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Club West Conservancy wins first round of lawsuit BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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Superior Court judge last week allowed the Club West Conservancy to continue pressing for a ban on developing any part of the Club West Golf Course for anything but golf, promising more litigation in 2023 on a legal action filed nearly 13 months ago.
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ake Romaine was just like every other baseball player putting his body on the line for his team last month. Desert Vista was playing a tournament game, building chemistry for what many around the program believe will be a special season next spring. Part of those expectations come from the talent on the roster, Jake, a pitcher and outfielder included. So, when he saw the ball coming toward him, he laid out. He landed awkwardly but didn’t notice any pain right away. He and his parents both wrote it off as a weird landing. But what transpired over the course of the
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In rejected course owner The Edge’s request to dismiss the Conservancy’s suit, Maricopa County Judge Timothy Thomason disagreed with its assertion that the Conservancy had no standing to challenge it. The Conservancy, which comprises an unknown number of the Club West Association’s approximate 2,600 homeowners, formed within a few months of The Edge’s rollout of its first proposal for the 18-hole
site in January 2020. At that time, The Edge proposed selling part of the 165-acre site to Taylor Morrison for the construction of 164 houses that would finance the course’s reconstruction and some additional amenities, including a new clubhouse. Aside from November 2018 to February see
Ahwatukee teen aims to strike out leukemia BY ZACH ALVIRA AFN Sports Editor
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next few days brought a new meaning to the word “toughness” for Jake and the rest of the Romaine Family and made this Christmas season especially meaningful. “I thought I had just hurt my ribs or my spleen,” Jake said. “I wasn’t feeling well the next day, so I went to the doctor. I really didn’t think anything of it.” Jake’s pain around his rib area didn’t ease up and he had a low-grade fever. Initial tests at a local urgent care didn’t reveal much. see
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Desert Vista senior Jake Romaine was dealt a curveball in November when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. (Courtesy Armer Foundation for Kids)
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