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Not a one-stoplight town anymore In 2004, the City of Maricopa was working with the Arizona Department of Transportation to design and review traffic signals for John Wayne Parkway intersections at Lakeview Drive/Cobblestone Farms Road and State Route 238/
Smith-Enke Road. This InMaricopa file photo from that year shows a two-way stop at the Lakeview intersection while the installation of the traffic signals was being completed. Last year, the city revamped the intersection again, adding another left turn lane into Rancho El Dorado, and a free flow right turn lane onto northbound John Wayne Parkway.
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Coronavirus pandemic closures began shutting down much of Maricopa. During this month, students at local public schools learned the closures would last through the end of the school year. The Harrah’s and Wild Horse Pass casinos announced two- week closures to mitigate the spread of the pandemic. Public buildings like City Hall, Copper Sky Recreational Complex and the Maricopa Library were shuttered.
Goldie the Van was towed. The beloved golden van that collected hundreds of pounds of food donations in the Walmart parking lot and garnered a large social media presence is a core memory for longtime residents of the city. Mandy Hogenes brought the phenomenon to The Ellen Show , Buzzfeed.com, television news channels and radio stations. Meanwhile, on Twitter and Facebook, the hashtag #CopasGoldenVan helped make the vehicle a tourist attraction for several weeks. The van, which had tallied 464,000 miles, was towed to its owner in Texas, who began living in it.
A 13-year-old boy was booked into juvie after firing a handgun multiple times into the air and into the ground at a bus stop and then bringing the firearm to Desert Wind Middle School, stashing it outdoors on school property. Homestead resident Steven Joy called our news desk after seeing a photo of the gun online — it was his gun, and it had been stolen from his home the night before. The student was arrested on a slew of weapons charges, but information about the court proceedings is not publicly available due to the age of the defendant.
A 305-pound marijuana seizure led to the arrest of one man and the deportation of another. Sheriff’s deputies stopped a 1987 Honda Accord traveling northbound on Stanfield Road and found Stanfield resident Jason Zuniga, 28, as the driver and Ivan Pulido, 21, a Mexican national, as the passenger. Zuniga was charged with possessing marijuana, selling drugs, transporting drugs and possessing drug paraphernalia. Three months later, he was convicted on two of the charges. Pulido was turned over to Border Patrol agents for deportation.
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