Lake Havasu City - Mecca of Jet Skis, Boating, and...Rusty Buses
The double-decker bus in the English Village has hit the road.I'm pretty sure that thing puts the Death in Death Ride. Anywho, heading up the highway towards
Not that the bus could make it anywhere on its own. The bus was pulled Thursday from its base with a crane and then towed off the property through a donation by Steve Getter, owner of Steve's Towing service.
Today's News-Herald
The focus of Tuesday's budget workshop for the Board of Supervisors seemed less about what the different county departments were asking for and more about what funds were being taken away from the county. The effects of Proposition 101 on the county's coffers was repeatedly brought up by not only the Board but various department heads as well.Heading east, the town of Williams is facing an emergency that will probably become an inevitability for the entire Southwest region - water woes
Proposition 101 was passed by voters in November. It limits the amount the county can increase the property tax rate to 2 percent each year plus new development.
Kingman Daily Miner
"We are finding ourselves, currently, in what I would term a water crisis. Williams has had water crises in the past," said Wells. "This last winter created virtually no rainfall or snow of any amount and we are looking forward, as we always do, and we came to realize that, within a year, this town could be totally out of water. To compound things, our Dogtown I Well recently went down. The electric motor has burned out and we plan, at some point this summer, to replace the motor and get Dogtown I back up, so we currently only have one producing water well that is available for usage and our reservoirs are precariously low. June is the month of the year that tends to reduce the levels of our reservoirs rather dramatically. It is what I would term a crisis, because we know if the drought continues, and it is expected to continue, then within one year this community is out of water."Continuing down I-40 to Flagstaff, the newest Democratic candidate for Congressional District 1 announced her bid.
Williams-Grand Canyon News
Mary Kim Titla hopes to become the first Native American woman in Congress. She has announced her candidacy and plans to unseat Rick Renzi from Arizona's Congressional District One.Here is her campaign website to get more info on her candidacy. I recall her stint with Channel 12 in Phoenix, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Titla took her campaign race onto the winding woodland trail above Flagstaff's Thorpe Park that has served as the route for the Native Americans for Community Action (NACA) Sacred Mountain Prayer Run for several years now.
Navajo Hopi Observer
Dipping south now towards Camp Verde, some residents will finally reap the rewards of the town getting their crap together.
In 1993 an election was held in Camp Verde to annex a large tract of the town into the sanitary district.Speaking of sewage - two vigilantes in Prescott are facing charges for harassment
The landowners that were taken in have been paying taxes just like everyone else in the district. Only they haven't been hooked up to anything. In many instances they have had to pay additional fees to have their septic systems repeatedly pumped.
That is going to change.
On Wednesday, sanitary district Chairman Rob Witt took a trip to Phoenix to the offices of the district bond council Fred Rosenfeld. There he signed the paperwork that finalized the last $11 million needed to finish the expansion project.
Camp Verde Bugle
A Prescott Police investigation has revealed that two members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps had provoked the alleged attack by a man they photographed picking up the day labor at the corner of Lincoln and Grove avenues on May 18.And not really news, but definitely intriguing (at least to me), an excerpt from historical and creative writing out of the former mining hamlet of Jerome.
Lt. Ken Morley said that David Hunter and Bentley Bremmon could face misdemeanor harassment charges.
"They were harassing him to the point where Scott Blair got out of his truck and went after these two guys," Morley said.
Prescott Daily Courier
Lillie watched as the driver turned and started running down the rocky canyon road toward Jeome. She knew that he would probably run all the way to town. She wiped the handkerchief around her lace collar. It was hot. One of those spring days in Arizona that reminded you of just how hot it could be by the time summer came around. She knew that she should have waited for Jack to arrive from San Francisco, but she just couldn't resist the idea of coming over the mountain in a stagecoach. She realized that soon there would be no more stagecoaches, and since it was only a day trip from Prescott to Jerome . . . well . . . She just hoped that the booming mining camp was all that it professed to be - the luxurious Hotel Montana, the spectacular view, the Opera House.What's going on in your part of the world?
Lillie leaned her head out of the coach and surveyed her surroundings. They had just come down from the pass where they had been surrounded by pine woods and meadows. Then abruptly the terrain had changed. She was now in a small rocky canyon. Instead of pine forest, it was highland desert - red rock, manzanita, cactus, and desert flowers. Her eyes ran down the canyon to where it opened into the valley a couple of thousand feet below. She could see all the way across the valley to the massive red rock cliffs on the other side. Lazy white clouds drifted across the blue sky. The sun was growing hotter in the canyon.
Jerome Times
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