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updated: Sat Jul 05, 2008 05:50 pm

Gilbert News

Local news for Gilbert, AZ continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

Yesterday | WQAD-TV Moline

Americans unhappy with their current state

Parents concerned over suspended vaccinations More fans means more fun Rose Lawn cemetery owner fails to pay back victims Rose Lawn Memorial Estates may have been targeting veterans and their families when it ...

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hosted Saturday | The Associated Press | The Associated Press

Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'

Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book-drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.

They beam through the Pledge of Allegiance, applaud each other's good news _ a house that recently sold despite Arizona's down market, and one member's valiant battle with cancer. 'I didn't die,' she says as the others cheer.

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Saturday | KPHO-TV Phoenix

Gilbert Comforts Plane Crash's Sole Survivor

A 21-year-old woman whose parents and three siblings died in a plane crash was comforted by Gilbert residents at a candlelight vigil Friday night.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents

Fri Jul 04, 2008

LawFuel.com

Arizona Physician Found Guilty on Tax and Fraud Charges

Carlin Grant Bartschi, M.D., 60, of Gilbert, Ariz., was found guilty by a federal jury on June 24, 2008, of 18 felony counts relating to Attempted Evasion of Assessment and Payment of Tax, Submission of ...

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Related Topix: Globe, AZ

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Arizona Republic

Gilbert council clears way for road projects

A bevy of road construction projects is heading toward Gilbert with the backing of voter-approved bonds from the last two years.

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Related Topix: Higley, AZ

KNXV

Gilbert PD: Woman drove son while impaired by drugs

Andrea Rubio returned home and police determined that she had been driving while impaired by drugs with her 10-year-old son as a passenger.

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East Valley Tribune

Gilbert park rangers could ticket rule-breakers

Gilbert Town Council members will look at giving park rangers the authority to ticket rule breakers later this summer.

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Related Topix: Apache Junction, AZ

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Arizona Republic

Gilbert drops residential mosquito-fogging program

Gilbert residential neighborhoods will have to do without the twice-weekly nighttime fogging to prevent the spread of West Nile virus.

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Related Topix: Maricopa County, AZ

East Valley Tribune

Gilbert 7-year-old heads to Texas rodeo finals

Justin McWhirt doesn't say much. Sitting at the kitchen table at his parents' home in Gilbert, he looks up from under his black cowboy hat, mostly nodding, sometimes spitting out a "yep" or a "good" as the ...

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East Valley Tribune

Referendum sought on Gilbert mixed-use project

Gilbert residents are looking to overturn the Town Council's approval last month for a 65-acre mixed-use development planned near their 400-home neighborhood.

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Tue Jul 01, 2008

Arizona Republic

'Well-loved family' mourned after 5 die in plane crash

Relatives were mourning and struggling to cope with Sunday's plane crash that killed five members of a Gilbert family.

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Related Topix: US News, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Accidents

East Valley Tribune

Gilbert council to revisit building height rules

When a community fills up with more than 200,000 residents and the retail services they need, it may find there isn't much land left over to build a broader job base and the only direction to go is up.

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Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Metro, Chandler, AZ, Scottsdale, AZ

East Valley Tribune

Part of Gilbert Road in Chandler to be widened

A cramped, crowded stretch of Gilbert Road in Chandler soon will be under construction, which means it won't look too much different from now.

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Related Topix: Chandler, AZ, Queen Creek, AZ

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Arizona Republic

Motorcyclist killed in collision with pickup

A motorcyclist was killed about 4 a.m. Monday after striking a pickup truck in the intersection of Pecos and Higley roads in Gilbert, police said.

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Related Topix: Queen Creek, AZ, Mesa, AZ, Phoenix Metro

KNXV

Alert: PD: 5 people killed in NM plane crash possibly from Gilbert

Police say the passengers aboard a single-engine airplane that crashed in eastern New Mexico are believed to be from Gilbert, Arizona.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents

Arizona Republic

Makutu's Island ideal place for kids over 4

If the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse took performance-enhancing drugs, it still wouldn't be as cool as Chandler's Makutu's Island.

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Related Topix: Chandler, AZ

Sat Jun 28, 2008

ABC15.com

Ex-teaching aide gets maximum sentence in Gilbert sex case

A former Gilbert high school teaching assistant accused of having sex with a student on campus was given the maximum sentence Friday.

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Related Topix: Maricopa County, AZ

Fri Jun 27, 2008

Arizona Republic

Higley schools trying to explain finances

Families have called for the ouster of the superintendent and some board members at Higley Unified School District amid concerns about salaries, retention and spending, but only a handful of them attended two ...

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Higley, AZ

Thu Jun 26, 2008

Arizona Republic

Paying the price

Life changed for many Arizonans when gas hit $4 a gallon. People began biking to the grocery store.

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Related Topix: Chandler, AZ, Scottsdale, AZ, Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Metro

Tue Jun 24, 2008

WBIR-TV

"Hypermilers" aim for 100 miles-per-gallon

GILBERT, Ariz. - After a 29-mile jaunt from his Phoenix office to his home here, Louis Hudgin proclaimed his gas mileage "pitiful." He averaged just 88.3 miles per gallon.

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Related Topix: Honda, Honda Insight, Hybrid Vehicle

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Gilbert, Arizona is located in Maricopa County and is part of the Phoenix Metro Area. Zip codes in Gilbert include 85234, 85296, and 85233.

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