BY GLORIA WOLF (THE JULIA CHILD) OF SADDLEBROOKE| September 20th, 2025 Tucked away, around the corner, in the Casas Adobes Plaza, is a little breakfast, brunch, and lunch restaurant called TSP, or teaspoon. Open early and not open for dinner, this restaurant has everything you would want to wake [...]
“Saddlebrooke Golf Cart Rentals LLC”. In talking with the principals Brian Hand and Ron Bouchard the idea came about over a glass of beer or maybe two. The conversation started with, “how many rental properties exist in Saddlebrooke HOA1 and HOA2, and also does a golf cart rental service [...]
CCP AUDITIONS Auditions for the fall CCP production of Five Shorts with Shortcake will be held Monday, September 15, and Tuesday, September 16, from 10am- 12:30pm at the Mountain View Ballroom West. Please contact Susan Sterling at swsaz79@gmail.com to secure a "read only" script to prepare for auditions. The show will be produced Wednesday, November [...]
September 5th, 2025 SBINSIDER.ORG is always free to subscribers! Approximately 125 - 130 local community newspapers in the U.S. shut down in the past year—equivalent to more than two closures every week. This led to the loss of about 7,000 jobs. This widespread trend continues to contribute to the rise of “news [...]
(Because in SaddleBrooke, some legends are baked in the desert sun until they fossilize.) Dear Sonoran Sue, Years ago, we heard a Fry’s supermarket was going to be built right here on Oracle and SaddleBrooke Blvd. Land was cleared, we had a Porta-Potty sighting, and dreams were born. Then—nothing. [...]
Sonoran Sue: What’s up with the Monsoons?? Dear Sonoran Sue: “We’re rounding 3rd base into Labor Day That robust Monsoon season we were promised has been a total bust in Saddlebrooke. My skin is drier than my sister-in-law’s Thanksgiving turkey! I saw lots of Cumulonimbus, those fluffy thunderheads hovering over us, but they seemed to [...]
CONTRIBUTED BY ALFRED E. NEUMAN | August 16th, 2025 Trying to catch a train in the mid-19th century was no easy feat: At the time, more than 144 local time zones were spread across North America. Before the invention of railway travel and train schedules, these slight time discrepancies [...]
EXCLUSIVE| CONTRIBUTED BY PETER PARADY| August 16th, 2025 As shown in the photo, a mysterious Unidentified Floating Object (UFO) was seen floating free in the lake on SaddleBrooke two. The object which presumably was intraterriterial in origin, was eventually towed out of the lake by the authorities. According to [...]
Dear Sonoran Sue, The rains last night were glorious—but this morning, I found what looked like a greased-up baked potato with eyelids giving me the stink-eye from my patio. A neighbor said it’s a Sonoran Desert toad and warned me not to let my dog near it. Later, I saw at [...]
Sonoran Sue: Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear| July 12th, 2025 Sonoran Sue tackles your burning questions with the wisdom of a sun-scorched saguaro and the attitude of a woman who’s had it with everything. This issue: the uphill battle of “escaping the heat” by heading to [...]
Copyright 2023 | All Rights Reserved |Douglas Wolf
