Piazza Trucking hauls a heavy load slowly through the town of Parker, with bucket trucks lifting power lines and other cables ahead of it as the cargo passes underneath. Seven axles help spread the weight across 84 wheels, with capacity for a load of many tons.
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The Arizona Department of Transportation will begin a project to renovate the existing Port of Entry facility in Parker, AZ on Tuesday, October 13th. Crews are scheduled to work weekdays from 6am to 5pm. Work is taking place alongside the road and traffic impacts are not anticipated. The $334,550 project consists of updating the existing structure with a new layout, …
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Best In The Desert racing association returns to Parker this weekend with the BlueWater Desert Challenge presented by Polaris, a two-day race for off-road trucks and UTVs in Parker, AZ. The event begins today with Time Trials – qualifying runs for starting position on the course – and the General Tire Appreciation Party at BlueWater Resort Cantina. Registration, Contingency and …
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T-Mobile is doubling the capacity of its Parker, AZ tower, upgrading ahead of the winter season when Parker’s resident numbers swell to many times the number of full-time residents. The work has been carried out with a 200-foot crane near the intersection of 8th Street and Desert Avenue in Parker, and affecting the signal for T-Mobile customers for many miles …
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Parker, AZ received almost half an inch of rain over a 2-day period in several showers that formed as part of a low pressure system over the weekend. The system brought with it overnight minimum temps reaching as low as the upper-50s, with maximum temps around 80 degrees. The forecast calls for an increase in the afternoon temps back to …
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Carl Flanagan has joined the La Paz Regional Hospital team as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The position directs La Paz Regional’s financial planning and accounting practices and reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer. Flanagan will oversee the patient accounting and billing, budgeting and the hospital external financial reporting. “La Paz has enormous growth potential. We looked for a …
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Keith Moses joins us on the 30th edition of the Parker Livecast to chat about this weekend’s 43rd Annual CRIT Fair and Expo, last weekend’s successful NatiVisions Film Festival and the premiere screening of CRIT’s film, ‘The Marking of a Milestone’. We hear about a few of the many plans for this weekend’s activities (which are already in progress as …
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More neighborhoods are to be served with sewer services after a new loan was closed to expand the Buckskin Sanitary District (BSD) into the Parker Dam area north of Parker, AZ. The Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona (WIFA) announced this week that it has closed a three-year design loan for $915,000 for BSD to design plans for further expansion …
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UPDATE 2:54pm: Sheriff’s Department says: “Upon arrival, the first responders and citizens assisted the driver out of her vehicle to a safe location to await medical assistance. The vehicle somehow lost power and control on the Lakeside Blvd hill and the driver crashed through a small retaining wall. Fortunately for the driver and the residence below on Cove Avenue, the …
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“I’ve known this lady a lot of years. Since her house fire I’ve been going over to her property and cleaning up and trying to save what I can from the debris. She just got here from Texas and is putting out a fortune on motel rooms to try and help me with the cleanup. She went to the County …
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