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MCC librarian earns spot in 2020 emerging leaders program

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave Community College’s Kingman campus librarian, Erin Roper, has been accepted into the American Library Association Emerging Leaders program for 2020. The program is for librarians who have no more than five years of experience in the field. The goal for Roper is to work for six months on a project that she can later present at a conference. “It’s a great opportunity to work with other people and learn about library advocacy on the national level because there’s a myth that libraries are going extinct or that they are not going to exist in a couple…

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Grief and loss support group meets

KINGMAN Come and join White Cliffs Assisted Living Center for a monthly “Grief and Loss Support Group” on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. These are group meetings to provide support to those who are struggling with issues related to grief and loss. People are there to listen and provide support when you need it. Support Groups are led by the Pastor Paul Pitts of Living Waters Hospice. The group meets every third Wednesday of the month. White Cliffs Assisted Living Center is located at 3600 Peterson Rd., and meetings are held in the Chapel/Theater room. For more information call…

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Central at Southern closed today

KINGMAN – A contractor will be closing Central Avenue at Southern Ave., to complete a sewer line installation on Central Ave. Additionally they will be completing the water line connection in Southern Ave. which will require full flagging operations. The closure and restrictions began this morning, January 6 at 6:00 a.m. and go through Friday, January 10 at 6:00 p.m. Up-to-date street closures and restrictions can be found on the City of Kingman’s engineering website page of Geographic Information Systems (Interactive Maps): https://www.cityofkingman.gov/government/departments/engineering/gis

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Bullhead City roadwork update

BULLHEAD CITY – The City of Bullhead City Public Works Department has the following projects going on in addition to regular work around our city during the week of January 6: ·            City crews will be performing city wide sewer cleaning in various neighborhoods. ·            City crews will be performing city wide sewer video inspection. ·            City crews will be performing city wide street sweeping in various neighborhoods. ·            City crews will be performing city wide traffic and street light maintenance and repairs in various locations throughout the city. ·            City crews will be performing weed abatement city wide, this will consist of mechanical control…

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Experience the New Year

It is difficult to believe that we are already a full week into the New Year 2020. Some folks have barely gotten the Christmas decorations taken down and put away, and some have decided to leave the Christmas lights up all year while they forgo turning them on, simply because they don’t have the desire or energy to take them down. Those who had real trees watched as they dried and dropped their needles; finally removing them and hauling them to a specified location for recycling. Ah! The memories of Christmas past! New Year’s Eve was spent in partying, revelry…

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Temporary closure, restrictions of public lands announced for Parker races

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office announces the temporary closure and restriction of selected public lands for the 2020 Best In The Desert’s Parker 250 and 425 races in La Paz County. The temporary closure will be in effect Jan. 11-12 and Jan. 24-25. The temporary restrictions will be in effect Jan. 9-12, and Jan. 22-25. Access to public lands in and around the race course will be temporarily closed, restricted, or designated as spectator areas. Restricted and closed areas will be marked at key access points with signage, fencing, or barriers….

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