San Tan Valley News

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...

Dutch Bros Coffee and Busy Bees are the first two tenants headed for a six-space commercial center on Hunt Highway in San Tan Heights, and one of the last pieces to settle before they open is how tall the sign out front can be. The Town of San Tan Valley Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed a comprehensive sign plan for the center at its Aug. 24...

An event venue is coming to Hunt Highway in unincorporated San Tan Valley after the Pinal County Board of Supervisors approved a rezoning for the site on Aug. 26. The board approved the request as presented, with 13 stipulations, changing the zoning on about 4.87 acres from CB-1 Local Business to C-3 General Commercial. The parcel sits along West H...

The Town of San Tan Valley will proclaim September as Military Families Month at its Sept. 16 Town Council meeting. The same night, the council will recognize Military Moms in QC / STV, an all-volunteer local group, for 20 years of service to the community. The ceremony takes place during the council meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m. in the...

Melanie Eckman, a 73-year-old San Tan Valley great-grandmother, has until Friday evening to finish first in her voting group and move on to the semifinals of a national modeling competition that ends on a runway at New York Fashion Week. Eckman is a quarterfinalist in Next Runway Star, which advances contestants by public vote. Quarterfinalists mus...

Anyone with a Pinal County library card can read thousands of comics, manga and graphic novels at no cost through Comics Plus, a digital service the library district offers in a web browser and through free apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. There are no waitlists and no holds. The Pinal County Library District's digital collections page promises u...

The San Tan Valley Library's Teen Advisory Board is back, and teens who show up Saturday earn an hour of volunteer time for attending. The group meets Saturday, Aug. 22, from noon to 1 p.m. at the San Tan Valley Library, 31505 N. Schnepf Road. It is open to teens ages 14 to 18. What the Group Does Saturday Saturday's meeting has three items on it. ...

If SRP provides your electricity, you can get two free desert-adapted shade trees this fall. The only requirement is a free online workshop, and the next two sessions are Saturday, Aug. 29 and Saturday, Sept. 26, both at 10 a.m. SRP runs the Shade Tree Program with Trees Matter. Complete the workshop, which covers where and how to plant your trees ...

San Tan Valley arm wrestler Tim Tallmadge traveled halfway around the world this week and came home with the biggest win of his career. Tallmadge, 37, competed at East vs. West 25 in Batumi, Georgia, the pay-per-view event widely considered the premier stage in professional arm wrestling. It was his first appearance at the event, and he entered as ...

A Pinal County judge has ruled that 17 Circle Cross Ranch homeowners can move forward with their lawsuit against Salt River Project over the high-voltage power lines built through their neighborhood's common areas. Judge Joseph Georgini of Pinal County Superior Court denied SRP's request to dismiss the case in an order entered Aug. 3. The ruling me...

The Town of San Tan Valley now reviews and inspects construction work in its streets and utility easements, taking those duties over from Pinal County under an agreement both governments approved Aug. 5 — the Pinal County Board of Supervisors in the morning and the Town Council that evening. The agreement is a memorandum of understanding, a written...

The new SanTanValley.com is live, and it is the biggest change we've made since this site started in 2009. For 17 years, this has been the place San Tan Valley goes to find out what's happening. That part hasn't changed. What's changed is everything else. We rebuilt the entire site from the ground up so that everything about living here, both insid...

Four Pinal County sheriff's deputies will work as school resource officers in the two public school districts serving the San Tan Valley area under agreements the Pinal County Board of Supervisors approved Aug. 5. Three officers go to Florence Unified School District #1 and one goes to J.O. Combs Unified School District #44. A school resource offic...

All seven San Tan Valley Town Council seats were decided outright in the July 21 primary, and voters approved both town ballot measures, under official results the Town Council accepted Aug. 5. Council members voted unanimously to adopt Resolution 2026-43, declaring the official canvass of the votes. Pinal County, which runs elections for the town,...