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Prescribed Burning Planned Near Ponderosa Park Through Oct. 31
The Prescott National Forest planned to burn debris piles from fuels-reduction work in the Prescott Basin, with smoke potentially visible in Prescott and nearby areas.
Read more →Hubbell Trading Post: How a Navajo Country Landmark Kept Exchange at the Center of Place
In Ganado, Arizona, a 19th-century trading post remains a working historic site—one where Diné art, family memory, commerce, and the complicated history of the Southwest meet under one roof.
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The Peregrine Falcon: How a Vanishing Bird Found a Future in the City
Once pushed toward disappearance by a pesticide that weakened its eggs, the peregrine falcon has returned to cliffs, coastlines, and skyscrapers around the world.
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Argo: How Robotic Floats Made the Ocean a Living Observatory
Thousands of autonomous floats drift through the world’s oceans, repeatedly diving to measure heat and salt. Their observations are helping scientists see…
Read more →Foster Grandparents: How Older Arizonans Turn Time Into a Gift for Children
Across Arizona, older adults are stepping into classrooms, child-care centers and community programs as mentors, listeners and steady friends. The Foster Grandparent…
Read more →W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk: How Essays Made a Nation Look at Itself
Published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk joined history, sociology, memoir, music, and moral argument in one of…
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Europa Clipper Is on Its Way to Investigate an Ocean Hidden Beneath Ice
NASA’s Europa Clipper has begun a long journey to Jupiter, where it will study whether Europa’s underground ocean has the ingredients needed…
Read more →The Tucker 48: The American Car That Put Safety Ahead of Convention
Before safety became a standard part of automotive design, Preston Tucker imagined a family car built around survival. The Tucker 48 was…
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Yavapai College soccer teams drop road matches to Arizona Western
The Roughrider men lost 5-1 and the women fell 4-1 on Sept. 29. Both teams are scheduled to play Mohave College in…
Read more →Prescott College Education Faculty Member Shares Conference and Student Updates
Andrew L. Smith reported on Arizona education conferences, teacher preparation discussions and a Prescott College student’s field experience at her former high school.
