PINETOP-LAKESIDE - The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), in cooperation with the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside, is preparing a pedestrian safety and mobility plan for the Pinetop-Lakeside area.

HOLBROOK - Creative high school students can win cash prizes and trophies by designing posters to celebrate National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 18-24. Prizes of $100, $50 and $25 will be awarded.

HOLBROOK - At the urging of County Attorney Brad Carlyon, the Navajo County Inter-Agency Council (IAC) has adopted a new name and a new mission statement to better communicate the organization's goals of assisting victims of child abuse and neglect, as well as victims of adult sexual abuse.

PINETOP-LAKESIDE - Due mainly to the efforts of J. Kent Brooksby, Finance Director, and L. Kelly Udall, Town Manager, the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside has received the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its budget for the third year in a row.

No love was lost between the United States and Mexico in the 1800s. The neighbors were territorial rivals even before Mexican Independence. The rivalry started in Europe.

STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX - House Democratic Leader Pro Tem Jack Brown, D-St. Johns (District 5), will retire from the Arizona House of Representatives at the end of his 2010 term.

WHITERIVER-According to a source close to the investigation, The Independent Counsel appointed by the White Mountain Apache Tribal (WMAT) Council to investigate allegations of ballot-tampering in the Feb. 3 Council Primary Election is recommending immediate filing of criminal charges against four senior Tribal cabinet members.

SHOW LOW - V Mountain Construction, located at 5898 Webbville Road in Lakeside, was named in findings of violations of Arizona's antitrust laws by Arizona's Superior Court and was offered a consent judgement agreement in response.

PINETOP - The Blue Ridge Unified School District Governing Board held a meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m. during which Superintendent Greg Schalow said all areas of the storm-damaged middle and junior high schools are now able to be reoccupied, but not all have been as of yet.

The Northland Pioneer College Small Business Development Center (NPC-SBDC) provides service to local small businesses as part of a national program co-funded by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), which has served Navajo and Apache counties in northeast Arizona since 1989.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick wants to see overall government spending reduced and she wants Congress to set the example.

SNOWFLAKE - One week before the consolidation election in Snowflake and Taylor, Snowflake Town Manager Paul Watson urged all registered voters to go to the polls.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 3 a.m. MST Wednesday.