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BULLHEAD CITY – Local residents and visitors alike will enjoy enhanced recreational opportunities when the Arizona section of the Colorado River Heritage Trail opens next fall in Bullhead City. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday, November 22 for initial construction of the Trail that will stretch some five miles south from Davis Dam to Davis Camp, operated by Mohave County, and further south to the Colorado River Bridge on SR 95. The portion of the trail that loops north from the Bridge back to Davis Dam along the Nevada side of the River opened in July, 2012. Ceremony speakers said…

Speaking at Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club’s November 22 meeting was Mohave County Community Health Educator Specialist Senior Supervisor and Rotarian Susan Williams (shown with club president Karen Brown). Williams presented a power point presentation on tobacco use. Between 1965 and 2018 tobacco use in the U.S. dropped from 42% to 13.7% while in Mohave County it dropped from 29% in 2011 to 20% in 2018. E-cigarette use among high school students surged from 11.7% in 2017 to 20.8% in 2018. According to the Center for Disease Control as of 11-20-19: nationwide 2,290 cases of e-cigarette or vaping products use…

Congressman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. has announced the U.S. Department of Transportation’s winners of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants: “I am pleased to report that the Kingman Municipal Airport as well Prescott Regional Airport were the recipients of AIP grants, a much-needed infusion for rehabilitation and construction. These airports are key drivers of our economy in Arizona’s fourth congressional district, and this additional funding will allow them to expand, modernize, and continue operations vital to our community,” said Gosar. “This is an exciting time! It will replace our main runway to help develop transportation loading and multimodal transportation logistics….

MOHAVE COUNTY– City offices in Kingman, Bullhead City, and Lake Havasu City will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, Thursday, November 28 and Friday, 29. In addition, there will be no residential or commercial trash service in Kingman Thursday, November 28. Thursday customers should put their cans out one day early, Wednesday, November 27; Friday customers will not be affected. KART will not be running on either Thursday or Friday, but will continue its regular schedule Saturday, November 30. In Lake Havasu City, the Aquatic Center and City Hall are closed. Afterschool Program and Havasu Mobility services are…

KINGMAN – Beginning December 1, the centralized recycling drop site, located at the Kingman Public Works Department, 3700 East Andy Devine Avenue, will be closed on Sundays. The new drop off hours will be 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to noon Saturday. Public works members are on-hand to help people drop off the correct items for recycling during those hours. Acceptable items are glass bottles, plastics #1 and #2 only, aluminum cans, paper and newspapers (no magazines or junk mail), cardboard, steel, aluminum, and tin cans. For any questions regarding the changes, please call…