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BISBEE OBSERVER HEADLINES 10-03-2024

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

  • Notice of claim filed against City over 30 Main St. transfer

    The City of Bisbee was served with a notice of claim (NOC) from the owner of 28 Main St. who is seeking the city pay damages in the amount of $425,000 or “unwind” the settlement agreement which according to the NOC was fraudulent.

    According to the NOC served to the city on September 14 by Lancer Law, representing Pamela Heiman, the owner of the property located at 28 Main St., the transfer of the property located at 30 Main St. previously owned by Craig Reece and Anne Bush was fraudulently conveyed to the city after a fire on February 14, 2024, which destroyed 30 Main. St. and damaged Heiman’s property at 28 Main St.

    Reece and Bush conveyed the 30 Main St. property to the city in late June after the council approved a settlement agreement with them which included them deeding the property to the city as a way for the city to recoup some of the over $400,000 the city expended to secure Main St. after the fire..….read full story (online subscribers only)

  • Bisbee Fire receives grant to assist with fire protection

    The Bisbee Fire Department was recently awarded a $122,000 grant from Arizona Department of Forest and Fire Management (DFFM) for the Healthy Forests Initiative and plans to conduct a fuel reduction initiative on 44.5 acres around Bisbee.

    According to Bisbee Fire Chief James Richardson, “The objective of this funding is toprotectionassist communities, which have been identified as having wildfire hazard potential, with fire prevention, critical infrastructure protection, and forest and watershed restoration”.

    The Fire Department has identified four areas around Bisbee for the Fuels Reduction Initiative, Old Bisbee City Trail.….read full story (online subscribers only)

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The Bisbee Observer serves an area of more than 10,000 residents in the communities of Bisbee, Douglas, Naco, McNeal, Double Adobe, and Palominas / Hereford, Sierra Vista, in Southern Arizona.

The Bisbee Observer is the community newspaper and has been published since 1985.

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