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Local TOPS Chapter Celebrates 43 Years

KINGMAN   – The 44 members of TOPS AZ #0287 are marking 43 years together as a weight-loss support chapter on December 5, 2023. Weekly meetings are a key component of TOPS® support, and visitors to a TOPS chapter are welcome to attend their first meeting free of charge. Meetings are held at St. John’s United Methodist Church, located at 1730 Kino Ave, on Friday at 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. for weight in and Meeting begins at 9:15 a.m. “Our chapter is thrilled to celebrate this milestone, and we look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries to come! We’re going…

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We need greater water security for the future

Dear Editor, The Kingman and Mohave County areas have been the poster child for the rural groundwater fight, given the excessive use of our groundwater by foreign companies resulting in devastation to our local residents, businesses and generational farmers. For years, our residents have been sounding the alarm about the unsustainable overuse of our groundwater and the threat it poses on our county’s businesses and economies. The creation of the Governor’s Water Policy Council in the spring was celebrated by so many in the county who were pleading for solutions, and we were extra thrilled when Mohave county experts were…

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We need greater water security for the future

Dear Editor, The Kingman and Mohave County areas have been the poster child for the rural groundwater fight, given the excessive use of our groundwater by foreign companies resulting in devastation to our local residents, businesses and generational farmers. For years, our residents have been sounding the alarm about the unsustainable overuse of our groundwater and the threat it poses on our county’s businesses and economies. The creation of the Governor’s Water Policy Council in the spring was celebrated by so many in the county who were pleading for solutions, and we were extra thrilled when Mohave county experts were…

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ASU Senior Symposium wraps up academic year

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Arizona State University celebrated the accomplishments of some December graduates at their Senior Capstone Symposium event last Friday. A capstone class is a course that combines experiences with academics of students in an educational program. It is most commonly referred to as a final year project for seniors. Four seniors were chosen to demonstrate knowledge learned in their chosen fields.   The four majors showcased at the event were communications, organizational leadership, and psychology.  The symposium began with communications major Cassie Hull. Hull’s topic of The Exclusionary Nature or QR Codes addressed how the digital world can exclude individuals who do not have access…

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ASU Senior Symposium wraps up academic year

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Arizona State University celebrated the accomplishments of some December graduates at their Senior Capstone Symposium event last Friday. A capstone class is a course that combines experiences with academics of students in an educational program. It is most commonly referred to as a final year project for seniors. Four seniors were chosen to demonstrate knowledge learned in their chosen fields.   The four majors showcased at the event were communications, organizational leadership, and psychology.  The symposium began with communications major Cassie Hull. Hull’s topic of The Exclusionary Nature or QR Codes addressed how the digital world can exclude individuals who do not have access…

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Grogan prison return imminent

BULLHEAD CITY – A Bullhead City woman whose young daughter was murdered by a family friend nine years ago is likely returning to the Arizona Department of Corrections to serve another multiple-year prison term. Tania Grogan, 38, entered a plea deal on Nov. 28 that would require Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen to order an eight-year prison term for transporting narcotic drugs for sale. Drugs have permeated years of tragedy for Grogan, whose eight-year-old daughter Isabella Grogan-Canella was asphyxiated by Justin Rector and buried in a shallow grave in Sept., 2014. Rector, now 35, who said he had…

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