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KINGMAN – A cylinder toppled into a pickup truck on W. Beale Street Tuesday, resulting in significant traffic congestion in downtown Kingman. Police responded to the incident at about 9:50 a.m. Deputy Kingman police chief Rusty Cooper said the mishap occurred when a semi pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with an empty liquid nitrogen cylinder pulled onto the arterial from a private driveway. “The motion of the trailer rolling over the curb caused the chains used to secure the load to break,” Cooper said. “The large cylinder rolled off of the trailer onto the roadway and into a Ford pickup…

BULLHEAD CITY –  In a quest to enhance the ability to report power outages, Mohave Electric Cooperative members can now text a notification. No changes to other reporting methods were made. Members can still call the (844)632-2667 Outage Reporting Hotline or sign into their SmartHub account. It is important to remember the MEC Facebook page is not monitored 24/7 and is not a reliable reporting tool. “We wanted to remain current with the times and offer another, simple method for members to report an outage,” said Rick Campos, chief operating officer at MEC. “Reporting outages remains an important tool for…

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City Elementary and Colorado River Union High School Districts are resuming free community information workshops funded by 21st Century Community Learning Center grants.  This year, the workshops are being moved from Tuesdays to Wednesdays. Unless noted otherwise later this year, all of the workshops will be held in the classrooms at the Anderson Auto Group Fieldhouse, 3663 Bullhead Parkway, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Future workshops include child parenting tips about self-esteem on January 29 by retired Bullhead City Elementary School District curriculum director Cindy Neuzil, and a three-part workshop about low cost vegetable…