On Veterans Day We have just completed a highly contentious election. Cacophonous voices on both sides of the aisle proclaimed their version of the truth. And while there has been some violence, for the most part, we either listen to the noise, or tune each other out, and life goesContinue Reading
Tribe’s season actually has been kind of normal Perhaps the craziest thing of this strangest of all football seasons is that it has been fairly normal for the Yuma High School Indians. They had a late start to the season, getting their COVID-related quarantines, remote learning out of the wayContinue Reading
Arickaree/Woodlin, and possibly Otis will close out the regular season on the field. The Indian/Mustangs, 2-3 overall, close out the truncated 2020 campaign Saturday afternoon at Hanover. It was Hanover that state-title contender Stratton/Liberty was supposed to play last Saturday, after its game with Kit Carson was called off dueContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s JV football team rallied in the second half for a 24-14 win over Burlington, Monday in Yuma. The Indians fell behind 14-0 in the first half, but dominated the final two quarters. They scored two plays into the third on Nash Richardson’s long run. The two-point conversionContinue Reading
All seven classifications of the 2020 state football championship games will be held on the campus of CSU-Pueblo as part of CHSAA’s Championship Weekend this December. The CHSAA office and the Pueblo-based Friends of Football made the joint announcement of the games on Wednesday. The event will mark the firstContinue Reading
Dennis Lee Baucke, a man of faith, strength and courage passed away on October 23rd, 2020 at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, CO with his family by his side. Dennis was born to Edwin and Adaline Baucke on October 4th, 1955 in Yuma, Colorado. He was theContinue Reading
Alta “Darlene” Moffitt Strand was born July 3, 1929 in Akron, Colorado to Theodore Irving and Alta Molly (Welty) Moffitt. She passed away on November 3, 2020 at the Regent Park Nursing and Rehabilitation & Carriage House in Holyoke, Colorado. Through her early childhood, the family moved numerous times, includingContinue Reading
Hubert Eugene “Gene” Thomas, 88, of Kirk, died October 27, 2020, at Yuma District Hospital from complications after a fall and a long-term lung infection. Gene was born on December 7, 1931, to Floyd and Estellene (Morrow) Thomas, in Grand Junction CO and grew up on a farm west ofContinue Reading
Patricia Carol Duke, 79, of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming passed away November 7, 2020 at her home. She was born November 21, 1940 in Winona, Minnesota to Richard and Charlotte (Wolters) Holonbek. Patricia graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology and spent time as a nurse’s aide. She was theContinue Reading
Yuma County will have one new commissioner. The City of Yuma will move to November municipal elections in 2025. The Town of Eckley approved a tax increase, but defeated allowing marijuana operations. Yuma’s Cory Gardner will no longer be a United States Senator. The presidential election still was undecided WednesdayContinue Reading