LAKE HAVASU CITY – Retired Lake Havasu City Manager Charlie Cassens announced Monday on Facebook that he is withdrawing from the District 4 Mohave County Board of Supervisors race. That leaves incumbent Buster Johnson as the only person who has officially declared intent to seek that office. “I have come to realize that I am simply not ready to give up the next four years of my hard-earned retirement,” Cassens’ post said. “There is still time for another candidate to step up and I sincerely hope that happens. Thanks to everyone who contributed their time, effort and money into the…

BULLHEAD CITY – A short on the line opened a breaker in a substation that caused an outage that affected 3,740 members on Sunday, Jan. 12. Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) members in Fort Mohave and Mohave Valley were affected. MEC learned of the outage at 10:36 a.m. and power was restored at 1:25 p.m. Members wishing to received outage alerts for their residence from MEC can create a SmartHub account by visiting the MEC website mohaveelectric.com. When signed in, select “Notifications,” “Manage Notifications,” and then “Service” to set up email or text message alerts. When members are experiencing an outage,…

Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club’s January 10th speaker was Edward Jones Financial Advisor and Rotarian, Kim Bilbrey. Bilbrey addressed the club on Protecting Yourself from Financial Fraud. For information on this and other financial matters of concern, Bilbrey may be reached a 928-757-5831.