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Havasu Art Guild celebrates 45th anniversary with Art at the Lake

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Just in case you missed the Havasu Art Trail event, there’s another exhibit gearing up their displays this weekend for the Art at the Lake showing. Since 1978, The Havasu Art Guild has been a support system to many of our local artists through seminars, workshops, exhibits, and art shows.  In celebration of the guild’s 45th anniversary, the private nonprofit will be presenting works from fifty local artists at their celebration. One of those local artists is retiree Bill Schaufel who decided to pick up painting and drawings through independent instruction.  With watercolors, canvas, oils and acrylics, the artist’s…

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Plea deal rejected in shooting death

BULLHEAD CITY – A Mohave County judge objected to the punishment component when he rejected a plea agreement proposed in a deadly shooting in Bullhead City. There is no dispute that Robert Logan, 40, shot and killed Hans Peterson, 56, after the Bullhead City residents got into a fist fight for unknown reasons outside a laundromat early last March. During the Thursday, Feb. 29 hearing, Judge Billy Sipe said he could not accept the 15-month prison term stipulated in the deal convicting Logan of negligent homicide. Judge Sipe rejected the agreement crafted by Deputy Mohave County Attorney James Schoppmann and…

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Brand management seems to be a corporate nightmare in this age of information and advertising. In just the past year, companies like Anheuser Busch, Target, and Disney, have all faced various forms of boycotts over their stance on cultural issues. For instance, Bud Light, an Anheuser Busch subsidiary, took massive hits over a marketing campaign that included transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. While few like to talk openly about companies that have gone “woke,” especially due to fear of being cancelled by culture, there is still an adage that says people vote with their wallets and feet. In the case of…

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City Slurry Crews Begin Overnight Work Sunday with Significant Road Closures

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ., February 28, 2023 – Hancock Road from Highway 95 to Colorado Blvd will be closed one section at a time Beginning Sunday, March 03, at 8 p.m. while City street maintenance crews work overnight to apply a slurry seal as a part of the City Street Maintenance Program (CSMP). A second lift of slurry will be applied the following week in the same order.   Both east and westbound traffic will be detoured around the maintenance during the road closures. No vehicles will be allowed to drive on the slurry while it sets. Businesses and homeowners will…

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