It’s been more than a decade in coming, and will mean some inconvenience for faculty and staff.
After 15 years as an educator and one year as a newspaper reporter covering education, Aspire High School English teacher Jessica Marks in Prescott delights in the chance to tell a former student she will give him a recommendation to earn his Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training certificate.
U.S. VETS Prescott Executive Director Carole Benedict is disheartened that Yavapai County has the second highest veteran suicide rate in the state: 74.3 per 100,000 population in 2022.
Once a year, U.S. VETS Prescott Executive Director Carole Benedict likes to offer a public shout to her 38-member team who devote themselves to offering compassion, dignity, shelter and counseling assistance to veterans who have fallen on hard times and wrestle with how to find a path forward.
Sitting on a wooden stump in the middle of what once was a 5,000-square-foot mound of dirt, pebbles and ants transformed into an outdoor learning oasis, Taylor Hicks Elementary School fourth-grade Character Council member Justus Spicer looked around at the flowering shrubs, butterflies, hummingbirds and bird baths and declared it as “mystical.”
A Lake Valley Elementary sixth-grade English language arts teacher received an unexpected gift this summer: an all-expense paid cruise to the Bahamas courtesy of one of her favorite children’s authors.
From the outside looking into one of Bruce Giles’ opening day of the school year classes at Bradshaw Mountain High, an unknowing student or teacher passerby might have gotten the wrong idea: School Resource Officer April Zicopoulos slapping handcuffs onto a young lady in front of her fellow classmates.
Two nature-themed musical compositions created by the two classes of now third graders at Lincoln Elementary in collaboration with leading musicians of the Arizona Philharmonic (AZ Phil) will be performed at the orchestra’s season opener on Sunday, Sept. 10, in its new home venue: Prescott High’s Schols Ruth Street Theater.
On two stops in Prescott Monday, U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, encouraged 300 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students to persevere against adversity — it’s how he became a U.S. Navy pilot, astronaut and member of Congress.
A Prescott premier storytelling and musical concert titled “Women of Courage: the Unveiling of a Monument of Words and Song” will be performed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, by the Quad-City Interfaith choir at the Trinity Presbyterian Church, 630 Park Ave., Prescott.
