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
The Arickaree football team is heading to Granada for a 6-man quarterfinal playoff game, Saturday afternoon. The sixth-seed Bison, 8-2, held on to beat 11th-seed Branson/Kim, 26-22, last Saturday in the first round. Third-seed Granada, 7-3, rolled past 14th-seed Briggsdale 89-32. The Bobcats have scored more than 50 points inContinue Reading
The Otis High School volleyball team qualified for the Class 1A State Tournament, this week at the Denver Coliseum. Unfortunately, the Bulldogs were knocked out by Friday morning, losing to Simla on Thursday, then losing in the elimination bracket to Dove Creek, Friday morning. (1A State Volleyball) Otis was theContinue Reading
The local corn harvest definitely is in full swing now, and is turning out to be a decent one all things considered. The dryland harvest did not amount to anything, of course considering the dry, hot, windy conditions, and irrigated corn struggled a bit. Still, area receiving stations are reportingContinue Reading
The 2022 mid-term election season is nearing its end as the mail-in ballots must be returned to one’s respective county clerk’s office by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8. Locally, Adam Gates and Dwain Weinrich are running for Yuma County Commissioner District 1. Several county-elected positions are unopposed as RepublicansContinue Reading
The Yuma County Cattlemen’s Association annual 2022-23 YCCA Original Feedlot Performance and Carcass Contest will kick off with the delivery of steers to Schramm Feedlot on Saturday November 12. Steers may be delivered during the week prior to November 12 if unable to deliver on that date, but one shouldContinue Reading
The Yuma Lions Club is teaming up with Yuma District Hospital & Clinics, local businesses, and Erik Tribelhorn to install a disc golf course on the YDH campus. It will be located on the southeast corner of the hospital campus. Tribelhorn, who has become an avid disc golfer in recentContinue Reading
It is a whole new season now, and the Yuma Football Team gets to open the 2022 Class 1A playoffs at home, the first time in nine years. The YFT lost its last three games of the regular season, including 28-0 at top-ranked Limon last Friday. Still, Yuma went 6-3Continue Reading