Mark Erickson Hello friends and neighbors, we would like to reintroduce ourselves. For those of you who are not aware, we are a group of SaddleBrooke artisans who love our crafts and would like to share those with you at our gift shop. We invite you to come and visit us at our “little shop…
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August 2025, Front Page
SBCO Walk for Kids!
Nancy McCluskey-Moore Each fall SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) hosts the Walk for Kids. In 2025 the Walk will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. This signature SBCO event helps support our food, clothing, enrichment, and education programs benefiting youngsters along a 100-plus-mile corridor from Catalina to Globe. Each year SBCO’s programs touch…
July 2025, Front Page
MPMGA Trounces SaddleBrooke Ranch in Battle for Oracle Junction
Jim Grosjean July has arrived in SaddleBrooke, and those of us who are sticking it out through the summer heat can take solace in the fact that the MPMGA will continue to put on a thrilling golf tournament every Thursday. Back in scorching-hot June, we played a few events, beginning with the famed Summer Bash.…
July 2025, Front Page
MV Lady Putters Take the Heat
Dee Rock Twenty-eight MountainView Lady Putters (MVLP) braved the nearly 100-degree temperature when the golf course reopened on June 16 after its closure for aerification. The high temperature did not deter these women from their customary friendliness and competitiveness. But it was evident that when the temperature increases, attendance decreases. Sunscreen, protective eyewear and headgear,…
July 2025, Front Page
‘Stuff the Bus’ for Mountain Vista K-8 School Is July 24!
Crystle Nehrmeyer, District Superintendent Our annual “Stuff the Bus” events in SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch are valuable opportunities for our students, staff, and community to come together and help the students at Mountain Vista K-8 School in Oracle start their school year strong. The event is traditionally scheduled right after school starts in August. However,…
July 2025, Front Page
‘Five Shorts with Shortcake’: Three Tall Women and Five Short Plays
This is the official word:auditions are a go for the Fall 2025 Community Circle Players (CCP) production, Five Shorts with Shortcake. Three directors–Susan Sterling, Shawne Cryderman, and Carol Henry–recently met to begin planning for auditions, finalizing scripts, rehearsal schedules, sets, props, and costumes, all the elements needed for another spectacular CCP production. We are very…
July 2025, Front Page
SaddleBrooke Health Fair Volunteers Needed
The SaddleBrooke Health Fair is scheduled for Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon in the MountainView ballroom. This is a yearly event for all residents of SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO. We are looking for volunteers for positions in a team environment. It’s a fun experience and light commitment. We have openings on teams…
June 2025, Front Page
SaddleBrooke Squares Dance Club Graduates
Mary Klootwyk Graduating from a square dance class is a very special occasion for a new dancer and signifies successful completion of a series of square dance lessons that are necessary prior to entering the activity as a qualified square dancer. It is an achievement, it is a reward, it represents a degree of accomplishment,…
June 2025, Front Page
8-Ball Club Champion!
Joseph F. Giammarino The Pool Players of the Brooke Billiards Club (PPB) has been in existence as a SaddleBrooke One-sanctioned club since January of 2016, and it has not had an 8-Ball Club Champion until now: Tony “The Snake” Cardillo. In early 2024, PPB Vice President Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedeiu headed up a small committee to…
June 2025, Front Page
Creating Mosaic Art
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg If you have ever visited any of the ancient cities of the world, you have probably seen the beautiful and intricate artistic style of mosaic art. Mosaic style is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. The oldest mosaics were…