The 2020 Yuma County Fair & Rodeos, which will have activities at the fairgrounds in Yuma Saturday through Wednesday, definitely is not going to be anywhere near normal during these days of the COVID-19 pandemic. County leaders are keeping the fair mostly limited to participants and their immediate family. TheContinue Reading
The first phase of the Ag Innovation Event Center is completed in time for the 2020 Yuma County Fair & Rodeos, which will be at the Yuma Count Fairgrounds beginning this weekend. Unfortunately, not much of the general public is going to be able to see it utilized this year.Continue Reading
The City of Yuma will not be putting a sales tax and lodging tax question on the November ballot. The Yuma City Council had held a workshop recently to discuss possibly putting the tax increases before the voters. Yuma’s current sales tax is 3 percent. Municipal electors twice have defeatedContinue Reading
The Yuma School District-1 Board of Education learned quite a bit about getting the 2020-21 school year started at the end of next month. However, there is still a vast amount of details to be nailed down in coming weeks, the board also learned during its regular monthly meeting, MondayContinue Reading
The walls are going up. Community members can now see outdoor, above-ground evidence of Yuma School District-1’s $32 million expansion/renovation project. The pre-cast panels for the auxiliary gym wall at Yuma High School were being put up by a huge crane starting Wednesday. The Yuma-1 Board of Education was informedContinue Reading
The Yuma City Council has two seats to fill following the resignations of Luke Goeglein and Bryson Chrismer. Both submitted their resignations shortly before the July 7 council meeting, so it was not brought up during that meeting. The council held a discussion during this past Tuesday’s meeting about movingContinue Reading
From the Yuma County Fair Board Yuma County Fair plans were finalized at the regular scheduled meeting of the Yuma County Fair Board on Monday, July 20. Final schedule and details can be found on the Yuma County website by going to www.yumacounty.net/county-fair/. With the recent mandates put out byContinue Reading
Sterling, Colo. – July 17, 2020: Because of an increase in COVID case rates, Governor Jared Polis announced a statewide mask order yesterday, directing Coloradans to wear a face covering while indoors. The Executive Order states that Coloradans 10 years and older must wear a face covering over their noseContinue Reading
Sterling, Colorado. – 17 de julio de 2020: debido a un aumento en las tasas de casos de COVID, el gobernador Jared Polis anunció ayer una orden del uso de máscarilla en todo el estado, ordenando a los habitantes de Colorado que se cubran la cara mientras están en elContinue Reading
There will be a Senior Good-Bye BBQ at the football field Sunday for the Yuma High School Class of 2020 and their parents. It will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Yuma School District-1 held a “drive-by” graduation on the original commencement date of May 17, Nearly all ofContinue Reading