Quartzsite has weathered yet another contentious election, the results are finally in.
Mayor: Ed Foster, 338 votes. Wes Huntley, 311.
Of the three seats on the town council, open for the top three winners came out to be the current incumbents:
Jerry Lukkason, 322
Patricia Anderson, 317
Robert Kelley, 315
Also rans: Chaunce Hamilton, 309
Russell Sias, 308
Bill Moore, 254.
While the [...]
With the Long Term Visitor Areas empty, and a few hardy souls still taking their chances with the heat in the short term area, Quartzsite could seem like “Dullsville, USA.” Never fear, the locals are keeping plenty of action going.
Last weekend we were “out and about” near former mayor Steve Bennett’s home up on Tyson [...]
To borrow from one of our old mentors: “There are some of the brightest people among snowbirds — but on the other hand . . .”
Witness the phone call we received the other day: “Hate to bother you, but I’m afraid we’ve run out of gas.”
A “run out gas” situation in the Quartzsite area is [...]
Quartzsite seemingly has RVers coming from everywhere: California, Washington, Oregon, and yep, Minnesota. But it’s the latter state the seems to be really worried that Minnesotan Snowbirds might forget where they’re from. With the big 2010 Census in the works, and with the fate of a seat in the US Congress hinging on as few [...]