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…
Good things happen to people with good hearts. Lu Funk, founder of Cochise Harm Reduction, a grassroots mutual aid-based nonprofit organization focused on improving the lives of people who use drugs in rural communities, is one of those people. Based out of Olympia, Washington for 11 years before traveling the roads and railways of the…
Years of persistence has finally paid off for the city as officials have learned funds have been appropriated for a new fire truck for Bisbee. Mayor Ken Budge shared the news, “after two years of applying, with the first year of no directed spending projects funded, this year was a win. Both Senators promised me…
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