Dianna Clegg, born October 6, 1934 to Earl Marlow and Vella Vernell (Dorrance) Tofflemoyer in rural Wray, Colorado. She passed away August 30, 2020 in Wray, Colorado. A Visitation will be held at the Schmidt-Jones Funeral Home in Wray, Colorado on Friday, September 4, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00Continue Reading
Yuma High School’s cross country teams got their seasons off to a great start, last Saturday in Elizabeth. The girls and boys teams competed in the Elizabeth Challenge for their first competition in 2020. Coach Robert Zahller took six runners for both teams, and witnessed an encouraging effort. The boysContinue Reading
The Yuma High School boys golf team is back to grinding through a busy schedule. The Indians have three consecutive days of tournaments, Wednesday at Frontier Academy Invitational in Greeley, Thursday at the Estes Park Invitational, and Friday at the Holyoke Invitational. They then are at Wray on Tuesday, andContinue Reading
The Yuma Recreation Department is going to offer youth fall sports seasons, starting next month. Adult women’s volleyball has been postponed until January. The youth sports, volleyball and flag football, will be outside and continue for four weeks. Registration is at Yuma City Hall. The deadline is Wednesday, September 9.Continue Reading
Virginia Annette McGowan Jonson was born in Geneva, Alabama, on April 8, 1930, to James and Jennie (Johnson) McGowan. She joined her beloved husband Carl on August 15, 2020. A child of the Depression, Annette was the sixth of six children. Her father died when she was four, and whenContinue Reading
Manuel M. Castillo, 77, passed away at his home in Ellinwood, KS, surrounded by his loved ones on August 23, 2020. Born in Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico to parents Macedonio & Anastasia (Miranda) Castillo on March 24, 1943. He moved to Yuma, CO, in 1967, and later to Ellinwood, KS, inContinue Reading
The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office, along with other local agencies, made an arrest Saturday afternoon following a theft earlier in the day. The county has been hit by a series of thefts in recent months. Arrested Saturday and booked into Yuma County Jail was Jacob Henderson. He was charged withContinue Reading
Everything is falling into place for Yuma School District-1 to begin the 2020-21 school year as planned on August 31. The Yuma-1 Board of Education went over the district’s Return to School plan again Monday night during its regular meeting. All the district schools now have specific plans in placeContinue Reading
It appears the renovation work at Yuma Middle School, as well as the outside work on the campus it shares with Morris Elementary and Little Indians Preschool, will be done on time for the start of school on August 31. That was what the Yuma School District-1 Board of EducationContinue Reading
It will be a full field of candidates for Yuma County Commissioner in the November mail-in election. All three unaffiliated candidates successfully gathered enough signatures and turned the petitions into the Yuma County Clerk & Recorder’s Office by the July 27 deadline. That means Phil Riggleman, Mindy Whomble and BetsyContinue Reading