Category: Bagdadian Archives
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Quiet Service: Greggy Martinez and the Spirit of Bagdad
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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…
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A Blue-Collar Christmas: Between Shifts
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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…
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Bagdad Strong
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We wanted to live in a small town, somewhere with a higher quality of life. An opportunity brought my wife, Hope, to Bagdad, Arizona for an Environmental Engineering job. On the drive up, the exit was missed and the road carried on into Nothing, AZ. That’s a real place, and…
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Bagdad Student Earns Service and Leadership Scholarship
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*Photo of Ciarra Moore provided by Ciarra Moore Bagdad High School student Ciarra Moore was recently awarded a Grant McKee and Robert Caldwell Service & Leadership Scholarship through Catholic Charities’ North Star Youth Partnership. Moore participated in the organization’s PAL program for two years, helping with diaper drives, tutoring younger students, campus events, and presentations about…
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Bagdad Student Earns Service and Leadership Scholarship
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*Photo of Ciarra Moore provided by Ciarra Moore Bagdad High School student Ciarra Moore was recently awarded a Grant McKee and Robert Caldwell Service & Leadership Scholarship through Catholic Charities’ North Star Youth Partnership. Moore participated in the organization’s PAL program for two years, helping with diaper drives, tutoring younger…
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Bagdad Strong
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We wanted to live in a small town, somewhere with a higher quality of life. An opportunity brought my wife, Hope, to Bagdad, Arizona for an Environmental Engineering job. On the drive up, the exit was missed and the road carried on into Nothing, AZ. That’s a real place, and…
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A Blue-Collar Christmas: Between Shifts
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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…
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Quiet Service: Greggy Martinez and the Spirit of Bagdad
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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…
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October 2025 Community Feature: From Home Turf to College Fields (Part 2)
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1. Name, sport, and college: My name is Holly Myers I played softball at Paradise Valley community college and continued on playing softball at Nelson University for a year. 2. What’s been the biggest adjustment from high school athletics to college athletics? I would say probably the biggest adjustment would…
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October 2025 Community Feature: From Home Turf to College Fields (Part 1)
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1. Name, sport, and college: My name is Elisha Scott Alfred. I play football at Ottawa University in Surprise AZ. I’m originally from Norwich, Connecticut but I moved to Bagdad in 2013 when I was 6 years old so to me Bagdad is my home town. I grew up with…