Autumn Johnston turns 9!
We love you Autumn, even when you drive us crazy sometimes!
Bats & Buzzards on the Bridge Date: Friday, September 25, 2026 Time: 5:00–7:00pm Location: Hassayampa Event Bridge, 333 E Wickenburg Way, Wickenburg, AZ Wickenburg’s skies will once again come alive this fall as hundreds of migrating turkey vultures and thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats gather for one of the community’s most unique wildlife spectacles. The…
Readers of The Bagdadian now have another place to find the kind of small-town stories we have always enjoyed sharing. The Copper Chronicle is covering Morenci, Clifton and communities throughout the Copper Corridor, with a focus on the people, schools, events and organizations that keep small-town Arizona strong in an increasingly urban world. The Bagdadian…
*Photo of Ciarra Moore provided by Ciarra Moore Bagdad High School student Ciarra Moore was recently awarded a Grant McKee and Robert Caldwell Service & Leadership Scholarship through Catholic Charities’ North Star Youth Partnership. Moore participated in the organization’s PAL program for two years, helping with diaper drives, tutoring younger students, campus events, and presentations…
ContactStevie Kelso, Public Affairs Community Liaison928.890.7495, skelso@azgfd.gov Arizona Game and Fish DepartmentNEWS RELEASEFor immediate release, March 10, 2026 Information sought in suspected poaching of javelina in Bagdad BAGDAD, Ariz. — The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking information about the suspected poaching of a javelina in Game Management Unit 18B.The javelina was found…
We wanted to live in a small town, somewhere with a higher quality of life. An opportunity brought my wife, Hope, to Bagdad, Arizona for an Environmental Engineering job. On the drive up, the exit was missed and the road carried on into Nothing, AZ. That’s a real place, and it was my first moment…
The Backbone of America In big cities, blue-collar work tends to disappear.It gets swallowed by glass towers, rebranded as “infrastructure,” and thanked once a year in a speech someone else wrote. The hands that built the city rarely get invited into the spotlight. They’re just assumed.Invisible.Background noise to traffic and timelines. But in mining towns…
Nov. 15th • 6:00 PM — Bagdad Sultans vs. Hayden Lobos at Coronado High School (7501 E Virginia Ave, Scottsdale). Bring an umbrella or a raincoat to this one!