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Focus group meetings slated for LHC Regional Transit Feasibility plan

Pam Wanner6 years ago11 months ago2 mins

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The Lake Havasu Metropolitan Planning Organization (LHMPO) is actively seeking public participation at Focus Group meetings on March 18, for the Regional Transit Feasibility and Implementation Plan. The purpose of this focus group is to gather information, discuss the need for transit services, determine areas where transit service may be needed, and to listen to concerns. Findings from the focus group will help the study team evaluate the local demand for transit services and aid in identifying potential transit solutions. The LHMPO Regional Transit Feasibility and Implementation Plan was initiated to assess the area’s need for…

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KMS band students receive top honors

Pam Wanner6 years ago11 months ago1 mins

Kingman Middle School (KMS) band students show off their awards received from the Arizona Music Educators Association’s Northern Junior High Solo & Ensemble Festival held on March 2, in Prescott. Thirty KMS musicians performed solos, duets and trios earning top ratings during the annual competition involving nearly 400 middle school musicians from across northern Arizona. The musical Bobcats brought back nine Division I – Superior ratings, nine Division II – Excellent ratings, and one Division III – Good rating out of a five-rating scale. Adjudicators assessed students’ musicianship, stage presence, and technical accuracy in pitch, rhythm, technique, interpretation, and artistry.

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Chloride to host annual St. Patrick’s Day parade

Pam Wanner6 years ago11 months ago4 mins

CHLORIDE – Chloride, the oldest mining camp in Arizona, always brings out everything green this time of year. This March Chloride celebrates St. Patrick’s Day Saturday, March 16th with a parade, gunfights, bull whip show, vendors, gold panning, and lots of entertainment for the entire family. The day will be full of fun activities starting with the Bake Sale at 9 a.m. Come early the goodies go fast. At 10 a.m. parade registration begins at the Town Hall on Payroll Avenue. Haven’t signed up for the parade yet, no problem. You have until 11 a.m. for late sign-ups. At 11…

City tables ban on exotic animal performances

Pam Wanner6 years ago11 months ago3 mins

KINGMAN – The Kingman City council tabled action on an ordinance proposing banning local performances featuring exotic animals by circuses and other traveling shows. The first half-dozen citizens speaking at the March 5 council meeting urged adoption of the measure, alleging that tigers, elephants and other exotic animals suffer for their involvement in the industry. Ordinance supporters like Keepers of the Wild sanctuary founder Jonathan Kraft said the animals are mistreated simply by their captivity, their confinement within small cages or space and forced travel. They contend they also suffer abuse when electric prods, whips and other equipment and methods…

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Premiering this week: The Odd Couple

Pam Wanner6 years ago11 months ago4 mins

KINGMAN – For three nights only, two men will be living under Lee Williams High School’s roof. From Beale Street Theater, director Matt Lambert depicts Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple’s intended message: Friends are there for you when you need them, even if you might get on each other’s nerves. Oscar Madison played by Bob Blake and Felix Ungar played by Geoff Cornelsen, are quite the odd couple indeed. After his wife demands a divorce, Felix finds himself at the home of his best friend, Oscar – a messy, aloof, broke sports writer living in 1960s New York. Audiences of…

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Fox Creek team scores in Science Olympiad Regionals

Pam Wanner6 years ago11 months ago4 mins

BULLHEAD CITY – For the third consecutive year, a team from Fox Creek Junior High School will advance from regional competition to the annual Arizona Science Olympiad at Arizona State University next month. The 12 team members are coming off of a fifth place victory out of 19 teams at spring regional competition held at Estrella Mountain Elementary School in Goodyear. The Fox Creek team brought home 20 top ten finishes out of 23 events. Individually, Fox Creek scores ranged from second to tenth place. Science Olympiad is a national science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program that allows students to…