Mid-October news roundup

As usual, there's lots going on down in The Verde.  Here's some highlights I gleaned from various newspapers this mid-October morning.

The Forest Service decided not to appeal a Magistrate's ruling that slammed the infamous Red Rock Pass.
You can read all about it by clicking here. 
If we were light enough afoot, we'd leap up and click our heels! As we said in an earlier post: Justice Prevails!

Trails are in the news elsewhere.  There's a 90+ page trails document and a related planning document making the rounds of various municipalities and gov't entities in The Verde.  It's a superb document, easily one of the best trails documents I've ever read.  It takes a logical, prudent and rational approach to planning for a comprehensive and coordinated trails system through the far flung reaches of the entire Verde Valley.  Click here to read the news article.  The Camp Verde Bugle also published an editorial promoting the trails thing.  You can click here to read it.  If you are really interested, you can click here to read the 90+ page document.
As you know, we're major fans of "all things trail" so we're highly interested in the outcome of this process.

Bald eagles are in the news once again.  You can read about the latest developments by clicking here.

Cornville has a food bank and might soon get a thrift store.  As t-store addicts, this is Big News!  Click here to read the story.

The Jerome State Park reopened this week.  It's a great story.  Click here for the news item about the reopening.  The full story of how this state park came back to life is told in more detail in another story.  Click here to read it.

Some Yavapai-Apache Youth were engaged in a Verde River cleanup effort.  That's actually pretty unusual and, therefore, a genuine news item.  Click here to check it out.

The Verde NRCD is doing some really great stuff.  We are SOOOO proud of Jodi Allen for her tenacity and dedication in sticking with this embattled organization through thick and thin.  I think the NRCD is finally "out of the woods" and back on track to great things.  Click here for the draft minutes of their October 11th meeting and you will see what I mean.

Finally, as you know, we are quite fond of following the Harry's Hideaway restaurant blog and Twitter.  It turns out that Harry cooks by prime numbers.  No kidding.  Click here to read the story.

Well, that's about all the news of interest I can find this morning.  Cheers!, jp