Golf course trail fees, development fees and computers for the library were some of the issues discussed at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.

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No real impact after write-in count
The final votes were counted yesterday in Bisbee in the mayoral race.

Douglas Police receive funds for Tasers
The Douglas Police Department received more than $16,000 for 20 non-lethal Tasers.

Corbett mistrial leaves activists dissatisfied
BISBEE — Representatives of some activist groups are not pleased with the outcome of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett’s murder trial.

Napolitano says federal government needs to offset border fence delay
 PHOENIX (AP) — The drawdown of National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border should be stopped or alternative border security improvements provided because of problems with a high-tech “virtual fence” project, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.

Volunteers sought to use high-tech border cameras over Internet
PALOMINAS — Glenn Spencer sat in front of a set of computer screens Wednesday morning in his office here and monitored activity along a nine-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Update: RICHARD STEVEN MENDIVIL
Thanks to the efforts of the Douglas community and the local newspaper Douglas Dispatch, Cochise County Adult Probation was able to have sex offender Richard Mendivil arrested on a warrant issued from Cochise County Superior Court.  The Community of Douglas went above and beyond to give the Adult Probation Department information on wanted probationer Richard Mendivil who was convicted of two counts for attempted molestation of a child under 14 years of age.  Mendivil failed to report to Adult Probation after serving a 8 year prison term for his conviction.  Flyers were posted throughout the Douglas community and also in the local newspaper The Douglas Dispatch.  Within hours of the postings Adult Probation received information on the whereabouts of Mendivil.  The information received led to the arrest of the defendant in California where he is in jail awaiting transfer back to Cochise County.

Charges considered in the case of Kansas woman who spent 2 years on boyfriend's toilet
WICHITA, Kan. (AP)  — Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

Cochise County Sheriff’s Office
The following are arrests made by the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office and other city agencies, including the Sierra Vista and Bisbee police departments, and some were booked into the Cochise County Jail.

Cochise College, community celebrate
10 years of creative writing March 28, 29
Writing is a form of expression. People write for different reasons, and authors often see the extraordinary in ordinary, everyday life and explore different worlds - or even known worlds - through eyes that are keen to observe and interpret.

Douglas teen remembered at candlelight vigil
More than 300 people gathered Sunday evening at Airport Park to honor the memory of Kassandra Machado, the 14-year-old girl who died in a car accident on Feb. 29.

Voting ends tonight at 7 p.m.
Voting for Mayor and concilmen ends today at 7 p.m.

U.S. Senator from North Dakota tries to halt truck traffic from Mexico
WASHINGTON — A senator wants Congress’ investigative arm to determine whether the Transportation Department has broken the law by spending federal money on a program allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads.

GOP still battling over English funds
TUCSON — The attorney for Republican legislative leaders told a federal judge Monday his clients can’t fund English learner programs before they start dealing with next year’s budget. Aaron Brown said the Legislature is trying to deal with a “significant budgetary challenge.’’ The state is at least $1.2 billion in the red for the balance of this year.

Judge gives state five days to find ‘English’ funding
PHOENIX — A federal judge agreed Tuesday to give lawmakers five more weeks to adopt funding for English learner programs — but with a penalty if they let that deadline slip.

County to pay $100,000 for well study
BISBEE — A study to determine water use by rural county residents will be under way July 1, thanks to a unanimous vote of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors during Tuesday’s meeting.

Arizona Legislative Update
 Capitol Media Services

Gomez win mayor's seat; Fernandez and Shelton elected
Former Councilman Dr. Michael Gomez became the city's first new mayor in more than a decade when he garnered 53 percent of the votes cast in the Tuesday, March 11 election.

House wants tax repealed
PHOENIX — The state House voted Tuesday to permanently repeal Arizona’s only statewide property tax even as legislators struggle to balance the budget.

Naco, Sonora police make large pot bust
NACO, Sonora — Police recently arrested two Mexican men who were trying to smuggle marijuana across the border from the Naco, Sonora, area into the United States.

Douglas loses second soldier to war in Iraq
A second Douglas solider has died in the Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Truck accident closes Highway 80
SIERRA VISTA — A commercial truck from Texas rolled Saturday east of Douglas, causing a section of Highway 80 to be closed for about seven hours.

Government Meetings
The following are upcoming local government meetings.

Meth epidemic addressed in documentary
SIERRA VISTA — Meth addiction has taken its toll on millions of Americans. It destroys whole families and cuts across lives at every level, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, sex or age.

Mayor-elect wants more community participation in city government
For several months Dr. Michael Gomez walked the streets and knocked on doors of the Douglas community each evening during his mayoral candidacy.

Border To Border Air show March 15
The biggest and best air show is scheduled for March 15 with lots of air stunts, games, food and music.

High School Seniors who don’t pass might still graduate
PHOENIX — High school seniors who can’t pass the AIMS tests may still be able to graduate. Without discussion, the House on Thursday gave preliminary approval to reinstating a program which allows high schoolers to augment their scores with good grades. Without HB 2008 the bonus points, which have existed for the last two years — since AIMS passage became a graduation requirement — will go away.

Founder of Cochise College Center for Economic Research dies
SIERRA VISTA — Ken Jones, the founder of Cochise College’s Center for Economic Research, died Wednesday. He was 50.

County gas prices still climbing
According to the Cochise College Center for Economic Research’s latest biweekly survey of gas prices, conducted during the week of March 10, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Cochise County increased to $3.25 from $3.11 over the two-week period. According to AAA Arizona, the statewide price rose from $3.05 to $3.19 per gallon. Nationally, according to the Energy Information Administration, gas prices increased from $3.13 to $3.23 during the two-week period.

Cochise County Sheriff’s Office
The following are arrests made by the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office and other city agencies, including the Sierra Vista and Bisbee police departments, and some were booked into the Cochise County Jail.

Border to Border Air show this weekend
The biggest and best air show is scheduled for this weekend at the Airport Park, east of Douglas, with lots of air stunts, games, food and music.

DECA recognizes outstanding school stores
The School-Based Enterprise (SBE) at Douglas High School was among the school stores that achieved Gold Level Certification this year and will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The students that worked on the Certification were President Leila Martinez and member, Octavio Cruz, with the assistance of their advisor Lourdes Mora. The school store at Douglas High School has operated an SBE for less than one year and is to be commended for this achievement.

Sheriff’s office offering scholarships to high school students
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Department is offering scholarships to students throughout the county.

Governor vetoes state hiring freeze law, calls it unnecessary
PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano on Friday rejected a legislative plan to freeze all new state and university hiring and promotions.

Manny Alvarez announces candidacy for State Senate District #25
Representative Manny Alvarez announces that he is running for the Arizona Senate, to continue his work on behalf of rural Arizona communities.

Rep. Giffords co-sponsors new workers status bill
WASHINGTON – U .S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords this week signed on as the first Democratic co-sponsor of legislation that will create a new, reliable way for employers to verify the eligibility status of new hires.

American Community Survey looks at Cochise County
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released results from its 2006 American Community Survey. This was the second year Cochise County was included in the survey, which provides annual updates to the census data collected every 10 years. Prior to 2005, only communities with a population of 250,000 or more were included. In 2005, this was changed to include populations of 65,000 or more.

St. David artist gave life's work to promote learning
Hundreds of art pieces to be displayed at the Cochise College Benson Center this fall will be sold to raise funds for college scholarships.

Chamber players perform Oct. 26
Full of old-world grace, charm and, occasionally, fury, the Daystar Chamber Players present a face-to-face, quadraphonic experience of two violins, a viola and a cello at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26 at the Sierra Vista Community United Church of Christ. The concert is brought to Sierra Vista by Cochise College Cultural Events.

Call to Artists . . .
Interested artists are invited to submit original artwork, completed within the last two years, for the 2008 La Frontera Tucson International Mariachi Conference poster. The conference is scheduled for April 21-26, 2008.

Cochise College Events
Saturday, October 20

Mesquite milling, pancake breakfast Sat.
Bisbee Farmers Market

Making a good case
for sausage
“Laws are like sausage. It’s best not to see them being made,” the Prussian/German statesman Otto von Bismarck is quoted as saying. But if you are a person of a certain age, you may indeed remember your parents or grandparents making sausage. There was the meat grinder, clamped to the kitchen table (or, later, as an attachment to the spiffy Sunbeam Mixmaster), and there was Grandma, hard at work grinding up the little bits and pieces of meat and fat and adding her secret blend of spices. Sausage-making seems like a throwback, like dipping candles or darning socks — certainly not something we would do today.

Drink to their health this spring
No one has to convince me that using coupons is an easy way to save big money. However, Procter & Gamble has a new way of encouraging consumers to use their coupons to help others. This month P&G kicked off their “Give PUR Water” program. They will donate one liter of clean, filtered water to people in Third World countries every time a shopper users a P&G coupon from the monthly Brandsaver circular in March and April.

Is Sustainable Food Production Possible in the Desert?
Sustainable food production in the desert is a concept I have wrestled with for the last seven years, ever since we began the Bisbee Farmers Market.  After visiting many ranches, farms and backyards where solar water pumps, solar powered electric fencing, windmills, rain water harvesting and organic methods are used,  I’ve concluded that it is not only possible but something to promote. To educate consumers and producers we created the non profit organization, Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture.  

Tradition Meets Innovation this Easter
Family Features

Nothing fishy here-Embrace your inner fish
Like "tree-huggers," we fish-huggers are concerned about the environment, specifically the impact of factory trawlers, bottom draggers, the problem of bycatch (e.g., dolphins caught in tuna nets) and industrialized aquaculture. We worry about the byproducts of bad fisheries management or farming, including mercury, antibiotics and colorants in fish. We want to save the fish so we can ... eat them. A little self-interest can, environmentally speaking, be a good thing.

Take rain checks when the shelves run dry
I recently shopped at my drugstore and was disappointed that the best bargains were out of stock. I had waited until the last day of the sale week, and other clever shoppers had cleared out the bargains.

Christian music scene evolves and changes
The first time Jay Swartzendruber held a compact disc, he wondered if music fans would miss the artwork, readable lyrics and other goodies that came inside old-fashioned album covers.

Students hear Holocaust survivor’s tale of terror
SIERRA VISTA — A Holocaust survivor issued a challenge to Buena High School teenagers Thursday.

Entertainment versus religious messages
The idea for the movie began with a vision of three fake pirates falling from the sky into the ocean, transported in a magical rowboat back to the 17th century.

Religion In The News
Students now required to observe moment of silence in Illinois

Final days here for candidates
Tuesday is the day.

‘Best days yet to come’-Dr. Michael Gomez
In the Friday, March 7, candidate issue, a response from Mayoral candidate, Dr. Michael Gomez was accidentally omitted and placed at the tail end of another candidate’s answers.

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