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Trio wins Kingman council seats

KINGMAN – Three candidates secured enough primary election votes to secure four-year terms on the Kingman City council. City clerk Annie Meredith said post canvas calculations result in election victories for Keith Walker (4,406), Cherish Samelli (3,595) and Jamie Scott Stehly (3,590).  Thursday canvas by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors makes August 4 election results official. Kingman voters approved the permanent base budget adjustment ballot question while rejecting another proposal to double the term of office for the position of Mayor from two to four years.  Kingman voters have another ballot question to decide in the general election November 3….

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Trio wins Kingman council seats

KINGMAN – Three candidates secured enough primary election votes to secure four-year terms on the Kingman City council. City clerk Annie Meredith said post canvas calculations result in election victories for Keith Walker (4,406), Cherish Samelli (3,595) and Jamie Scott Stehly (3,590).  Thursday canvas by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors makes August 4 election results official. Kingman voters approved the permanent base budget adjustment ballot question while rejecting another proposal to double the term of office for the position of Mayor from two to four years.  Kingman voters have another ballot question to decide in the general election November 3….

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Board of Supervisors COVID update

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave County will continue delivering its daily COVID-19 press releases in the late afternoons, despite repeated recommendations from Department of Public Health Director Denise Burley to convert to late morning instead. While the Board did not decide the afternoon versus morning question in its two previous meetings, county manager Sam Elters said staff would move to late morning delivery.  Burley’s wish and Elter’s assertion were both negated during Thursday’s Board meeting.  Burley told supervisors she appreciated their prior approved use of a new fact sheet and webpage to display various data, but she said she needed Board…

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Federal funding needed for cultured meat research

Dear Editor, Readers who care about animal welfare should ask Senators Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema to support federal funding for cultured-meat research. Cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering nonhumans. It has the potential to eliminate unimaginable levels of suffering. After all, we kill tens of billions of land animals and over a trillion aquatic animals for food every year. Ending this violence is more plausible than you think. A growing number of companies are developing cultured-meat products. Even Tyson Foods, the slaughtered-meat giant, has invested in the sector. However, costs of these humane options will need to…

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Jo Elle Hurns accepts BHC chamber position

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce and welcome Jo Elle Hurns as Executive Director.  Jo Elle will be starting her new position on August 24. After multiple months of interviewing by the Board of Directors Hiring committee, Jo Elle joins the BHC Chamber of Commerce with multiple years of Chamber and marketing experience in the TriState area. She started her TriState career in 1987, overseeing such events, in conjunction with the Laughlin Tourism Committee, as The World’s Longest Line Dance, off road races, professional rodeos, bull riding and the Laughlin River Run. This…

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Jo Elle Hurns accepts BHC chamber position

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce and welcome Jo Elle Hurns as Executive Director.  Jo Elle will be starting her new position on August 24. After multiple months of interviewing by the Board of Directors Hiring committee, Jo Elle joins the BHC Chamber of Commerce with multiple years of Chamber and marketing experience in the TriState area. She started her TriState career in 1987, overseeing such events, in conjunction with the Laughlin Tourism Committee, as The World’s Longest Line Dance, off road races, professional rodeos, bull riding and the Laughlin River Run. This…

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