The Chandler Arizonan

The Chandler Arizonan is a prestigious community news outlet and one of the longest-standing news organizations in the area, having started its journey in the 1930s. This publication has been dedicated to delivering news and updates to the vibrant community of North Chandler. Over the years, the Chandler Arizonan has evolved into a comprehensive news platform, ensuring that residents have access to crucial information around the clock. With weekly editions delivered to homes, available at local newsstands, and online at ChandlerNews.com, along with a substantial number of digital subscribers, the Chandler Arizonan has established itself as the primary source of information for both residents and businesses in the flourishing North Chandler area.

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College students share ideas for Chandler park

1 week ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

The City of Chandler is welcoming suggestions from college students to improve its overall sustainability. Arizona State University’s Project Cities is a university-community partnership that pairs students with a city to work on strategies for better environmental, economic and social balance. A team of students last month gave a presentation to the city’s Parks & Recreation Commission about its plan for Chuparosa Park.
Chandler to install solar panels on 23 city buildings

1 week ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

The City of Chandler is moving forward on another plan that will use one-time dollars to generate ongoing savings. In this case, that savings is expected to be around $1.8 million annually. Council approved a resolution that will result in new solar arrays at city facilities at a cost of about $34 million. The expected savings will come in the amount the city must pay for energy in those buildings. The solar arrays, which the city will own, are expected to cut energy cost in half.
Chandler Unified School Board votes for $271.5M bond ask

1 week ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

Ayear after voters soundly rejected its request, Chandler Unified School District will ask its residents to authorize borrowing $271.5 million in a bond election this November. That number is about 56% of the $487.5 million that voters rejected by more than seven points in the November 2024 election. The CUSD Governing Board on June 11 also authorized asking voters to extend for another seven years a 15% override of its maintenance and operation budget in the same Nov. 4 election.
Chandler teen invents motor function helper

2 weeks ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

Before any inventor can develop a new product, they must first figure out what is needed. So says Brad Wu, a rising senior at Arizona College Prep High School. As a result of his volunteer work with senior citizens and watching some who had difficulty with motor function, Brad invented an exoskeleton robotic device as a project for his school’s science fair.
Arizona College Prep rising senior earns $75K scholarship

2 weeks ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

Siyaa Poddar, a rising senior at Arizona College Prep High School, said she and the other finalists were so confident their friends would at least place in the International Science and Engineering Fair, that they made bets. “I told them, if you don’t place, you can cut my hair,” Siyaa said. “I was so confident in that. In return, they said if you don’t place, we’ll transfer our bank accounts to you. We shook on that.”There’s no need for her friends to transfer their bank accounts.
Kyrene panel to study two options with school closures

2 weeks ago | chandlernews.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.
Chandler city manager University of Arizona bound

2 weeks ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

Chandler Councilmember Matt Orlando said he was surprised, but not surprised that City Manager Joshua Wright handed in his resignation on May 28. “The reality is most city managers last about five years,” Orlando said. “Josh has been there for four and a half? And he served as assistant city manager before that.”A few hours after the city announced Wright was resigning, the University of Arizona announced it had hired him as its chief facilities and planning officer.
Chandler Charter fix heads to Nov. 4 ballot

2 weeks ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

One of the unusual aspects of Chandler’s current controversy over being out of alignment with its own charter, is just how un-Chandler like it is. Chandler is one of the best run cities in the state. There is rarely any drama and the city consistently gets high marks from its residents. “I … always said and [been] very clear about it, in Chandler we do not wash our dirty laundry in the streets,” Vice Mayor Christine Ellis said at a special Council meeting on June 2.
Chandler coffee shop opens with a big mission

3 weeks ago | chandlernews.com | Srianthi Perera

Mission Coffee & Tea, which opened in southeast Chandler in February, was founded with the proceeds from selling the building that housed Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church in Gilbert after its small group of congregants found that their church was not sustainable. However, rather than put a coffee shop in a church, they put a church in a coffee shop, said Chip Stoecker, managing partner of a five-member board of directors.
Chandler-Gilbert area getting ‘the Vybe’

3 weeks ago | chandlernews.com | Ken Sain

Angela Fazio said the motivation behind her new Vybe restaurant was to bring something fresh to the Chandler-Gilbert area. “My husband and I have been together since 2001; we date every single night,” she said. “We like going out and Chandler and Gilbert have nothing like this. If you want to go out, most people think of Scottsdale.