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All gone!  UPDATE: We’ve heard that all the buckets of cherry compote are gone. Thanks, and enjoy the cherry pie that will no doubt be served around Parker for months! Once in a while, some food gets stranded in Parker in transit, when a truck carrying it gets in an accident nearby. On days like that, people can sometimes avail …

The Town of Parker is accepting letters of intent from Town of Parker residents wishing to serve as a Town Council Member for the remaining 3-year period of Council Member Steve Madoneczky’s term. The job requirements include that you must be a registered Town of Parker voter, residing within the Town limits, that you’re able to attend regularly scheduled Town …

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CORRECTION: The original version of this story stated, per the Desert Messenger article passed along to us by Police Chief Gilbert, that the charges involved “felonies” including “aggravated assault on a peace officer”. Michael Roth says this is incorrect and his charges are Disorderly Conduct and Criminal Trespass, both of them misdemeanors. According to a QPD Press Release, there were …

The Arizona Department of Transportation and the Town of Parker are scheduled to hold a public information meeting to learn more about a project to enhance pedestrian access on the south side of California Avenue/State Route 95 Spur between Kofa Avenue and Seventh Street. The project is in the early stages of design, according to ADOT, and would include new …

[ AWC Teacher of the Year Steve Lund, Yesenia Melendez and President Glenn Mayle ] An Arizona Western College student from Parker, Yesenia Melendez, has been named recipient of the Steven P. Lund Presidential Teacher of the Year Scholarship by Steve Lund, who was her English as a Second Language professor during the Fall 2011 semester. Although it was her …

[Photo: Jessica Testa, Cronkite News Online ] The Quechen Tribes are opposing the Quartzsite Solar Energy Project on La Posa Plain, according to this article from Cronkite News, making it one of many projects that various tribes (including CRIT) are taking issue with. The article reports: Like all environmental impact statements, the document for the Quartzite project includes reports of cultural …

Via Wendie.

Canadian entrepreneur and former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington has written Parker Live to “emphatically deny” the allegations we reported a few days ago were filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission against him. Pocklington, who resides in Palm Desert, CA, says he is “stunned” that officials are questioning his La Paz County mine’s gold potential: “The geologists who conducted and …