Lee Shappell
Editor at The Tempe Tribune
Editor/Tempe Tribune. … Founder/The Paragraph Factory, a boutique PR firm. … I like nice people and Shih Tzus. Everybody else can go to hell!
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6 days ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
After five years of legal wrangling, the parties in the Shady Lane Estates bridle-path flap have collectively said, “Whoa, Nellie,” and galloped into a settlement. The bottom line: A block wall that extends 10 feet into the south Tempe path stays. The wall was built on the rear of a Shady Lane property, northwest of the Warner Road-McClintock Drive intersection, in 2020 to enlarge the backyard.
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1 week ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
The Tempe Development Review Commission on a 6-0 vote May 13 recommended to City Council that it approve the development plan review – including site plan, building elevations and landscape plan – for a twin 20-story complex on 3.6 acres on the southeastern corner of Rural Road and University Drive. Council in December, in an unusual two-step process, had approved a rezoning request for The Leo despite not having the project’s development plan review nor a traffic impact study.
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1 week ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
You sat in more stop-than-go traffic on Interstate-10 on the way home from work while you resisted the urge – or not – to hurl epithets. That’s the way it was. The way it is now, as Arizona Department of Transportation mops up its nearly four-year rebuild of the Valley’s busiest freeway, 11 miles from I-17 through the Broadway Curve to the Loop 202 interchange in Ahwatukee: Better. It’s fresh, so it’s going to take time to assess how much better. ADOT has finished the heavy lifting.
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1 week ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
Tempe will go into the summer with only one official cooling center, down from five a year ago, due largely to a change in qualifications. Faith-based volunteers at centers from a year ago that are now out of the plan this summer are irked. Tim Burch, Tempe’s community health and human services director, said it was not a deliberate cutback.
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2 weeks ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
They were two stellar pillars of the community who served their country well. James Albert “Al” Kitts and Max Connolly were decorated combat veterans of the U.S. Army during World War II. Neither was killed in combat and both returned to Tempe to become notable post-war figures in the community. They’re both now gone, and they will be among those remembered at Tempe American Legion Post 2 while the nation pauses to reflect on Memorial Day.
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