Junior golf memberships are now available for children ages 10-17 at Dobson Ranch Golf Course, 2155 S. Dobson Road. Membership costs $299 for the months of June, July and August.

Concho; Roosevelt Lake; Flagstaff 

The Walton Group of Companies, a Canadian company whose U.S. headquarters are based in Scottsdale, has pledged to improve the well-being of needy children in Arizona with a $25,000 donation to Phoenix Suns Charities.

Mesa's little wild West town, the Rockin' R Ranch, is a real pioneer site with a history as intriguing as the West was wild -- and it offers an all-you-can-eat family dinner show with the songs and humor of the cowboys.

Rising from the ashes of the 1990s Mill Avenue band “Bedspins,” Prehab brings a realism acquired through life experience to their music. The band includes Chris Kay on vocals, keyboard and guitar, Jason Kay on vocals and guitar, Chris Cantu on bass, and Philip Rhodes, formerly with Gin Blossoms, on drums. They perform in support of their new EP, “I Haven’t Been Completely Honest.”

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As development of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway has inched closer to a reality over the years, the proposed Pecos Alignment of the freeway has been most hotly debated because of the impending destruction to South Mountain itself. But many in Ahwatukee Foothills — on paper a part of the City of Phoenix, but ostensibly it’s own community of nearly 80,000 residents neighboring Tempe and Chandler — are also fearful of the state removing homes, businesses and a church to build the new freeway.

Most foot races take place early in the morning or at sunset, when temperatures start to lower — but not this race. The first-ever Beat the Heat race will begin at 2:47 p.m., the time when, on June 26, 1990, temperatures reached 122 degrees, the hottest recorded temperature the Valley has ever endured.

A “safety alert” is being distributed to homes in and around the Trilogy at Power Ranch neighborhood in southeast Gilbert after a couple of people were seen possibly casing homes for burglaries, neighbors said.

Mesa and Gilbert mayors will each host joint town hall meetings this week with Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon.

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Arizona-based Maracay Homes recently spent $4 million to design new floor plans based on consumer requests in a post recession economy. Those new floor plans — the New Arizona Living Collection — include secondary living rooms that can be used as playrooms, laundry rooms by master bedrooms and expanded outdoor spaces, said Maracay President and CEO Andy Warren.