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Here is everything we know about what is being built across the San Tan Valley area, organized by location. See upcoming zoning and council meetings on the Council Meetings and Agendas page. Know about a project we have missed? Tell us about it and we will look into it. Looking for a business that is already open? Our business directory has address...

Leaving the area comes first if a natural gas leak is suspected at a San Tan Valley area home. The calls come after. September is National Preparedness Month, and City of Mesa Gas, the natural gas provider for the San Tan Valley area, is passing along the warning signs of a gas leak and the order of steps a household should follow. Signs That ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Aug. 31 that its Queen Creek Arizona Temple will be built southeast of Ryan Road and Euell Drive, on ground between Meridian Road and Ironwood Road that was unincorporated San Tan Valley before Queen Creek annexed it. For a lot of readers, that is the part of this that lands closest to home....

The Town of San Tan Valley owns no parks, no recreation facilities and no land. It has about 100,000 residents. On Sept. 2 the Town Council heard what it would cost to fix that, and then told staff to stop waiting and start making deals. "This town, when it was created, has exactly zero square feet of parks, zero square feet of facilities, and we o...

Rack Room Shoes opens its new San Tan Valley store this Saturday, Sept. 12, at 10 a.m., with a ribbon cutting and giveaways at Skyline Ranch Marketplace. The store sits at 1416 W. Hunt Hwy, Suite E-1, on the northeast corner of Hunt Highway and Gary Road. It covers 8,000 square feet. What Is Happening Saturday First 100 customers get Rack Room Shoe...

Pinal County property tax notices are landing in mailboxes, and the first payment deadline is 5 p.m. on Oct. 1. Treasurer Mike McCord released a walkthrough of the bill this month answering the questions his office fields every fall. Property taxes are the oldest tax levy in the country and the only major tax common to all 50 states. They pay for l...

San Tan Valley resident Steve Pratt filed a closing brief with the Arizona Corporation Commission on Sept. 4 asking regulators to send the remaining balance of a $456,000 legal settlement to EPCOR customers as bill credits, rather than letting the utility hold the money for what he calculates could be decades. Attached to the brief is an open lette...

San Tan Valley shoppers already pay a 6.7 percent sales tax, and that part is legitimate. What is not legitimate, the town says, is the extra town tax some businesses have started adding on top of it. Town Manager Brent Billingsley told the Town Council on Sept. 2 that the town has approved a sales tax but does not yet have one in effect. The counc...

A free after-school reading program is coming to the San Tan Valley Library this fall, and families need to register by Sept. 15, the same day it begins. Read Better Be Better runs Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 15 through Nov. 5, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the San Tan Valley Library, 31505 N. Schnepf Road. There is no cost. How the Program Works...

San Tan Valley residents who sign up for a free library card this month will count toward a Pinal County Library District goal of reaching 100,000 registered users by the end of the year. The district is marking September as Library Card Sign-up Month, and the San Tan Valley Library on Schnepf Road is one of its branches. A card is free to any Pina...

The first annexation request the Town of San Tan Valley has ever received is about 3.3 acres of vacant dirt at the southwest corner of Gantzel Road and Lone Star Lane, and the owners want to build a retail center on it. The request is not new, and neither is the opposition. Neighbors turned out against it at the Town Council's required public heari...

The San Tan Valley Town Council met Sept. 2 for a full agenda. Here is everything the council did. The sales tax is not active yet, and some businesses are charging it anyway The council adopted its tax rates on July 1 in two 6-1 votes, with Councilmember Gia Jenkins opposed, but the Arizona Department of Revenue has to actually switch the tax on, ...

A Pinal County library card is free to residents of the San Tan Valley area, and there are two kinds. They are not two ways to get the same card. One is faster. The other is the only one that lets you check out physical materials. The San Tan Valley Library is at 31505 N. Schnepf Road, San Tan Valley 85140. The phone number is 520-866-8035. Hours a...

A baby girl who was born in cardiac arrest at a San Tan Valley home in July is expected to make a full recovery, and on Sept. 2 the Town Council honored the firefighters and paramedics who brought her back. Her father brought her to the meeting. "She's truly a miracle," he told the room. What happened on July 30 The call came in at 8:40 a.m. A newb...

A sticky note on a bathroom mirror is the whole idea behind a Pinal County campaign running through September. Pinal County Public Health is inviting schools, businesses, organizations and community coalitions across the county, San Tan Valley included, to take part in Notes of Hope, a monthlong effort to leave short, encouraging messages where peo...