By Tony Rayl, Yuma Pioneer As professional sports leagues, college athletics, and states, try to open up again, and invariably end up with spikes in COVID-19 cases, I become less-and-less confident we can have high school and middle school athletics in the coming school year. I hate to be Mr.Continue Reading

The 2020 Colorado High School Coaches Association All-State Games have been canceled. The annual prep event features outgoing senior athletes in a variety of sports, including football, basketball and softball. Traditionally, it has been held in June, but in light of the coronavirus outbreak this year’s games were moved inContinue Reading

Devoted husband, loving father, doting grandfather, faithful Christian, steadfast friend and dedicated educator, James Robert McCabe passed on to his heavenly home surrounded by his family, June 20, 2020 at his home in Littleton. Jim was born on April 14, 1945 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the third child of Thomas andContinue Reading

Lila May (Cecil) Simpson was born April 22nd, 1931 to Harry (Hack) Lee Cecil and Elsie Margaret (Gearhart) Cecil and passed away from a massive heart attack and stroke on June 22nd, in Yuma, Colorado at the age of 89. She attended the first few years of elementary at aContinue Reading

Linda Axtell, 75 of Yuma, Colorado passed away on Friday, May 29,2020. Memorial services were held Saturday, June 27, 2020, 2:00 pm at the Yuma Cemetery in Yuma, Colorado and were handled by Baucke Funeral Home and Monuments. Linda was born July 10,1944 in Oklahoma. She was then adopted byContinue Reading

Rebecca Darlene Grogan 1947– 2020 Rebecca Darlene Grogan was born June 9, 1947 and passed away on June 27, 2020. A Memorial Service will take place on Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Otis, Colorado. Baucke Funeral Home is in charge ofContinue Reading

Yuma School District-1 Board of Education meetings definitely are not getting any less complicated during the COVID-19 era. Several delicate subjects were addressed during the Yuma-1 Board of Education’s regular monthly meeting at district headquarters, Monday evening — which included a group of teens rolling by on the sidewalk, knockingContinue Reading

City staffers are spending a considerable amount of time sanitizing so public facilities such as the parks and the swimming pools can be open. The pool opened last Monday, June 15, but was closed Tuesday and Wednesday that a staff member — who did not work that Monday — hadContinue Reading

On June, 21, 2020 at about 3:15 am, members of the Yuma Fire Department, Yuma Ambulance Service, and the Yuma Police Department were called to 419 North Buffalo Street for a report of a structure fire. Upon arriving on scene officers found the car port and the house at 419Continue Reading