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This 1963 aerial photo, courtesy of the Maricopa Historical Society, shows the city’s landscape, facing south, four decades before its incorporation. In the bottom-left corner of the image, John Wayne Parkway meets Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway before crossing the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Near that intersection, some noticeable landmarks include Headquarters Restaurant, the blue (then red) barn and two large water towers. There were once three of those towers, but only one remains today. The second tower (pictured) collapsed during a 1973 storm. Just to the right of the water towers are three buildings that now constitute Recycle Today Maricopa, a recycling center on Edwards Avenue. Above that is Maricopa High School, with what has been dubbed by students and staff the “old gym” still standing.
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Pinal County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men after Casa Grande resident Tory Beebe, 48, was found dead in a ditch just outside the city limits. Robin Franklin, 37, and John Radcliff, 36, were arrested on first-degree murder charges after Beebe became “the victim of a vehicular assault near his home.” In 2023, Franklin was found guilty of first-degree murder and Radcliff was found guilty of reckless manslaughter.
The Maricopa High School girls’ basketball team defeated the Seton Catholic Sentinels 52-49 to win the Arizona Interscholastic Association Division II title. It was the first and only state championship for the program. “It’s going to be an amazing memory,” senior Ashliegh Haley said. “My high school years ending like this, you can’t even describe it.”
A man brandishing a rifle in front of his house in Homestead was shot in the abdomen by Maricopa police after he aimed the rifle toward five Maricopa cops. Robert Mitchell, 29, was airlifted to Maricopa Medical Center, where he made a recovery. Mitchell was later convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2012.
Maricopa City Council withdrew an annexation proposal for Saddleback Farms, a community east of the city near Santa Rosa Avenue and Steen Road. The decision came after Saddleback Farms residents expressed concerns about property taxes and rezoning. “We don’t want to see neighbor pitted against neighbor,” then-Mayor Kelly Anderson said. Today, Saddleback Farms remains just outside the easternmost contiguous city limits.
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