Due to the winter weather conditions, Show Low School District, Blue Ridge School District and Sequoia Schools are on a two hour delay. St. Anthony School and Mountain Christian School is on a one hour delay. Stay posted to WMIcentral.com for any additional delays or closures.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 3 a.m. MST Wednesday.

STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX - House Democratic Leader Pro Tem Jack Brown, D-St. Johns (District 5), will retire from the Arizona House of Representatives at the end of his 2010 term.

WHITERIVER-According to a source close to the investigation, The Independent Counsel appointed by the White Mountain Apache Tribal (WMAT) Council to investigate allegations of ballot-tampering in the Feb. 3 Council Primary Election is recommending immediate filing of criminal charges against four senior Tribal cabinet members.

SHOW LOW - V Mountain Construction, located at 5898 Webbville Road in Lakeside, was named in findings of violations of Arizona's antitrust laws by Arizona's Superior Court and was offered a consent judgement agreement in response.

PINETOP - The Blue Ridge Unified School District Governing Board held a meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m. during which Superintendent Greg Schalow said all areas of the storm-damaged middle and junior high schools are now able to be reoccupied, but not all have been as of yet.

SNOWFLAKE - One week before the consolidation election in Snowflake and Taylor, Snowflake Town Manager Paul Watson urged all registered voters to go to the polls.

SHOW LOW - The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life is making its way back to the community and is in need of volunteers and teams.

The City of Show Low is pleased to work with the Arizona Secretary of State's office to offer a free Notary Public workshop.

SHOW LOW - Summit Healthcare's fourth floor of their patient tower, the new Labor and Delivery Unit (LDU), opened in the summer of 2009 and has been well-received by patients.

LAKESIDE - Two candidates for the House of Representatives seat in Arizona's Congressional District 1 met at Red Door Consignment Feb. 23 for a job forum.

SHOW LOW - Local Boy Scout Troop and Cub Scout Pack 733 held an appreciation dinner Saturday night thanking supporters for donations and contributions over the last year.

The sad truth of life is that all too often people do not see danger until the wolf is howling at the door.

White Mountain Rotary Club honored Courtney Glenny from Show Low High School and Charmaine Dela Gente from Blue Ridge High School as students of the month for February.

VFW Post 9907 All-American Commander Jim Campbell accepts an Appreciation Award from members of local Boy Scout Troop 733 and Cub Scout Pack 733 during a community appreciation dinner at the VFW Post at 381 N. Central Ave. in Show Low.

Mexico's independence from Spain was finalized in the Treaty of Cordoba on Aug. 24, 1821. Mexicans do not celebrate their independence on that day, however. They celebrate the day the War of Independence began, Sept. 16, 1810.

SHOW LOW - Dr. Steven Mehta has spent the last week or so touring District 1 in his bid for Ann Kirkpatrick's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and will continue his tour this week, focusing on the southern part of the district.

SHOW LOW - Frontier Communications has fulfilled a vital need for the Senior Center by contributing an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Blue Ridge Intermediate students have answered the challenge to complete three hours of community service during first semester. The service could be local or global.

Blue Ridge High School finished fourth in the Region I Academic Decathlon Feb. 5-6 in Pinetop-Lakeside. There were 16 teams. The state competition will be held at Sandra Day O'Connor High School March 12-13.

Pinetop-Lakeside Mayor and Blue Ridge High School Assistant Principal Luke Smith is a busy man. His hero is Abraham Lincoln and some days it must seem like the Civil War has broken out all over again.

PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer today praised the efforts of the Arizona Department of Transportation and its local government partners for their dedication in getting more than $520 million in federal stimulus dollars obligated in time to move all transportation projects forward.

Blue Ridge culinary arts students took first and second place by preparing their assigned menu items of confetti pasta and lemon tarts at the FCCLA Regional Competition held Feb. 9 in St. Johns in a timely and attractive presentation.

Pinetop-Lakeside was recognized by the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree City USA community for its commitment to urban forestry.

EAGAR - State Farm, in partnership with SkillsUSA, has awarded Round Valley High School $10,000 for its Round Valley SkillsUSA Powers Education project.

The Little Colorado Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, March 22, at the Casa Malpais Museum, 418 E. Main in Springerville.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick wants to see overall government spending reduced and she wants Congress to set the example.

SNOWFLAKE - Even though snow lingers in the high country, the signs of spring are everywhere: birds are singing and building nests.

SNOWFLAKE/TAYLOR - Officers with the Snowflake/Taylor Police Department responded to three accidents in the evening of Monday, Feb. 22, that were at least partially related to weather conditions, Chief Jerry VanWinkle stated.

STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX - Determined to protect Arizona business and industry from burdensome and unnecessary federal regulations, State Senator Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, is sponsoring legislation (SCR1050) declaring that the Arizona State Legislature has the sole authority to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other emissions.

The Northland Pioneer College Small Business Development Center (NPC-SBDC) provides service to local small businesses as part of a national program co-funded by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), which has served Navajo and Apache counties in northeast Arizona since 1989.

Starting this summer, Northland Pioneer College students will be able to purchase discounted new or used textbooks, electronic textbooks or rent their texts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

PRESCOTT - Rusty Bowers, a conservative republican running in Arizona's First Congressional District, signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

NAVAJO COUNTY - Residents of Navajo County are already receiving their 2010 census forms in the mail.

Students from St. Johns Middle School, Concho, Alpine, Vernon, Round Valley and McNary participated in the Apache County Spelling Bee Wednesday, Feb. 17, hosted by St. Johns Unified School District.

The 2011 Notice of Valuations were mailed out Monday, March 1, to all Apache County property owners.

The Apache County Board of Supervisors approved a conditional use permit request from Pacific Southwest Wind Farm for up to 12 meteorological towers to be erected.

The Apache County Board of Supervisors (BOS) extended the emergency declaration for a third time at the regular meeting on March 2.

After the March 2 Apache County Board of Supervisors meeting, the board held a work session with department managers on the estimated county impacts of current budget.