February 16, 2005

A pair of open houses this month will present discussions on the potential widening and other improvements to Pima Road between McKellips Road and 90th Street.

Parity is the rage in the Western States Football League and Scottsdale Community College is one of two Arizona schools that have giant arrows next to their names heading into a critical weekend of play after outstanding wins over ranked opponents last week.

Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community will attempt to hammer out their differences over the proposed $40 million widening of Pima Road during upcoming meetings.

With a 14-0 lead in the third quarter and a drive that was deep in Pima Community College's territory, host Scottsdale Community College was cruising toward its first Western States Football League victory Saturday.

March 15, 2005

The Maricopa County Community College District might allow its police officers to carry guns on campus in the coming months, ending its decades-long ban on all weapons.

The Scottsdale Community College baseball team has moved within a game of Chandler-Gilbert for second place in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference after winning seven of its last eight games. The Artichokes are 22-11 in conference; 34-19 overall.

State lawmakers are again seriously debating whether to bring back a state agency to oversee Arizona’s community college districts that was dissolved five years ago as a bureaucratic waste of tax dollars.

Arizona community colleges’ days of freedom appear numbered with state lawmakers writing legislation that would create a state agency to regulate the twoyear schools.

A study commissioned by the Maricopa Community Colleges is urging formation of a statewide Bioscience Industry-Education Council to coordinate development of training programs for Arizona's future bioscience workers.

December 17, 2004

Four-year institutions

Mesa Community College defeated Phoenix College 34-21 in an Arizona Community College Athletic Conference game Saturday at Mesa.

A law that took effect earlier this year aims to eliminate confusion by requiring common course numbers for all 100- and 200-level classes at all public universities and community colleges.

As the first day of school approaches, parents of tweens and teens are busy loading up on notebooks and mechanical pencils, buying jumbo packages of lunchtime snacks, shopping for just the right clothing and filling the family calendar with concerts, practice and game dates.

Saying it would protect students and staff, a veteran state lawmaker wants to let some faculty members carry their weapons onto university and community college campuses.

The tables on the stage at Desert Vista's Dr. Joe McDonald's Auditorium seemed to go on forever.

The tables on the stage at Desert Vista's Dr. Joe McDonald's Auditorium seemed to go on forever.

Central Arizona College boosters are going to the ballot in November with a nearly $100 million bond package that would help build new campuses in the quickly growing town of Maricopa and the heart of the Santan area.

The Valley’s large community of “Lost Boys” from Sudan congregated at its own church building on Sunday. The new St. Paul the Apostle Sudanese Mission is believed to be the first Sudanese congregation in the U.S. to get a church building.

In 1970, Simon and Garfunkel topped music charts, Ford Pintos debuted in dealerships, and Scottsdale Community College was a smaller — and sometimes stinkier — place than it is today.

Citing the shootings in Tucson, a southern Arizona lawmaker wants to force public schools, community colleges and universities to report students whose behavior might make them dangerous if they ever got a gun.