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Hernandez achieves Fall 2023 Dean’s List at Belmont University

Isabella Hernandez of Lake Havasu City qualified for Belmont University’s Fall 2023 Dean’s List. Approximately 52 percent of Belmont’s 7,338 undergraduate students qualified. Belmont Provost Dr. David Gregory said, “The Dean’s List achievement reflects the hard work, perseverance and dedication to academic excellence of Belmont’s outstanding students. It is my privilege to congratulate these individuals on their semester-long academic efforts. To our most recent graduates receiving this distinguishment, you are hope-inspiring examples to your peers and future colleagues. To the students returning next semester, may this achievement be a stepping stone towards even greater pursuits in your academic journey.” Dean’s…

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Will you face 2024 with fear or fearlessness? 

Dear Editor, Wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. The cost of groceries, fast food, building materials, and most anything you can name has increased dramatically.  Millions of Americans are Social Security recipients. The modest increase coming in January will feel like a drop in the bucket. Every little bit helps and it will truly be a little bit compared to the financial needs of senior adult Americans.  Almost every day we see the national reports of the thousands of undocumented immigrants flooding our country, This does not make us feel very secure. Our government could stop…

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Ring in 2024 with live music scene

LAKE HAVASU CITY – If you love listening to live music and dancing your way into the new year, make a few stops in Lake Havasu to hear these lively musicians performing on New Year’s Eve. Inspired by the 1940s song Crosscut Saw, Crosscutt is a band that will have everyone on their feet dancing and singing along to popular hits.   Crosscutt is not a group who is dedicated to just one style of music. The band performs songs by a variety of different musicians such as Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lenny Kravitz, and many more.  Rock out of 2023 with…

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Join Arizona State Parks and Trails For First Day Hikes on New Year’s Day

Arizona State Parks and Trails invites visitors to the parks on New Year’s Day for its annual First Day Hikes. The events are part of a national collaboration in all 50 state park systems that began three decades ago to kick off the new year in a healthy and exciting way. Several Arizona state parks will host First Day Hikes on Monday, January 1, 2024. During the hike, park rangers, naturalists, and volunteer guides will share information about Arizona’s plants, wildlife, natural resources, regional history, and recreational opportunities. The distance and rigor of the hikes vary from park to park,…

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Cold case victim ID’d

MOHAVE COUNTY – The identity of a homicide victim whose body was recovered north of Bullhead City more than 47 years ago has been determined, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said hikers located the remains in a shallow grave in an elevated desert are about six miles east of Katherine’s Landing on Nov. 23, 1976. She said it was determined that the buried person was a small statured male in his 30’s who had been shot in the head at close range. Mortensen said fingertip information was processed during the autopsy but that…

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Cold case victim ID’d

MOHAVE COUNTY – The identity of a homicide victim whose body was recovered north of Bullhead City more than 47 years ago has been determined, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said hikers located the remains in a shallow grave in an elevated desert are about six miles east of Katherine’s Landing on Nov. 23, 1976. She said it was determined that the buried person was a small statured male in his 30’s who had been shot in the head at close range. Mortensen said fingertip information was processed during the autopsy but that…

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