Solar-energy system goes online at 4 TV campuses

The solar arrays, including this one at Tanque Verde High School and others at Tanque Verde Elementary, Agua Caliente Elementary and Emily Gray Junior High, are expected to deliver 70 percent of the schools' energy needs.

Solar-energy system goes online at 4 Tanque Verde campuses

Tanque Verde Unified School District has switched on a multicampus solar energy system built by Tucson-based Solon Corp. that is expected to offset much of the district's daytime electricity needs.

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Tanque Verde school district hosts fundraiser for Jan. 8 victims' fund

Crissy Perham, a swimmer who won two medals in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, hit a wiffle ball during the hit-a-thon and home run derby at Emily Gray Junior High School.

Tanque Verde school district hosts fundraiser for Jan. 8 victims' fund

Students in the Tanque Verde Unified School District held candlelight vigils and collected canned goods for the Community Food Bank, but they wanted to do more to help the victims of the Jan. 8 shooting that claimed the lives of six people and injured 13, including one of their alumni, U.S. …