Chino Valley News

Twenty-five years ago, a national outdoors commission set a goal: to make recreational trails so accessible that residents could be on them within 15 minutes of leaving their front doors.

Chino Valley High School celebrated the graduation of its 2012 class on Friday night. An overflow crowd was in attendance at the school football stadium to watch as 153 seniors entered into a brand new chapter of their lives. See photos on ChinoValleyReview.com.

CVFD firefighter Ben Roche packs his gear as he prepared to leave for a two-week stint fighting the Gladiator Fire near Crown King on Sunday, May 13.

Aside from a long-planned widening of Highway 89 between Prescott and Chino Valley, the area's Regional Transportation Plan likely will wait to prioritize most major road needs until a full-scale study occurs in 2014.

Matt Santos/ Special to The Courier The extended family of Barbara and Rafael Velasco.

CHINO VALLEY, ARIZ -- Opening night on the grid iron is months away, but new Chino Valley High School Head Coach Chuck Apap and his crew isn't wasting any time. See full story and photo gallery on the Chino Valley Review news site, www.ChinoValleyReview.com.

Rattlesnake trainer Jim Walkington has spent 10 years in the New River area, teaching dogs to avoid snakes, and now he plans to bring his training to Chino Valley. See full story on the Chino Valley Review news site, www.ChinoValleyReview.com.

The event will be Saturday, May 19, at Gabby's Banquet Hall, 2235 S. Hwy 69 in Chino Valley, and will feature a prime rib or chicken dinner, the Rusty Pistols country/Western band, and a silent auction.

The population projections keep falling in the Central Yavapai Metropolitan Planning Organization 's efforts to plan for transportation needs over the next two decades.

It is time once again for HMS to ask for nominations for this year's Heritage Middle School Hall of Fame Award.

Review/Matt Santos Matt Santos Reporter When Toby McMains graduated from Chino Valley High School in 2001, he thought his future was planned out.

Photo courtesy Brian Hughes Pets' absolute avoidance of rattlesnakes will keep them, and often their owners, safe from a painful, or even lethal, bite.

Chino Valley police say that JOSE ROGELIO HERRERA-MARTINEZ is wanted on suspicion of child molestation, child abuse and forgery.

Studying in Costa Rica enriched the lives of two women who attend Northern Arizona University-Yavapai, one of whom visited a foreign country for the first time.

The project, which will determine the feasibility of using rainwater to recharge the aquifer, will be one of the first of its kind in the state, Water Resources Manager John Munderloh told the council.

Matt Hinshaw/The Daily Courier, file From left, Lanie Collins, Cooper Collins and Rowan Reilly prepare to race their veggie cars Aug.

Matt Hinshaw/The Daily Courier A look inside the Prescott Food Store Thursday afternoon shows extensive damage following the fire that destroyed it and two other Whiskey Row businesses.

CHINO VALLEY, Ariz. -- A Chino Valley man and his dog survived a fight with a rabid mountain lion last weekend.

The Town of Prescott Valley will take part in a rainwater harvesting pilot project with other jurisdictions that belong to the Upper Verde River Protection Coalition.

Tucked back behind the senior center and Memory Park, just off Road 1 West, sits a building not too many Chino Valley residents know about, but the tenants of this small structure would sure benefit if more people would stop by.