Category: Community News

Lake Havasu City Parks and Recreation is offering many great programs for kids this summer. Activities include summer swim lessons, beginning swim league, basketball clinic, and Summer Camps. Park and Recreation has what people are looking for! Register today for all summer programs at the Aquatic Center. Registration will be accepted until camps reach their maximum capacity. There are about 45 openings between the 3 locations.  Summer Camp, for participants at least five years old and entering Kindergarten through fourth grade, is held at Havasupai/Nautilus, Jamaica, and Starline/Oro Grande, and goes from June 3 through July 19 from 7:30 a.m. to…

Cornell College conferred degrees on 210 students during its annual Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 12. That includes Katherine Baker of Lake Havasu City, with degrees in International Relations and Spanish. Cornell’s graduates come from around the world, and 62 of them finished two or more majors. In addition, two students received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, one a Bachelor of Music, 12 Bachelor of Special Studies, and 195 earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.

The National Park Service is considering issuing a limited Commercial Use Authorization for guided access to underwater archeological site 28CK7829, also known as the Overton Arm B-29, at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. In compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Park Service seeks public comment on potential impacts of the proposal on the historic aircraft. The B-29 crashed into Lake Mead in 1948. Its location was discovered in 2003. After divers conducted a thorough assessment of the plane and crash site, it was opened to limited permitted diving from 2008-2009 and 2015-2017. The site was…

A Kingman man was fatally injured when the Buick sedan he was operating pulled out in front of an oncoming Chevrolet pickup truck on State Route 68 Thursday, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS). Agency spokesman Bart Graves said John Gutierrez, 81, was dead at the scene of the crash. Officers responded at 11:06 a.m. and determined that the sedan was on Colorado Road and failed to stop before entering the westbound lanes of the highway. Graves said the pickup truck t-boned the driver’s side of the sedan. Graves said a passenger in the sedan sustained non…