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InMaricopa
John and Mary Lou Smith. Photo by Michelle Chance
People are moving to Maricopa every day. But do the newcomers â or the old timers, for that matter â give any thought to the names on our street signs, with the possible exception of John Wayne, of course.
InMaricopa delved into local history to tell you how some of our local roads received their names.
PORTER ROAD
Elton K. Porter farmed in Maricopa in the early 1950s. He and other community volunteers dug a large ditch at Porter Road and Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway and filled it with water, creating a popular swimming hole for teens in the early 1950s. In 1954, he died of a heart attack while fighting the fire that destroyed Maricopa Elementary School, the townâs 1914 red-brick school. The name of the school was changed to Elton K. Porter Elementary School for the former school board member, but over time returned to its original name.
Most expensive home: Rancho rancher sells for $410K
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InMaricopa I feel my primary job
is to create an environment where everyone can succeed, whether that’s a single parent or a church or small business or a big business or a developer, says Maricopa City Manager Rick Horst. I don’t want to create the city of Maricopa’s wealth, I want to create the
community’s wealth.”
If there is such a thing as a practical visionary who can survive in government, Rick Horst may be that “unicorn.”
On his arrival as city manager in 2018, he set about to build a city without creating debt.
That economic development philosophy was honed over a 30-year career in public administration. And it led him to this city in the desert with plenty of open land to
55-and-older residents now eligible for COVID vaccine
A nurse administers the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. Photo by Bob McGovern
Good news prevailed in this week’s COVID-19 virus reporting issued by Pinal County Public Health. There were only 52 new cases in the county in the week ending Friday, Feb. 26 and just 11 hospitalizations and one fatality. The county’s positivity rate dropped to 14.1 percent.
This marked the fourth consecutive week in which the county’s number of cases has declined, and the fifth in the past six weeks. The county has now administered a total of 75,462 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which includes both first and second doses. The county still is vaccinating only those in the 1-A and 1-B1 groups, which include health care professionals, EMS and paramedics; long-term care residents; essential workers and infrastructure workers, including law enforcement, corrections officers, educators, food and agricultural workers, utility and transportation workers,
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