Category: Community News

GOLDEN VALLEY – A week-long water service outage has ended for roughly 40% of the customer base in the Mohave County operated Golden Valley Water Improvement District (GVID). The May 7 failure of one of two wells that supply the system resulted in loss of service for 500 of the District’s 1,200 customers. “County staff worked every calendar day with urgency to repair the damage,” a county issued news release stated. It said a replacement submersible motor was located in Phoenix on May 14 and rushed to Golden Valley for installation. A boil water advisory remained in effect as crews restored…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Decades of operation of the Mohave County Fairgrounds by the Fair Association is likely coming to an end. Member Travis Lingenfelter’s proposal to bring the fairgrounds under the management umbrella of the Parks Department was approved during Monday’s Mohave County board of supervisors meeting. “It’s time to fix the problem,” Lingenfelter said. Lingenfelter said the Fair Association that manages the 68-acre fairgrounds property in Kingman through an agreement with the county has failed to adhere to a business plan adopted in 2016. “I didn’t even know it existed until 2:30 yesterday afternoon,” Fair Association Chairman Jerry McGuire conceded. “We had no idea, our board,…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Leadership Lake Havasu (LLH) is a signature program of the Lake Havasu Chamber Foundation for Education and Leadership (CFEL). LLH is currently accepting applications for the 2021/2022 program.  Interested candidates must complete an application and attend an interview following the program’s Orientation in August. Leadership Lake Havasu selects 30 talented and emerging leaders for a 9-month community immersion experience. The class gains insight, inspiration and valuable knowledge while building strong relationships with each other and a broad network of community leaders. The graduates mark it among the most significant learning experiences of their professional lives; and…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Leadership Lake Havasu (LLH) is a signature program of the Lake Havasu Chamber Foundation for Education and Leadership (CFEL). LLH is currently accepting applications for the 2021/2022 program.  Interested candidates must complete an application and attend an interview following the program’s Orientation in August. Leadership Lake Havasu selects 30 talented and emerging leaders for a 9-month community immersion experience. The class gains insight, inspiration and valuable knowledge while building strong relationships with each other and a broad network of community leaders. The graduates mark it among the most significant learning experiences of their professional lives; and…

KINGMAN – There’s going to be a slight change at Tuesday’s Kingman’s City Council meeting. For the first time in a long time (if not THE first time), a non-religious invocation will be given before the start of the evening’s business. Humanist Luke Douglas will be delivering a secular message from Phoenix via Zoom. The announcement was made on the Kingman Freethinkers Forum Facebook page Wednesday and the response among the secular and atheist community was ecstatic. “I’m excited,” said freethinker J’aime Morgaine. “It’s wonderful that all voices in Mohave County can express peace and compassion in different ways.” Kingman…

Arizona’s hometown grocer aims to fill more than 700 full-time and part-time grocery positions MOHAVE COUNTY – Bashas’ Family of Stores is holding a statewide job fair this Saturday, May 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at at all 114 grocery stores throughout the state, including Kingman and Lake Havasu City. The family-owned grocer that operates Food City, AJ’s Fine Foods, and Bashas’ supermarkets is looking to fill more than 700 full-time and part-time positions. The open positions range from hourly clerks to store managers, and everything in-between, especially skilled bakers and meat cutters who can immediately join the…