Mayor Arturo Garino and two other border mayors have been announced as the winners of the Arizona-Mexico Commission’s annual Tony Certosimo award. Garino, along with Mayor Michael Gomez of Douglas and former Mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla of San Luis, will receive the honor at the commission’s plenary session in...
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By Erika K. Breckel Sierra Vista’s tourism arm continually encourages visitors and locals — to visit sites throughout the region that aren’t the most-visited or best-known sites in the area. This month, it’s featuring the Murray Spring Clovis site along the San Pedro River, just a few miles...
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By Gary Dillard When we met with the officers of the Naco, Sonora economic development group at Turquoise Valley Golf Course across the border in Naco, Arizona, it was purely for convenience. As it turned out, however, it was a perfect example of how the products of Naco’s small...
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By Gary Dillard When Mexicans turn out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, they are commemorating an unlikely victory of a ragtag Mexican army over a numerically superior and vastly better equipped and train French army, one that had not been defeated in recent history. This year marks the 150th...
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Image is part of perception. We are all-too-familiar with the expression “perception is reality;” right or wrong what people “perceive to be true” is “true” for them. The “image” of Arizona, as an example, is often fodder for late-night TV hosts. But for Graham, Greenlee, Santa Cruz and Cochise...
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