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Faces in Motion performs live on KXCI radio on May 5. Photo courtesy of Faces in Motion via Instagram.

From high school halls to headliners

Jimmy Furcini, Reporter May 7, 2025

When he looked out onto the Reid Park lawn at the hundreds of strangers crowded around the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center that early April Sunday afternoon, Andrew Kandell admitted being on that...

The Sahuaro girls' basketball team huddles before a game at Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Ariz. Photo courtesy of Steve Botkin.

Here come the Cougars

Jimmy Furcini, Reporter February 24, 2025

Thirty-five consecutive playoff appearances. Twenty-one regional championships. Two state titles. A 2019 Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year. For more than three decades, the Sahuaro High School girls...

James Bourland recently switched from teaching journalism to teaching photography and coding. (Photo by Nicholas Trujillo).

A teacher with a ‘Grande’ heart

December 17, 2019

By Nicholas Trujillo/Arizona Sonora News Listen to the audio version of this story above. In an empty classroom at Tucson’s largest public high school a teacher can’t quite reach the top...

Students sit in a classroom at the University of Arizona (Photo by: Taylor Brestel/Arizona Sonora News

Many Arizona students underprepared for college

Taylor Brestel March 3, 2017

Are Arizona students prepared for college? Recent data says no. The 2016 “Condition of College & Career Readiness” from the ACT testing organization shows Arizona behind the national average...

Natalie Guerrero Hernández  (center) with her parents in their home in Nogales, Sonora.

Going to school in the ‘other’ Nogales: Educating U.S. citizens living in Mexico

Kendal Blust March 10, 2016

  Natalie Guerrero Hernández wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Possibly. “Medicine. Or also architecture or graphic design. Those are the things I like the most,” she said. Natalie...

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