By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer Severio Kyyitan was awoken one recent morning by a thunderous thumping that reverberated through the walls of his home. It might be an earthquake, he thought, until he looked outside and discovered a...
By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer There’s a girl at Weinberg Elementary who had hardly spoken to anyone since the start of this school year. Staff described her as possibly suffering from selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that...
By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer The U.S. Department of Education in 2016 advised the ranks of elementary and high school teachers needed to become more racially diverse, but that goal has been elusive for Chandler and other East...
SANTAN SUN NEWS STAFF About two dozen adults and Aprende Middle School students gathered early Sunday Sept. 15 to distribute suicide prevention door hangers in a Chandler neighborhood. Eduarda Schroder, one of the four mothers...
SANTAN SUN NEWS STAFF Nearly 200 kids from Valley Christian High School in Chandler put away the books, pencils and notes for a day to pick up a paintbrush and help their community earlier this month. They were bussed to the East...
By Cecilia Chan Staff Writer The initial phase of Gilbert’s largest and newest park – which includes the longest slide in Arizona –opens today, Sept. 21, promising to ultimately become one of the East Valley’s biggest...
SANTAN SUN NEWS STAFF Chandler-Gilbert Community College has won an award for its food waste recycling program. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education gave the college its 2019 award for...
By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer A couple of months after a Chandler boy lost his battle to a rare type of cancer, his family has started a foundation to support other children suffering from life-threatening diseases. Kameron...
By Kevin Reagan Staff Writer A program devoted exclusively to teaching pilots how to fly drones has taken off at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Students at the college’s Williams campus can now take introductory courses in...
By Kevin Reagan, Staff Writer Snickers the goat curiously roams around, always looking for someone to affectionately nudge. He’s part of a tribe of goats living at Rancho Del Pacifico in south Chandler. There’s Oreo,...
