“Shadow inventory”
May 30, 2011 by Shawn Stagg · Leave a Comment
Metro Phoenix has a “shadow inventory” of nearly 100,000 homes, the kind that market watchers sometimes fear could flood the region’s long-suffering housing market and drive down prices. These homes are either in foreclosure or the owners are behind on their mortgage payments, signaling that the houses could eventually join the supply of properties offered [...]
Peach Festival
May 22, 2011 by Shawn Stagg · Leave a Comment
Birds sing. Insects whir. Farm machinery hums. And children call out and laugh as they search for the rosiest fruit on the trees. At least, that’s what Jen Herbrandson’s daughters and niece are doing. Herbrandson, of Chandler, and her mother-in-law, Ruth, have brought the girls on a morning peach-picking expedition at Schnepf Farms. The fourth-generation [...]
Queen Creek Elementary
May 17, 2011 by Shawn Stagg · Leave a Comment
Queen Creek Elementary School students on Monday joined in an assembly to celebrate its designation as an A+ school by the Arizona Educational Foundation. The distinction capped two years of work by a group of 40 administrators, staff members, teachers and parents to secure what Principal Erika Copeland called “an honor.” “It validates all the [...]
Olive Mill
May 12, 2011 by Shawn Stagg · Leave a Comment
At the base of Queen Creek’s San Tan Mountains, white flowers are forming on some of the trees. Tiny and not overly fragrant, they’re an unassuming indicator of potentially great — and tasty — things to come. “If 5 percent of the flowers turn into olives, we’ll have a bumper crop,” says Rob Holmes, general [...]