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Courts turn up heat on 2 golf courses Judge slaps Club West board, stops any vote BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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iting “serious questions” surrounding the Club West HOA board’s assumption of the golf course’s land-use rights in secret, a Superior Court judge on Monday stopped it from asking homeowners to vote this year on an investor group’s plan to turn
the site into a park with houses. In a stinging criticism of the board’s assumption of the course’s declarant rights, Superior Court Judge Daniel Kiley granted the Club West Conservancy’s request for a preliminary injunction until a trial, tentatively set for February. That trial is on the Conservan-
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Lakes rebuld promise called ‘not credible’
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hwatukee Lakes Golf Course owner Wilson Gee testi�ied Monday that he hopes to “build a better course” on the beleaguered site – but with a few conditions. But after listening to Gee’s testimony, Superior Court Judge Theo-
dore Campagnolo called him “not credible” and promised to impose “serious sanctions” on his company, ALCR, for not complying with a previous judge’s 2018 order to restore the course he closed in 2013. “I �ind Mr. Gee to continue to be not credible,” said Campagnolo, who found ALCR in contempt of
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Closure guidance changes likely won’t impact TU BY PAUL MARYNIAK AND WAYNE SCHUTSKY AFN STAFF
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Although only 10 months old, Cora Mae Dart is all dressed up in her ballet finery for a special class at Ahwatukee’s Dance Studio 111. To find out what she and other toddlers are doing there, Read the story on Page 25. (Pablo Robles/AFN Staff Writer)
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tate health of�icials last month quietly revised their recommendations on how school districts should follow three COVID-19 metrics in deciding when to close campuses. But it is unlikely the state’s new recommendations will prompt Tempe Union High School District to open classrooms for �ive-day inclass learning in 2020. There was no speci�ic virus-related action
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