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'Just keep kicking': Kris Vera-Phillips on Olympics lessons, son's swim meet
Opening ceremonies for the 2024 Olympics will take place today — and for weeks the world will watch fantastic athletes compete hard for gold medals. For Kris Vera-Phillips, it's a time to pause and consider her young son's experience in the swimming pool. Kris Vera-Phillips is a Ph.D. candidate...
Local doctor Prakshep Bhatt wins Best Screenplay Award at 2024 Chandler International Film Festival
A local doctor, Dr.Prakshep Bhatt, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2024 Chandler International Film Festival. The post Local doctor Prakshep Bhatt wins Best Screenplay Award at 2024 Chandler International Film Festival appeared first on KYMA.
The First Public Teacher in Arizona Only Lasted 6 months!
The school year is beginning in Arizona. As you pick up the annual list of school supplies, consider for a moment what school might have been like when Arizona wasn't even part of the United States. Funding issues and other challenges impact our education system to this day, and it...
Q&A: What’s Special about Rural Educators?
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Kimley-Horn opens new location at Union office development in Mesa
Full-service commercial real estate firm Lincoln Property Company (Lincoln) has signed Kimley-Horn, one of the nation’s premier planning and design consultants, to a 34,771-square-foot, long-term lease at Union Building One. Building One is the first building completed within the 1.35 million-square-foot, Class A Union office project being developed by Lincoln and Harvard Investments in the Arizona Riverview District in Mesa, Arizona.
EIU Tennis Teams Earn ITA Academic Honors
Tweet #WinTheMoment TEMPE, Ariz. – Eastern Illinois men's and women's tennis both earned ITA All-Academic Team honors for the 2023-24 academic year with six women's team members and six men's team members collecting ITA Scholar Athlete honors. On the women's side the following players were named ITA Scholar Athletes – Addison Brown , Aleyla Wooten , Emma Pilipovic-Kljajic , Jemma Booth , Luisa Renovales Salazar and Michelle Kostadinova . On the men's side the following players were named ITA Scholar Athletes – Tyler Carlin , Pau Riera , Thomas Wallace , William Hays , Jon William Karlstad and Max Pilipovic-Kljajic...
Scadden makes Dean’s List at Arizona State University
Charlie Scadden, a 2023 graduate of the Verona Area High School, was named to the Dean’s List at Arizona State University for the spring 2024 semester. To qualify for this honor, students must maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher on a four-point scale. Scadden is a rising sophomore...
How the Arizona Rattlers can win their first Indoor football championship since 2017
Since capturing the title in their first year playing in the Indoor Football League in 2017, it's been a series of stumbling blocks that have stood in the way of another championship for the Arizona Rattlers. There's been heartbreak and blown chances, turnovers, blown coverages and agony, games that got away at the...
New Solar Project Planned in Goodyear-annexed Area
A new solar power and battery energy storage system proposed in Mobile is making progress. The City of Goodyear annexed 67 square miles of desert land in 2007, anticipating developments that were derailed by the onset of the Great Recession in 2008. That annexation included the community of Mobile. Now,...
Chandler mom, son buy gun store franchise
Chandler resident Turner Drake had recently graduated from Grand Canyon University and was looking to start his own business. He found it at C2 Tactical. “I was home from college that weekend and I walked into the room and saw a sign requesting franchisees,” Turner said. “I had been looking for a business opportunity, especially in something that I loved.”
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