By Richard Dyer | Queen Creek Independent
In 2019 the Queen Creek Independent covered the town and adjacent areas, offering reporting of local issues.
Issues like digging past the building permit numbers to understand the explosion of single-family homes the town has been experiencing; hearing from residents who would like train-horn-noise quiet zones at the town’s four Union Pacific Railroad crossings; uncovering in a study of intersections that there were 72 vehicle accidents in the span of a year at Rittenhouse and Ocotillo roads; being the first to report that the town and the City of Apache Junction are to be sharing a border along the State Route 24 alignment; and an investigation into brutal infractions revealing that there were more incidents of sexual assault in the Town of Queen Creek than other violent crimes.
This is how the biggest stories of 2019 unfolded.
