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 [...]
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 [...]
EXCLUSIVE SBINSIDER REPORTING| July 12th, 2025 In an unusual accident in Unit 1, a Bobcat darted out from a side yard and into the street in front of a woman driving a golf cart causing her to lose control and ram into a parked RV. Fortunately, the cart driver [...]
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, Help! It’s 112 degrees in the shade, and my normally sweet, brownie baking wife has turned into a heatwave harpy. She won’t let me open the blinds (“the sunlight’s attacking me”), and threw an entire chicken salad [...]
The following data is based on homes that sold and were for sale during the month of May, 2025. For May, 2025, there were 26 homes sold, compared to 37 that were sold in April, 2025. In May, 2024, there were 36 homes sold. -The median sales price for [...]
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