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Spillover effect, part one

Dear Editor, “A little of this and a

Night work scheduled on Airway Avenue for utility

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman is notifying

Mohave Electric announces classroom grant winners

BULLHEAD CITY – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) awarded eighteen

Full closure of Airway Ave, Flying Fortress Pkwy

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman is notifying

National Day of Prayer observed

KINGMAN – A National Day of Prayer event

Two years for possession of a kilogram of

KINGMAN – Transporting illegal drugs into Mohave County

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Mosquito fogging next week at River Valley High

MOHAVE VALLEY – Mosquito control (fogging) and suppression (larvicide) treatments will be applied at River Valley High School in Mohave Valley the week of August 12-16, as coordinated by the Mohave County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Division (MCDPH-EHD). Baron Pest Solutions was awarded the contract to provide mosquito treatment services within Mohave County and will be conducting the larvicide and adulticide applications.   

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MCC Kingman Campus student awarded the Empowering Diversity Scholarship

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave Community College student Faith Ladson has been awarded the Empowering Diversity Scholarship from the Fiesta Bowl Organization and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. She was awarded $5,500 to go towards continuing her education. Of the 15 post-secondary scholarship recipients, Ladson was the only student awarded the scholarship that is attending a community college in Arizona.

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Better Next Time

Goethe, the eighteenth-century playwright, once said, “Let everyone sweep in front of his own doorstep and the whole world will be clean.”

I saw something the other day that impressed me and caused me to consider my own behavior and, sadly, my failings. I was in the commercial parking lot with Staples, Big 5, and Taco Bell, had just parked my truck, and was headed-in to the office supply store.

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Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity

PHOENIX (AP) — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits.

For the last dozen years, the 61-year-old spent much of the year working near Pasco, Washington, sending money to his wife and daughters in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, Mexico, and traveling back every Christmas.

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