Jim Carlson Pickleball must be an addiction if 30 people show up to play pickleball at the Cottonwood pickleball courts on the hottest day in August, ever! That’s right, the temperature on Aug. 7 set the all-time highest temperature in August! It did not deter the die-hard pickleballers from showing their skills, endurance, and savvy…
Lisa Fahrion The Sun Lakes Cottonwood Palo Verde Pickleball Club is celebrating major milestones in its growth and community impact. Founded in 2008, the club has expanded from a small group of players to more than 400 active members, making it one of the most vibrant pickleball organizations in the area. To support the growing…
Larry Wolfe No, this article isn’t just about The Long Season, a book published in 1960, which chronicled pitcher Jim Brosnan’s candid personal diary of the 1959 baseball season when he pitched for both the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds. That book was one of the first “tell-alls” regarding what life was really like…
There are parties and then there are PAW-tys: at America’s Friendliest Airport®, the 90th anniversary is celebrated with both. City and aviation leaders gathered in July to commemorate the 1935 purchase of an airport so rural that it was nicknamed “the Farm.” That far-flung outpost airport, Sky Harbor, cost the city of Phoenix $100,000—big money…
Marilyn Conner Hope you are all finding some place to stay cool. Remember, we now meet on the second Monday of each month October through April. We have no classes in the summer but will resume in October. Our next class is Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. in the Computer Learning Center in Cottonwood. At…
Helen Seaton, Public Relations Director In the world of online security, when a public key and a private key combine, they create a passkey that can unlock your account. Passkeys have plenty of benefits; for example, they cannot be guessed or shared. Also, passkeys resist some phishing attempts, because they’re unique to the sites they’re…