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 [...]
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 [...]
SBINSIDER EXCLUSIVE REPORTING |July 12th, 2025 At the regular monthly meeting of the Republican club, Golder Ranch's Dan Habinek provided important information for SaddleBrooke residents that could save lives. According to Dan, here are the three things to DIAL 311: Pinal County instituted a this number as a county [...]
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 [...]
REPRINTED FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | July 3rd, 2025 By Alex Janin Dan Jones liked his job as a quality-control inspector and loved his hobby even more: playing in a local bagpipe band. Then he started making mistakes in the pieces he played. He found himself having to write [...]
Sonoran Sue: Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear Dear Sonoran Sue, Yesterday I was at the self-checkout lane at Walmart when the man next to me—who I now refer to as “Avocado Apocalypse Guy”—completely lost it. He apparently rang up too many avocados, insisted the machine [...]
EXCLUSIVE SBINSIDER REPORTING| June 1st, 2025 A resident of SaddleBrooke called in a tip to SBINSIDER about a unusual amount of police activity at the Minit Market Sunday PM. Upon follow up, it was reported that an older male had entered the store in what appeared to be an [...]
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