March 17, 2024, will be a historic day in Globe-Miami: the centennial of the founding of Bullion Plaza School, now the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum, in west Miami.

Next school year, Globe Unified School District will have its first female superintendent – and the first Globe High School graduate to serve in that position.

If you bought or received a Christmas (aka Thanksgiving or Advent) cactus for the holidays, it’s probably looking shaggy now.

The Globe Fire Department has joined other area public safety agencies in using a new radio system and will continue – along with Tri-City Fire District – to provide services in Miami.

In its fourth-quarter 2023 and end-of-year report, released January 24, Freeport McMoRan Inc. reported a $388 million fourth-quarter net income attributable to common stock and an adjusted net income attributable to common stock of $393 million.

The Globe City Council last week accepted a $124,846 federal grant award that will be used to explore making downtown streets safer, and approved $31,000 in matching funds from the city.

A Claypool man was arrested and booked into the Gila County Jail on Jan. 22 after reportedly fleeing from an attempted traffic stop.

One of the agenda items for the Jan. 22 Miami Town Council meeting was discussing the issue of inappropriate conduct and decorum by Mayor Angel Medina.

The Queen Creek Bridge just east of Superior, a structure that opened to traffic in 1949, is coming down. The Arizona Department of Transportation has begun a project to replace the 75-year-old steel arch bridge, along with the one over Waterfall Canyon just east of the Queen Creek Tunnel.

Editor’s Note: The names published in the Arrest Reports are public record and include those people who have been cited, arrested and booked. This is not an indication of guilt, as all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum held a grand opening on Jan. 13 for an impressive new exhibit, transferred from Tempe to Miami. The event included private tours of the museum, a catered lunch and a Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting.

This month the Gila County Board of Supervisors once again approved an economic development grant that will help keep Copper Mountain Transit, which provides residents with fixed route transport and dial-a-ride service in its two vans, running.

Infrastructure projects and invocation policies – these were among the things considered in the Globe City council’s first meeting of 2024.

When Simo Maljkovic stepped off the train outside Ray, Arizona, he had no idea what the celebration around him was about – but he would soon learn. It turned out that he had arrived on a historic day – Feb. 14, 1912, when the territory of Arizona became a state.

The Globe Unified School District Governing Board is pleased to announce the three highly qualified finalists for the position of superintendent.

A handful of electric vehicle charging stations are slated for the San Carlos Apache Reservation, through a recent $500,000 federal grant award to the Tribal Council.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is proposing to invest $4 million to restore limited access to five miles of State Route 88 (Apache Trail) damaged by flooding in 2019 as it seeks funding for more extensive upgrades needed to make the roadway more resilient and accessible.

During the Call to the Public at the Jan. 8 Miami Town Council Meeting, District 2 County Supervisor Tim Humphrey explained his vote to table an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the Town of Miami.

For aspiring law enforcement officers, the revival of a local training program is on the horizon.

Welcome to January, Globe’s coldest month of the year!