It was back to basics for the 2020 Yuma County Fair and Rodeos, held earlier this week at the Yuma County Fairgrounds in Yuma. No carnival. No nightshow. No parade in downtown Yuma. No vendors. One food booth. All thanks to COVID-19 restrictions. However, fair organizers were able to keepContinue Reading
Yuma High School will have registration for returning students on Friday, August 7. It will be a drive-thru registration from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Staff will meet students in front of YHS with all the necessary paperwork. The paperwork may be returned any day but Tuesday the following weekContinue Reading
Government and health leaders from Yuma and Washington counties are coming together for a virtual town hall meeting, on Wednesday, August 12. It will provide community members an opportunity ask questions and get answers from a wide variety of sources. The town hall meeting has been organized by Vickie GilletteContinue Reading
The City of Yuma Water Department will be continuing their water line replacement program this month, with two blocks of water main being installed on N. Main St., between Railway Ave. and Foch Ave. The project will be completed in two phases, with Phase One set to begin on Monday,Continue Reading
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