Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
Subscriber Exclusive
A look back at this week in Surprise history
Posted
By Independent Newsmedia
Here is a look at Surprise history through the years on this week, compiled from archives of Independent Newsmedia, Newspapers.com and the city of Surprise historical records:
1962
Dysart High School classes begin on the campus of the Dysart elementary school. It won’t have its own building for another year.
1967
The Surprise Town Council asks the Superior Court to dismiss a lawsuit the town is facing after it voted to increase its membership from five to seven.
1975
Low pressure caused water shortages in Surprise and El Mirage. El Mirage, which served Surprise’s water, was awaiting new parts to fix its well.
1987
A committee to recall Mayor George Cumbie gathers 200 signatures.
1996
Surprise sells the Northwest Regional Landfill to Sanifill, Inc., for $1 million.
1999
The 10,000-square-foot Riverboat Bingo Hall opens its doors at 183rd Avenue and Bell Road.
2001
Surprise’s third fire station, Fire Station 4, opens at 163rd and Grand avenues to serve Sun City Gran’s north side, Saguaro Acres and Saguaro View. Station 3 is expected to open near Cotton Lane and Greenway Road in spring 2002.
******
The first U.S. Post Office in Surprise opens at Parkview Place and Bell Road.
2007
RBI Retail Brokers of Scottsdale buys Truman Ranch land at Cotton Lane and Waddell Road for around $12 million. Plans are for a shopping center. James Truman who grew up on the farm in the 1950s, still lives on the site at this time.
2009
Sharon Wolcott wins another term as mayor with a win over two candidates in the city’s primary election. Mike Woodward and Skip Hall also win in their respective districts.