By Laura Swan
The Bisbee Observer
A Bisbee man who was riding his bike was airlifted to a Tucson hospital after being hit by a truck driven by Bisbee Mayor William Porter last week.
On the morning of Jan. 18, Bisbee Police and EMTs responded to an accident on State Route 80 around the Lavender Pit involving a truck and a bicycle.
When officers arrived at the accident, Joseph Denogean, 60, of Bisbee, was lying on the ground in front of Porter’s 1999 Ford half-ton truck, according to Bisbee Police Sgt. Taron Maddux.
According to a witness, Porter and Denogean were both traveling eastbound on State Route 80 in the outside lane around the Lavende ....read full story (e-subscribers only)

Enjoy the show at Rock for Rehab this weekend

 By Dianna Metzler
The Bisbee Observer
The 4th annual Rock for Rehab benefit concert will be taking place in Old Bisbee this Saturday with food, fun and music for tourists and locals alike in effort to raise money for the Verhelst Recovery House.
The event will start at 11 a.m. and run to 9 p.m. with tickets $5 for ages 10 to 15 and $10 for ages 16 and up; kids 10 and younger are free. 
 “We are really excited this year. We totally changed it up. It’s going to be an outdoor concert here at the Convention Center in the parking lot directly behind it. We have an arena like setting set up and it’s going to be a full scale concert,” said Verhelst ....read full story (e-subscribers only)

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The Bisbee Observer serves an area of more than 10,000 residents in the communities of Bisbee, Douglas, Naco, McNeal, Double Adobe, and Palominas / Hereford, Sierra Vista, in Southern Arizona.

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