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Going once, going twice, sold! The annual Haxtun FFA member auction is set to take place on Saturday, Sept. 28. The auction takes place on the main stage downtown Haxtun following the parade and Lil' Mr. and Miss Corn Festival contest, around 12 noon. The sale offers the opportunity for locals to purchase labor by Haxtun High School FFA members. Those who win the bid receive a commitment of eight hours of labor from the student purchased. All bid prices are per hour. FFA advisor Jeff Plumb, who...
The 2024 Haxtun Corn Festival will feature a free concert as part of the 103rd celebration in downtown Haxtun. Those with energy to spare after a fun-filled day of activities can rock out to the sounds of Tyler Anthony and special guest Jordan Suter. The Haxtun Corn Festival street dance takes place on Sept. 28 on North Colorado Avenue in downtown Haxtun. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the opening act kicks things off at 7 p.m. Hailing from the heartland of Nebraska, Tyler Anthony is a rising...
The Lady Bulldogs improved to 8-3 overall with two home wins and one road loss over the past week and a half. The ladies in red fell to Wiggins in five on Tuesday evening, Sept. 17 but bounced back for a sweep over Crowley County at home on Saturday, Sept. 21 and a five-set victory to top Wray in the Lady Bulldogs annual homecoming contest on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Haxtun traveled to Wiggins early last week for both junior high and high school match ups with the Tigers. The varsity high school team...
Over the past three games the Haxtun Bulldogs have been unstoppable on both sides of the ball. Since their outing with Wichita County on Sept. 6, the Bulldogs have allowed just 12 points on defense while the offense racked up a total of 144; a 132 point difference in just three games. The last two outings have been a complete shut out with a 60 or more point spread. Most recently the Bulldogs hosted the Chargers from Crowley County, coming north from Ordway for a Saturday afternoon contest at...
When you've spent your entire life in the community you proudly call home it isn't hard to harvest memories of your favorite weekend event that rolls around once a year. For Cork and Trilla Bornhoft, reminiscing of Corn Festivals past comes pretty easy. In fact the couple could probably sit for hours with company and recall stories from their memory banks of Haxtun Corn Festivals over the years, looking back on their favorite class floats, years when the weather didn't cooperate or when their...
Incumbents Ryan Horton, Tana Pope and Jon Brammer will fill four-year terms on the Haxtun Town Council beginning in November. The three are the only interested community members to return petitions to seek a seat on the local town council. Horton and Pope will return to the Council for four year terms and Brammer will be appointed to his first, four-year term. Brammer is currently completing a term for a former council member who resigned mid-shift. He was appointed to the town council vacancy...
The Town of Haxtun will experience a power outage the morning of Saturday, Oct. 5. The outage is expected from 8 a.m. to noon. The Town of Haxtun will be working with the Western Area Power Administration as part of the planned outage to perform preventative maintenance. "WAPA identified a potential problem out at the substation that they need to fix. In order to do so they need to disconnect the power for the town," said Ron Carpenter, Haxtun Town Superintendent. "If they don't address it the...
The Haxtun Bulldogs put nearly 800 miles on the bus to face the Sanford Mustangs on the gridiron last week. A 60-0 win puts the Bulldogs at 2-0 with two opponents on the schedule before league play begins this season. This week Haxtun is set to host Crowley County at home on Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs' trek to Sanford started Thursday as the team practiced the last hour of school before loading up and traveling to Fountain for the night. First thing Friday, the team headed south over the...
Every year crowds gather with excitement in downtown Fleming for the annual Fall Festival event and this year's celebration might be the biggest of them all. Saturday, Sept. 14 not only marks the date of this year's Fleming Fall Festival, it also features homecoming activities and Fleming High School alumni reunions combining three of the community's biggest events into one big celebration. Honored Citizens, Mike and Kim Nolde, have a lot of memories of past Fall Festivals and there are specific...
The Haxtun Town Council gave the go-ahead for a special event liquor permit for the annual Corn Festival event slated for later this month during a Tuesday evening, Sept. 6 meeting at the Town Hall. In addition, council members approved a generator project at the community center and gave nod to the purchase of a new tractor for the maintenance department. The September meeting opened with a public hearing for a request for a special event liquor permit as requested by the Haxtun Chamber of...
Friday night lights were back on at Adam Wernsman Field as the Haxtun Bulldogs hosted Wichita County in the season home opener last week. The Bulldogs picked up their first win and in front of a home crowd with a 22-12 win on Friday, Sept. 6. The Bulldogs dominated throughout the first half, putting 16 unanswered points on the board in the first 24 minutes of play. Haxtun added six points to the board after half time and the Indians, from Leoti, Kan. managed their first six in the third. The...
The Lady Bulldogs notched a win on their home court Friday night with a sweep over the Lady Indians from Wichita County, Kan. The win puts Haxtun at 5-2 on the season and according to Colorado High School Activities Association RPI rankings seventh in the state in 2A action as of Tuesday morning, Sept. 10. Friday's action put the high school's C team, two junior varsity and varsity teams on the court against the Lady Indians and all of the Lady Bulldogs came out with a win. The varsity took the...
The Haxtun Health Board of Directors selected a concrete company to move forward with a project to replace three parking lots at the main hospital campus. The Board of Directors voted, on Aug. 26, to go with L.E.C. Construction out of Greeley to begin the first of three phases to replace the north, south and emergency room parking lots at the main hospital campus. In addition to that vote by the Board, Chief Executive Office Dewane Pace announced the promotion of Julia Biesemeier to Chief...
Food service funding, current school year numbers, new hires and the approval of several invoices were all topics of reports and action items during an Aug. 28 meeting of the Frenchman Board of Education in the Fleming School/Community Library last week. The Board approved several 140-day staff agreements as well as named two as critical shortage teachers. The August board meeting opened with reports from staff members now that staff are back in the building following summer break. Food Service...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs may have had a slow 0-2 start in their first outing this season but they came back with a vengeance, picking up four wins on the road last week. The Bulldogs took down Holyoke on Thursday and later defeated Otis, Dayspring Christian Academy and Arickaree in tournament play at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling on Saturday. The 4-0 week puts the team at 4-2 on the season as the Lady Bulldogs prepare for their home opener against Wichita County on Friday. Haxtun...
The 2024-25 school year is off and running and as students returned to the classroom in August, five new staff members joined the list of Fleming faculty members who welcomed them back. New staff members include Ashley Steward, Junior High English and Elementary Physical Education; Sheila McCabe, Junior High and High School Science; Gentry Etl, First Grade; Nate Japp, Construction Trades; and Bethany Nicolet, School Counselor. Fleming students in grades fourth through 12th returned for the fall...
Haxtun's new junior high social studies teacher Dylan Huss is one of four new teachers at Haxtun Schools this fall. Huss along with Collyn Heinz, Riley Thompson and Jessica Japp, joined Haxtun faculty in welcoming students to the classroom for the 2024-25 year in mid-August. Huss grew up in Iliff and graduated from Caliche High School in 2020. He attended Northeastern Junior College and later the University of Northeastern Colorado in Greeley where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in...
Administration updates and reports and a single action item is all that board of education members tended to in a mid-August meeting lasting just 35 minutes in the high school library last week. The Haxtun Board of Education approved a lengthy list of staff assignments and heard detailed reports from Superintendent Aron Jones and Elementary Principal Becky Heinz on Tuesday, Aug. 20. In doing so, the Board reviewed preliminary enrollment numbers for the current year, took the next step in...
The Bulldog football team kicked off the 2024 season in the exact same place the 2023 season ended ... in the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl. Haxtun took on Melrose, New Mexico's 2023 8-man State Champions, in the season opener on Friday night, Aug. 23. Last year's season came to a close in the 8-man State Championship where the Bulldogs earned a Runner-Up title in the ThunderBowl. Seven seniors lead this year's 32-member roster that includes five returning starters on defense and six on offense. Head...
After nine months of off season work the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs return to the volleyball court. The team took the court this past Saturday in the annual Sedgwick County tournament were they faced off against Sedgwick County and Briggsdale to kick off the 2024 season. Six seniors top the list of the 31-member roster this year. The varsity line up brings back six with starting experience. Head Coach Don Schelling said his varsity team attended a camp in western Colorado over the summer and later...
By Candie Fix [email protected] Four new teachers joined staff at Haxtun Schools who welcomed students back to school last week. High school and junior high students returned to school on Aug. 13 and elementary students started the 2024-25 school year on Aug. 15 following several days of fall assessments. Collyn Heinz, Riley Thompson, Jessica Japp and Dylan Huss join the faculty at Haxtun Schools as new staff this year. All take on new and various roles throughout the building teaching...
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 police department, 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 quarterly 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...
Voters within the Frenchman School District boundaries will see a ballot question in November regarding matching funds on a possible BEST grant to construct a new school building. The ballot measure, and the decision to move forward in the pursuit of a new school building, follows a recent survey. According to information from Fleming Superintendent Steve McCracken, the District recently sent a survey through ALMA, the student information software. The results of that survey, he said, were 70...
A unanimous vote by the Haxtun Town Council approved a request from CHS, Cenex Zip Trip for a liquor license on Monday night, Aug. 5. The vote, performed by roll call by Mayor Pro Tem Lori Lundgren, came following a public hearing the same night. The Monday evening meeting opened with public comment from Doug Henderson with CHS's Cenex Zip Trip store #78 in Haxtun. He said the store submitted an application for a fermented malt beverage and wine retail license in light of the current situation...
Haxtun's first ever community calendar is hot off the press and will be available at back to school night next week. Release of calendars will be held in conjunction with Haxtun School's back to school night for students in grades kindergarten through sixth on Aug. 13. Community calendars are a product of the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce and the work of Director Jessica Ayala with help from the staff at The Haxtun-Fleming Herald and Haxtun Schools. Calendars will first be placed on the desks of...
