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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...

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...

Florence Unified School District is weighing two school closure recommendations, and four of the five schools named in either one serve San Tan Valley families. The district's school closure committee has met since March. It is now presenting two recommendations to the district's Budgetary Steering Committee, according to a community email FUSD sen...

A University of Arizona program pays 100% of tuition and fees, adds a monthly stipend and lines up a civilian job with the Department of Defense after graduation. A reader tipped us to it, saying it deserves more attention than it gets. The program is the Defense Civilian Training Corps, or DCTC. The Department of Defense, called the DoD for short,...

The Pinal County Board of Supervisors adopted the property tax rates and levies for every taxing entity in the county on Aug. 17, setting the county's own primary rate at $3.2607 per $100 of assessed valuation, down about 3% from last year. The vote was unanimous. Supervisors Rich Vitiello, Mike Goodman, Stephen Q. Miller, Vice Chairman Jeff Serdy ...