Strawberry News

Thanks to New Times Web Editor Jonathan McNamara, you can now watch Phoenix muralist Francisco Garcia creating the Blue Boy image that so freaked out the little town of Pine-Strawberry, Arizona, that he was ordered to take it down and replace it with the image of a cabin .

Pack up the kids and head north to Strawberry, where you'll find the Fossil Creek Creamery.

A 64-mile stretch of Arizona 87 north of Payson takes you from high-country pine forest to Painted Desert views.

Get your spinning gear and fly rods ready for the Oct. 3 grand opening of the first-ever seasonal, one-of-a-kind "Verde trout" fishery on Fossil Creek - one of the state's most distinct waterways.

Like most creek hikes in Arizona, walking on the Kinder Crossing Trail to East Clear Creek in the Coconino National Forest north of Payson involves descending into a small canyon.

I'm in the middle of reading a paperback called "One with the Light," which chronicles "authentic near-death experiences that changed lives and revealed the Beyond." It's been collecting dust on the bookshelf for years, so I figured this would be a good time to dust it off.

My family and I recently went to the Strawberry Festival in Pine/Strawberry. We were very disappointed when we got there and discovered that the only strawberries they had were grown in California, which is pretty lame.

Veteran knitters with over 50 years of experience and beginners with a few months experience worked on a variety of scarves, sweaters, shawls and socks at Northern Arizona's World Wide Knit in Public Day, held at La Posada hotel on June 14.

A 15-year-old Boy Scout died on Saturday morning while hiking at the bottom of West Clear Creek Canyon in Camp Verde.

The US Forest Service is managing a wildfire along the Mogollon Rim near Pine. The Point Fire has burned 1,010 acres, with an additional 300 acres anticipated Wednesday.

The Strawberry Festival this weekend features - as you might expect - strawberries.

Firefighters are battling several different wildfires across Arizona. The Point Fire, sparked by lightning on May 31, has grown to 80 acres, firefighters said.

A placard that reads "Cucina Creativa Italiana" hangs on the wall of Gerardo's Italian Bistro in Payson.