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Kingman police looking for impaired drivers St. Patrick’s Day weekend

KINGMAN – The Kingman Police Department, in conjunction with the Western AZ DUI Task Force, will be out providing extra patrol for the St. Patrick’s Day Weekend. St. Patrick’s Day is one of our nation’s most popular holidays, celebrated with festivals, parades, and parties which frequently features themed cocktails and green pints. The amount of alcohol consumed on this holiday is higher than average. St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday this year, and it is anticipated that alcohol consumption will increase both on that day and throughout the weekend. Before you go out to celebrate, decide and designate a…

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Pavement preservation, rezoning discussed at LHC council

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A zoning classification and district motion was passed for the 30 acres at 2205 Victoria Farms Road from Light Industrial (LIP) at the last Lake Havasu City Council meeting. The LIP zoning that is currently over the property does not allow development outside of the planned and approved development plan. This is the reasoning behind the applicant’s request to rezone the property for industrial future use. The board passed a motion for replacement vehicles purchase for 2024 cabs with a cranes for SanTan Auto Partners for $301.727.  It’s roadway maintenance time for Beachcomber and McCulloch. The city…

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Local permaculture event Invites the tri-state

GOLDEN VALLEY – Join the movement towards sustainable living at the Second Annual Mesquite Weekend in the tri-state area. Come for the speakers, vendors, native food lunch, seed exchange, hula hooping, children’s area, photography contest, and food trucks. The tri-state area is invited to the Second Annual Mesquite Weekend, taking place in Golden Valley on Saturday, March 23 at the Fire Safety Training Station and Sunday, March 24 at Veteran’s Park.  This year’s speakers include Ethnobotanist Carrie Cannon talking about native plants, environmental specialist, water matriarch; permaculture designer Carmen Gonzales talking about water conservation, and Peggy Sue Sorensen of The…

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Norma Eloise Sperry

Norma Eloise Sperry, of Golden Valley, died Thursday, March 13, 2024. She was 87. Ms. Sperry was born Nov. 27, 1936 in Long Beach, Wash. The family contact is her son Sean Jennings Sperry. Interment was at the Chloride Cemetery. Arrangements were made by Sutton Memorial Funeral Home in Kingman.

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Portable breathalizers funded with GOHS dollars

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City Police Department was awarded grant funding from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (AZ GOHS) for the purchase of 10 additional portable breath testing devices. The CMI Inc. Intoxilyzer 800 devices were acquired with grant funds awarded by AZ GOHS to further the Bullhead City Police Department’s efforts in detecting impaired drivers and removing them from our roadways. “This recent award from GOHS allows us to replace some of our older devices and to put new devices in the hands of more of our department members,” said Bullhead City Police Department Traffic Sergeant…

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Walsh transition in play at Kingman City Hall

KINGMAN – Newly hired Kingman City Manager Tim Walsh is proud to have the opportunity to make better the community in which he was born and raised. The Mohave County Development Services Director who topped a field of more than 40 applicants will take the reigns of city government when he starts his new job April 22. “It’s a great honor to fill this role, and the trust that the city has put in me I don’t take lightly,” Walsh said. “Definitely there are challenges ahead and it’ll take a little bit of time to address them, but I’m excited…

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