Tortolita Alliance
TA Alert! General Meeting 11/12/24
Tortolita Alliance (TA) will be holding a General Meeting of the organization on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at...
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Tortolita Alliance
Jul 32 min read
TA Alert-Aerial Recon For Minerals
On June 16, 2024, a Dove Mountain resident reported to the Tortolita Alliance (TA) that an aircraft was flying over their home and making...
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Mark L. Johnson
Mar 8, 20231 min read
TA Alert! Sustainable Landscapes Expo Saturday-March 11
The Annual Sustainable Landscapes Expo will be held this Saturday (3/11/23) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 at the U of A Cooperative Extension...
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Mark L. Johnson
Dec 7, 20221 min read
Reminder: DM Community Meeting Tonight With Town of Marana-Crime & Low Flying Aircraft
Many Dove Mountain residents are very concerned about the recent uptick in crime and low-flying aircraft noise in the early hours of the...
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Mark L. Johnson
Oct 21, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Night Flight
Tortolita Alliance (TA) has heard recently from several residents in the Dove Mountain area about planes circling and buzzing at very...
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Mark L. Johnson
Oct 12, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Santa Cruz River Cleanup No. 2 At Ina Road Bridge Canceled
Tortolita Alliance and Tucson Clean & Beautiful have canceled the Santa Cruz River Cleanup at the Ina Road Bridge Location on October 23,...
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Mark L. Johnson
Sep 25, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Chopper Activity Dove Mountain
You may have heard a helicopter buzzing Dove Mountain early this morning (midnight to 1 AM) and again currently (7:30 AM). Marana PD...
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Mark L. Johnson
Sep 1, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Marana Town Council-Call For Candidates
Marana 2022 Town Council Election-Call For Candidates The Marana Town Council will have four openings for the August 2022 election with...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 19, 20212 min read
TA Alert! Water Study Session
Marana Water Study Session Marana will be holding a Water Study Session in the Town Council Chambers on Tuesday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. ...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 13, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Interstate 11 Opposition To West Option
Tortolita Alliance (TA) received word yesterday that the comment period for the Interstate 11 (I-11) Final Environmental Impact Statement...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 6, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Study Up
Sunset-West Hyannisport, MA I took this photo a few days ago a short distance from my boyhood home on Cape Cod, MA. This is a beautiful...
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Mark L. Johnson
Jul 27, 20212 min read
TA Alert! Road Noise! I-11
The Tortolita Alliance (TA) is collaborating with the Coalition For Sonoran Desert Protection (CSDP) and other environmental groups in...
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Mark L. Johnson
Jul 21, 20211 min read
TA Alert! More Rooftops & H2O?
Camino De Oeste 34 Marana Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 28 at 6:30 in the Town Council Chambers...
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Mark L. Johnson
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Alert! Tortolita Preserve Now Open
Good Afternoon. Marana Park & Recreation just contacted the Tortolita Alliance (TA) to let us know that the Arizona State Land...
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Mark L. Johnson
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Alert! Tortolita Preserve Closed
Good morning Tortolita Alliance (TA) Members. Last evening a TA Member noticed someone posting a notice on Tortolita Preserve (TP)...
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Mark L. Johnson
May 5, 20211 min read
Chopper Alert-Update!
Marana PD has informed TA that the suspects have been apprehended by the US Customs & Border Patrol. Kudos to all our law enforcement...
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Mark L. Johnson
May 5, 20211 min read
Chopper Alert!
Good morning. Some of you may have heard and/or seen a helicopter (not the actual chopper left) making passes over the Tortolita...
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Mark L. Johnson
Feb 23, 20211 min read
TA Alert! Marana CIP
The Marana Town Council meets tonight (2/23/21) in a Study Session to discuss the proposed 2022-26 Capital Improvement Program (CIP). TA...
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Mark L. Johnson
Jan 10, 20211 min read
TA Alert-Marana Study Session & TA Annual Report
Dove Mountain Sunrise Upper Javelina Trail Looking South Toward Tortolita Preserve Happy New Year! Here are a few alerts to start off...
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Mark L. Johnson
Sep 30, 20201 min read
TA Alert! Tucson Water Temporary Conversion From CAP Groundwater to Non-CAP Groundwater
Tucson Water issued an Advisory Bulletin on 9/25/20 indicating that they will be temporarily (10/2-11/7) switching from wells being...
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Mark L. Johnson
Sep 28, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Tortolita 30 Rezoning
On Wednesday (9/30/20-6:30PM) the Marana Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider a rezoning application from DR Horton...
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Mark L. Johnson
Sep 21, 20201 min read
TA Alert! Marana Study Session 9/22-On-Site Recreational Areas
Tortolita Alliance (TA) has provided a Comment Letter regarding the proposed subdivision on-site recreational area requirements to be...
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Mark L. Johnson
Sep 1, 20202 min read
TA Alert! La Puerta del Norte Annexation
Proposed La Puerta del Norte Annexation/Development (Yellow) & Surrounding Lands Good morning TA members. We apologize for the short...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 29, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Westridge, Dove & Edwin Fires
Westridge Fire (last week) is now 100% contained. Dove Fire is quiet now but grew to 1,200 acres overnight and is 20% contained. See...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 27, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Dove Fire & Edwin Fire
Photos by AZ Forestry & Fire Management Around 3:30 this afternoon my wife and I witnessed a lightning strike in the Tortolita Mountains...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 22, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Westridge Fire #5-70% Contained
The Westridge Fire perimeter is still about 500 acres in Cochie Canyon. The fire is 70% contained. The rains Thursday night did not...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 19, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Westridge Fire #4-Under Control
This morning I spoke with a representative at Arizona Forestry and Fire Management-Tucson Office and he reports that the Westridge Fire...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 18, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Westridge Fire #3-Not A Prescribed Burn
Yesterday, there were reports from Northwest Fire and Marana PD that the Westridge Fire was a prescribed burn. That information was...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 17, 20201 min read
TA Alert-Westridge Fire #2-120 acres
At 8:20 PM, AZ Forestry & Fire Management posted the following tweet: "Per Air Attack, the #WestridgeFire in the #Tortolitas is 120...
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Mark L. Johnson
Aug 17, 20201 min read
TA Alert! Westridge Fire
Westridge Fire at 3:30 PM (Photo by Newsbreak) Westridge Fire at 6:00 PM A small wildfire developed this afternoon in the Cochie Canyon...
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