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
2A semifinal setting for Yuma-Wray rivalry
It will be a Yuma County Showdown in the Class 2A boys basketball semifinals, tonight, March 18. The top-seed Wray Eagles will be hosting fourth-seed Yuma Indians at 7 p.m. in the Eagles Nest. The winner advances to the 2A championship game, Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the World ArenaContinue Reading
Road Warriors returned home Tuesday
The Road Warriors finally returned home Tuesday afternoon, after traveling more than 1,700 miles in one week. The Yuma High School girls basketball team might have come up a couple of games short of a state championship game appearance — but the Indians, coaches and some hearty fans definitely willContinue Reading
Wins were tough to come by at state
It was kind of a tough go of it for the Smith boys at the Class 2A State Wrestling Tournament, last Friday in Pueblo. Both Yuma High School wrestlers went 1-3 in the one-day event, placing sixth in their respective weights — John Smith at 120 and Braden Smith atContinue Reading
Dischner had good run at state
Mia Dischner was the only Yuma High School wrestlers competing in Colorado’s first sanctioned girls tournament, last week, and came home a placer. The junior wrestled last Thursday in the CHSAA Girls State Championship in the Southwest Motors Events Complex on the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo. She went 2-2Continue Reading