Holy Week services and Easter Egg hunts mark the calendar this week as Easter is on Sunday. There will be an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Old Threshers. Youth ages 0 to 10 years old are welcome to participate. The Easter Bunny will be available forContinue Reading
The 2025 Yuma High School Prom will be Saturday. The Queen candidates are Alina Moran, Wendy Garcia, Lydia Mekelburg and Liz Mendoza. The King candidates are James Brandner, Silas Baucke, Jonathan Thomson and Parker Dressel. This year’s theme is “Golden Glamour.” The prom will be at the fairgrounds. The QueenContinue Reading
Yuma District Hospital and Clinics has a new provider on the staff. Haley Perry is seeing patients as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She is mostly covering the walk-in patients at the Yuma Clinic for now. She said she might spend some time at the Akron Clinic as well. Haley PattersonContinue Reading
Bill Glanz the Frito-Lay Man has received major recognition from the company. He recently was presented the Salesman of the Year for the Colorado Zone, which is Frito-Lay’s largest zone in the United States. It occurred during the Winning with Pride Recognition Banquet” in Fort Worth, Texas. It was hostedContinue Reading
There is still a lot of baseball to be played, but the Yuma High School Outlaws are positioning themselves for a potentially good run into the postseason. The Outlaws are 8-3 and No. 3 in the 2A CHSAA Seeding and Selection Index. They host Wiggins for a varsity doubleheader today,Continue Reading
Yuma High School’s track and field teams have an Easter weekend trip west on Saturday. The Outlaws will be at the Broncos Stampede at Platte Valley High School in Kersey for their first competition in more than a week. Yuma’s athletes enjoyed a good showing on a beautiful April day,Continue Reading
A challenging end of the regular season continues for the Otis High School baseball team. The Bulldogs 11-3 after winning 19-8 in extra innings at McClave on Monday. They are No. 6 in the 1A CHSAA Seeding and Selection Index, while McClave now is No. 10. They play a doubleheaderContinue Reading
Lone Star’s track and field student/athletes competed at the Wray Dick Evans Invitational, last Thursday. Peytyn Kuntz placed fifth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.18 seconds. Paityn Forry was eighth in the 300 hurdles in 54.31 seconds, and eighth in the long jump with a distance ofContinue Reading
Mary Lou Gorman was born on the 8th of August 1945, in Yuma, Colorado. She was the second of three daughters born to Chester Motear West and Ellen Marie Strand West. She was baptized at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church of Otis by Reverend Lillich with Mary being confirmed byContinue Reading
Larry Lee Myers was born to Vernon and Elenor Myers on September 20, 1948, in Sterling, Colorado. He grew up on a farm and went to Red Willow School, a country school in Yuma County, through 6th grade. Larry then went to school in Yuma, starting in the 7th grade,Continue Reading