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January There was no shortage of news to start off the new year. In January it was reported the Cochise County Board of Supervisors (BOS), who were embroiled in a lawsuit over the jail tax election, fired their counsel then immediately hired new counsel. The BOS meet and voted to go into executive session, and…

Cochise County Chief Civil Deputy Attorney was terminated last week after being charged following an incident at the Sierra Vista Target that alleged involved videoing an underage girl and public sexual indecency. According to a press release from the Sierra Vista Police Department Cochise County Chief Civil Deputy Attorney Paul Correa was arrested on December…

Food brings families, friends and community together. That’s what drove Pat Gahn, owner of Porky’s BBQ, located at 40 Brewery Avenue next to St. Elmo Bar, to open his own fast-casual, fresh-ingredient barbeque restaurant on Halloween night. The vacant space was previously The Quarry Bisbee, and Gahn saw it as an opportunity to tie together…

Based on the October financial report city sales tax revenue is falling short of projections for the fiscal year in the general fund. According to the financial report from finance Director Keri Bagley, sales tax revenue is about $396,000 below projection as of the October report. Bagley also reported state sales tax is on track…

A designation many years in the making has finally come to fruition, after it was announced on December 10 that the Warren District of Bisbee is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bill Collins, National Register of Historic Places Program Coordinator, Arizona State Historic Preservation Office said in an email that was…

After months of back and forth the city has decided to halt negotiations designating Bisbee Forward as the designated marketing organization (DMO) for Bisbee’s tourism marketing. City Manager Stephen Pauken and Mayor Ken Budge jointly sent a letter to Bisbee Forward last week outlining the reasons it was decided to halt negotiations until after the…

The city is considering a new location for a Bisbee Visitor Center on Main St. after receiving a proposition from the Bisbee Restoration Museum board of directors. According to information in a letter to Bisbee City Manager Stephen Pauken and Mayor Ken Budge the Bisbee Restoration Museum board of directors offered to transfer the title…

A structure fire Monday night destroyed a shed at an occupied Park Ave. residence and spread to a neighboring vacant home causing damage. The Bisbee Fire Department responded to the call around 7 p.m. Firefighters responded to the scene and found a fully engulfed shed. The intense flames spread to a neighboring vacant home. Firefighters…

Over the past year, Bisbee Bikeways has made a lot of headway in its crusade to get a shared-use path that safely connects Old Bisbee to Warren via the Lavendar Pit, which is the heart of the town. The project is moving forward with a full head of steam into the new year, with years…

The Bisbee city council approved authorizing Westland Resources to update the Old Bisbee Sewer lateral preliminary engineering report and prepare budget estimates for six projects. Public Works Director, Matthew Gurney, told the council the engineering report needed to be updated and the project needed to be broken down into six projects-based changes in funding procedures…