New High School Option for North Valley
A new public high school opens this fall in North Phoenix as Caurus Academy, an established K-8 charter school, launches grades 9 and 10 when school resumes Aug. 7.
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Author: Karen Goveia
Six Flags Dives Into North Phoenix Market
Six Flags is purchasing Arizona’s largest waterpark—Wet ’n’ Wild Phoenix, near 43rd Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road.
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Cool Place to Beat the Heat in North Phoenix: Beuf Community Center
This top-notch, low-cost facility, open to Phoenix residents and non-residents, is underutilized. It has an indoor basketball court, a walking track around the balcony, weight room, aerobics and dance rooms, computer lab, among other amenities.
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Officials Urge No Private Fireworks, Some Public Shows Cancelled
Some municipalities have cancelled their fireworks shows this year, while most are still on. Yet the extreme drought and fire danger has fire officials asking everyone to refrain from using personal fireworks. Find out what’s legal and what’s not.
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Fireside Kids Rejoice for New Playground
Six months after a fire destroyed Fireside at Norterra’s main playground, a new play structure officially opened yesterday. The December blaze became a catalyst for the formation of a temporary Phoenix fire station to better serve the Norterra area.
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Housing Explosion Prompts Creative DVUSD School Solution
To accommodate new students expected in the fast-growing area between Happy Valley and Dove Valley roads, Deer Valley Unified School District is considering a land exchange with USAA for a new school in the company’s Union Park at Norterra planned community.
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Teaching Self-Confidence & Self Defense
A new jiu-jitsu studio in Tramonto instructs on dealing with big problems, “so that a 130– to 140–pound woman can feel like a truck when she’s on you.”
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Residents Call for More Fire & Medical Emergency Resources
North Phoenix residents urge city leaders to allocate more funding to improve emergency response times. The city is listening.
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That Construction in Tramonto? Medical Offices and a Drive-Thru Something
A building under construction on a pad along the west side of North Valley Parkway adjacent to First Watch in the Kohl’s shopping center (aka Tramonto Marketplace), will be the site of a medical office. An attached space will have a wrap-around drive-thru and patio and remains available for lease.
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Tramonto Self-Storage Plans Pushed to Phoenix Planning Commission
Plans for a Tramonto-area self-storage facility moved a step closer to finalization, when the Phoenix North Gateway Village Planning Committee approved the proposal by a vote of 5-0.
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Norterra’s Temporary Fire Station 55 Goes 24/7 by May 1
The part-time temporary Fire Station 55, run out of a hotel, will become operational on a full-time basis, officials announced today. Plus see details on when a new permanent station will be built in North Phoenix.
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