Amado News

Thinking of interstate frontage road accommodations usually conjures thoughts of hotels with numbers in the title or creatively misspelled marquees promising "Free Y-fi" or "Continual Brkfest!" True, the sprawling acreage of Amado Territory Ranch begins mere yards from Interstate 19, but that only means that travelers are much closer to a Sonoran ...

An image of the Cigar Galaxy, or M82, composed from data from the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope.

AMADO - On 63 acres in the picturesque Santa Cruz Valley, Stewart Loew raises cattle and grows organic lettuce, onions, pumpkins and other produce.

An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy gamma rays in the Cigar Galaxy , a bright galaxy filled with exploding stars 12 million light years from Earth.

Of the 49 National Heritage Areas around the country, the only one in Arizona so far is Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area.

Learn more about donating to or receiving help from the Community Food Bank by calling 622-0525 or by visiting the organization's Web site: www.communityfoodbank.com The food bank is always in need of non-perishable foods, such as canned tuna, peanut butter, rice, pasta and beans.

Giffords said $300,000 in stimulus funds given to the Amado Community Food Bank will help meet needs throughout the community that never existedA before.

Opponents of a proposed permanent Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19 have seized upon a federal report as proof that such an inspection station would be ineffective.

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According to the McKinney-Vento homeless education, in Pima County alone there are 4,012 homeless students.

Michelle and Michael Retzer say even out-of-towners know of the dinosaur at the McDonald's on the corner of Tanque Verde and East Grant roads.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety is investigating a single vehicle rollover crash that injured five people on an Interstate 19 frontage road near Amado.

At first Stewart Loew was excited by the sight: a mountain lion on the family's farm near Amado.

Tucson and Southern Arizona are featured in the July issue of Travel + Leisure magazine.

Everyone knows that garlic and onions make the world a better place, especially the folks at Agua Linda Farm in Amado.

By Brian J. Pedersen The old-fashioned backlighted marquee above the Boondocks Lounge displays drink specials, upcoming live musical acts and other notes meant to draw business into the North Side bar.

April 2009 Answer: Longhorn Grill in Amado. Congratulations to our winner, Lura Reines of Delray Beach, Florida.

Farmer Stewart Loew, co-owner of Agua Linda Farm, has local produce at farmer's markets and at the farm in Amado.