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Dear Editor, It’s election time Mohave County. You have a big decision to make in the November local election. The District 4 Republican candidate you voted for in the last election and thought would support our Constitution made herself the dictator of Mohave County on March 18. Read her resolution for yourself at https://resources.mohavecounty.us/File/Notices/PublicNotices/Emerg%20Proc.pdf As of this time I have not found anyone that is running for an office that is a hard core “America First” stalwart and that has endorsed the “America First” platform as a national thought. The Democratic platform as we all know is of the Bolshevik…

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CRUHSD launches cable TV station for student training, community programming

BULLHEAD CITY – With the cut of two ribbons and the punch of a button, the Colorado River Union High School District has launched an educational television station available to Suddenlink customers in Bullhead City, Ft. Mohave and Mohave Valley.  CRUHSD-TV secured an open channel which had been set aside for non-commercial educational cable origination programming. “We have a vision – a vision of cross-curriculum and a community culture of learning,” said Gina Covert, CRUHSD’s director of career and technical education (CTE), in a ceremony carried live on Suddenlink Channel 13.   “This component is our next level of creating that…

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New engines have arrived!

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City Fire Department (BHCFD) is excited to highlight the arrival of their five new engines. All of the new apparatus are E-One Typhoon engines that were custom-built for their department, with a 450 horsepower cummings engine, 750-gallon water tank, and 30-gallon CAFS (Compressed Air Foam System) also housed with a fitted Darly water pump. Each engine has a six-person capacity, rooftop storage compartments, large rear compartments, an enclosed ladder tunnel, LED lighting, and updated computer technology. The E-One Typhoon engines were constructed and built-in Ocala, Florida. When completed, they were transported to H&E Equipment Services…

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Safety improvement work on SR95 begins this week

BULLHEAD CITY – Motorists on State Route 95, between Bullhead City and Fort Mohave, should expect overnight delays and alternating lane restrictions starting Tuesday, Oct. 13, during construction of a raised median at two locations during the next several months. 7th Street to Aviation Way: Construction in Bullhead City is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Oct. 13, and be complete in December. Southern end of Bullhead City Parkway to Aztec Road: Work is scheduled to begin Sunday, Oct. 18, and will include the removal of the existing curb, gutter and sidewalk. The raised median is expected to be installed in mid-December. The…

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MCC congratulates long-time employees with service awards

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave Community College would like to congratulate two of its employees, Sharon Hanks on the Kingman campus and Laurel Clifford on the Lake Havasu campus. Both employees received service awards for their dedication to the college. Hanks has been with MCC for 30 years and Clifford for 20 years. Hanks was excited to receive the award and was able to achieve this goal. She said that maybe she will be the first one to make it to 40 years at MCC. Hanks currently is the Database Administrator for the Student Information Systems and has held various positions since her…

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Three indicted for first degree murder in brutal Chloride slayings; held on $1 million bond

KINGMAN – Formal indictments have been handed up in the prosecution of three young Golden Valley residents charged in the brutal slayings of a Chloride couple. Dustyn Wade Walsh and Tyler Susan Reed, both 19, and Johnny Ford Parsons, 20, are charged with first degree murder, burglary, theft of means of transportation and abandonment or concealment of a dead body. Court records most of the deadly violence was inflicted by Walsh. The victims were his grandmother, Robin Hammontree, 61, and her partner Bryan Drake, 57. Walsh told Mohave County Sheriff’s office investigators that he had a beef with Drake because…

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