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…
Quiet Service: Greggy Martinez and the Spirit of Bagdad After the flag-raising ceremony on the mesa here in Bagdad, Arizona, I had the chance to sit and chat with Greggy Martinez about his life in Bagdad and how it led him to serve in the United States Marine Corps.We met for lunch at The Stacked…
1. Name, sport, and college: My name is Holly Myers I played softball at Paradise Valley community college and continued on playing softball at Nelson University for a year. 2. What’s been the biggest adjustment from high school athletics to college athletics? I would say probably the biggest adjustment would be adjusting to the number…
1. Name, sport, and college: My name is Elisha Scott Alfred. I play football at Ottawa University in Surprise AZ. I’m originally from Norwich, Connecticut but I moved to Bagdad in 2013 when I was 6 years old so to me Bagdad is my home town. I grew up with both my parents and two…
