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Small business reopening guidelines

Yesterday, May 4, Governor Ducey released guidelines for business owners as businesses begin to reopen. Please review the documents that are relevant to your business. Retail Monday May 4, non-essential retail businesses opened for curbside and pick up. Friday May 8, retail can be open for business with limited occupancy. You can view the retail guidelines at https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/guidance_for_retail.pdf. Salon and Cosmetology Businesses Friday May 8, licensed Title 32 salon and cosmetology businesses can open. You can view the guidelines at https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/guidance_for_barbers_and_cosmetologists-2.pdf Restaurants Monday May 11, dine-in establishments can operate. As the Governor mentioned, it is not about the license type…

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Dixie State University honors largest graduating class in its history

Dixie State University proudly recognizes the institution’s largest-ever graduating class during this unprecedented year, awarding 2,388 degrees to 2,021 graduates. “The University is excited to celebrate the accomplishments of our largest graduating class in DSU’s history,” Dixie State President Richard B. Williams said. “I am confident these graduates will continue to carry on DSU’s tradition of excellence as they leave our great University well prepared and poised for success.” Dixie State’s 109th graduating class includes 17 master’s candidates, 860 baccalaureate candidates, 943 associate candidates and 568 certificate candidates. Of these graduates, the majority – 63 percent – are female and students range…

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New coffee house planned for Kingman

KINGMAN – An Oregon-based company hopes to place four food or beverage service businesses on a 2.75-acre parcel on Kingman’s main thoroughfare. Cole Valley Partners plans to purchase the property located at Stockton Hill Road and Riata Valley, just north of True Value Hardware. A request for water service to the parcel will be considered during Tuesday’s Kingman City Council meeting. Project manager Ryan Ramey said Dutch Bros. Coffee will serve as an anchor tenant with plans for an 862 square foot building. He said a 2,400 square foot Filliberto’s is planned as well. Ramey said the timetable for development…

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Take precautions when hiking

Dear Editor, My neighbor loves to hike in the desert, wears only boots, shorts, and a hat. Yes, he’s a man. Friday morning he knocked on my door. He was covered in cactus, his back was loaded with jumping cholla cactus, not to mention 100 thorns. Being handicapped, my caregiver who is loaded in medical degrees, jumped into action, got needle-nose pliers and tweezers, and started pulling out the large cactus. I helped with the small thorns. My story to you, if going hiking, carry a staff, a large stick as tall as you, watch for rocks that might flip…

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Take precautions when hiking

Dear Editor, My neighbor loves to hike in the desert, wears only boots, shorts, and a hat. Yes, he’s a man. Friday morning he knocked on my door. He was covered in cactus, his back was loaded with jumping cholla cactus, not to mention 100 thorns. Being handicapped, my caregiver who is loaded in medical degrees, jumped into action, got needle-nose pliers and tweezers, and started pulling out the large cactus. I helped with the small thorns. My story to you, if going hiking, carry a staff, a large stick as tall as you, watch for rocks that might flip…

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Light turnout for Kingman COVID-19 testing

Numbers inexplicably incomplete River community testing plan not yet firm KINGMAN – Uncertainty and unknowns involving testing have been a coronavirus conundrum since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More of that was evident during Monday’s Mohave County Board of Supervisors meeting in Kingman. Americans have been confused about testing scarcity since the start of the outbreak. Some of the panoply of questions included have been: are tests available, where, for whom and on whose authority? It seems medical experts and many others have come to agree that the nation lacked adequate supply and got a late start with testing….

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