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The state track championships are taking place through Saturday at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood. Athletes from Yuma and area 1A schools Lone Star, Otis and Arickaree, already have notched winning and placing efforts. Here is the link to all of the results — https://chsaanow.com/news/2025/5/13/track-and-field-live-results-2025-track-field-state-championships.aspx#live-resultsContinue Reading

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The Otis Bulldogs’ baseball season came to an end last Saturday in the 1A quarterfinals. Otis came one win away from advancing to the semifinals, going 1-1 at the regional in Akron on a beautiful Saturday. The Bulldogs finished the 2025 season with a 16-7 record. They first played ninth-seedContinue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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