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 [...]
Dear Sonoran Sue, I am new to the Saddlebrooke community and a keen observer of human behavior. I love to walk early in the mornings, and I’ve become aware of a certain dog-walker’s social circle. It is very tight. They refer to their dogs as their children, exchange detailed [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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