While the holiday season is presented on film and in songs as being all about happiness, giving and cheer, this is the quintessential time for hustle and bustle of the merry kind, with socializing and shopping for all! Our moods are lighter and brighter, smiles...
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Siblings are first to send letters to Santa
Siblings Iris Rios and Aaiden Flowers are the first in the Copper Basin area to mail their letters to Santa Claus. Iris, who is 4 years old, wants dolls for Christmas. Aaiden, who is 8 years old, would like a Tails plushy. The two are the children...
Town of Kearny seeks local residents to guide future growth
By Tyler Bingham The use of planning and zoning by our local government are intertwined with Kearny’s history. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, Kearny was in its infancy. Founded in 1958, our town was one of the first in the nation to be...
Woman drowns in Gila River near Kearny
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office was called to the Gila River near N. Driftwood Way and E. Riverside Dr. on Monday evening shortly after 6:30 p.m. with a report of a possible drowning. The person reporting the incident said that he and a female were...
Catherine ‘Katie’ Trujillo
Catherine “Katie” Trujillo entered her eternal home on July 19, 2023, at the age of 97. She was born in Sonora, Arizona on April 30, 1926, and later married Manuel “Nelo” Trujillo in November of 1946. Together, they moved from Sonora to Kearny in...
Kearny Library Update
Residents of Kearny are anxious for library services return to the Town of Kearny. Earlier this year, the Town of Kearny had to close the library’s physical location because there were several structural and environmental concerns in the building. ...
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...
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;...
A new tool for the Kearny Fire Department
The Kearny Volunteer Fire Department has introduced a new lifesaving tool called the “Combi” to Kearny and those who use our roads. The tool is designed to pop open car doors, spread open a vehicle where needed and has the capability to cut...
Kearny Police Report – August 17, 2022
Items are given to the Copper Basin News by the Kearny Police Department and reflect information available at the time the report is compiled. Activity listed Aug. 7 – Aug. 13. Aug. 8 Theft was reported in the 100 block of...