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Jack W. Harmon Elementary School will hand out more than 400 free backpacks, free haircuts and free school supplies at its annual Back to School Night on July 22. The event runs from 4 to 6 p.m. at the school, 39315 N. Cortona Drive, San Tan Valley. It is open to all students registered at Harmon, part of the J.O. Combs Unified School District. The...

American Legion Post 97 will host a blood drive at the San Tan Valley Veteran Center on Monday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The drive will take place at the Veteran Center, 5764 E. Hunt Highway, San Tan Valley, AZ. Organizers say donations collected at the event will help provide blood to patients in need throughout the community. Vitalant, the...

San Tan Valley area families can shop for free clothing, shoes, backpacks and school uniforms at an annual community clothing drive Saturday, July 18 — and the nonprofit behind it needs donations and volunteers this week to pull it off. The drive is run by My Mother's Pantry, a nonprofit serving the San Tan Valley and Queen Creek areas that keeps c...

Dave Gilbert Loescher, 58, of Florence, is in custody for the hit-and-run crash that killed a 23-year-old woman Friday on Hunt Highway in the San Tan Valley area, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office announced Saturday. Loescher was apprehended Saturday afternoon, one day after the crash. He is being booked and will face multiple felony charges for le...

Dr. Karin Hilgersom will serve as interim president of Central Arizona College beginning Monday, July 13, the college's Governing Board announced July 7. She will lead the college on a temporary basis while the board finishes its search for a permanent president. CAC is Pinal County's only community college, serving about 5,700 students across its ...

UPDATE — Saturday, July 11: A suspect is in custody. PCSO says a Florence man was arrested Saturday afternoon and faces multiple felony charges for leaving the scene. Investigators also corrected the vehicle description: the truck was a 2024 dark blue Nissan Titan, not the black Ford initially described. Full story here. The Pinal County Sheriff's ...

SRP is offering several programs this summer to help customers pay their electric bills, including bill credits, one-time grants and a flat-rate payment option. SRP provides electric service to the entire Town of San Tan Valley and to parts of the surrounding area. Help Based on Income Three SRP programs offer bill assistance based on a customer's ...

Monsoon season brings the kind of heavy wind, rain and flooding that can damage natural gas lines and equipment - and City of Mesa Gas, the natural gas provider for the San Tan Valley area, is reminding residents of the steps they can take to stay safe before, during and after a storm. Severe monsoon weather can topple trees, flood yards and i...

Voters in the Town of San Tan Valley are electing a Town Council for the first time, and the July 21 primary could decide all seven seats. Election Day is Tuesday, July 21, with polls open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Early ballots went out to registered voters June 24, and early voting is underway. Voters can cast a ballot in person at the San Tan V...

The Pinal County Public Health Services District has confirmed that a person infectious with measles visited a Coolidge restaurant on June 25, potentially exposing anyone who was there during a specific window of time. The exposure occurred at the Wendy's at 1120 N. Arizona Blvd. in Coolidge between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2026....

A San Tan Valley resident is publicly thanking the Pinal County Sheriff's Office and San Tan Mountain View Funeral Home for the care they showed her family after the death of her father. Savannah shared her gratitude in a local community post, crediting both organizations with helping her family through one of the hardest experiences a family can f...

A Pinal County road project that widened Combs Road and built a new stretch of Kenworthy Road to keep up with growth in the San Tan Valley area has been named a national Public Works Project of the Year. The American Public Works Association (APWA), a national group for the people who build and maintain roads and other public infrastructure, gave t...

The Pinal County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement on June 17 for the Pinal County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) to keep providing police service inside the Town of San Tan Valley, finalizing a deal that locks in the same level of patrol coverage residents had before the town incorporated. The board approved the agreement on its consent agenda —...

The Town of San Tan Valley Town Council adopted the town's first sales tax July 1, setting rates on construction, retail, restaurants and other sales on the same day the town became responsible for paying for its own services rather than relying on Pinal County. The council approved the rates in two 6-1 votes, with Councilmember Gia Jenkins opposed...

Any business located in the San Tan Valley area can now claim a business listing in the SanTanValley.com business directory, at no cost. When a neighbor needs a good mechanic, a place to take the dog, or someone to fix the AC, SanTanValley.com is where they look. A free listing puts your business right there, in front of the neighbors already ...