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It will be a busy year ahead for highway projects in northern Arizona

6 years ago8 months ago4 mins

US 93 widening, interstate paving among 2019 improvements. This year will be filled with highway system improvements for northern Arizona travelers, including the start of the latest Arizona Department of Transportation project expanding US 93 to four-lane divided highway between Wickenburg and Interstate 40. Crews will soon launch a $35.5 million project on nearly 4 miles of US 93 just north of Wikieup, between Carrow and Stephens, connecting two sections of highway that have already been divided. That will provide a continuous stretch of divided four-lane highway from milepost 108, about 15 miles south of I-40, and milepost 121 near…

Opinion

Developing a life plan

4 years ago5 mins

Dear Editor, Have something to look forward to every day. Work a job. Work in your apartment or house. Have an exercise or health outing of some kind. Clean out a closet. Read a book. Your goal may be to sit on the porch and watch nature or the traffic go by. We all need leisure days. If you have an idle day then plan to enjoy your time. Work on your health, mental and physical. Occasionally do a mind check. Clean out any garbage between your ears. Your mind is where you spend your life. Do away with negativity….

Court News

Colorado River community drug dealers sentenced

5 years ago8 months ago3 mins

BULLHEAD CITY – A pair of Colorado River community drug dealers were sentenced to the Arizona Department of Corrections last week in separate Mohave County Superior Court cases. The 16-year prison term ordered June 18 for Stephen Martin, 60, was stipulated in a plea agreement. Deputy county attorney Kellen Marlow said Martin, Bullhead City, sold nearly three pounds of methamphetamine over a 10-day period last June to a confidential informant. The prosecutor told Judge Rick Lambert that Martin should be distinguished from people transporting drugs to other locations because he was involved in sales activity that poisoned the local community….

WARMC to close childbirth services

4 years ago4 mins

BULLHEAD CITY – Western Arizona Regional Medical Center (WARMC) is discontinuing obstetrical and newborn services and will close its labor and delivery unit, effective April 30. After this date, the hospital will no longer provide inpatient labor and delivery services. Expectant mothers will continue to have local options for receiving childbirth services at the Mohave County hospitals located in Fort Mohave, Lake Havasu City and Kingman. They will work with their obstetricians and medical staff to support an orderly transition of their patients’ non-emergent deliveries to another hospital. Patients who are experiencing a medical emergency – obstetrics-related or otherwise – can…

Marianne Salem endorsed

6 months ago6 months ago9 mins

Dear Editor,

My friends and neighbors, we have all heard the phrase, “we are in the fight for the soul of America,” But what exactly does that mean? What is the soul of America and why is there a fight over it?

Business News

Fieldhouse ribbon cutting delayed

6 years ago8 months ago2 mins

BULLHEAD CITY – Opening ceremonies for the Anderson Auto Group Fieldhouse have been temporarily delayed so that contractors and subcontractors can complete several outstanding projects. New dates for the public ribbon cutting and a separate reception for sponsors will be chosen shortly to avoid conflicting with other community events already scheduled, according to officials with the Colorado River Union High School District (CRUHSD). CORE Construction is building the Fieldhouse for CRUHSD. “We’ve worked very hard with our partners and the community for the Fieldhouse to be a showcase,” said CRUHSD governing board president Lori Crampton. “The work that remains to…

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It will be a busy year ahead for highway projects in northern Arizona

Developing a life plan

Colorado River community drug dealers sentenced

WARMC to close childbirth services

Marianne Salem endorsed

Fieldhouse ribbon cutting delayed

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