A historical season for Yuma High School cross country became even more so last Thursday. The 2020 campaign already is noteworthy for the combined success of the girls and boys teams in the same season, including both winning team titles at the same meet. Both also have been ranked asContinue Reading
The Yuma and Platte Canyon football teams opened their seasons this past week against the top two teams in Class 1A. Yuma met up with top-ranked Limon on Monday night, suffering a 40-0 loss, while Platte Canyon lost 41-0 to No. 2 Strasburg last Saturday. Now, after such difficult openers,Continue Reading
Top-ranked Stratton/Liberty got its 6-man football season off to a resounding start with a 64-19 home win over the Genoa-Hugo Pirates, last Friday night at Liberty. Now the Knighted Eagles host seventh-ranked Eads, Friday night at Stratton. Kickoff is at 7. “Eads is a very good team that will createContinue Reading
Wayne Elroy Rasmussen was born October 8, 1941 to Orval & Ruby (Wasson) Rasmussen in Stratton Co. He passed and entered eternal life at the age of 78 on October 5, 2020 at Hillcrest Care Center in Wray, CO. Wayne grew up on the family farm south of Stratton theContinue Reading
Approximately 50 parents attended a special meeting of the Yuma School District-1 Board of Education, held last Thursday night in the Yuma High School auditorium. The meeting provided a forum for the public to comment on the district’s COVID-19 response. All five board members were in attendance — President DanContinue Reading
State health officials have been in contact with Yuma County in regards to the increase in COVID-19 cases over the past month, and Wray High School is on remote learning for two weeks, in the ongoing saga of the novel coronavirus. Wray School District RD-2 made the announcement on itsContinue Reading
Presbyterian fundraiser First Presbyterian Church is holding a drive-thru chili dinner fundraiser to finish paying for the newly installed stained glass windows. Pre-order a bowl of chili and cinnamon roll by October 7 and pick up on Sunday, October 18 from 5-6 p.m. in the alley between Main and AshContinue Reading
Amongst the COVID restrictions and the media outpour, the General Election is fast approaching! The Yuma County Clerk’s office has been diligently working on ensuring your ballots are created properly and getting ready to mail. New registrations and registrations are transacted on a daily basis. Overseas Military and citizens ballotsContinue Reading
Yuma County Commissioners Dean Wingfield, Trent Bushner, and Robin Wiley met September 30, for their end of month business meeting. Kara Hoover and staff met with the Commissioners in a Human Services Meeting. Melanie Fisher presented the financial report and most items are within the budgeted amount for this timeContinue Reading
It has been an interesting, and successful, season for the Yuma High School cross country teams. The Indians have done very well while navigating through the 2020 COVID-impacted shortened season. It included two weeks in which the runners could not practice together as the majority of YHS students were onContinue Reading