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The Haxtun Board of Education took care of a number of housekeeping items just ahead of a new school year during a mid-July board meeting. Members also heard staff reports of facility updates over the summer in preparation for students return this fall. The July 18 meeting opened in the high school band room with approval of the consent agenda and staff reports. In her information to the Board of Education, Superintendent Marsha Cody told members the District is still seeking individuals for a number of positions for the 2023-24 school year...
The 2023 Phillips County Fair honors local Veterans with the theme," Red, White and Blue, Veteran's, We Honor You." How fitting is it that the couple that will be honored as this year's Grand Marshals were a part of the United States military before returning to the Haxtun area to settle down and raise a family - and have since remained active in the American Legion and Women's Auxiliary. Phil and LaVonne Hart are this year's honored guests at the Phillips County Fair and while they have been ac...
Seven months after her initial court appearance on 17 charges including criminal impersonation, forgery and identity theft, Julie Thayer reached a plea deal with the 13th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. On Tuesday, July 18, Thayer pled guilty to one count of identity theft and an added count of second degree forgery. She was sentenced to 30 months probation. In late December 2022, Thayer was charged with three counts of identity theft, 12 counts of forgery and two counts of criminal impersonation; all charges stemming from her time as Dire...
The Haxtun Town Council acted on a second Economic Incentive Policy application for the year during a recent, Monday evening July 3 meeting. In addition to reviewing and voting on an incentive application from Meraki Salon and Spa, council members also voted on a change order for swimming pool construction and approved the 2022 financial audit. The July meeting opened with the approval of the 2022 audit as it was presented by Scott Szabo with Lauer, Szabo and Associates during a June 19 work session. Report findings came back as they typically...
The start to the 2023-24 school year is just around the corner and as summer winds down, Haxtun Schools is hosting registration for students of all ages. Registration for the coming year is open and available on Alma, the District’s student information website. The District also recently released updated school supply lists for 2023-24. “It is important to review the information that we have in our student information system every year to update phone numbers, doctors, allergies, meds, emergency contacts, update permissions, etc.,” said Miche...
The 36th annual Old-Fashioned Saturday Night promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Many new events will be featured in Haxtun on Saturday, July 15 as part the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce sponsored event. The weekends activities kick off on Friday with an Old-Fashioned Steak Cookoff. The Steak Cookoff Association event will have competitions that run into Saturday and pay out for top steaks cooked by kids and adults along with a division for appetizers. This new event to the weekend is organized by Jared and Jacob Anderson and will...
Haxtun Health has hired a new Physician Assistant who is slated to begin seeing patients full time this fall. Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace announced the hiring of Morgen Budde, PA, in a Monday evening, June 26 meeting in the upstairs meeting room of the Extended Care Unit. At the start of the meeting, the Haxtun Health Board of Directors recognized Pastor Jeri Soens for her years of service to the Board. Soens resigned from her position on the Board this spring. Since then, others have joined or been appointed to the Board filling all...
A mid-June meeting, while only just over an hour long, packed in a full agenda for the Haxtun Board of Education. Members of the local school board meet on Tuesday, June 20 in the high school board meeting and in doing so, appointed a new board member to fill a seat left vacant by Audree Edwards, opted to move forward with a BEST grant application process, including a bond request at the next regular election, and adopted the 2023-24 budget. The June meeting opened with the appointment of Ross Edwards to the Haxtun Board of Education. Edwards...
A Tuesday evening, June 15 meeting of the Frenchman Board of Education brought on the discussion of the food service program, approval of the 2023-24 budget and approval of several quotes from area companies to replace boilers and the scoreboard at the football field. As summer break nears the mid-way mark, board members in Fleming are gearing up for the upcoming school year with approval of new staff members and amendments to administration’s contracts. The June meeting opened with a report from Stephanie Monroe regarding the food service p...
The 2023 Phillips County Fair is just around the corner. The event is slated for July 25-30 in Holyoke at the PC Fairgrounds. The local Fair Board recently released this year’s Fair book which are now available in businesses in Haxtun and Holyoke. Look for the red, white and blue colored cover at many local businesses. Haxtun's Phil and LaVonne Hart will be honored as Grand Marshals of this year's week-long event this summer. The theme for the Fair will be, "Red, White and Blue - Veterans We Honor You!" The 2023 fair book details this y...
Spread throughout the large room of the Haxtun Community Center to practicing social distancing, members of the Haxtun Town Council voted to approve a resolution to continue a previous emergency declaration of local disaster declared by Mayor Todd Workman on March 31. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Workman acted on the last day of March to declare a state of local emergency for the Town of Haxtun. That move by the Town’s mayor was only good for seven days, so during their April 6 meeting, council members moved to extended that declara...
Many have noticed movement in the main street clinic project in downtown Haxtun over the past few weeks. Construction crews have begun phase two of the project after Haxtun Health Board of Directors approved a final contract with Skarco Construction in early May. Phase two of the project includes construction of the interior space of the building. At the time of the discussion and ultimate approval of the contract with Skarco for the second phase of the clinic project, just two board members held seats on the Haxtun Health Board of Directors...
Fleming Schools will have a cross country team when school resumes next fall. The Frenchman Board of Education in Fleming approving adding the sport in a late-May meeting. In addition to approving cross country, the Board selected an organization to develop a District Master Plan. According to Superintendent Steve McCracken, the cross country team will begin in the fall of 2023. Plans are to use the current track uniforms, making the cost of adding the new sport minimal. Leslie Kaiser will head up the team as Coach. “She is an avid runner w...
The 2022-23 sports seasons have come to an end for the Haxtun Fightin' Bulldogs and to celebrate this year's accomplishments athletes, parents and community members gathered for the annual athletic banquet last week. This year's celebration included a special presentation for Rich Gerk. Gerk plans to retire from the many hats he's worn at Haxtun but specifically as coach and athletic director. Gerk began his teaching career covering a maternity leave in Merino in the spring of 1992 and in 1993 h...
The Haxtun Police Department registered a sex offender in city limits last week. Eliyahu Nachman Maarav, age 36, is registered in the 500 block of Fairview Avenue. Maarav was convicted of possession of child pornography in April 2017 in Baltimore County, Md. He is required to register as a sex offender annually....
Two pitchers and the Bulldogs catcher received All-Conference honors at the conclusion of the 2023 season. Haxtun came out on top as the 1A State Baseball Champions with an over 23-2 record. Seniors Michael Gerk, the team's catcher, and pitchers, senior Jerron Turney and junior Kaiden Schelling were named to the All-Conference list by a vote of head coaches from the Lower Platte League. Gerk, a four-sport athlete for the Bulldogs, registered a .368 batting average this season. He had a .442 on...
There is an empty seat on the Haxtun Board of Education. Board members accepted a resignation from Audree Edwards in a Tuesday evening, May 16 meeting due to employment changes that no longer allow her to serve on the local school board. The Board now has 60 days to appoint someone to fill her seat until elections this November. At that time, five of the seven seats that make up the local board will be up for election. The May board meeting opened with the approval of Edwards’ resignation from the school board. She was later approved as the D...
Julie Thayer appeared in front of District Court Judge Justin Haenlein via WebEx technology on Tuesday, May 16. The 41-year-old is facing charges of identity theft, forgery and criminal impersonation stemming from circumstances when she served as the director of local daycare facility. Thayer was initially charged with the crimes and made her first appearance in December 2022. Since then, her case has been held over or continued for various reasons. In the most recent hearing, Thayer appeared on a big screen via tele-conference technology in...
The Haxtun Police Department re-registered a sex offender living within Haxtun's city limits. Steven Michael Saign lives in the 200 block of North Wallace Avenue. According to the local PD, Saign is a dual resident, meaning he is registered at two locations; one on North Wallace Avenue and a another on County Road 7 in Phillips County. This is his required annual registration. Saign was convicted of sex assault on a child and sex assault on a child, age 15-18, by someone in a position of trust on Nov. 29, 2012 in El Paso County. As part of his...
There was lightning, thunder and lots of rain but nothing could put a damper on the Bulldogs' quest for a State Championship baseball title last week. This year's squad, under the direction of Head Coach Trent Ham, made history as the team clinched Haxtun High School's first ever State Baseball Championship on Friday afternoon at All-Star Park in Lakewood. The road to the Championship wasn't easy as the Bulldogs battled not only the elements but also a tough Akron team in the first round of...
One state championship title and 16 other top-10 finishes is an impressive finish to the Haxtun Bulldog's 2023 track season. The track team competed in the Colorado State Track meet May 18-20 at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood. The boys four-by-100 meter relay team made up of Ryland Wolff, Kyle Fryrear, Michael Gerk and Grant Statz took first place at the Colorado 1A State Track meet on Saturday, earning a State Championship medal while also setting a new school record with a time of 44...
There were several lasting thoughts delivered to Haxtun High School's Class of 2023 during commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 14 but there was a common theme in each of the speeches conveyed to graduates seated in front of the packed gymnasium. That message, "Once A Bulldog, Always A Bulldog." Twenty-five graduates wearing red and black gowns filed into the gym in front of family, friends and faculty on a cloudy, rainy Sunday afternoon to pomp and circumstance played by the Haxtun...
The Haxtun Bulldogs made the final four. Haxtun took down Wiley and Simla in the Regional round of 1A baseball playoffs on Saturday to advance to final four action slated for this Thursday at All Star Park in Lakewood. Saturday's games were originally supposed to be play in Simla, the third seated team in Colorado High Schools Activity Association playoff bracket, but early spring rains forced organizers to move matchups to The Classical Academy in nearby Colorado Springs. The Bulldogs, who...
Several members of the Haxtun boys' and girls' track teams have qualified for the State Track Meet slated for later this week at Jeff. Co. Stadium in Lakewood. In the team's final outings of the regular season, junior Cassidy Goddard broke Haxtun High School's record in discus. Her throw of 103 feet, eight inches at the HOKA St. Vrain Invitational on May 12 beat the record of 126 feet, six inches set by Callie Dickerson in 2017 at the Colorado 1A State Track Meet. For a complete list of those...
A short agenda list, brief discussion during public comment about truck parking, talks of dental insurance and staff reports took just 45 minutes of time for the Haxtun Town Council meeting last week. The May meeting opened with a community member’s concerns about truck parking on east Fletcher Street. Ryan Hofmeister, local Haxtun resident, spoke to the Town Council about one of two designated areas for truck parking within city limits, specifically the area on east Fletcher Street near the Phillips County shop. Hofmeister, who lives on S...
