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Barrio Bread owner Don Guerra won the Outstanding Baker award at the James Beard Foundation Awards last week. (Photo courtesy of Visit Tucson}
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Baker Award at the James Beard Foundation Awards in Chicago on Monday, June 13. But Guerra says he doesn’t plan to rest on this particularly noteworthy laurel. Instead,
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fter retiring in 2020 after two decades leading the Oro Valley Police Department, Danny Sharp is now running for mayor against incumbent Joe Win�ield in the August primary election. “I thoroughly enjoyed my 20 years as police chief and had a great staff, great people working at the police department and for the town and we did a lot of great things over those 20 years,” Sharp said. “I love this community. That’s the reason why I decided to throw in my hat because I’m concerned about the direction we are going,” Sharp expressed concerns about the need for more police of�icers and criticized the current council for selling bonds to improve parks. Sharp also said he would have supported a controversial proposal to build �ive-story hotels and apartments
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