Category: Business

Gretchen Dorner continues her near 30-year career with her hometown school system at its highest level. Dorner brings a foundation of varied teaching and administrative experience to her new job as Superintendent of the Kingman Unified School District (KUSD). “I am so excited. I would never have imagined in the early 90’s when I started my career with, at that time, the Kingman Elementary School District, that I would eventually end up in this position,” said Dorner, noting that she’s also quite comfortable with the transition. “It just sort of naturally led this way. And now I get to be…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave County supervisors took no action before adjourning Tuesday’s special board meeting within a few minutes of its start. Future operation of the animal shelter in downtown Kingman was the only issue before the board. The board voted June 3 to transition the shelter to a county-run facility because the current contract operator, the Lake Havasu City-based Western Arizona Humane Society (WAHS), previously indicated it did not want its contract extended beyond June 30 and no other providers indicated interest in overseeing the shelter. WAHS, however, subsequently expressed interest in running the shelter if the Board of…

KINGMAN – A power outage disrupted some government operations in downtown Kingman Tuesday. The Mohave County Courthouse, a number of county offices and Kingman City Hall lost power at 2:25 p.m. The county administration facility was minimally impacted because Information Technology Director Nathan McDaniel said the phone and computer systems have backup power capability so employees can keep working during a service interruption. Local Unisource Energy Electrical operations director Lynne Petersen said the outage impacted about 480 customers, but that most had service restored by shortly after 3:00 p.m. She said switching efforts by technicians helped bring most customers back…