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BISBEE OBSERVER HEADLINES 04-03-2025

Subscribers: The online issue for September 12th is available
Non-subscribers: Headlines and ads will be updated in the late morning

  • Cost Of New City Hall

    The completion of the new city hall is slated for mid-May and Bisbee City Manager Stephen Pauken said when all is said and done the project may be $10k to $20k over budget but that the city will own the property outright.

    Pauken said, “how many can say they constructed a from the ground up $3.997 million property and not have a mortgage. We can. We utilized the insurance proceeds received for the destruction of the building in 2017 and we saved in order to fund the project without taking out any loans.”

    He said the $10k to $20k is due to the rising cost in materials. Adding that credits have been given for items such as windows. “We received a credit for the difference in the windows, but that money was utilized for other materials needed.”…..read full story (online subscribers only)

  • Three Local Educators Nominated for Cochise County Teacher of the Year Award

    As the 2024-2025 school year winds down in the next month, three teachers are hoping to collect a Cochise County Teacher of the Year award before they clean out their desks for the summer, or for the last time for two of the three nominees.

    Coleen Keller, a science teacher at Lowell Junior High School; Brianna Young, a film and TV production teacher at Bisbee High School (BHS); and Armando Ballesteros, a fitness and conditioning teacher at BHS, are up for the annual accolade. This is the third time Ballesteros has been nominated, with a runner-up finish as his best result so far. It is a first-time nomination for both Keller and Young.

    With 41 years of teaching under her belt, the Bisbee born and raised Keller is retiring at the end of this school year. After leaving town and moving to northern Indiana, where she lived for 27 years, she returned to the area five years ago to spend more time with her mom. Through her years of teaching, she has predominantly been a science teacher, but she has also taught health education, math and English…..read full story (online subscribers only)

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