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A Yavapai County hospitality group is offering a free college education to incentivize current and future employees as it's been tough getting new people to join the team.
5:48 On Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips. Inside, hundreds of harvested cannabis plants hung on lines to dry. The image was something like an upside-down Christmas tree farm. Each is a variety of hemp, rich in the therapeutic substance cannabidiol, or CBD. They have little or no THC. That is, you can’t get high on anything grown here. Hemp plants hang to dry in the barn. Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Steps away, inside the century-old farmhouse, Joe’s partner, Marisa Budej, tended to the seed-producing “mother...
Luke Air Force Base reveals major renovations to its Base Exchange FOX 10's Ty Brennan reports. MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. - Service members and their families have a new and improved place to shop at Luke Air Force Base after the Base Exchange recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, it was time for shoppers to see their new and improved exchange at the base. The 45-year-old building underwent a $9.8 million renovation from floor to ceiling. "All of the stuff that you cant see keep people comfortable," says Colonel Ryan Richardson, re...
Arnold Air Force Base, located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, had over a half-billion dollar impact on the Volunteer State according to studies which also revealed the base accounts for over 1,700 jobs. The economic impact of Arnold Air Force Base across the state of Tennessee was $680.2 million for the 2020 fiscal year. Arnold AFB impacted the local areas through payroll, secondary jobs created through local spending, and other expenditures for supplies, utilities, fuel and services and the spin-off impact of those purchases. The base employed a mixture of active-duty military personnel from...
Barksdale Air Force Base begins reopening efforts (Source: BAFB) By Daffney Dawson | February 18, 2021 at 5:30 PM CST - Updated February 19 at 9:14 AM BOSSIER CITY, La. (KSLA) - The Barksdale Air Force Base will begin reopening on Friday, Feb. 19, to initiate recovery efforts. In order to reduce travel in unsafe conditions, unit leadership will have discretion over who comes on base for work based on need. Those needed will be contacted directly. For those in need of a prescription (if it was ordered before Feb. 10), the pharmacy drive-thru will be open from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday...