Rimrock News

Editor: I fail to understand the lack of support for the Verde Valley Humane Society.

Two children are charged with auto theft and criminal damage after an escapade in Rimrock on Veterans Day.

Yavapai County Sheriff's Office deputies responded Tuesday to six vehicle burglaries in Paulden's Rimrock subdivision, just off of Old Highway 89.

Montezuma-Rimrock Fire crews were called to Bell Trail late Monday morning. The trail starts from the Beaver Creek Ranger Station area but becomes rapidly rugged when it drops into the Wet Beaver Creek Wilderness.

Septic systems are not the stuff of evening conversation -- unless of course a nonfunctioning system has driven you out of the house and forced to have dinner in your driveway.

Two people have died and a total of 19 were treated at one of three medical centers Thursday night when participants collapsed after a New Age-type sweat lodge experience near Sedona.

Of all the events the National Park Service does to attract Verde Valley residents to its three national monuments, its most popular is clearly those evenings when they turn out the lights.

Supper at the VFW The Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW 6739 at 277 W. 260 in Camp Verde is having stuffed bell peppers, mashed potatoes and lots of sides from noon to 4 p.m. A $5 donation goes to Vets and family support.

It's all about teamwork at Beaver Creek School. With a thriving preschool, the administration is working with Camp Verde Head Start to fill 20 slots that have been doled out to the district.

Instructor Karin Ward, right, interacts with students during an exercise in the Structured English Emergence class at the Northern Arizona University-Yavapai campus in the new library in Prescott Valley on Wednesday.

The Beaver Creek School Governing Board meets Monday at 6:30 p.m. in regular sesson.

By Linda Kor Northern Arizona is one of the few places where you can sit back on a starry summer night and almost imagine what it must have been like to travel on one of those long trail drives of the old west, when cow-boys would work from sun up to sun down herding cattle across the wide open land.

The Camp Verde Crawdad Festival features crawdad eating contests, live music, arts and crafts and children's activities.