Somerton News

For more than 20 years, the Yuma County Health Department has sought to improve proper pre- and postnatal care and childhood development through a program it offers expectant mothers.

An animal control officer will be on duty in Somerton starting in July, although city officials are counting on a public education campaign to help put a dent in the stray animal population.

A former Somerton police officer is scheduled to be sentenced June 14 in Yuma County Superior Court after pleading guilty to a single felony charge of theft.

The Yuma County Board of Supervisors will discuss and possibly adopt a tentative budget for 2012-13 at its regular meeting Monday at 8:30 a.m. The budget includes a reduced primary property tax levy and a primary property tax rate of $1.8798. The supervisors also will schedule a combined public hearing on the budget and, if necessary, establish ... (more)

The time had come for Roberto Graciano and his family to sink roots, and they did it here in this city as participants in a self-help housing program.

A new law signed this week by Gov. Jan Brewer could give an estimated 100,000 children in Arizona schools - including six in the Yuma area - a check from the state to go to a private or parochial school instead.

City of Somerton officials flipped the switch on their new solar power project at the city's water treatment plant during a Wednesday morning ceremony.

Marco Antonio Reyes is seeking re-election as the Yuma County supervisor for the south and west parts of the county.

The city council here gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a proposal to convert wind to electricity inside two towers that would stand thousands of feet in height on the city's southwest corner.

In 1901, Maude Daisy Jacobs taught in a one room school house in Somerton, Arizona, close to Yuma, AZ.

A lone wooden cross stands out among all of the concrete head stones in the county's section of Desert Lawn Memorial Park located off 1st Avenue and 12th street.

When they began talking about starting a citywide recycling program, Somerton officials met with some criticism from naysayers who predicted, among other things, that recycling would be a drain on city finances.

A possible cut in federal funding would force the Somerton Senior Center to tighten its belt but won't jeopardize services to the city's senior population, city officials say.

The two occupants of a pickup that collided with a fuel truck near Somerton Thursday morning had to be extricated from their vehicle by firefighters.