All-LPAA boys and girls hoops
Due to those annoying COVID-19 circumstances, the Yuma High School boys basketball team was unable to win its fourth straight Lower Platte Activities Association title, but the Indians still got three players receiving All-LPAA honors by the league coaches. Yuma All-LPAA Clay Robinson — The junior earned himself another All-LPAAContinue Reading
All-LPAA wrestling
Wray has dominated wrestling in the Lower Platte Activities Association, and most of 2A, for the past few years, but Yuma still was able to get two wrestlers named to the All-LPAA team by the league coaches. Senior Braden Smith was named to the All-LPAA team at 132 pounds, andContinue Reading
Gary Dutton 1949-2021
Gary LaVern Dutton was born to Odie and Marjorie Dutton on December 14, 1949 in Denver, CO. He lived in the Denver area with his parents first few years of life before Odie moved the family to the Dairy Farm in Anton, CO. He graduated from Arickaree High School. InContinue Reading
Linda Mardelle Norling 1955-2021
Linda Mardelle Norling, 65, of Cope, CO went home to the Lord on March 15, 2021. Linda was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Denver, CO on November 15, 1955 to Odie and Marjorie Dutton. After living in Denver for the first few years of her life, her father OdieContinue Reading
Dolores Smith Hamrick 1928-2021
Dolores Smith Hamrick was born May 30, 1928 to Carrie and Clarence, and died at her home in Harmony House in Yuma on March 26, 2021. After Clarence’s death at a construction site a month before Dolores’ birth, Carrie moved her four children to Yuma, where Dolores was born andContinue Reading
1A volleyball report
Stratton/Liberty opens 4-0 Stratton/Liberty’s volleyball team has enjoyed a strong start to Season C, sitting at 4-0 heading into today’s match at Idalia. The Knighted Eagles opened the season March 23 with a 25-8, 25-15, 25-15 win over Eads. Kennedy Frank recorded 12 kills, Hanna Rigirozzi seven, Lucero Ontiveros five,Continue Reading
YHS volleyball hits the net today
The high school volleyball season is finally here. The Yuma Indians open the shortened Season C campaign today, March 25, at home with matches against Wiggins and Wray in The Pit. It will be the program’s first varsity matches since competing at the state tournament in November 2019. “I feelContinue Reading
City gets to deal with dissolved solids issue
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
YHS Commons to get a facelift
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
Dorothy Schmidt 1927-2021
Dorothy I. (Dottie) Schmidt the oldest of eight children born to E. T. (Bud) and Lois B. (Richards) Spellman on July 23, 1927 in Wray, CO. She passed away on Friday, March 19, 2021 at Hillcrest Care Center in Wray, CO. Dottie grew up in the Alvin community north ofContinue Reading