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TweetPinShareWalt Mares Photo/Gila Herald: Members of the Morenci Wildcats Lil’ Cheers group put on an exciting show at halftime of the Sept. 16 Morenci-Willcox football game. The undefeated Wildcats won …
Fans loving unbeaten Morenci grid squad Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Walt Mares: Clifton’s Circle K convenience store is closed at present. The company is deciding whether or not to repair the building and reopen it. Meanwhile, the company …
Fate of Clifton Circle K undecided but plans are for a larger store to be built Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Susan Breen: A century plant in a South Clifton yard is graced with snow on Tuesday morning, Jan. 26. In the background are snow-covered rooftops. It was a …
Clifton has its winter wonderland Read More
TweetPinShareWalt Mares Photo/Gila Herald: The 102-year-old Zorrilla Bridge crossing the San Francisco River in Clifton will be closed to traffic beginning Monday, March 16. The plan is to reopen it …
Zorrilla Bridge to close on March 16 until September Read More
TweetPinShareWalt Mares Photo/Gila Herald: A CKC Construction crew member shovels pavement as other crew members attend the paving machine in the Gila Health Resources parking lot in Morenci. This phase …
Gila Health to have a newly paved parking lot Read More
TweetPinShareImage Courtesy NBC Universal: Politically correct extremists have come after Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie this year. Maybe some just need to get a life By Walt Mares Political correctness; …
Editorial: Politically correct now bashing precious Rudolph Read More
TweetPinShareFile Photo By Walt Mares Column By Walt Mares It is the early 1960s. The location is the high-altitude San Luis Valley that straddles the Colorado-New Mexico border and it …
A childhood memory Read More