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MUSD Community Preschool The Early Childhood Leader in Maricopa Community Preschool provides fun, skills-based activities that explore science, literacy, math, art, music, dramatic play, and more! Our rich curriculum aligns to Arizona Early Learning Standards to build skills and promote healthy social-emotional development. Our students work and play together to explore their curiosities, build confidence, and develop problem solving skills for a life-long love of learning.
Sing and Song New restaurants today are the talk of the town, and that’s putting it lightly. But few know restaurants have, in fact, always been this way. Even when Maricopa was a settlement of just a few dozen people. In the late 1800s, in the days of Maricopa Junction, one of the few restaurants in town was known as the Lunch Room. It sat near what was once the Hotel Williams and the iconic water tower, which still stands since circa 1800 near the Amtrak Station. The Lunch Room was a place rail passengers frequently patronized, passing time by sitting and watching the trains load and unload, according to the Maricopa Historical Society, which provided the photos. While details about the Lunch Room are little known, Sing Ching and Song, whose surname has been lost to history, were two of the Chinese-American chefs who worked there. They were some of the finest cooks in the Arizona territory, historians noted.
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Locations Butterfield Elementary School - (520)-568-6100 Maricopa Elementary School - (520) 568-5160 Pima Butte Elementary School - (520) 568-7150 Saddleback Elementary School - (520) 568-6110 Santa Cruz Elementary School - (520)-568-5170 Santa Rosa Elementary School - (520)-568-6150
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Kyrie Eve Sanders arrived a few days earlier than expected, sending her parents, Homestead North residents Jayden and Rachel Sanders, scrambling to get to a Mesa birthing center in the early morning of Christmas Eve. While on State Route 347, traffic jammed, and Rachel Sanders felt her daughter’s head. They pulled over and delivered Kyrie near the I-10 overpass.
Two Christmas Day tragedies in unincorporated Maricopa changed families’ lives forever. A double-wide trailer caught fire on Fresno Road in Thunderbird Farms, and when Pinal County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived it was already entirely engulfed. One unnamed man died. Eleven hours later, a pickup truck carrying three people rolled on Papago Road, just east of Pecan Woods Boulevard. Josiah Abbott, 15, and Morgan Martin, 14, died at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, William Gay, 23, of Phoenix, was treated at the scene for serious injuries and then transported to Chandler Regional Hospital. None wore seatbelts and were all ejected.
Maricopa Police Department served as the official honor guard for the Fiesta Bowl. “We’re happy to be given this opportunity,” said Sgt. Daniel Brown, the Honor Guard Unit Commander. “This department is not even three years old yet, so it is a great honor. We’ve done a lot of events that bring recognition to the city. We’re very pleased and very honored to do it. These are all a great bunch of guys.”
Acclaimed PGA Tour golfer John Daly visited Maricopa to help break ground at Southern Dunes Golf Club’s new clubhouse. He did it in style, arriving in a Hummer limousine. Daly took the opportunity to test out the greens and shot a 75.
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InMaricopa.com | December 2024
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