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Substation equipment failure results in MEC outage

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – On Saturday, March 23 at 11:07 a.m., MEC’s substation system protection equipment shut power off due to failure of a component. The outage affected approximately 2,405 MEC members in the area of Riviera Blvd., Oatman Road, and Riverview Drive in Bullhead City. MEC crews responded, and rerouted substation circuits, restoring power to all members at 12:25 p.m. Testing has been completed and the failed equipment is scheduled to be replaced. Outage restoration is important to Mohave Electric Cooperative. Please remember, there are many ways to report an outage. You can call our toll-free line at 1-844-632-2667, text…

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Financial Peace workshop offered

KINGMAN –  The Kingman Church of the Nazarene will offer a nine-week financial planning workshop entitled Financial Peace. The workshop will begin Thursday, April 4 and run through May 30. Each workshop will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Registration is required and there is a fee to purchase a workbook. For further information contact the church at 928-757-4077 or pastor.toni.henry@gmail.com.

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What’s wrong with our system?

Dear Editor, Mr. Mollette’s piece in the March 13 edition of The Standard about the diminished size of your Snicker bar fails to mention one little fact, and that is how wages have risen substantially over the years. Yes, time was when you could buy a car for a couple of thousand dollars and a house for $20,000, give or take. Like most conservative republicans, Mr. Mollette wants to lay blame on President Joe Biden. Think about it, if producers of goods want to raise prices and we are willing to buy at those prices, who can we blame? For…

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Pedestrian killed by train

KINGMAN – A deadly train-pedestrian fatality incident is under investigation in Kingman. Deputy police chief Joel Freed said officers responded about 9:10 p.m. on Friday, March 22 to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad train tracks near East Andy Devine and Fairgrounds Boulevard. Freed said a subject dead at the scene was identified as Yolman Ruiz Salvatierra, 21, South Gate, California. “Investigators found trauma consistent with being struck by a train,” Freed said. Freed said it is unclear why Salvatierra came to be in the area and how he was struck and fatally injured.

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Leave No Person Behind

Dear Editor, As a Kingman resident everywhere I go I see men and women, young and old who identify in some way as being Military Veterans. I have come to learn that Mohave County has more veterans than any other County in the U.S. Almost 4 times as many, numbering over 23 thousand, comprising no less than 13 %of our population. I do a fair amount of reading and research and am always deeply disturbed when I read about the ongoing suicide rate of American Military Veterans, sometimes as high as 22 a day. Too many patriotic American heroes come…

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Wild horse, burro numbers on the decline

The Bureau of Land Management has released its annual wild horse and burro population estimates, which show a marked reduction in wild horse and burro overpopulation on public lands. This is the third year since 2020 that the overpopulation of wild horses and burros has declined. The BLM estimates there were approximately 73,520 federally-protected wild horses and burros on BLM-managed public lands as of March 1, 2024 – 9,363 fewer animals than what was estimated in 2023. Due to the realities of aerial and statistical analyses, the population estimate accounts for a range of uncertainty between 63,432 animals to 85,249 animals. “Protecting…

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