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High-speed fiber broadband venture moving forward

BULLHEAD CITY – Mohave Electric Cooperative is another step closer to making fiber-optic broadband service a reality for its members with approval by the Arizona Corporation Commission of a financing application in a unanimous 5-0 vote of the Commissioners. In a first-of-its-kind endeavor for an electric cooperative in Arizona, MEC, in partnership with service provider TWN Communications, announced in October a goal to bring fiber-optic based internet access to members in all of its service territory. In January MEC was awarded an $805,500 grant from the Arizona Commerce Authority for Phase One of the Fiber Project. “This is an ambitious project…

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God bless America

Dear Editor, As the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing continues, I’m amazed how everything is blamed on our president. There are no boundaries only invisible lines we’re not allowed to cross or even mention. How did we get here? There is a lot that has set things in motion and this pandemic is no joke, it kills. How can we blame the president for this? There has been the most outrageous accusations that I have ever heard. One being that it’s the president’s fault that we don’t have toilet paper! Really. Where can we draw the line? Is it really…

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Arizona Thunder, Concert in the Park cancelled

KINGMAN – The Kingman-area COVID-19 situation has not changed enough to go forward with the scheduled Sounds of Kingman May concert, Arizona Thunder. Therefore, for the safety of everyone in the community, the Arizona Thunder Concert scheduled for May 17, and sponsored by Taco Bell, has been postponed. Sounds of Kingman is working now to reschedule the season’s first two Concerts in the Park, as well as the special fairgrounds concert they had scheduled for March 21. Please watch their website, www.soundsofkingman.com, for future details. Sounds of Kingman continues to plan for the community’s free, live entertainment.

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Covid-19 and Mother’s Day

Dear Editor, I wish mom were still here so I could take her out to Sunday dinner. The problem with Sunday dinner this Mother’s Day is that most of the restaurants either won’t be open yet or operating under new guidelines. Restaurants make their biggest payday of the year typically on Mother’s Day. Even in states that are wide open for dining there is the problem of social distancing. Can you imagine this week going to a restaurant that only is allowed 25% occupancy or maybe 50% occupancy at best? Many states will still be closed tight this Sunday adding…

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Culver’s Restaurant coming to Kingman

KINGMAN – Culver’s is coming to Kingman! The Wisconsin-based restaurant chain with more than 700 stores should be open on Airway Avenue, just east of the Cracker Barrel, before the end of the year. McCON Building Corporation intends to submit building plans with the City of Kingman soon and begin construction sometime next month. “If we start in June we’re going to try to be turning it over to the owner 20 weeks later, so it’s going to probably be finished by the end of October, first part of November. Somewhere in that area,” said Project manager Kenny Esser. “Back…

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Fear

Dear Editor, In these stressful times, many people are living in a state of abject fear. We can chalk it up to the pandemic lunacy or to the awful panic that has been so cruelly fanned and amplified by the mainstream media and “social” media. Or, we can blame the Chicken Little syndrome. There is no earthly good to come from playing the blame game or from throwing stones. Neither of those things will ease a person’s fears. A reasonable period of sober introspection and calm discussion however, is likely to result in some measurable reduction in personal stress. Former…

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