Category: Community News

BULLHEAD CITY – The City of Bullhead City is sponsoring a creative writing, poetry and arts and video/audio performance contest for students in fifth grade through 12th  grade who attend a school in Bullhead City with a top prize of $250. Each student will have the opportunity to write a 400-word essay; design an art piece (painting, graffiti, mural); create a 2 minute video/audio – music rap or spoken word about your family. Students will need to explain in their own words why they think counting every member of their family matters to gain an accurate picture of the people…

One of my favorite television shows is on the History Channel™: The Curse of Oak Island. If you have not seen the show, it is about two brothers, Marty and Rick Lagina, who have already spent a small fortunate in search of treasure that is believed to have been buried in the late 16th century. To date numerous artifacts have been recovered to indicate that the treasure is real. The brothers believe that it is because: Why would anyone spend 20 million dollars of their own money to conduct such a search. In different episodes they have found logs buried…

Survey results shine light on recovery effort  SELIGMAN, Ariz. — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking volunteers to assist with spotlighting efforts to help document the population of endangered black-footed ferrets in Aubrey Valley and on the Double O Ranch near Seligman.  As part of the recovery effort, the department has scheduled two spring spotlighting events  — March 12-15, and a split seven-night event April 10-12 and April 16-19 (the department also conducts two spotlighting projects in the fall). The spotlighting method involves using high-powered lights to locate and identify black-footed ferrets. Their eyeshine is reflected by the…