Yuma County resident, Mike O’Donnell, has thrown his hat into the ring to be Republican nominee for Colorado Secretary of State at the November 2022 election. “That office is, or ought to be, a business office serving the entire business community as well as all the voting citizens of Colorado,”Continue Reading
The gauntlet of Lower Platte Activities Association basketball begins this week. Six of the LPAA’s girls teams are ranked in the Top 10 as the season resumes in 2022. Sedgwick County is ranked No. 4 in Class 2A, Holyoke No. 5, Yuma No. 7 and Wray No. 9. Plus, AkronContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s wrestling teams will resume the 2021-22 season on Saturday. The boys team will be at the Ogallala Tournament in Nebraska. It is a dual tournament, with Yuma in the same pool as Ogallala, Gothenburg, Bridgeport and Limon. Sidney, Mitchell, Wray, Alliance and Mullen are in the otherContinue Reading
Virginia Ann Twedell passed away peacefully on December 26, 2021, in the home of her eldest daughter, Debbie Wise, where she received loving care and additional support from Hospice of the Valley. She was able to celebrate Christmas with many of her family members and had looked forward to herContinue Reading
Mildred Marie Korf passed from her earthly home and entered her heavenly kingdom on December 26, 2021. On November 21, 1928, a cold winter’s day, Marie was born to Miles Norman Clark and Mary Carrie Eberline Clark as the last of seven children. Lora Felderman, a close family friend, neighbor,Continue Reading
Alice Munoz Castillo was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska on June 11, 1956 to Martin Torres Munoz and Juanita Hernandez Munoz. She was the first of 8 children they had. She graduated from Gering High School and entered the work force to help her family. She got married to Daniel CastilloContinue Reading
The Yuma City Council held its last meeting of 2021, last week in the Council Chambers at Yuma City Hall. All seven members were in attendance — Mayor Ron Swehla, Mayor Pro-tem Marc Shay, and council members Marylu Smith-Dischner, Tim McClung, Dan Baucke, Daniel Ebersole, and Terri Frame. The councilContinue Reading
Yuma County’s 2022 budget will be nearly $4 million more than in 2021, but it is not the case of spending more of the local taxpayers’ hard-earned money. The county’s 2022 budget received final approval recently the Yuma County Commissioners. The total budget is set at $26.36 million, compared toContinue Reading
(Editor’s Note: Presented below is from the minutes of last week’s meeting of the Yuma County Board of Commissioners. The Pioneer has added some of its own wording.) The Yuma County Commissioners and local law enforcement met with 13th Judicial District Attorney Travis Sides to discuss the 2022 budget requestContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s boys basketball team is one long-range shot away from having a perfect Christmas. As it stands, the Indians still are in great shape for the holiday break, going 5-1 in December — their lone loss coming in a double-overtime loss to Eaton on a last-second 3-pointer lastContinue Reading