Page Visitors: 23 By Tom Brecke South x South Mountain (This article first published in May 2024 in the South X South Mountain online news. Subcribe to the local newsletter here.) By Tom Brecke, South x South Mountain If you want to understand the heart and soul of Laveen, look no further than Stephanie Hurd. […]
Lifelong South Mountain resident raising up community by raising fish
Page Visitors: 8 By Tom Brecke South x South Mountain (This article first published in March 2024 in the South X South Mountain online news). You can’t blame Dr. George Brooks for being partial to the ground in the South Mountain area. After all, he’s spent his entire life on the southside of Phoenix. And […]
Celebrate trail opening on June 28 at Desert Foothills Trailhead
Page Visitors: 1,021 Ribbon cutting set for 9:30 a.m. June 28 for Desert Foothills Trailhead at South Mountain Park.
Habitat for Humanity raising funds to help more families
Page Visitors: 827 This article first appeared in the February edition of the South Mountain District News. Imagine losing your husband to an exhausting and expensive battle with cancer, then losing your job and finally losing the house you had bought and made into a home with him and your two children. “It’s not something […]
CrossFit, Comfy Pets offer November classes
Page Visitors: 1,004 The following news briefs appear in today’s print edition of the South Mountain District News Broadway Road opens between 43rd and 51st in Laveen With road projects tying up traffic along Dobbins Road and Southern Avenue, the opening late last month of this extension may relieve a little of the east/west morning […]
Home prices rise throughout South Mountain and Laveen
Page Visitors: 1,050 (This article appears in the February 2016 print issue of the South Mountain District News) Home prices for existing homes rose throughout the South Mountain and Laveen village areas during 2015, a steady trend that local realtors predict will continue throughout 2016. “I like this kind of steady increase. It’s not only […]
City and community leaders predict growth, freeway in 2016
Page Visitors: 977 As the dust settles on 2015, residents in South Mountain and Laveen Villages can say goodbye to a year of transition and welcome 2016, the year of inevitable and dramatic transformation for their community, from added police officers to the first stages of construction on the South Mountain Freeway. While neighborhood crime, […]
Laveen Village Voice: Community says goodbye to Laveen activist
Page Visitors: 1,169 One of Laveen’s most active residents and staunchest community supporters announced last month that she would be moving to Henderson, Nevada due to her husband’s career. Stefany Scovell served for more than six years on the Village Planning Committee and was a founder of the Laveen Meadows Block Watch. Scovell also was […]
Muslim Community Building Mosque in Laveen
Page Visitors: 1,092 Members of the Muslim community in Laveen are building a 3,000-square-foot masjid at the southeast corner of Dobbins Road and 51st Avenue on county land near the Laveen Post Office. Naveed Ahmed, a board member and treasurer for the Islamic Center of Laveen, said the facility will give nearly 500 families from […]
SMCC, Ahwatukee Chamber Launching Young Entrepreneurs Academy
Page Visitors: 728 Rose Tring for the South Mountain District News Eight aspiring business leaders of the future are getting their starts this month as members of the inaugural class of the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, sponsored by the Ahwatukee Chamber Community Foundation and South Mountain Community College. “We’re launching it this month,” said Anne Gill, […]