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Kingman’s Farmers Market offers their specialty of homemade, hand-crafted, home-baked and home-grown products. Come enjoy live music, clever crafts, delectable foods and health & beauty products at 102 E Beale St. Kingman Saturday, July 13, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Kingman’s Farmers Market is free to the public!

Jasmine Marin of Kingman graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in December 2018 with an MS in health care interpretation. RIT conferred some 4,200 degrees this academic year at all its campuses-including in Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo and China. Rochester Institute of Technology is home to leading creators, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers

Bats get a bad rap, but the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) aims to change that by highlighting the good they do – such as eating pesky mosquitoes and flies – during a series of bat netting and monitoring workshops July 26 and Sept. 6. Each event runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Needle Rock Recreation Area northeast of Scottsdale and costs $25 per person, with proceeds going to help the department provide other wildlife viewing events statewide.  During the events, participants will observe the capture and identification of local bat species alongside AZGFD biologists as part…

After a graceful half-mile flight across Horseshoe Lake, the 3-year-old bald eagle released back into the wild by Arizona Game and Fish Department and Liberty Wildlife was free once again.  It was a fitting conclusion for the bird that was found in February at a Queen Creek dairy suffering from a shattered femur. Left untreated the bird would have certainly died, yet four months later, a small group of onlookers watched in excitement as this national symbol glided low across the water’s surface, declaring its independence just days ahead of the July 4 holiday.  “As an agency, we strive to…

The following local residents have earned a degree from Western Governors University (WGU). The online, nonprofit university held its 70th (Orlando, Florida); 71st (Cincinnati, Ohio); and 72nd (Anaheim, California) commencement ceremonies this year to celebrate the graduation of more than 22,000 students from across the country. Kerry Coleman of Kingman has earned her Bachelor of Arts, Educational Studies and Michael Gaffney of Kingman has earned his Master of Science, Information Technology Management.

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Arizona State University-Lake Havasu campus professor Dr. Cristen Mann was recently recognized as the 2019 the First Things First La Paz/Mohave Region Champion for Young Children.  The Champion for Young Children award is given by the FTF La Paz/Mohave Regional Council each year to a local champion who actively volunteers their time to raise public awareness of the importance of early childhood development and health. Champions spend a significant amount of time building public awareness about the importance of early childhood issues. Mann volunteered her Organizational Leadership Project Management class to organize a foster care appreciation…