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Compassionate Care. Exceptional Services.
LEADING OFF Editor’s letter 4 Contributors 4 HISTORY This month in history 6 Making art in Stanfield’s cattail thickets 8 YEAR IN REVIEW Readers’ choice 10 Most and least expensive home sold 14 COMMUNITY Shop with a Cop: Breakfast with Santa edition 16 EDUCATION Why MUSD teachers are shaping Arizona’s math conversation 20 Maricopa High School dancers put emotion into motion 24 SPORTS Basketball boys bounce back on their home court 26 Soccer Rams even record going into the break 27 BUSINESS Built for rural desert, ED3 scaled to serve a modern city 28 Data center proposals are popping up around Maricopa. Can the rural lifestyle survive? 30 Restaurant inspections 35 Fine-dining chefs craft breathtaking plates in winter 36 Mapping business news around the city 40 HEALTH & WELLNESS Why BHRT could be the New Year’s resolution you end up keeping 44
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HOSPITAL & 24/7 ER Maricopa’s State-of-the-art
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HOME City Realtor forecasts what to expect from the market in 2026 47 How and when to safeguard your garden against the desert’s nighttime chills 48 This simple maintenance decision can cost landlords thousands in repairs 49
TRENDING A look at what’s hot on InMaricopa.com 63
PARTING SHOT Great blue heron 64
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Extreme monthly home sales 50 Is the housing market ready to take off this year? 54
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ON THE COVER David Iversen captures Electrical District No. 3 lineman Sean Scarlato directing traffic on Stanfield Road.
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