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Building a new freeway or reconstructing an existing one is a massive undertaking - the design, the materials and the manpower involved all combine to create a better highway system for drivers.

Building a new freeway or reconstructing an existing one is a massive undertaking—the design, the materials and the manpower involved all combine to create a better highway system for drivers. The Arizona Department of Transportation recently announced that two of its major projects have been nominated for national awards and one of these is in the Superior area.

The Regional Freeway System in the Phoenix metropolitan area and the U.S. 60 Gonzales Pass reconstruction project between Florence Junction and Superior and the Regional Freeway System in the Phoenix metropolitan area have been nominated for the America’s Transportation Awards. The competition recognizes the best transportation projects in the country—projects that are on time, on budget, and demonstrate innovative management.

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Senator John McCain made an appearance at John F. Kennedy Elementary and Superior Junior-Senior High recently to urge supporters of the proposed Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009 to get active in helping to get the bill passed.

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office has been undergoing a makeover unlike anyone has ever seen in this once-rural county, a county that has doubled population in the last few years to nearly 400,000 residents.

This coming Saturday is the date to save for enjoying a relaxing holiday celebration in downtown Superior.

Resolution Copper is not going to wait forever for the passage of federal land exchange legislation to facilitate its copper mining operation in Arizona.

That was the gist of one point made by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) speaking in Superior Monday to a crowd of proponents and some opponents as well of the proposed S. 409, Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009.

“It is important,” he said, “it is important if you support this legislation to get active … if you are opposed your voice can be heard as well.”

McCain spoke on the Superior school district campus. He met first with elected and appointed officials in the John F. Kennedy Elementary auditorium. It was a short stroll from there over to Superior Junior-Senior High where a crowd awaited in the school multipurpose room to see the senator and hear what he had to say.

This coming Saturday is the date to save for enjoying a relaxing holiday celebration in downtown Superior.

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Superior Optimist Club will present the 6 p.m. Independence Day parade down Main Street.

Fireworks will be set off of the mine tailings on the north side of Main Street at approximately 8:30 p.m.

For more information, updates and details or directions to the event, contact the Town of Superior at 520-689-5752.

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Citizens who are in favor of or opposed to a proposed ordinance that is expected to be brought before Superior Town Council July 2 are encouraged to attend the meeting and voice their opinions, according to Superior Public Safety Director Lou Digirolamo.

Plans, plans and more plans are in the making for the USAs birthday party celebrated on the 4th of July, which is just around the corner.

WASHINGTON DC - Various opposed national organizations including members of federally recognized Native American Indian Tribes attended a hearing held on June 17, in Washington, D.C. before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests to testify regarding the proposed Senate Bill 409.

The Bill is about the proposed Arizona Southeastern Land Exchange which would allow Rio Tinto's Resolution Copper Company (RCC) to get nearly 2,400 acres of land in the midst of Oak Flat on the Tonto National Forest to build an enormous copper mine near Superior. This has been long opposed by the San Carlos Apache Tribe.

'... I look down and I see home,' longtime Superior resident reflects on good years of thriving in her hometown 06/24/09 Cindy Tracy Email this story to a friend Superior resident Connie S. Bogenschutz bid farewell recently to the last in a long series of school buses the veteran driver used to ferry generations of town children to and from their ...

Superior gets its sizzle on with line-up of Independence Day festival fun for residents and visitors alike 06/24/09 Email this story to a friend Downtown Superior comes alive this 4th of July as residents and visitors celebrate our freedom with an enjoyable slate of events centered around the Main Street/Besich Park area.

Superior Town Council has given the go-ahead for Mayor Michael Hing to accept the invitation of Resolution Copper Mining to travel to Washington, D.C. for the Senate hearing of the Southeast Land Exchange bill (SB 409) on June 17.

The June 4 vote to allow Hing to make the trip was unanimous.

Backers and foes of a proposed underground copper mine in Pinal County will make their respective cases Wednesday at a federal hearing on the controversial project.

The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee will hear debate on a federal land swap that mine backers say is necessary to develop the potentially lucrative project.

Would you like to live and work at Boyce Thompson Arboretum this summer? Past volunteers have called it "the most exclusive gated community." The arboretum near Superior is looking for two resident "Park Host" volunteer couples to live onsite, at the arboretum and on the grounds of the Picket Post House, from June to September.

The Resolution deposit, located near Superior, Arizona, may be one of the largest copper resources ever found in North America and possibly worldwide. The ore body rests more than a mile below the surface and appears to be of good grade. In May 2008, Rio Tinto, Resolution Copper's parent company, announced that Resolution Copper had completed sufficient drilling on the deposit to report an Inferred Resource of 1.34 billion tons, containing 1.51 percent copper and 0.040 percent molybdenum.

The arboretum needs two resident "park host" volunteer couples to live on site and offer light grounds work and other duties from June through September. Light grounds work includes watering plants, mowing, pruning and some custodial work such as light house cleaning. In exchange for 20 hours per person each week, park hosts get a full hookup (water, sewer, electric, propane) in a place that some volunteers describe as "Arizona's most exclusive gated community." For an application, e-mail BTAinfo@ag.arizona.edu or call 520-689-2723 and ask for Volunteer Program Coordinator Paul Wolterbeek. For other details about the arboretum, visit http://ag.arizona.edu/bta.

Judge Larry Bravo administers the oath of office to returning Superior Mayor Michael Hing at the June 4 Superior Town Council meeting.