Heber-Overgaard News

By Tammy Gray-Searles A line item in the county budget labeled "miscellaneous" and designated for more than $1.8 million in expenditures was recently explained by Navajo County Finance Director James Menlove.

The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests have received more than $20 million as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to fund projects for hazardous fuel treatments, and the improvement and maintenance of forest facilities, trails, and roads.

By Naomi Hatch The eighth annual 9/11 Day of Remembrance will be held at 7 a.m. on Friday, Sept.

Lois "Cookie" Rawson contacted me last week to ask a favor. I turned her down. She started off by telling me about a call she got in 2004 at her summer home in Overgaard from her daughter Tammy, a Navy nurse treating soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq war.

By Tammy Gray-Searles A partnership between Navajo County and Holbrook schools could result in construction of restrooms and an equipment storage building at the soccer fields behind Park Elementary School.

Federal land managers focus too many of their wildfire-prevention efforts in remote forests and rangelands miles from homes and businesses at a time when more people are moving to the areas most at risk, according to a new report released Monday.