The PRT Newsletter for the Week of February 26, 2025

A Pipeline Swallowtail enjoying a warm day recently in Sonoita. “She hung out all day on my new Hyacinths,” said Elizabeth, a local resident. “It was the first butterfly I had seen this year.”

In this week’s newsletter:

  • Hermosa Project Community Protection and Benefit Agreement signatories report progress in new press release, schedule Mar. 17 community listening session at Patagonia High School
  • PARA hires new Mission Coordinator
  • Food truck ordinance, affordable housing, April foot race on agenda for tonight’s Patagonia Town Council meeting
  • Barkleyanthus and butterflies: a short video shot along Sonoita Creek by local naturalist Vince Pinto
  • Seven planets line up in the sky this Friday after sunset — here’s how to see them
  • Who’s been out in February: a highlight reel of local critters caught on camera, via Sky Island Alliance’s ‘FotoFauna’ network of volunteers
  • From the archives: a Feb. 2016 article on Old Main beginning its new life as the Patagonia Museum

Plus: School news, job listings, and information on upcoming arts events, fundraisers, workshops, farmers markets, public meetings, church services and much more

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