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Senior Citizen Prom Royalty

Senior Citizen Prom Queen and King Jenny and Bob Barry. (Courtesy Photo)Bob and Jenny Barry were crowned the Senior Citizen Prom King and Queen, during the event held recently by the Yuma High School FBLA students at Yuma Life Care Center. The event has become a big hit over the past few years for the students and the Life Care residents.     Read More...

Potential leasing of North Fork

    An effort is underway to lease the surface water rights along the North Fork of the Republican River for this year.
    The potential deal would serve two purposes — helping Colorado in its effort to be in compliance with the Republican River Compact, and give the parties on both sides of the Pioneer Irrigation Company and Laird Ditch litigation more time to possibly come to a mediated agreement.     Read More...

YHD gets three new board members

    The Yuma Hospital District Board of Directors election results are in, and the board will be getting three new members. Susan Armstrong, Cynthia Stulp and Christopher Blecha received the most votes out of the six candidates.
A total of 1,071 mail-in ballots were returned, representing a 36-percent voter turnout.     Read More...

Morris students "Go Fish"

Kindergarten and third-grade students perform during "Go Fish." (Pioneer)    Morris Elementary students have a good time while performing in the spring concert “Go Fish” last Friday while snow and high winds raged outside. The students, under the direction of music teacher Vicki Bushner, put on yet another very entertaining show. Students throughout the area have been presenting spring concerts recently. See more pictures of the Yuma shows in the Photo Gallery at yumapioneer.com in the very near future.     Read More...

Legislature approves pipeline funding

    DENVER – State lawmakers, who end their 2008 legislative session this week,  approved a $60.6 million loan to eastern Colorado farmers to build a compact-compliance pipeline that will deliver Republican River water to the state line.     Read More...

Comment on oil & gas draft

    Area residents wanting to make a public comment in person regards to the proposed oil and gas regulations are going to have to travel a long ways.
The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission is hosting an entire day to public comments on the proposed rules, Tuesday, June 10. However, despite several attempts to have a hearing in northeast Colorado due to the potential impact on the region, this one-and-only meeting will be held at the Two Rivers Convention Center in Grant Junction.     Read More...

Animal rescue battling overpopulation

    There's a small cadre of people running around northeast Colorado trying to get a grip on the rampant pet overpopulation.
    Here's an example of how bad it is — in a recent two-week period, Colorado Plains Animal Rescue took 80 to 100 animals to an adopt-a-thon in Denver.     Read More...

Oct. 31 new Corner Closet deadline

    Encouraged by the progress made thus far, Corner Closet investors have extended the deadline for raising the funds needed to open the community-owned clothing store.     Read More...

Moisture count slowly creeping upward

Lake Yuma took on a wintry look last Friday as snow and high winds hit the area. (Pioneer)    The Yuma area has seen its total precipitation for 2008 more than double over the past month.
    Yuma received right at 1 inch of moisture in April, and rains on May 1, followed by nearly blizzard-like conditions for much of Friday, left another three/tenths of an inch.     Read More...

County updating fire plan

    Yuma County is in the process of updating its Fire Protection Plan.
    Yuma County Emergency Manager Roger Brown presented a progress report on the effort to the Yuma County Commissioners — Trent Bushner, Dean Wingfield and Robin Wiley — during their regular meeting, last Wednesday, April 30.     Read More...

Newsflash

YC Relay for Life goes online
    The Yuma County Relay for Life is now online. Please check out the website at www.yumacountyrelay.org. You can donate to specific teams, make general donations, buy luminaries and so much more. And the best part about it; all the money raised by the relay goes to cancer research, so we can one day wipe out cancer all together. If you have any questions, please contact Liz Riggleman, online chair for this year's relay event @ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 332-5643. A direct link to the Yuma County Relay for Life website can be found on this page in the “Links” list to the right.
 

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