The Chandler Arizonian - 7.25.2021

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This Week

COMMUNITY............. 19 Chandler rescue inundated by cats.

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City helping Intel's $20 billion project.

CUSD’s Narducci focuses on ‘un�inished learning’

Kyrene, TU prepare beneath COVID’s cloud

BY KEVIN REAGAN Arizonan Staff Writer

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor

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s the Chandler Unified School District starts off a new school year, Interim Superintendent Frank Narducci is hoping CUSD's 44,000 students are ready to continue the learning that went unfinished last year. As Narducci settles into a leadership position that hasn’t had a new occupant in the last 25 years, his transition comes during what is perhaps one of the most precarious times in the district’s history.

see NARDUCCI page 10

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yrene and Tempe Union governing boards recently heard administrators discuss their plans and hopes for a more traditional school year that students and staff haven’t seen since the fall of 2019. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t keeping a wary eye on the rising number of Delta variant cases across the state and flagging vaccination rates, hoping the coronavirus doesn’t derail those plans.

see SCHOOLS page 8

Chandler motorists facing a rocky ride

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Chandler HIgh's Kiyon Graves aiming for greatness. NEWS ....................................... 02 BACK TO SCHOOL ............... 15 COMMUNITY ........................ 19 REAL ESTATE ........................... 22 OPINION ................................. 32 BUSINESS ................................33 SPORTS .................................... 37 GET OUT ..................................39 CLASSIFIEDS .......................... 40

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor

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tarting last week, billboards, social media and television and print media are carrying messages urging thousands of motorists, especially in Chandler and the rest of the East Valley, to prepare for three to four years of disruptions in their driving routines. It’s not exactly Armageddon that the Arizona Department of Transportation will be heralding. But it won’t be a walk in the park, especially for car and truck traffic on I-10.

The Broadway Curve project aims to prevent the above from becoming nearly round the clock on I-10. (Arizonan file photo)

And even if you don’t use I-10, you can expect significant increases in traffic along all the freeways in Chandler, Tempe and other parts of the East Valley – and even major arterials – as motorists try to evade the inevitable tie-ups that will be caused by the I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it,” said ADOT spokeswoman Kim Noetzel. “It’s going to be impactful.” Seven years in the planning, the work began last weekend with the first of at least

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