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Letter to the Editor
The fallacy in cherry picking

Dear Editor, During the recent Trump administration’s U.S.

fire extinguisher
Safe evacuation in Lake Havasu City garage fire

LAKE HAVASU CITY – At approximately 11:30 p.m.

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Rhythm & Brews festival returns for third year

KINGMAN — The Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce

Nancy Griffith Terhaar

March 12, 1948 – May 29, 2026 Nancy,

Volunteers help expand innovative Colorado River Fish Habitat

BULLHEAD CITY — Twenty volunteers from Bullhead City

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Scam artists apprehended in Starbucks parking lot

KINGMAN – An alleged scam artist was arrested

Thank you for reading The Standard newspaper online!

Pam Wanner

Go to work and grow your financial security

Dear Editor, Working a job that pays you money is your best assurance for financial security. In 2021 manufacturers, construction, transportation companies, any entity that sells products, drivers and almost all employers are begging for workers.  Many Americans were assisted by the large unemployment payout of the pandemic. This was initially helpful. Many people such as restaurant workers and others had lost their jobs. The flush of cash from Government kept families fed and financially stable. There has been a downside to this as now manufacturing has slowed down so much that trucks and cars have often been delayed from…

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Border patrol with speak at MRF meeting

KINGMAN – Mohave Republican Forum (MRF)  will be hosting Border Patrol Agents, Operations Officer Leroy Pooley and Special Operations Supervisor, Fidel Cabrera on Wednesday, June 9 at 5:30 p.m. Agents Pooley and Cabrera will be speaking and answering questions regarding border and issues regarding abandoned and unattended children at the border, criminal drug traffickers and human traffickers, and what they are seeing regarding reasons these people are flooding the borders and what countries they are coming from. MRF meetings are held at Golden Corral, 3580 Stockton Hill Rd.  The meeting room is available by 4 p.m. and the program begins at 5:30 p.m.  There is an…

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CRUHSD board selects Silk as new superintendent

BULLHEAD CITY – The Colorado River Union High School District governing board has selected former superintendent Monte Silk to be the district’s new Superintendent for the upcoming school year.  The vote was unanimous. Last week’s decision followed a 45-minute community forum, including questions from an audience at CRUHSD’s Anderson Auto Group Fieldhouse.  The school board then met with both Silk and CRUHSD career-technical education director Gina Covert in executive session for final interviews before reconvening in public for a formal vote. The executive session, which included a review of post-forum audience comment cards, candidate interviews and discussion, lasted more than…

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Dot Foods and Dot Transportation, Inc. Announce Mid-Year Raises for Drivers and Warehouse Floor Employees

BULLHEAD CITY – Dot Foods, Inc., North America’s largest food industry redistributor, and its affiliate trucking company, Dot Transportation, Inc. (DTI), announced they will raise pay for warehouse floor employees and drivers at the company’s Arizona distribution center. The $1/hour increase for the warehouse floor team means material handlers can now start at up to $16.50/hour. “We hope this is good news for our warehouse floor team,” said John Long, Dot Foods senior vice president of warehousing. “We closely watch what’s going on in the labor market in our communities. The competition for great talent is very stiff right now, and we always…

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Do you Derby?

Do you Derby? Join the Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce June 12 at 6 p.m. for the Annual Stick Pony Derby at Beale Celebrations, 201 N. Fourth St. Grab your derby hats and place your bets! Contact Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce at 928-753-6253 or visit kingmanchamber.com.

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JERRY NEAL DURBIN

Jerry Neal Durbin, of Kingman, died Saturday, May 22, 2021. He was 73. Mr. Durbin was born March 9, 1948 in Los Angeles, Calif. The family contact is his son Shane Matthew Durbin. Arrangements were made by Sutton Memorial Funeral Home in Kingman.

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