Category: Community News

MOHAVE COUNTY – Restaurants meeting certain criteria can welcome dine-in customers once again starting next Monday. There are many unanswered questions regarding whether customers are ready to return and which eateries will open or remain closed. “Some people are very excited to be opened again and some people are a little hesitant so I think it’s just going to depend on the restaurant owner and how they want to handle it,” said Becky Fawson, Executive Director for the Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce. “We’re getting out visiting places and making calls to find out who’s opening.” Fawson said the Chamber…

BULLHEAD CITY – Mohave Electric Cooperative is another step closer to making fiber-optic broadband service a reality for its members with approval by the Arizona Corporation Commission of a financing application in a unanimous 5-0 vote of the Commissioners. In a first-of-its-kind endeavor for an electric cooperative in Arizona, MEC, in partnership with service provider TWN Communications, announced in October a goal to bring fiber-optic based internet access to members in all of its service territory. In January MEC was awarded an $805,500 grant from the Arizona Commerce Authority for Phase One of the Fiber Project. “This is an ambitious project…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Dozens of people have applied for the Mohave County Manager position that Mike Hendrix will vacate for retirement on June 30. Human Resources Director Ken Cunningham said a national recruiting campaign netted 44 job applications by Wednesday. “They’re from all over the nation. They’re not just local,” Cunningham said of the applicant field. Cunningham said a four-member hiring selection committee includes Presiding Superior Court Judge Chuck Gurtler, Sheriff Doug Schuster, County Attorney Matt Smith and retired Kingman Unified School District Superintendent Roger Jacks. He said the committee will screen the field and conduct interviews with semi-finalists by…