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After conducting multiple classes for students about how to apply for scholarships along with a simplified online process for submitting applications, NPC Friends and Family received 49 applications for the fall 2023 semester. Scholarship winners included 33 continuing students and seven rec…

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Five wildfires started across the state last week. None looks dangerous with the grasses still green and the fuels still relatively wet, but it may be a portent of things to come.

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SPRINGERVILLE — The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests is starting prescribed burns today through June 10, 2023. The following prescribed fires will be initiated if conditions and approvals allow:

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Last week the Navajo County Board of Supervisors renewed its contract with the state and federal governments to maintain a locked, surveilled and temperature-controlled room to store antidotes to assorted nerve gas agents.

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With the health of one of their founders declining, friends and volunteers at Walking Down Ranch and Veterans Village in Pinetop-Lakeside are heartbroken yet determined to carry on her legacy.

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The painstakingly developed capacity to thin the forest and save communities like Show Low and Payson from wildfire is dangling by a long, thin, costly thread, say the loggers, mill operators and biomass burners who hold the key to staving off a disaster.

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The May 2023 meeting of Northeast Arizona Republican Women was held May 9 in Snowflake. David Clouse, sheriff of Navajo County, was the main speaker, and filled attendees in on matters of his history, the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office and his vision for the future.

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Navajo County sheriff’s deputies Timothy Tubbs and Jesus Estrada on Tuesday took some time out from answering odd, dangerous, unpredictable emergency calls to take a brief bow in front of the Navajo County Board of Supervisors.

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Navajo County’s Board of Supervisors this week approved new efforts to save lives in the face of a plague of opioid overdoses, which continue to affect about one new Navajo County resident every week.

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You don’t want to think about COVID any more, and that’s understandable. But the virus is essentially endemic, specially in Navajo and Apache counties, where cases are still rising and the death rate is way above the statewide average. And that’s mostly because we’re living in a state of den…

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The Navajo County Board of Supervisors accepted a $583,000 grant from the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Border Strike Force for half a dozen patrol cars, decked out with emergency lighting, computers, upgraded bumpers, lock boxes and accommodation for drug-sniffing dogs.

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“It really is a few caring people who change the world,” said Betsyann Wilson, executive director of Northland Pioneer College Friends and Family, after Arizona Gives Day on April 4. By midnight, the nonprofit alliance had received $33,358 from 84 donors during the 24-hour competitive fundra…

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The federal government charges grazing fees on public land that cover only a fraction of the cost of administering the program — much less mitigating the potential damage to riparian areas, according to a series of recent studies.

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It’s public health month in Navajo County, and there are a lot of events associated with it. So the Board of Supervisors last week combined every possible public health message into a single resolution, including cigarettes, decision making, alcoholism, Parkinson’s disease, autism, organ don…

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The Navajo County Sheriff’s Office recognized a group of staff members and civilians who have contributed to the safety and well-being of all residents in northern Arizona.

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Long-overlooked DNA evidence led to the arrest of David Slade of Eager for entering the home of a 18-year-old girl, holding her against her will and sexually assaulting her. He escaped. The case went cold. But when a second DNA sample from a Utah rape went into the database, he was finally i…

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Navajo County’s sheriff offered heartfelt praise for the county’s 911 dispatchers, who remain angels on the shoulders of every officer in the field.

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