Steve Newman will continue to serve as village president after Aaron Peer, who won could not take office due to a past felony, did not receive clemency by this week.

Hot air balloonist Mandy Baskin is building community in the clouds She's doing what she loves. More importantly, she's sharing that love with as many people as possible.

In early 1980, John Shoecraft, a Phoenix developer and hot-air balloonist, asked his friend Sheila Ripps to draw a logo character of the mythical Phoenix bird for his hot-air balloon.