To be Queen for a year is full of tiaras, glitter, hair dips and adventure. Of course most of the glitter and fancy hair dips were for a horse named Rocky, but Queen Shyla did get to wear a tiara as a hat band to many rodeo parades and functionsContinue Reading
From the Yuma County Commissioners This summer, we would like to remind producers of the importance of preventing your pivot’s end guns from spraying onto County roads. Excess water on roads is a safety concern. When driving down a dry road, hitting a sudden wet patch from an end gunContinue Reading
Yuma County Rodeo Manager Cassidee Rogers has revealed the announcer and rodeo clown that will perform at the PRCA rodeos during the fair, August 6 and August 7. Anthony Lucia is returning to Yuma for the second year as announcer. Lucia, from Weatherford, Texas, is a highly sought after announcer,Continue Reading
Thomas Edward Brophy (1914 – 1983) was the paternal grandson and maternal son of three Irish immigrants, one of 12 kids, veteran of WWII, farmer, rancher, one-term Yuma County Commissioner, all around delightful man and bachelor. There is not anyone alive who is able to confirm the year ‘Uncle Tom’Continue Reading
Yuma High School’s cross country runners will have seven regular season meets over the course to two months in the 2023 season. The teams open the season fairly early, competing in the Windsor Invitational on August 19. The regular season ends October 13 at Strasburg. Regional and state meets willContinue Reading
Marvin Leo Carlock Jr. was born June 8, 1950 in Benkeleman, Nebraska to Marvin and Harriet(Long) Carlock. He was the youngest of 5 children, joining siblings Stanley, Cheryl, Sandy and Linda. Marv attended school in Haigler, Nebraska and graduated from the Haigler High School in 1968. He went on toContinue Reading
Edith Marie Meis was born on September 13, 1927 to Anna Bueltell Meis and Conrad F. Meis. She was the youngest of 4 brothers and a sister. She passed July 6, 2023 at the Harmony Home Edith attended school in Yuma. She delivered mail for over 40 years retiring inContinue Reading
A large swath of northeast Yuma County has been devastated by two major hail storms over the course of about 10 days. The first storm visited during the evening of Wednesday, June 28, hours before a violent storm rolled through Yuma in the early morning of June 29. The hailContinue Reading
The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office presented a plan for reopening the county jail at the last Yuma County Board of Commissioners meeting. Sheriff Todd Combs has stated it is his last attempt at presenting a reopening plan. The commissioners decided at the meeting to table the jail situation until November,Continue Reading
Yuma police made two arrests last Thursday, July 6, following an investigation after impounding a vehicle. Yuma officers contacted a vehicle they observed with fake license plates out of Nebraska. The driver was cited for fictitious plates and released, along with a male and female passenger. The vehicle was thenContinue Reading