Copper Basin News

Hayden-Winkelman Schools prepare to begin the new year

  Another summer moving on and another school year near begun. Are you excited, kids?  Ready to hit the stores for bargains galore, on notebooks, backpacks, things to wear and all manner of cool new gear? Guess what, kids? Your parents are super-excited that...

Rural by Choice hosts Arizona Film Commission

  The Superior Town Hall was the site of an informational presentation and meeting with Studio 48 – Arizona Film Commission.  The presentation was hosted by Rural by Choice and Copper Corridor Economic Development Committee. Sponsors and supporters were...

Along the Gila: The Rurality of Movie-Making

I possess a picture of me sitting on Alan Ladd’s lap, both of us on a Warner Brothers camera truck. I was eight or nine years old, and Ladd was at the height of his career. That day he was in Sedona, Arizona, filming the movie “Drum Beat.”   I spent most of my...

Letter to the Editor: Thanks to the governor, legislature

  The City of Globe, Town of Miami, and surrounding communities are home to more than 30,000 residents who rely on Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center for accessible, affordable and quality medical care.   We are a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) – a federal...

Elks to celebrate 150th Anniversary in San Antonio July 1-4

  Delegates throughout the United States and in Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines and the Panama Canal will converge on San Antonio, Sunday July 1, 2018, for the 154th annual National Convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of...

Kearny native, Raymond Miller, promoted to highest enlisted rank

  Some of you may remember the man in the picture to be the same boy that delivered this very newspaper almost two decades ago.    "I always considered my first job as delivering the Copper Basin newspaper to nearly half the town," said Command Sergeant...

Leonor Hambly students visit Boston

Leonor Hambly Students were able to visit Boston earlier this month.  Some of the sites included Plymouth Plantation, Old North Church, Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill Monument and the Freedom Trail.  Students were able to attend a Boston Red Sox baseball at...

Along the Gila: Candidates Announced for Local Council Elections

Sometimes I see small things along the way that give me a lift. Last week I stopped into Getsome Motorsports in Kearny on some business, and noticed an old Kearny police car in the bay. It was in the process of being checked out and then sold to AZ Movie Props, a...