We begin this morning’s newsletter with an incident that happened at Casa Grande Union High School Friday morning.
A fight that broke out between two students, coupled with reports of a threat to the school on social media, led parents to crowd the front office of the campus Friday morning to pick up their students. Video footage caught by a parent shows the front office packed with parents calling for and waiting for their children to be released. It also shows a crowd of students behind a glass entrance door into the school waiting to be released.
Plus, in case you missed this headline, two Phoenix area men were arrested for allegedly breaking into a Casa Grande store and attempting to make off with merchandise. The incident was reported to police by the store’s security company.
And Pinal’s new $100,000 border protection fund will possibly be spent locally, Sheriff Mark Lamb told the Board of Supervisors last week, adding the funding will more than likely be used to help address border-related issues within the county such as human smuggling and drug trafficking.
Finally, the Pinal County Spelling Bee was Friday and there were many heartwarming moments captured on camera. Check out the photo collection right here.
An early spring or even summer teaser will be coming soon for Arizona and the western third of the United States as temperatures rise above normal this week, flirting with daily records.
A fatal rollover caused the westbound lanes of Interstate 10 to be closed near Sacaton for more than six hours Sunday as traffic had to be diverted around the accident scene.
A parent, whose daughter attends Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology as a cosmetology student, urged its governing board to make what the students are being taught more accessible to parents.
Friday night’s game between Combs and Vista Grande was a must-win for both teams, as it was senior night for the Spartans, and the 25th-ranked Coyotes are trying to claw their way into the 4A Conference play-in tournament next week.
In this episode of Back Story, Pinal Ways Editor Rofida Khairalla gives some background on the Rebecca Dallis Schoolhouse in Casa Grande — one of several historical schoolhouses featured in our winter issue.