The Yuma County Commissioners are stepping into a more active role with the W-Y Combined Communications Center. The dispatch center has been serving Yuma and Washington counties since the early 1990s. Yuma County Commissioner Robin Wiley said rumors that the commissioners want to disband the center are completely unfounded. “ThatContinue Reading
It turns out Yuma County and the whole region played a fascinating role in the settling of the Old West in the 19th Century. “The craziest part, which is almost ironic, is we didn’t learn about this stuff in school,” Matt Vincent said. “The truth is a lot of thatContinue Reading
An Easter Egg Hunt is back on the schedule this year. Yuma child care providers Jackie McCasland and Heather Medrano will be hosting the ninth annual Easter Egg Hunt at Old Threshers Grounds. It will be Saturday, April 3, at 9 a.m. Ages 0-10 are encouraged to participate. The EasterContinue Reading
The City of Yuma is tasked with the challenge of reducing its Total Dissolved Solids in the effluent water that comes out of the wastewater treatment plant. City staff provided more information to the Yuma City Council during its regular meeting, held virtually last week. The subject came up asContinue Reading
The Commons at Yuma High School will be receiving a facelift after all, as part of Yuma School District-1’s $32 million expansion/renovation project. The Yuma-1 Board of Education approved the Commons renovations during its regular monthly meeting, this past Monday night. Board President Dan Ross and members Kim Langley, LyndseyContinue Reading
A Yuma County man is back in jail after leading law enforcement on a short chase in a stolen pickup, last week. Jacob Henderson was booked into Yuma County Jail on numerous charges, last Tuesday afternoon. According to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office, it attempted to contact a pickup inContinue Reading
The City of Yuma hosted an informational Virtual Town Hall meeting, last week, focusing on the General Fund and the city’s enterprise funds. It is available for viewing on YouTube. Find a link for it at the City of Yuma Facebook page. City employee Candy Gilliland served as moderator. CityContinue Reading
Yuma High School junior Dyhlani Perez is facing a long road to recovery after suffering serious injuries in an accident, last Thursday night, February 25, just south of Yuma. A total of four YHS students were in the vehicle, with the other three fortunate enough to walk away with minorContinue Reading
A renovated and improved Stalker Lake near Wray soon will reopen for fishing. After months of hard work, contractor JHL completed the work on the dam at Stalker this past week. They replaced the entire outlet structure and put a liner in the outlet pipe to prevent it from leakingContinue Reading
Yuma High School students competed in the virtual regional science fair late last week, and did very well. Pictured above are: Front (l-e) — Kinley Eyring, Shelby Blach, Fatima Duran and Alyson Gardner; back (l-r) — John Smith, Alan Paczkowski, Andre Baucke, Lars Sims and Blaze Brophy. Eyring won theContinue Reading