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KINGMAN – A Kingman teenager who just completed her junior year at Lee Williams High School has a nice head start on a college savings fund. Franchise-owning, sister-brother business partners Krystal Burge and Mark Peterson presented Amelia Brackett with a $5,000 scholarship award from the Taco Bell foundation. “The Taco Bell Foundation raises about $20 million a year all across the country,” Peterson said. He said about $8 million of that is funding 650 scholarship recipients this year. Burge said they staged the May 26 check presentation at the Taco Bell store on Andy Devine Avenue, where they began their…

Governor to disperse COVID funds to Kingman PHOENIX – The Governor’s Office is providing nearly $600 million in coronavirus relief and recovery dollars for local Arizona governments and nonprofits as part of a funding plan announced today by Governor Doug Ducey. The plan includes $441 million in direct, flexible funding to local cities, towns and counties that did not receive direct funding earlier this year from the federal government. In addition, local governments, tribal communities, schools and more will be eligible for expedited reimbursements from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) for coronavirus-related expenses, including purchases of testing supplies, PPE…

Governor to disperse COVID funds to Kingman PHOENIX – The Governor’s Office is providing nearly $600 million in coronavirus relief and recovery dollars for local Arizona governments and nonprofits as part of a funding plan announced today by Governor Doug Ducey. The plan includes $441 million in direct, flexible funding to local cities, towns and counties that did not receive direct funding earlier this year from the federal government. In addition, local governments, tribal communities, schools and more will be eligible for expedited reimbursements from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) for coronavirus-related expenses, including purchases of testing supplies, PPE…

KINGMAN – Surveying beginning June 1, and lasting through mid-June for the Downtown Infrastructure Design Project (Formerly, Downtown Streetscape Project). The consultants hired by the city will be gathering data from store front to store front, street, curbs, etc.  on Beale from 1st Street to 6th St (half a block on the north and all the way to Andy Devine on the south at the intersecting streets). There will not be any traffic control needed as it will be a moving operation in the street, but there will be personnel on the sidewalks and other areas. Kingman Mayor Jen Miles said, “We…