Copper Basin News

Letter to the editor: Vote Your Values, Fight for Your Rights

Vote Your Values, Fight for Your Rights Vote Your Values, Fight for Your Rights Vote Your Values, Fight for Your Rights How does voting in every election affect you, from midterm to general? The people you elect up and down the ballot make decisions that impact your...

Vote Yes On 469: Fund The Projects To  End Pinal County Gridlock

As a business owner and former President of Pinal Partnership, which was formed to increase economic development opportunities and our quality of life, I have not only witnessed Pinal County’s rapid growth but also the lingering traffic problems that need attention...

Kearny Elks celebrates its golden anniversary

 Attendees included local Elks and guests. Sheila Stephenson (l-r) has held several local and state offices with the Elks; Naval Haddad (and her late husband Kelly) were active in the Kearny Elks Lodge for many years; their son, Richard Haddad, of Tampa Bay,...

Free virtual diabetes prevention program

  One in three adults are estimated to have prediabetes, and most do not know it. In Arizona, this means around 1.8 million adults are at high risk for type 2 diabetes.   In response to this increasing problem, the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension...

About Town: Kearny & Hayden

Work is being done on Steamboat Wash to help with the flooding across the road. Workers from Construction Done Right were busy Thursday morning last week. Jayden Lagunas with 2K LLC along with others were cleaning up the debris from a sidewalk roof that...

Support for Proposition 469 from Mayor Mila Besich

  Pinal County is growing, there is no doubt it.  We can no longer continue to assume that the transit corridors of the past will lead us into the future.  In order to develop the infrastructure we need for the future, we must fund the plan on our own;...

Copper Basin Chamber of Commerce is back in action 

  The new Copper Basin Chamber of Commerce has hit the ground running. Led by President Gary Stepke, Chamber members are working on big plans for the future.   The new Copper Basin Chamber of Commerce has hit the ground running. Led by President Gary Stepke,...

Dennis H. Van Gorp

    Rev. Dennis H. Van Gorp passed away Aug. 14, 2022, at age 70 in Superior, AZ. He was born on Sept. 9, 1951, in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1962, he moved with his parents and siblings from Pella, Iowa to Phoenix, AZ.   Dennis was married for 49 years to...

St. David proves to be tough team for Ray

  The Bearcats never gave up, persevering against a tough team.   The Ray football team kicked off their official 2022 season with an away game against St. David. The final result of the game was a tough 0-42 loss.   “It was a tough loss at St. David,”...