Big Dogs vs D-Backs, April 2025
Photographed by Michael Camarena, four years on the sidelines.
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- Lightning Cuts Safford-Winslow Game Short
The Safford Bulldogs and Winslow Bulldogs managed less than four minutes of football before lightning brought Friday night’s game to a halt. There was plenty of action packed into those few minutes. Safford scored twice, including a touchdown one play after recovering a Winslow fumble on a return. Lightning then cleared the field, beginning a… Read more: Lightning Cuts Safford-Winslow Game Short - Bats & Buzzards on the Bridge Returns to Wickenburg Sept. 25
Bats & Buzzards on the Bridge Date: Friday, September 25, 2026 Time: 5:00–7:00pm Location: Hassayampa Event Bridge, 333 E Wickenburg Way, Wickenburg, AZ Wickenburg’s skies will once again come alive this fall as hundreds of migrating turkey vultures and thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats gather for one of the community’s most unique wildlife spectacles. The… Read more: Bats & Buzzards on the Bridge Returns to Wickenburg Sept. 25 - Quiet Service: Greggy Martinez and the Spirit of Bagdad
Quiet Service: Greggy Martinez and the Spirit of Bagdad After the flag-raising ceremony on the mesa here in Bagdad, Arizona, I had the chance to sit and chat with Greggy Martinez about his life in Bagdad and how it led him to serve in the United States Marine Corps.We met for lunch at The Stacked Enchilada, and instead… Read more: Quiet Service: Greggy Martinez and the Spirit of Bagdad - A Blue-Collar Christmas: Between Shifts
The Backbone of America In big cities, blue-collar work tends to disappear.It gets swallowed by glass towers, rebranded as “infrastructure,” and thanked once a year in a speech someone else wrote. The hands that built the city rarely get invited into the spotlight. They’re just assumed.Invisible.Background noise to traffic and timelines. But in mining towns… Read more: A Blue-Collar Christmas: Between Shifts