Sahuarita News

Courtesy of Procter and Gamble El Charro, Pico de Gallo beckon Travel Channel host Zimmern Opinion by Gerald M. Gay Arizona Daily Star Andrew Zimmern, host of two "Bizarre" shows on the Travel Channel, was in town Thursday to sample some dishes at El Charro Cafe.

The state's top teaching honor was awarded Thursday to a Phoenix teacher. Joy Weiss, an outspoken first-grade teacher for Balsz Elementary School in Phoenix.

A handyman convicted of killing an elderly Sahuarita woman in 2007 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with release possible after 25 years.

Customers of Trico Electric Cooperative are beginning to feel the effects of higher rates that first appeared on September bills.

The Arizona Educational Foundation has announced that five teachers have been named 2010 Ambassadors for Excellence and that one of those will be named Arizona Teacher of the Year.

"I think he'll do fine while I'm away. I'm not sure how I'll do." Pfc. Tayzha Taylor , talking about her 15-month-old son, Eric O'Neal Jr.

Marana has a newly created position for a Regional Emergency Response Planner. For now.

Rosemont Copper will sponsor a forum on water issues in southern Pima County on Tuesday at the Green Valley Recreation West Center, 111 Via Arcoiris.

This is a free walk event open to the Public. The non-profit walking club, Tucson Volkssport and Walking Club puts on fun walks throughout the state.

A northwest road-widening project will be built without three sound walls the adjacent neighborhood has spent more than a year requesting.

Next, Rosemont officials weighed in with this screed . Now, it's environmentalist Gayle Hartmann's chance to take on Rosemont's reclamation plan.

Volunteering at a bowling alley does not constitute community service. A Pima County Superior Court judge rejected 19-year-old Collin Keating Primm's choice of working in a bowling alley as a means of making restitution.

Moonlight Madness at Titan Missile Museum 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29 1580 W. Duval Mine Road, Sahuarita 625-7736; www.titanmissilemuseum.org Experience the only publicly accessible Titan II missile site--under the moonlight!--during Titan Missile Museum's Moonlight Madness event.

Tucson police are investigating a double shooting after an altercation at an east-side residence early Wednesday.

A retired U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was detained Wednesday on child pornography charges after a hearing before a federal magistrate.

The Pima Association of Taxpayers will sponsor a public forum Tuesday to discuss the TUSD override propositions.

A Sahuarita kindergarten teacher has been named Ambassador for Excellence in the Arizona Teacher of the Year program.

During research for their book on the Copper Basin, Arizona authors Daryl Mallett and Lyn Scott were shown the grave site of a Civil War era soldier named Jacob Youtcy buried on a hillside in Kelvin, Arizona.

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This weekend will be the De Anza Drive-In's curtain call. The iconic theater at 1401 S. Alvernon Way, where countless Tucsonans have been smuggled and snuggled, will show its last movies Saturday night before it likely becomes yet another commercial center on a busy intersection.