The Yuma City Council was represented by a full seven members for the first time since earlier this summer, when it held its regular meeting last week. The virtual meeting was the first for new council members Marylu Smith-Dischner and Steve Hoch. Both were appointed by the council members atContinue Reading
The Yuma County Clerk and Recorder’s Office has put out word it will be strictly enforcing the “electioneering” law during the upcoming voting season. The office has stated it is making everyone aware of electioneering due to the high awareness of the election. Electioneering occurs when the voter has anyContinue Reading
There was talk earlier this week at the state level of possibly moving forward with some kind of fall high school football season. However, in the end the CHSAA Board of Governors voted to stick with the initial 2020-21 schedule released in early August. All football teams will play inContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s cross country teams will be taking their talents to Fort Morgan on Friday, after having a great run in their own meet last Friday. Indian Hills Golf Course was overtaken by high school cross country teams and their fans for the YHS Twilight Cross Country Meet. ItContinue Reading
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