newly sworn-in congresswoman and Pima County Supervisor Jennifer Allen, participated in last Saturday’s ‘Rally for the Valley’ near the border wall construction site in the San Rafael Valley. Here’s a report, with an extended slideshow.