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Small business reopening guidelines

Yesterday, May 4, Governor Ducey released guidelines for business owners as businesses begin to reopen. Please review the documents that are relevant to your business. Retail Monday May 4, non-essential retail businesses opened for curbside and pick up. Friday May 8, retail can be open for business with limited occupancy. You can view the retail guidelines at https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/guidance_for_retail.pdf. Salon and Cosmetology Businesses Friday May 8, licensed Title 32 salon and cosmetology businesses can open. You can view the guidelines at https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/guidance_for_barbers_and_cosmetologists-2.pdf Restaurants Monday May 11, dine-in establishments can operate. As the Governor mentioned, it is not about the license type…

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New coffee house planned for Kingman

KINGMAN – An Oregon-based company hopes to place four food or beverage service businesses on a 2.75-acre parcel on Kingman’s main thoroughfare. Cole Valley Partners plans to purchase the property located at Stockton Hill Road and Riata Valley, just north of True Value Hardware. A request for water service to the parcel will be considered during Tuesday’s Kingman City Council meeting. Project manager Ryan Ramey said Dutch Bros. Coffee will serve as an anchor tenant with plans for an 862 square foot building. He said a 2,400 square foot Filliberto’s is planned as well. Ramey said the timetable for development…

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Light turnout for Kingman COVID-19 testing

Numbers inexplicably incomplete River community testing plan not yet firm KINGMAN – Uncertainty and unknowns involving testing have been a coronavirus conundrum since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More of that was evident during Monday’s Mohave County Board of Supervisors meeting in Kingman. Americans have been confused about testing scarcity since the start of the outbreak. Some of the panoply of questions included have been: are tests available, where, for whom and on whose authority? It seems medical experts and many others have come to agree that the nation lacked adequate supply and got a late start with testing….

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MCSO Search and Rescue Bullhead Unit gives back to community

BULLHEAD CITY – The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) Search and Rescue (SAR) Bullhead Unit hosted a free community outreach event held at Community Park in Bullhead City Saturday. More than 150 cases of water were given out to residents and visitors who took advantage of the free water. “MCSO SAR is always there to serve the community,” said Bullhead Unit Commander Captain Chris Morgan. “This morning was no different as team members from the Bullhead Unit came together to hand more than 7,500 bottles of water to the community.” When asked why search and rescue did the community outreach…

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MCSO Search and Rescue Bullhead Unit gives back to community

BULLHEAD CITY – The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) Search and Rescue (SAR) Bullhead Unit hosted a free community outreach event held at Community Park in Bullhead City Saturday. More than 150 cases of water were given out to residents and visitors who took advantage of the free water. “MCSO SAR is always there to serve the community,” said Bullhead Unit Commander Captain Chris Morgan. “This morning was no different as team members from the Bullhead Unit came together to hand more than 7,500 bottles of water to the community.” When asked why search and rescue did the community outreach…

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BOS aborts letter to governor; adjourned with no motion

An initiative that began last week to have Mohave County pressure Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to reopen the economy, at least in northwest Arizona, has fizzled. Supervisors last Thursday directed staff to draft a proposed communication that would be considered during Monday’s board meeting.    The board adjourned Monday’s meeting without any motion to approve and send the letter that was read into the record by Chairman Jean Bishop.    “We respectfully request that you respect our choice and freedoms during this crisis. It should be our right to reopen our economy if we feel we can do so safely and if…

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