After more than a year of restoration, the historic Hayden House in Tempe has reopened and is now home to the offices of the Downtown Tempe Authority. The Hayden House, originally built in 1873, is the oldest continuously occupied building in Maricopa County and served as Monti’s La Casa Vieja restaurant beginning in the 1950s […]

Barb Wilkinson, interim principal at the Accelerated Learning Academy (ALA) on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, is showing her adult students and coworkers that you can thrive while balancing being a new parent and having to work. The previous principal at ALA resigned in March, and Wilkinson was asked to fill the position in […]

Legacy Village of Salt River, a luxury senior living facility, is officially open for business after waiting for over a year due to the pandemic. On April 28, Legacy Village held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in their center courtyard in front of staff, community partners and residents to mark the occasion. “We are so honored and […]

Marriott International and Wish for Wheels, a nonprofit organization based in Denver, teamed up to purchase and assemble 50 Huffy brand bikes and helmets to give away to children in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The bikes and helmets were on display in a long row during a regional Marriott International engineering team community […]

On April 14, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s 12 Percent Gaming Grant Committee presented a check for $12,000 to the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) during SARRC’s community breakfast at the Arizona Biltmore Resort’s Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom. SARRC is a nonprofit that conducts research, provides evidence-based practices, disseminates effective training and […]

On Monday, April 4, as the nervous and protective mother and father bald eagles soared above in a circular pattern, the Salt River Fire Department (SRFD) aided efforts by the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) to band two young bald-eagle nestlings from a nest on the southwest side of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian […]

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Community Development Department (CDD) hosted a gathering of vendors, developers and SRPMIC staff on the Pepsi Patio at the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Los Angeles Dodgers spring training game on March 28 at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Around 160 people responded to an RSVP for the celebration of […]

In March, Debbie Nez-Manuel, longtime community leader and activist, was elected as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Western Region Vice Chair. Nez-Manuel’s term begins immediately and will last for four years. The region covers 16 states and territories and includes Arizona Democrats abroad. She was elected to the Democratic Party in January 2020, becoming its […]