The 2023-24 school year began this past Tuesday in Yuma. Students returned to classes early in the morning for a school year that will continue until mid-May 2024. Yuma High School students returned to school with two new teachers in the building, Brandon Newton as the YHS Vocational Instructor, andContinue Reading
Helen “Leora” Mekelburg was born on October 3, 1921 to Bill and Matilda Murrain in Yuma, Colorado. She passed away on August 6, 2023 at Harmony Home in Yuma, Colorado at the age of 101. Leora married Irvin Mekelburg in 1941. To this union were born four sons, Perry, Leo,Continue Reading
Ready or not, the Yuma High School volleyball team’s 2023 season begins Saturday. The varsity will be at the Kit Carson Fall Fling (though there still is more than one month of summer left). Yuma is in Pool A with Wiggins and Wiley, while Simla, Kit Carson and Akron areContinue Reading
The preseason has been good to the Yuma High School football team. “We’re up to 40 (players),” head coach Kelly Seward said earlier this week. “We have more than we had last year. We’ve picked up some kids who are really going to help us.” The Yuma Football Team isContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s boys golf had a strong start off the tee for the 2023 season. The varsity played three tournaments over the past week, and now the players have one week off to hone their skills before going to the Strasburg Invitational in Aurora on August 23. Yuma openedContinue Reading
Yuma County Softball got its season off to a rough start, last Friday at Rocky Ford. The YCS played again this past Tuesday at Lamar, losing 15-0. The team is in the Valley/Platte Valley Tournament, Friday and Saturday. The local girls play Valley on Friday at 11 a.m., Alamosa atContinue Reading
Glenva Charlene Eastin was born to Charles Jenison Eastin & Rosella Maxine (Dickson) Eastin on January 31, 1955. She grew up on the family farm in the Abarr community south of Yuma Colorado. She was the middle (#4) of 7 children. Glenva like the rest of her siblings learned atContinue Reading
Marion Leroy Chapman was born January 4, 1942, in Yuma, Colorado to William and Beulah (Wells) Chapman. He was the seventh of eight children. His early childhood was spent on the family farm southwest of Eckley, Colorado. When he was eleven years old, the family moved to the Brush area,Continue Reading
Arlen Fuhlendorf, at age 85, a retired government employee, died August 6, 2023 in Burleson, Texas. Arlen was born on July 1, 1938, in Yuma, Colorado. He lived in the Fort Worth area since 1962. He was a charter member and elder of St. Luke Cumberland Presbyterian Church in FortContinue Reading
An EF3 tornado skirted past about one-half mile west of Yuma, but the rural home of Clint and Amanda Monk was not spared from the twister, Tuesday afternoon. There was significant damage to the residence, located about 1-1/2 miles south of Yuma on County Road E. Multiple power lines wereContinue Reading