The Payson Town Council in the coming months will likely get a chance to decide what to do next when it comes to reopening Taylor Pool. The town approved issuing a “request for proposals” in January. On July 1, the town got multiple responses. But those r... See more
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Reading Specialist Karen Ormand vividly remembers the guilt and frustration one grandmother expressed during her conference with Ormand about the struggles of her granddaughter to learn the fundamentals of reading in kindergarten. “She had raised her gran... See more
The danger posed by wildfires continues to increase across the West, even as the pace of forest thinning and prescribed burning has slowed sharply. An analysis by the Grassroots Wildland Firefighters organization found a 38% decline in thinning projects a... See more
The U.S. Forest Service has promised to approve at least 20,000 acres a year worth of forest thinning projects annually to support forest restoration and wildfire protection in the footprint of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative, or 4FRI. The commitme... See more
