Cottonwood News

There seems to be a love-hate relationship with the old building. Everyone wants to preserve the historic building at the south end of Old Town.

The City of Cottonwood Recreation Center and the Cottonwood Oak Creek School District are working to develop an after-school program.

In April 2012, VVL developed an annual Leadership Summit as an opportunity to celebrate leadership in the Verde Valley and honor Adult and Youth Leaders in the community.

The Yavapai County Community Health Services and Verde Valley Sanctuary coordinated this year's 2014 Teen Maze at the Clemenceau Building in Cottonwood.

Paws Thrift Store officially opened in its new location next to Food City in Cottonwood on Saturday, March 1. Members of the Verde Valley Humane Society board were on hand to show off the new space and welcome customers to the thrift store.

Oscar Rivas makes the "SUNS" lettering shine brighter in the middle of the Old Town Community Courts in Downtown Cottonwood in Wednesday's warm and sunny weather.

What began as a Cottonwood airport festival in mid-October 2010 has ended in three and half years of litigation that reached a conclusion in February.

VVN/Raquel Hendrickson Transit Manager Diana Bonnaha and drivers Ron Juan and Fawn Stanley are preparing to launch Yavapai-Apache Transit for the Verde Valley this spring.

More than a dozen Cottonwood residents gathered last week at the Cottonwood Recreation Center to get a first-hand look at the proposed update to the Cottonwood General Plan.

Now 17 years old, the case files of a haunting Cottonwood double murder was recently re-opened on a reality TV series that promised "Cold Justice" for the family of Marisol Gonzalez.

Verde Valley Leadership is pleased to announce the call for Summit Award Nominations.

Monday night, the Cottonwood Planning Commission recommended two 90-foot cellular communications towers for approval by the City Council, the culmination of a lengthy public debate over the proposed height that began in December.

The Evangel Worship Center, 1329 E Apache St., Cottonwood, hosts the African Children's Choir on Sunday, March 23, at 6 p.m. The program features well-loved children's songs, traditional spirituals and gospel favorites.

Joe Neri, local bluesman and producer of the annual Old Town Blues Fest has announced that this year's festival will be held on Saturday, March 29, at the Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood.

General Surgery is pleased to announce Leon Pontikes, M.D., joined its medical staff and will be seeing patients in Cottonwood.

The League of Women Voters Greater Verde Valley will host the first of two forums on Yavapai College 's Master Plan and Capital Improvements from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 6 at the Cottonwood Recreation Center.

Authorities say a 53-year-old man has admitted to robbing three banks in Yavapai County.

The Verde Valley community is "band'-ing together to help out the former employees of Quince Restaurant, which closed suddenly without notice, leaving employees and their families without paychecks.

Members of the community, and a couple from Sedona, met with Rotellini Friday night over wine and appetizers at Cottonwood resident Jim Ledbetter's home.

A bank in Chino Valley was robbed Friday by a man matching the description of a person involved in bank robberies in Camp Verde and Cottonwood.