It is a new beginning of sorts for the Yuma High School girls basketball team. Yuma still has a lot of familiarity to it in regards to coaching and the players. However, the program will be entering a new era of being a Class 3A team Friday in The PitContinue Reading
It is time to get going for the Yuma High School girls wrestling team. “Almost everybody is going to be able to wrestle this weekend,” head coach Brandon Newton said. “We should fill every weight except heavyweight.” Yuma opens the 2022-23 season Friday with a dual at Fort Morgan, thenContinue Reading
The Yuma High School boys wrestling team finally has its full complement in the practice room. Head coach Kyle Newton said there are 16 on the team, now that all the players from the Yuma football team that reached the 1A quarterfinals, as well as a handful from the OtisContinue Reading
Yuma High School had five players named to the 2022 1A League 4 All-Conference team, and one honorable mention, following the past season. Yuma All-Conference Cesar Varela — The senior was named as a lineman. He was a key player on an offensive line that helped lead the team toContinue Reading
On November 8, 2022 at around 11:00 PM, Officers with the Yuma Police Department attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle that was traveling at 70 miles per hour through the City of Yuma. Upon initiating the traffic stop, the vehicle continued at high rate of speed. AtContinue Reading
Adam Gates cruised to victory for the Yuma County Commissioner District 1 seat, and Yuma voters again rejected a sales tax increase, in the mid-term election that came to an end this past Tuesday, November 8. Unofficial results Tuesday night showed a total of 2,978 ballots cast in Yuma County,Continue Reading
It could be a rough pheasant hunting season this year. The season opens Saturday, November 12, and runs through January. However, there might not be much to hunt. “It’s going to be a little rough this year,” Josh Melby, the local wildlife officer for the Colorado Division of Parks andContinue Reading
The Yuma Football Team has a chance to advance to the Class 1A semifinals for the first time in 13 years, and earn a little redemption along the way, when it travels to Colorado Springs on Friday. Yuma, 7-3, is in the quarterfinals for the second straight season after lastContinue Reading
The Yuma Volleyball Team at least went out swinging. Playing perhaps the best it has all season, the YVT saw its 2022 campaign come to an end after going 1-1 in the Class 2A Region 12, last Saturday in picturesque Rye. The former Indians finished with a 12-13 record. “I’mContinue Reading
The Otis High School football team will be heading south Saturday for a 6-man quarterfinal playoff game. The fifth-seed Bulldogs will be traveling to fourth-seed Cheyenne Wells for a 1 p.m. kickoff. Otis, 8-2, advanced with a 55-13 romp over 12th-seed Sierra Grande, last Saturday afternoon in Otis. The Tigers,Continue Reading