The City of Yuma is tasked with the challenge of reducing its Total Dissolved Solids in the effluent water that comes out of the wastewater treatment plant. City staff provided more information to the Yuma City Council during its regular meeting, held virtually last week. The subject came up asContinue Reading
The Commons at Yuma High School will be receiving a facelift after all, as part of Yuma School District-1’s $32 million expansion/renovation project. The Yuma-1 Board of Education approved the Commons renovations during its regular monthly meeting, this past Monday night. Board President Dan Ross and members Kim Langley, LyndseyContinue Reading
Dorothy I. (Dottie) Schmidt the oldest of eight children born to E. T. (Bud) and Lois B. (Richards) Spellman on July 23, 1927 in Wray, CO. She passed away on Friday, March 19, 2021 at Hillcrest Care Center in Wray, CO. Dottie grew up in the Alvin community north ofContinue Reading
It will be a Yuma County Showdown in the Class 2A boys basketball semifinals, tonight, March 18. The top-seed Wray Eagles will be hosting fourth-seed Yuma Indians at 7 p.m. in the Eagles Nest. The winner advances to the 2A championship game, Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the World ArenaContinue Reading
The Road Warriors finally returned home Tuesday afternoon, after traveling more than 1,700 miles in one week. The Yuma High School girls basketball team might have come up a couple of games short of a state championship game appearance — but the Indians, coaches and some hearty fans definitely willContinue Reading
It was kind of a tough go of it for the Smith boys at the Class 2A State Wrestling Tournament, last Friday in Pueblo. Both Yuma High School wrestlers went 1-3 in the one-day event, placing sixth in their respective weights — John Smith at 120 and Braden Smith atContinue Reading
Mia Dischner was the only Yuma High School wrestlers competing in Colorado’s first sanctioned girls tournament, last week, and came home a placer. The junior wrestled last Thursday in the CHSAA Girls State Championship in the Southwest Motors Events Complex on the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo. She went 2-2Continue Reading
Distribution of the COVID-19 Moderna vaccination in Yuma County started out fairly well at the end of 2020. Progress continued to be made in the following weeks medical personnel, frontline responders, those 70 and older and others received the first and second doses in a timely manner. However, it hasContinue Reading
A Yuma County man is back in jail after leading law enforcement on a short chase in a stolen pickup, last week. Jacob Henderson was booked into Yuma County Jail on numerous charges, last Tuesday afternoon. According to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office, it attempted to contact a pickup inContinue Reading
The City of Yuma hosted an informational Virtual Town Hall meeting, last week, focusing on the General Fund and the city’s enterprise funds. It is available for viewing on YouTube. Find a link for it at the City of Yuma Facebook page. City employee Candy Gilliland served as moderator. CityContinue Reading