Category: Community News

KINGMAN – Kingman and greater Mohave County have lost a treasured community leader. His son Cody said Martin Swanty passed peacefully in his sleep overnight. He was 90 years old. Swanty owned automobile dealerships in Kingman and Bullhead City. Business, community service, philanthropy and more. You name it, and Martin was successful at it. Cody and his Martin’s good friend Krystal Burge said Swanty was a consummate family man. “Martin was just a loving, caring soul and without question Martin loved his family and loved his grand children and was really dedicated to them,” Burge said. You could just see…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The London Bridge Republican Women Dinner will be held February 1 at Shugrue’s Bridgeview Room. Checkin in is at 5 p.m. with a 6 p.m. meeting and dinner. Cost is $20 cash or check at the door. Guest speakers will be Lake Havasu City Councilmembers Cameron Moses and Nancy Campbell. Please RSVP to Amie Boggs at 928-231-6805 by noon on January 30.

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave County Supervisors voted Tuesday to overturn new board meeting rules imposed when Buster Johnson began serving as chairman on Jan. 4. Dist. 2 Sup. Hildy Angius led the charge in returning the Call to the Public toward the start of board meetings. Johnson relegated Call to the Public to the end of the meetings. He said the board convenes to conduct county business and that citizens have ample opportunity to provide input to supervisors before and after meetings. Johnson said extended citizen comment during the Call to the Public is unfair for individuals, businesses and agencies…

KINGMAN – Its owners plan to move the Slightly High Maintenance beauty salon to downtown Kingman from its longtime business plaza location near Starbucks on Stockton Hill Road. Kevin and Stephanie Wilkerson are working to move the enterprise to a parcel they own at 135 Oak Street, one block east of the main baseball field at Lee Williams High School. “What we’re proposing to do is to take an already successful business that’s been operating for 14 years and just move it down here,” Kevin Wilkerson said during the Jan. 12 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. “We purchased the property…

KINGMAN – Its owners plan to move the Slightly High Maintenance beauty salon to downtown Kingman from its longtime business plaza location near Starbucks on Stockton Hill Road. Kevin and Stephanie Wilkerson are working to move the enterprise to a parcel they own at 135 Oak Street, one block east of the main baseball field at Lee Williams High School. “What we’re proposing to do is to take an already successful business that’s been operating for 14 years and just move it down here,” Kevin Wilkerson said during the Jan. 12 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. “We purchased the property…