Category: Community News

The City of Kingman received regulatory approvals from the Arizona State Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), crews are finished with work on tie-ins. Crews are completing miscellaneous concrete work, and removing the old fire hydrants, as well as finishing up with the culvert work. With the completion of the water main and culvert, crews are preparing for the mill and overlay work on Stockton Hill Road that will begin next Monday, May 6. Crews plan to mill and re-pave Stockton Hill Road between Airway Ave. and Gordon Drive. Additional repaving will occur on portions of Kino Ave. and Gordon Dr. on…

In an effort to streamline customer service, the City of Kingman Planning and Zoning Department will be open 7am-6pm, Monday through Thursday, and closed on Fridays. The new hours will begin Monday, May 6.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it is seeking public nominations for positions on 31 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) nationwide, including Arizona’s RAC. These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues. The BLM maintains 38 such advisory committees formally chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and the Federal Policy and Land Management Act (FLPMA) across the West. Of those committees, 31 are RACs and the remainder site or subject-specific Advisory Councils. Each RAC consists of 10 to 15 members from diverse interests in local communities, and they assist in the development of recommendations…

The Department of the Interior will conduct a second Macroinvertebrate Production Flow this summer at Glen Canyon Dam under its Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan. This experiment, also known as a Bug Flow, aims to improve egg-laying conditions for aquatic insects that are the primary food source for fish in the Colorado River. The experiment will begin on May 1 and continue through August 31, 2019.  “Last year’s experiment was a big success, so we’re excited that a second year of testing will occur,” said Scott VanderKooi, Chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, which…

Mohave Electric Cooperative crews worked diligently on April 26 afternoon to restore power to Golden Shores members after a kite became entangled in power lines. There were additional members indirectly impacted, such as businesses that did not lose power, but the internet supplier did, leaving them unable to process credit cards. “Mohave Electric goes to great lengths to educate its members and their family about potential hazards,” said Rick Campos, manager of engineering, operations, and energy services at MEC. “Just four weeks earlier we had the Making Accidents Disappear magician appear in seven elementary schools. “His message: Stop. Look. Think….

Mohave Community College is honoring Math Instructor Laurel Clifford for her outstanding efforts to help students.  Mohave Community College is honoring Math Instructor Laurel Clifford for her outstanding efforts to help students.  “She is truly a phenomenal teacher who puts the students first,” wrote the student who nominated Clifford for the Ellen Licari Service to Students award.   Laurel worked with Ellen Licari at the Lake Havasu City campus, and watched Ellen go above and beyond to help students succeed. Licari was an MCC Student Advisor who passed away in 2011. “She was a wonderful example of somebody who cared about…