Ahwatukee Foothills News

Ahwatukee Foothills News is a weekly publication that caters to the Ahwatukee area in Phoenix. The newspaper primarily focuses on education and sports, featuring news related to the two local high schools: Mountain Pointe High School and Desert Vista High School, which are part of the Tempe Union High School District.

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Foothills Golf Course owner sues Troon Golf

3 days ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

It seemed like Foothills Golf Course was headed to become a duffers paradise when Wilson Gee sold the 166-acre site to a subsidiary of Ennabe Properties in 2022.
Ahwatukee-area business caters to your inner wrangler

4 days ago | ahwatukee.com | Ken Sain

Chuck Pablo was a wrangler working at the Koli Equestrian Center just after it opened in 2002. “In fact, the guy who hired me said, ‘I thought you were going to be the first to leave,’” Pablo said. He wasn’t. Now, he’s the owner and operator a family business that includes his children and other relatives. Pablo said the Gila River Indian Community and the previous owner had a disagreement about the management of the equestrian center, which is on tribal land just west of Chandler near Rawhide.
Kyrene panel to study two options with school closures

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

The Long Range Planning Committee studying Kyrene School District’s vacant space problem has settled on two options for further study that both involve closing as many as six elementary campuses and possibly a middle school as well.
A comeback from paralysis to pride for Ahwatukee Harvard graduate

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

As Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista high schools prepare for commencement ceremonies on May 29, one Tempe Union and Kyrene alumna also will be marking an end to an extraordinary journey in education. Mackenzie Saunders, whose soccer injury in December 2009 seemed to initially doom the then-11-year-old Kyrene Akimel-a-Al sixth grader to life in a wheelchair, will walk on stage at Harvard Law School to receive her Juris Doctor.
Phoenix dodges pricey U.S. Department of Justice bullet as probe closed

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

The City of Phoenix last week dodged a bullet that could have cost taxpayers over $250 million as the U.S. Department of Justice rescinded a critical report on its Police Department. Though the June 2024 report by the Biden administration Justice Department triggered widespread ongoing reforms in the way Phoenix officers are trained and do their job, city officials considered it a precursor to putting the Police Department under the control of a federal judge.
TV kitchen tyrant refreshes Ahwatukee restaurant

1 week ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Foodies and even people with less polished palates likely know the name Gordon Ramsay. The Scottish chef/restaurateur/author/TV personality is best known from his take-no-prisoners shows like “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Kitchen Nightmares,” where he’s been known to spit out a badly done dish as he subjects the cook to a withering diatribe – all before thousands of eyes around the globe. But when Ramsay and his production company waltzed into Caffe Boa Ahwatukee Italian Restaurant at 5063 E.
Median Phoenix home price declined in April

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

The housing market in Ahwatukee last month trended toward a market that’s balanced and even tilting slightly toward buyers, judging by April sales data provided by Phoenix Realtors. Median sale prices in both 85044 and 85048 declined year over year while days on the market increased in the same time, according to Phoenix Realtors, whose 11,000 members equipped with cutting-edge sales tools make it the largest association of real estate professionals in the Valley. Data for 85045 was not available.
1% raise reflects Kyrene's tight new budget

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Kyrene School District will be giving all their employees a 1% salary increase as well as a $1,000 retention bonus to full-time workers next school year. If that doesn’t seem like a lot with the rising cost of living, district officials couldn’t agree more. Administration officials told the Kyrene Governing Board May 13 they could only afford the $1.2 million needed for the salary increase through savings in the current budget.
$1K raise reflects Kyrene's tight new budget

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Paul Maryniak

Kyrene School District will be giving all their employees a $1,000 salary increase as well as a $1,000 retention bonus to full-time workers next school year. If that doesn’t seem like a lot with the rising cost of living, district officials couldn’t agree more. Administration officials told the Kyrene Governing Board May 13 they could only afford the $1.2 million needed for the salary increase through savings in the current budget.
Marcos de Niza principal retiring after a string of successes

2 weeks ago | ahwatukee.com | Lee Shappell

In a couple of weeks, Brent Brown and his wife Debbie are going to hitch up the travel trailer and hit the road. “We’re going to go see the United States,” said Brown, who is retiring as principal at Marcos de Niza High after 30 years in the Tempe Union High School District. “We have the first two weeks planned out, and after that, we’re just going to fly by the seat of our pants.” Seeing new territory is nothing new but flying by the seat of his pants will be.