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4 days ago · A mammoth Scottsdale mansion and a piece of prime mountainside land in the same Desert Mountain community will be offered in a three-week online auction starting later this month.
Meet the candidates for Scottsdale mayor
Jun 30, 2024 Updated Jun 30, 2024. (Left to Right) Lisa Borowski, Linda Milhaven and David Ortega. Scottsdale voters will see three candidates for mayor on their primary ballots: Mayor David Ortega, who also previously was a city councilman; Lisa Borowsky, a former councilwoman who lost to Ortega in 2020; and Linda Milhaven, a former three-term ...
2nd ‘dinner-time bandit’ sentenced to probation | City News ...
Sep 13, 2024 Updated Sep 26, 2024. Grecia Castillo, the alleged getaway driver in a “dinner-time bandits” burglary attempt in Scottsdale, was sentenced to two years of probation and six months in prison. She will be released this week, getting credit for time she served since her March 11 …
Meet the Scottsdale City Council candidates
Jun 30, 2024 Updated Jun 30, 2024. During the July 30 Primary Election, Scottsdale voters will narrow down a field of nine candidates running for three positions. With ballots being mailed out Wednesday, July 3, eligible Scottsdale residents have until July 1, to register to vote. The last day to request a mail ballot is July 19 and there are ...
‘Hoax threats’ addressed by SUSD, police | City News | scottsdale.org
Oct 11, 2024 · Since a Sept. 4 mass shooting where four were killed at a Georgia high school, hoax threats – also known as “swatting” (as they are designed to lure SWAT teams) – have “grown exponentially,” Walther said. This is far from a Scottsdale thing, he stressed, but a national trend. “This has turned into an everyday occurrence ...
Durham: ‘Don’t vote for me’ | City News | scottsdale.org
Sep 28, 2024 · After repeatedly bashing fellow City Council candidate Adam Kwasman, Councilman Tom Durham took it a huge step further. Though he did not formally drop out of the race, at a Sept. 25 candidates forum at City Hall, Durham stunned watchers by asking voters "to not vote for me in November.”. Rather, he asked them to “vote for the two ladies to ...
Help wanted: Hundreds of city jobs unfilled - scottsdale.org
Sep 8, 2024 · Answering questions from the Progress, Andrews confirmed the positions were funded in the 2023-24 budget. Just how many positions are unfilled? “We had an average of 275 vacant positions throughout the year,” Andrews said. “It ranged from a low of 235 to a high of 386.”. Borowsky’s view: The city is taking in far more money via taxes ...
Roundabout approved at 3X original cost | City News | scottsdale.org
Oct 3, 2024 · Pima Road work is done – and a big project on Scottsdale Road is primed to begin. Though Councilman Barry Graham expressed disbelief, anger and frustration that the project’s budget more than tripled, a 5-2 vote approved the project. Thus, a $43.7 million roundabout is on the way at Scottsdale Road and Dynamite Boulevard, one of North ...
Prime show features Scottsdale pickleball league
Sep 18, 2024 · The makers of Scottsdale’s own “Breaking Pickleball” say the sport can be almost as fun to watch as to play, backed up by a recent debut on the Amazon Prime lineup. Then again, expectations are low for a show as sly as a drop shot. As its founder, Patrick Sullivan Jr., recently posted on social media, “Did the world ‘need’ a ...
Scottsdale golf course sells for $24 million
Sep 25, 2024 · In a bit of a twist, they bought the Queen Creek course from a Scottsdale company – Sunbelt Holdings. They paid a then-hearty $2.55 million. Two decades later, Swing First Golf took a 10 times bigger swing, with $18.6 million cash down on the $24 million purchase from Greenlight Communities. According to the company’s Linked In profile ...