Copper Corridor sports is gearing up for fall 2025
Those Friday night lights are about to turn on and our boys of fall are gearing up for another season on the gridiron. What have the teams been up to over the summer? Superior Panthers The Superior High School football team is preparing for their 2025 season. The Panthers have eight seniors, five juniors and three sophomores. The seniors are: Antonio...
Hayden hosts annual basketball tournament
On Saturday, July 19, the 2nd Annual 3v3 Basketball Tournament was held at Hayden High School’s gym. The tournament was to benefit the 2025-2026 Hayden High basketball and...
Shopping Local: Superior Farm to Fantastic Market
The Superior Farm to Fantastic Market has been operating in Downtown Superior since 2018.The market operates every Saturday from September through May and during the summer...
Current News
Current News
Deadline extended for vacant school board seat in Superior
Due to the resignation of Board Member, Augustine-Lou Hing, the Superior Unified School District...
Superior Senior Center’s First Friday Social
At the Superior Senior Center’s First Friday Social, those in attendance played beach games:...
SaddleBrooke Rotarians donate new bench for OCC
On Monday, August. 4, the Oracle Community Center held its first Monday of the month lunch. They...
A Word From Your Chamber President
We are excited to re-establish our Copper Basin Chamber of Commerce in Kearny. Our office is...
Resolution Copper honored with 2025 Rocky Mountain Mining Institute Safety Award for fourth consecutive year
Superior, Ariz. - Resolution Copper has been awarded the 2025 Safety Award for Small Underground...
San Manuel’s Upper Arcade is Saturday home to food stand
Carlos Gastelo is the owner of Los Elotes, one of the newer businesses to appear in the...
Oracle Fire Chief Speaks Out About Brush Dump
The Oracle Brush Dump has long been a vital resource for our community. However, its continued...
New Panther Drive Bridge opens in Superior, ushering in a new era of connectivity and safety
With the snip of ceremonial scissors and the cheers of proud community members, the Town of...
Big Beautiful Bill not expected to affect Cobre Valley Hospital
As the negotiations for the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill were addressed in the media,...
San Manuel Fire makes donation to local school
San Manuel Fire District donated some school supplies to the San Manuel school district. “Helping...
Community turns out to help a little boy
On Saturday, July 26, the Tri-Community came out for a cornhole tournament that was for a good...
Mayor’s Minute – July 2025
Summer is in full swing, and Superior continues to shine with progress and partnerships that move...
Obituaries
Kenneth Milton McGrew Sr.
Kenneth Milton McGrew Sr., 86, of San Manuel, Arizona, passed away peacefully on Aug. 7, 2025. Born on Aug. 26, 1938, he was a devoted husband to Chaille Ann Crews and a loving father to Kenneth McGrew, Jr., Amy Kathleen Oldham and Julie Lynelle Baughman. Kenneth...
Patricia Mary Woodruff
Our beloved Patty departed at high noon on Saturday, July 12, 2025. She was at home in her own bed, soundly asleep. Her youngest sister, Barbara Bartlett, a niece Sara Flora, her husband of 40 years, Harley Shaw, and his daughter, Jean Johnson, were with her when she...
Martha Martinez
Martha Martinez, 68, a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and beloved member of her community, passed away from cancer in Mesa on Aug. 9, 2025, surrounded by her family. Martha was preceded in death by her loving husband, Manuel Martinez Jr., and her cherished...
Anita Bojorquez
Anita (Anna) Bojorquez, 80 years entered eternal life on Aug. 6, 2025, in Mesa, Arizona surrounded by loved ones. Anna was born on Sept. 11, 1944, to Joe and Jesse Navarro. She was raised in Sonora, Arizona and moved to Superior, Arizona in 1965 where she spent the...
Bobby O. Smith
Bobby O. Smith of San Manuel passed away at home at the age of 86 on July 16, 2025. Bobby was born March 1, 1939, in Luxora, Arkansas to Esther Pearl Moore and William Russell Smith. Bobby married his sweetheart, Carolyn Sue, on Nov. 28, 1960, in Oceola,...
Melanie D. (Gorham) Reynoso
Services for Melanie D. (Gorham) Reynoso were held June 25, 2025, at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Mammoth. The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated by Deacon Flavio. The Rosary and Mass were followed by interment at Valley View Cemetery and a luncheon at...
Jo Ann Perea
Jo Ann Perea, 59, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Kearny, Arizona, to Ernestina Chiquete and Jose Perea, Jo Ann lived a life marked by compassion, strength, and unwavering love for her family. ...
Rosa Casillas
Rosa Casillas, 74, passed away in Mammoth on July 25, 2025, due to natural causes. Rosa was married to Ramon Casillas Sr. Her children are Ramon (Nadine) Casillas, Jr., Rita (Mark) Casillas, Robert (Angela) Casillas, Sr., Regina (Johnny) Arbizo and Ruben (Kimmie)...
Sports
Copper Corridor sports is gearing up for fall 2025
Those Friday night lights are about to turn on and our boys of fall are gearing up for another season on the gridiron. What have the teams been up to over the summer? Superior Panthers The Superior High School football team is preparing for their 2025 season....
Hayden hosts annual basketball tournament
On Saturday, July 19, the 2nd Annual 3v3 Basketball Tournament was held at Hayden High School’s gym. The tournament was to benefit the 2025-2026 Hayden High basketball and cheer teams. “This being our second annual 3v3, our expectations were exceeded,” commented...
Two wrestlers work hard in the off-season towards a successful on-season
There is a saying that goes, “summer wrestling makes winter champions.” San Manuel High School wrestlers, Sienna Taylor and Jose Torres are putting in that summer work. After they both finished up their winter season at state, with Taylor placing 4th, the two...
San Manuel home to new Arsenal Wrestling Club
Coaches Gilbert Rodriguez, Sr. and Gilbert Rodriguez, Jr. are bringing back the powerful wrestling history and tradition to the Tri-Community. Arsenal Wrestling is now in San Manuel at the same complex with the Elks Lodge 2007 and right across from the car wash. The...
Hayden High School hosts athletic awards
On Tuesday, May 27, Hayden High School hosted its athletic awards and banquet in the high school lobby. The athletes sat at a long table at the front of the lobby, with coaches and faculty at another long table off to the side, then family and supportive community...
TRS Rider Appreciation Day and Dirt Bike Rodeo
On Sunday, May 4, over 30 TRS members, family members and friends attended the Appreciation Day and Dirt Dike Rodeo. As planned, participants went out and rode the trails in the San Manuel area, returned for lunch for the rodeo, rodeo medal awards ceremony and...
Hayden, San Manuel face off in softball quarterfinals; Hayden falls in semifinals
On Wednesday, May 7, two Copper Corridor teams met on the softball field to see who would continue on the journey to 1A State. Hayden traveled to take San Manuel on for the quarterfinals play-off game. The Lady Lobos started the game off with a bang, scoring 5...
THREE-PEAT for the Hayden Lobos! Hayden wins third baseball championship in a row
What a game! What a game! The Hayden baseball team found themselves in the championship game for the third year in a row. The lights shined down on Tempe Diablo Stadium, as the final 1A baseball game of the year was about to take place. The Hayden Lobos seeded...