The City of Yuma and Yuma Volunteer Fire Department ended up having to battle a grass clippings fire this past Monday and Tuesday. The city provides dumpsters for grass clippings throughout the mowing season, then takes the mowed grass to a pile located at the east end of the wasteContinue Reading
There will not be any pay raises for City of Yuma employees as the Yuma City Council finalized the 2022 budget during its regular meeting, last week. Mayor Ron Swehla, Mayor Pro-tem Marc Shay and fellow council members Marylu Smith-Dischner, Dan Baucke, Dan Ebersole, Tim McClung and Terri Frame allContinue Reading
So far, so excellent for the Yuma High School boys basketball team. The Indians are 4-0 entering the final weekend of 2021 portion of the 2021-22 season. All their wins have come by double digits. They are ranked No. 2 in Class 2A, and are No. 1 in the early-seasonContinue Reading
“It takes a village” should be the mantra for the Yuma High School girls basketball team this season. It definitely took a whole team to raise a victory in “The Beet Pile” Monday night in Brush. The Indians improved to 3-1 with a grinding 50-49 overtime victory over the Beetdiggers,Continue Reading
It is finally here, Yuma High School’s inaugural YHS Holiday Tournament, Friday and Saturday. Yuma’s basketball teams will be welcoming Eaton, Limon and Heritage Christian to town for the two-day tourney. Varsity and JV teams will be playing. All varsity games will be in The Pit, with the JV gamesContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s girls wrestlers will wrap up December at a huge tournament on the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley, Friday and Saturday. The Indians will be competing in the Northern Colorado Christmas Wrestling Tournament in the Bank of Colorado Arena. It features such a big field, includingContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s boys wrestling team will wrap up the pre-Christmas portion of their schedule Saturday when they compete in the Wray Bob Smith Invitational. It will be the Indians’ first action since taking a reduced squad to the Limon Badgers Invitational, last Saturday. Yuma took only six wrestlers toContinue Reading
Lone Star’s girls basketball team is 3-2 heading into the final game in December, when the Longhorns play Hi-Plains on Friday. They are ranked No. 8 in Class 1A, with losses over the past week to No. 2 Briggsdale and No. 4 Merino. They played Briggsdale in the Prairie Classic,Continue Reading
Charles John Patterson was born to Merle and Mary Patterson on April 6, 1937. He was raised on the family farm three miles north of the Arickaree School. Like so many of their farm neighbors, they scratched out a living on the farm doing whatever it took to survive andContinue Reading
It is with great sadness that the family of Wayne Everett Beaman, age 69, of Mindenmines, MO, share the news of his passing on Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Wayne was born June 28, 1952 in Colorado Springs, CO, to Rex and Eva Beaman. Wayne was a member of the graduatingContinue Reading