by Jim Hinckley | Jul 24, 2018 | Economy, Featured Story, Kingman, Needles CA, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
The Route 66: Road Ahead Partnership is spearheading several ambitious initiatives that have tremendous potential for tourism related economic development in communities along the Route 66 corridor including Needles, Califronia and Kingman, Arizona. Biil Thomas,...
by Jim Hinckley | Jul 17, 2018 | Economy, Travel, Uncategorized
Diminutive Atlanta, Illinois has a business district that is about four blocks square. Several years ago the predominance of empty store fronts left little doubt that this was an old farming community where a bright and promising future was but a distant memory....
by Jim Hinckley | Jun 10, 2018 | Kingman, Travel, Uncategorized
Until quite recently Kingman was a place where people stopped on the way to (fill in the blank). Well not anymore! Kingman is on the fast track to becoming a vacation and weekend getaway destination. If you haven’t visited historic Kingman in awhile award...
by Jim Hinckley | Apr 1, 2018 | Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
On Highway 89, half way down the hill into the historic district of Prescott, there is a cross street sign that reads Senator Highway. At first, this “highway” seems to be merely a pleasant street of beautiful older homes, a scene lifted from a Norman Rockwell print....
by Jim Hinckley | Apr 1, 2018 | Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
It was once a place deemed so vital to national security and commerce that a military outpost was established to protect it. Two decades before Arizona moved from territory to statehood it was front and center in the creation of an engineering marvel. By the dawn of...