When it came to local video views, August was all about football.

Thousands of you turned in to watch UA running backs steal show.

UA equipment day

Arizona-Idaho preview

and UA football season preview

These Editor’s Picks didn’t get the most views, but we think they shouldn’t be missed.

Rosemont Mine’s neighboring nuns
The quiet, cloistered nuns who live in the Santa Rita Mountains break their silence to say they are dismayed by the prospect of a noisy copper mine next door to them.

Running at Saguaro National Park
Randy Accetta, Lucas Tyler and Mary Lasser from the Southern Arizona Roadrunners take us around the course for the Saguaro National Park Labor Day Run which will take place on Sept. 1, 2008.

Barrio Viejo welcomes Fire Central
Many Barrio Viejo residents are still angry about being displaced from their homes in the 1960s to make room for the TCC. Now the Tucson Fire Department aims to make amends with the new Fire Central building.

JavaXpress at ASDB
Business is booming at JavaXpress, a coffee shop run by middle school students as part of a work-study program at the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.

Thanks for checking out this month’s top picks. Don’t forget to visit AZStarNet.com daily to watch, rate, comment on and e-mail videos. To watch past local videos visit go.azstarnet.com/localvideos and check back in a month to watch the most popular videos in September and to discover more editor’s picks.