From the Yuma County Commissioners (Scott Weaver, Adam Gates, Mike Leerar) There have been many conversations circulating about the closure of the Yuma County Jail over the past several months, and as Commissioners we would like to set the record straight. Yuma County citizens should know that your County CommissionersContinue Reading
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
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
Law enforcement has made an arrest nearly 10 months following the death of Yuma native Tresa Juhl (nee Brown). The Washington County Sheriff’s Office arrested Chad Leonhardt last Wednesday, June 28, on a warrant out of Washington County for second degree murder (felony), first degree assault (felony), second degree assaultContinue Reading
Yuma County, and the whole region, has experienced a rare prolonged stretch of rainy weather. Yuma itself received 10.54 inches of rain from May 7 through June 30. That covers eight weeks in which the community received an average of 1.32 inches per week. There was 27 days of measurableContinue Reading