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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

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Arizona Sonoran News

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Guests at the grand opening of the Louis Market Center for Cultural Organizing participate in celebration offerings with the installation of Rasgos Asiáticos on April 18, 2026. (Courtesy of Obsidian Media/Damian Becerra and the Southwest Folklife Alliance)

Louis Market: A community-owned space

Summer Williams, Reporter May 7, 2026

The Southwest Folklife Alliance, in partnership with the grassroots organization Regeneración, has opened the newly renovated Louis Market – formerly a local Chinese grocery store – as a Center for...

(Left) A stinknet cluster removed from East Tucson, Ariz. using a weeding knife. This cluster has thousands of seeds in the petalless bulbs. (Courtesy of Tony Figueroa) 
(Center) A living and green piece of buffelgrass removed from Sentinel Peak Park in Tucson, Ariz. on Feb. 7, 2026. This piece was removed during the Save our Saguros kickoff by volunteers. (Photo by Rory Cunnington)
(Right) A thriving fountain grass bush grows next to a fire hydrant in Bisbee, Ariz. Fountain grass is an ornamental grass used for decoration but requires more water than native plants and outcompetes them for it. (Courtesy of Tony Figueroa)

Southern AZ volunteers battle invasives

Rory Cunnington, Reporter April 30, 2026

On Earth Day in late April, volunteers with the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers were out by 7 a.m.to remove buffelgrass at Tucson Mountain Park. They hiked about half a mile to the removal site then learned...

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