It is getting near the end of the regular season for the Yuma High School boys golf team. The Indians are supposed to be at Fort Morgan today, September 10, if the weather cooperates, and then just have the league tournament in Wray on September 17. Regional is coming upContinue Reading
Wilma Lucille Ward was born June 9, 1929, in Wray, Colorado, the oldest of three daughters of G.W. “Bill” and Vivian Keith Ward. She graduated at age 17 from Vernon High School and attended Colorado Women’s College. She married LaVern Stults on June 15, 1947, at the Wray United MethodistContinue Reading
Larry Dean Scott rolled into the world on 7-11-1951 in Denver, Colorado. What a long strange trip it’s been since then! After graduating from Yuma High School in 1969, he came to Idaho to study at Northwest Nazarene College, where the course of his life was forever changed. He notContinue Reading
Jean Carlton Maupin, 92, of Brush, passed away on Sunday, August 30, 2020, at his home surrounded by his four daughters. He was born in Dodge City, Kansas to Eleanor (Bunning) and W. H. Maupin on April 21, 1928. The family moved to Hotchkiss, CO when he was six. MovingContinue Reading
Clara Ellen Johnston 1935– 2020 Clara Ellen Johnston was born June 27, 1935 and passed away on August 7, 2020. A Memorial Service will take place on Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at the Cope Community Church in Cope, Colorado. Private family Inurnment at a later date. TheContinue Reading
Betty Fern Adamson-Owens was born May 6th, 1944 in Wray, Colorado to Bert Ellsworth and Maudie Frances Claridge Adamson. She was the 6th of seven children. When Betty was two years old, they moved from Beecher Island to Eckley, where she spent the next seventy-four years. She went to gradeContinue Reading
Jerry passed peacefully at his home in Hudson, Colorado on July 6, 2020 at the age of 77, with his wife Sherri by his side. He suffered from the effects of Agent Orange. Jerry was born on August 12, 1942 to Lloyd D and Leona A Dietz Madsen in Stratton,Continue Reading
Katherine Marie Zion passed away on August 22, 2020, at the age of 96. Katherine was born on October 29, 1923, at the family home in Vernon to Ernst and Dina (Wesemann) Peters. She was the second to youngest of twelve children. On November 3, 1940, Katherine married Gerald ZionContinue Reading
Yuma students returned to the classroom for first time in more than five months, when the 2020-21 school year began Monday with in-person learning. “(It) was great having our students back in the building,” Yuma High School Principal Brady Nighswonger told the Pioneer. “You could tell there was some excitementContinue Reading
The final Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) for Yuma School District-1’s $32 million expansion/renovation project was set Monday night. The Yuma-1 Board of Education unanimously approved the $17.1 million GMP during a special meeting. All five board members, President Dan Ross, Duane Brown, Thomas Holtorf, Kim Langley and Lindsey Galles, wereContinue Reading