Kena Serl will be playing in the Class 2A State Tournament, Monday and Tuesday in Pueblo. The Yuma High School sophomore qualified at the 2A Region 1 Tournament held Monday at Quail Dunes in Fort Morgan. She shot a 105 to get in as one of the 13 individual qualifiersContinue Reading
Richard Lee Shaffer passed away on April 21, 2025, at the East Morgan County Hospital in Brush, Colorado. He was born on January 15, 1948, in Denver Colorado, to Roy Irvin Shaffer and Edna Robenia Strole. Richard was the youngest of fourteen children. Richard mostly grew up in Yuma, ColoradoContinue Reading
Born in the times of dirt storms, infestations of deadly insects, depression and diseases like influenza and pneumonia, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and diphtheria; the times when a handshake was a promise to do as spoken. When you stopped what you were doing to help neighbors and friends in need. BackContinue Reading
Gabriele Doris Whipple (Snelling) was born August 24, 1950 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Gabi passed away May 5, 2025 in Aurora, Colorado at the age of 74. As a child, Gabi came to the United States in 1954 after her mother Hannelore Noll married Leonard Snelling of Yuma, Colorado. Leonard adoptedContinue Reading
Kay Marie Janet Chadwick (née Lochrie), age 64, of Delta, Colorado, passed away on May 3, 2025, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Kay was born on December 26, 1960, in Butte, Montana, to Wallace Lochrie and Marilyn Packer (née Johnson). In 1978, she met the love of her life, Leland Chadwick,Continue Reading
Steven Howard Morgan was born in Wray on October 28, 1952 to Howard and Rosalie (Armagost) Morgan. He passed away on April 30, 2025. Steve attended elementary school in Eckley through 8th grade, then attended high school in Yuma. He was raised on a farm south of Eckley. He enlistedContinue Reading
The new authentic Italian restaurant in Yuma is off to a great start. Located in downtown Yuma at 202 S. Main St., Trattoria Rossi has been attracting hungry and thirsty clients from all over the region since it opened in early March. “We have had great response,” owner and headContinue Reading
Yuma Police Chief Jerry Thompson is resigning to take a job in the private sector. “I have accepted a position with a law enforcement software development company and look forward to this next chapter,” Thompson told the Pioneer. His final day was uncertain earlier this week, but he said heContinue Reading
Medicaid is on the chopping block as Congress has returned to session after an April recess, and resumes moving forward on a budget reconciliation package. The House Energy & Commerce Committee is meeting this week to work on its part of the package. The committee has jurisdiction over Medicaid, amongContinue Reading
Marianne Goodland marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com Former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg has been named executive director of the Farm Service Agency for Colorado by the Trump administration. Sonnenberg served as a Logan County commissioner beginning in 2023. He resigned that seat on April 16. He starts as executive director on May 5. TheContinue Reading