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Approved Budget Means 2 School Employees Will Lose Their Jobs

Approved Budget Means 2 School Employees Will Lose Their Jobs

The Bisbee School Board has approved a budget balancing plan that names the two employees who will lose their jobs.

According to the Sierra Vista Herald, the board approved a proposal that would eliminate the Dean of Students and Athletic Director positions.

Those jobs are currently held by Mike Bunnell and Beverly Gonzalez, respectively.

Willcox Girl with Disabilities Receives International Award

Eighteen-year-old Carlie Crockett was one of only 27 students in the United States and Canada to receive a 2011 Yes I Can! Award from the Council for Exceptional Children.

Each year, CEC honors students with disabilities who have excelled. Carlie  was honored in the athletics category. She received her award last month at a special ceremony in Willcox, Ariz.

Awards are given in nine categories:

  • Academics
  • Arts
  • Athletics

SV & Benson firefighters feeling stress of wildland fire season

With Arizona's wildfire season off to an active start, some fire departments are feeling the heat.

While many are volunteering their time and equipment, it's taking a toll on smaller departments, while stressing larger ones, who have to respond to dozens of mutual aid calls for help.

The gusty winds, and bone dry conditions have sparked dozens of wildfires in Southern Arizona, keeping local firefighters on the run.

The Fry Fire Department has already responded to about eight mutual aid calls for help in the last month.

Now, Chief Bill Miller says he has to be more selective over which fires they can send aid to, as they worry about keeping residents in their own district safe.

"We're concerned about stripping our own resources and sending

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Arizona looks for donations, inmate labor to build border fence

Arizona looks for donations, inmate labor to build border fence

(AP) - Gov. Jan Brewer recently signed a bill that sets the state on a course that begins with launching a website to raise money for the work, said state Sen. Steve Smith, the bill's sponsor.

"We're going to build this site as fast as we can, and promote it, and market the heck out of it," said Smith, a first-term Republican senator from Maricopa.

Arizona — strapped for cash and mired in a budget crisis — is already using public donations to pay for its legal defense of the SB1070 illegal immigration law.

Part of the marketing pitch for donations could include providing certificates declaring that individual contributors "helped build the Arizona wall," Smith said. "I think it's going to be a really, really neat thing."

Guard Troops to Stay Along the Border

Guard Troops to Stay Along the Border

National Guard troops will be staying longer to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Obama administration deployed about 1,200 troops to secure the southwest border last year.

More than 500 of the soldiers are in Arizona. The rest are in California, Texas and New Mexico.

Bisbee Fiber Arts Festival on Friday

The 19th annual Bisbee Fiber Arts Festival will be held at Vista Park in the Warren neighborhood of Bisbee in conjunction with the Bisbee Farmers Market from 8am to 1pm on May 14th.

The Festival will feature local fiber artists demonstrating spinning, weaving, felting and dyeing a variety of fibers. As in past years, there will be petting lambs, sheep shearing, alpaca and angora rabbits.

Learn about fiber raised in the area by local ranchers.

There will be lots of hands-on activities will be offered including Learn to Knit, Weave on a Loom and Felting Beads.