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BULLHEAD CITY – Desert Valley School principal Sandra Brown and students from each grade level accepted more than 9,300 school supplies donated by Aquarius, Colorado Belle and Edgewater Resorts and Casino employees, valued at almost $5,000. It is the tenth year the Aquarius has adopted schools in Bullhead City, Laughlin and Golden Valley.  With the acquisition of the Colorado Belle and Edgewater by Golden Entertainment, all three of its Laughlin properties participated for the first time. For eight years, Aquarius employees had adopted Coyote Canyon School in Bullhead City, but many of those students have transitioned to the adjacent Desert Valley…

Ron Gould is running for re-election as Supervisor in District 5 which includes portions of areas in west Mohave County and Lake Havasu City. The Yucca republican is unwavering and proud of his fiscal and political philosophy. “I’m a fiscal conservative. I believe in limited government,” Gould said, during a Monday interview. “I want government so small that I could drown it in a bathtub. I think government has too big of an effect on our lives and that most people can run their lives effectively without government intervention.” Gould opposes what he calls corporate welfare and government use of…

Newly hired Mohave County Public Defender Chris Stavris resigned Tuesday, Aug. 20, after roughly one week on the job. His decision is the product of two health emergencies within his family. Stavris shut down his law practice in Scottsdale where he left his family behind to transition to Kingman in the near future. He secured a home in Kingman and was to report to work to start his new job on August 12. Stavris’ wife suffered a medical event that prompted a slight delay before he reported to his office in Kingman on August 14. He said one of his…

LAUGHLIN – Clark County Commissioners on August 20 unanimously approved about $2 million for design of street, water, and sewer through a special improvement district for West Casino Drive in Laughlin. “The large-diameter water and sewer pipes finally will complete the missing link of the utilities in southern Laughlin,” said Martin Knauss, president of the Laughlin Economic Development Corporation which has supported the effort. “This will open up lots of commercial land for development along a stretch of Casino Drive that is twice as long as the famed Laughlin Strip Corridor. And it certainly will improve access for Laughlin’s main…

BULLHEAD CITY – The Cost-of-Living Index (COLI) Annual Average Data report for the second quarter of 2019 was just released and Bullhead City is once again the most affordable city in Arizona and one of the most affordable cities in the nation. Bullhead City was reported again as the most affordable city in Arizona with an overall composite index of 91.1 percent. This report represents the average prices submitted by the participating 255 urban areas nationwide. A city’s composite index is made up of six components; grocery items, housing, utilities, transportation, health care and miscellaneous goods and services. The cost-of-living…

KINGMAN – More than a dozen people staged a peaceful demonstration before Monday’s Mohave County Board of Supervisors meeting in Kingman, drawing public attention to their view that Planning and Zoning Commission member Lajuana Gillette recently posted insensitive comments on her Facebook page. They held signs and placards as they positioned along a sidewalk area at the entrance to the county complex downtown. Several of them attended the meeting and addressed Board members during the Call to The Public. They repeated their allegation that Gillette’s comments about the browning of America represents racism and they continued to call for sanction,…