“PALO VERDE TUMBLEWEED OFFICES. Today marks my 30th anniversary at the Palo Verde Tumbleweed. I joined as a local beat reporter in 1941, speaking with folks and gathering Community Notices for the weekend edition.

As Editor-in-Chief, my role is pretty much the same as it was back then — listening to the voices that make up the chorus of Palo Verde, Arizona.

Our little town has gone through a lot since those days, from the tail-end of the copper rush, the flash of a gold rush, growth and shrinkage and growth again. And yet, the sun rises all the same and the Tumbleweed prints just about every day of the year. Your voices, though, have remained constant. And we continue looking toward the future, toward innovations our parents and their parents never hoped to imagine.”