Dear Sonoran Sue, I read this wild news article about a raccoon breaking into a liquor store in Virginia, getting drunk on the bottom-shelf scotch, smashing up the place, then passing out on the bathroom floor. Animal control found him snoring like he’d been on a bender with my [...]
CONTRIBUTED BY OUR RESIDENT ERMA BOMBECK...\November 30th. 2025 Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear By the time the last piece of pumpkin pie was stuffed, and the tryptophan fog settled over Saddlebrooke, I did what any responsible journalist would do. I poured a modest digestif (medicinal), [...]
BY Rachel Gresh| November 9th, 2025 As much as we want them to be, doctors are not psychic. We, as patients, need to play our part to make appointments as productive as possible. This means asking more in-depth questions to take control of our health. When a doctor can see the [...]
Sonoran Sue Speaks Out: Out and about in the ‘Brooke today. How silly of me to forget! It’s Halloween — that magical time when mature adults (and I use that term the way Fry’s uses “fresh”) transform into a mob of sugar-fueled toddlers in polyester costumes. Let’s get one [...]
October 18th, 2025 Dear Sonoran Sue, I had the fright of my life while shopping at the Fry’s on Oracle. A bear had wandered into the store! I was in fresh produce when I heard someone shout, “Bear in aisle seven!! I immediately armed myself with two unripe cantaloupes and assumed [...]
VARIOUS NEWS SOURCES | Updated October 7th, 2025 Editor's Note: An earlier version posted reported two fatalities. Later news reported a single fatality, who was a resident of Saddlebrooke. SaddleBrooke resident Sandy Mader, a longtime volunteer with Cody’s Friends, was killed Saturday early-morning at the intersection of Oracle Road [...]
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 [...]
(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. [...]
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 [...]
BY DOUGLAS WOLF| August 10th, 2025 It is a cliche, but it applies because it is true: Everything imagined in science fiction will one day become science fact. 160 years ago the science fiction writers such as Jules Verne imagined submarines, flying machines, rocketry, mobile radios and a form [...]
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