Fountain Hills News

Plans for a 1,350-home community in northeast Fountain Hills are forging ahead after a legal dispute delayed the project.

The housing slump and recession have sparked ads on Craig's List and other classified Web sites essentially asking financially distressed women to trade sex for free rent and housing.

Alchemy, a resort restaurant with 360-degree views of Fountain Hills and Scottsdale, reopens next weekafter closing in May.

Depending on whether you have a little time to give or a lot, you can affect someone's life in a positive way.

Economic conditions are scaling back two popular Chamber of Commerce-sponsored events: holiday luminarias and hot air balloon ascensions at The Great Fair in February.

A massive tree-planting project is taking root in Fountain Hills as part of a long-term plan to entice visitors and investors to the bedroom community.

" Join more than 200,000 visitors to discover the fine art, music and food of the 35th Annual Fountain Festival of Arts and Crafts, right in the Valley of the Sun.

The Fountain Hills Unified School District maintenance-and-operations override, originally thought to have been voted down, passed as provisional ballots and other votes trickled in late last week.

Are you ready for another Fountain Festival weekend? I'm anxious to see if there are any new talents being displayed this year.

The Downtown Vision Plan is still a couple of months away from becoming a formalized planning document, but town officials say they are already seeing positive results from the visioning effort.

Our staff members who worked last Wednesday's Business Showcase had a good time visiting with those of you who stopped and chatted with us.

A Goodyear-based shelter for domestic-violence victims plans to expand into Fountain Hills by early next year.

Eighteen years ago Evelyn Breting, then director of the Community Center, suggested to Jackie that it would be fun to have professional quality concerts in the intimacy of private homes.

Beginning Thursday, Fountain Hills resident Steve McClellan will participate in a 16-day walk across the state of Arizona to raise awareness of child abuse and neglect.

Fountain Hills' resident Scott Pace can thank his six-year-old daughters for his most recent business venture.

Customers of the Cerbat Water Company have water once again, at least through Tuesday morning.

Much like a swarm of worker bees, plenty of volunteers in yellow shirts gathered Saturday morning at the Community Center to make a difference in Fountain Hills.

Well, you can rest assured that our town will have a new phone book next March. After the slowest start to the annual sales campaign for the Fountain Hills & Verde Communities Telephone Directory that I have seen in the 32 years we have been publishing it, income the last two weeks was greatly improved.

Town planning staff may once again be working on a proposal for a Planned Area Development zoning district for Fountain Hills.

The Fountain Hills Rural Metro fire department responded to a fire at a home in the 16000 block of Venetian Lane early Sunday, authorities said.