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The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs came out on top in back-to-back barnburners this weekend to improve to 6-8 overall this season. The team picked up a third win over the Holyoke Lady Dragons at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling on Friday and a one-point win over Leyton in Nebraska on Saturday. “We are so proud of how hard the girls worked this past weekend! They never give up,” said Alicia Schram, Lady Bulldogs Head Coach. “They truly believe in each other and in their abilities as a team. They have developed a refuse to lose attitude. Joyce Meyer...
The Bulldogs kept fans on the edge of their seats as they took on the neighboring Holyoke Dragons at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling Friday night. In a back and forth match up of the two rival schools, with numerous lead changes and a final second finish, the Haxtun Bulldogs fell short of a win by just two points. In the second meeting of the two teams, this match up proved much closer as the two battled on the hardwood through four tough quarters of competitive basketball. As it came...
A shift in leadership topped agenda items in a mid-January meeting of the Haxtun Board of Education. Long-time Board President Rich Starkebaum stepped down from his role in light of recent health circumstances. Starkebaum resigned from his position as president, but plans to remain on the Board and complete his current term. The Jan. 17 meeting opened with amending the agenda to add a line item to revise policy IC/ICA; that policy deals with calendar and instruction time. Later in the meeting...
The most recent meeting of the Frenchman School District opened with a closed-door, executive session. The local school board in Fleming met on Tuesday, Jan. 17. That meeting opened with a closed-door meeting to discuss a pending litigation matter recently filled in Logan County District Court. The meeting opened at 6:06 p.m. when board members voted to convene in executive session to conference with the Board’s attorney for the purpose of receiving legal advice on a pending litigation matter, specifically Roane v. Frenchman School District R...
The Bulldog basketball team went 1-1 over the weekend. Haxtun picked up a win on the road in Julesburg on Friday night but fell in a nail biter the following night in Otis. The team holds a 7-5 overall record and stands at 2-2 in league play with just seven games remaining on the regular season schedule. Friday night pitted Haxtun in a contest with the Sedgwick County Cougars, a fellow Lower Platte League team. The contest took place on the hardwood in Julesburg. Haxtun struck early in the contest and never let up, rolling to a 71-39 win over...
With just six games left on the regular season schedule, the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs are looking to play their best ball by the time post-season nears and it seems they are doing just that. Haxtun went 1-1 this weekend, falling in a close contest to Sedgwick County on Friday but bouncing back for a win in Otis on Saturday. Haxtun took the hardwood in Julesburg on Friday night in a contest with fellow Lower Platte League opponent Sedgwick County. The Lady Cougars hold a top-five spot in League...
The Phillips County Commissioners kicked off the new year with the annual swearing in ceremony at the courthouse followed by re-organization of the board but before doing so, the trio of county leaders wrapped up work in 2022. Throughout the month of December, the Commissioners approved the 2023 budget, made a number of county board appointments and adopted a policy for secure transportation in coordination with House Bill 21-1085. December’s meetings also brought a number of County residents in for comment on wind energy regulations a...
The Lady Bulldogs picked up their second win of the season over the Holyoke Lady Dragons last week, this time on their home court in front of a packed house. The two teams met in December in a holiday tournament in Sterling where Haxtun picked up an 11-point win. This outing, Haxtun hosted Holyoke for a mid-week match up. The Lady Bulldogs went up 17-6 in the first quarter and added another nine in the second to hold onto a 26-15 advantage at half time. Haxtun upped the score by 11 in the third...
Despite a three-game losing streak, the Bulldogs hold a winning 6-4 record and a top 10 spot in 2A/3A Lower Platte League standings, according to MaxPreps. Haxtun suffered losses to Holyoke and Yuma at home last week giving the team their first back-to-back losses this season. The Bulldogs first faced off with a fast-paced Holyoke team at home on Tuesday night for a county-rival game that always packs the stands full of fans. The Dragons jumped to an early lead in the first quarter and despite...
Following a two and a half month investigation Nate Nadow resigned from his position as Chief of Police with the Haxtun Police Department. Nadow’s resignation came from Nadow, verbally, to the Haxtun Council in a recent, Tuesday night, Jan. 3 meeting at the community center. The Haxtun Town Council placed Nadow on paid administrative leave pending an investigation following an executive session in a special meeting on Monday, Oct. 24. At that time, no further information was released about the situation. Since then, the Haxtun Town Council h...
The Haxtun Police Department registered a new sex offender living within Haxtun's city limits. Steven Michael Saign, 55, 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. 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....
Julie Thayer appeared in Phillips County Court in late December to face charges of forgery, criminal impersonation and identity theft. The 42-year-old Haxtun resident is facing 17 total charges in Phillips County District Court. According to information from the court record, she faces three counts of identity theft, 12 counts of forgery and two counts of criminal impersonation. All of the charges filed are class six, class five and class four felonies. Thayer was present at the courthouse in Holyoke for her first hearing in which she told the...
For the first time in nearly a year, the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce has an Executive Director. Jessica Ayala began her new career as Executive Director with the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce last week. The full-time director position is part of a collaborative effort with the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce. The two chambers recently combined forces to hire one director to serve both chambers to be able to offer a full-time position with competitive pay and the option for benefits. Ayala was born in...
The Lady Bulldogs opened the second half of the basketball season with a win at home on Friday night. The victory over Prairie last week gives the team their second win of the season as girls look to keep improving on the court. Haxtun opened action at home on Friday night with a commanding first quarter lead, 20-4. The team continued to build on their first quarter success as they added another nine points to the board before half time. The Lady Bulldogs held a 29-9 advantage at the half....
Haxtun went 1-1 on the hardwood to kick off the 2023 portion of the basketball season. The Bulldogs took down Prairie at home Friday and fell to the Tigers the following night on the road in Wiggins. Last week's action puts Haxtun at 6-2 overall as league play ramps up this half of the season. In opening action following the holiday break, the Bulldogs hosted Prairie for hoops action on Friday night. It is the second time the two teams met since the start of the season, the first came just sever...
HAXTUN AND FLEMING residents spent much of last week digging out of drifts five to six feet high, some even reaching eight feet, following a blizzard that began early Tuesday morning. The storm caused havoc in northeastern Colorado forcing nearly all roads to close throughout parts of the week. Additionally, Haxtun and Fleming schools were forced to close for the remainder of the year. Snow and wild wind speeds blew snow for several days, leaving residents shut in for much of last week. While...
In one last meeting before the end of the fiscal year, the Haxtun Board of Education took an hour on Monday morning, Dec. 12 to take care of final items of business before the start of second semester when school resumes in January. The 7:30 a.m. meeting opened in the high school meeting room with a final report from the 2021-22 audit performed by Scott Szabo with Lauer, Szabo and Associates out of Sterling. According to information from the report, the fund balance grew from 2020-21 giving the Haxtun School District about a six-month reserve,...
A Monday night, Dec. 5 meeting of the Haxtun Health Board of Directors drew a total of two members present in person. Chairman Kent Bamford attended the meeting via Zoom and Vice Chairman Rod Salvador via phone while Jeri Soens and Rebecca Ensminger sat around the table in the meeting room of the Extended Care Unit along with members of the administrative team. The Board approved next year’s budget while also hearing an in-depth report on the recent trauma survey conducted at the facility in November. Haxtun Health recently received full a...
The Lady Bulldogs notched their first win of the season this week as they took down county rival Holyoke in round two of play in the 2022 Northeastern Junior College Holiday Basketball Tournament. The tournament, slated to be played late last week and into the weekend was rescheduled, twice, due to a mid-December blizzard that hit northeastern Colorado restricting travel. Many schools canceled classes for much or all of last week. Tournament play opened on Saturday morning as the Lady Bulldogs...
A mid-December blizzard on the plains of northeastern Colorado caused havoc in scheduling for organizers of the 2022 Holiday Tournament at Northeastern Junior College last week. What was slated for a Thursday, Friday, Saturday tournament turned into action for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Haxtun kicked off play with a win over Prairie in round one of action and a two-point, overtime loss to Merino in round two. Haxtun entered the tournament bracket as the number one seeded team which pitted the Bulldogs against Prairie in round one of play on...
New Mayor Michael Ensminger and Councilmember Dave Green took their oaths of office to serve the Town of Haxtun in a Monday night, Dec. 5 meeting at the community center. In addition to filling new positions around the table, council members adopted the 2023 budget along with appropriate resolutions and met in an executive session for nearly an hour to discuss the Chief of Police position. Ensminger took the Mayor position with the Haxtun Town Council, relieving Lori Lundgren of her Mayor...
While the win-loss record may not reflect the work put in by the Lady Bulldogs thus far this season, good things are happening on the court and the team continues to improve each game. Over the last week, Haxtun hit the road Tuesday and Friday for contests against Perkins County, Neb. and Caliche. Tuesday night action took Haxtun to Grant, Neb. for a match up with the Perkins County Lady Plainswomen. The Lady Bulldogs put up seven points in the first and second quarters for a combined 14 at the...
The Haxtun Bulldogs are on a three game winning streak following wins over Caliche and Perkins County, Neb. last week. The 3-0 start to the season leaves the Bulldogs in the top spot in early Lower Platte league standings and sixth in Colorado High School Activities Association 2A rankings. Tuesday evening pitted the Bulldogs against the Plainsmen in Grant, Neb. Haxtun jumped to an early lead in the first half, but the home team narrowed in on the scoring gap to make a game of it. The Bulldogs e...
The Haxtun Board of Education held a quick special meeting last week to hire a new kindergarten through 12th grade art teacher. The vacancy comes following the resignation of Sara Martinez who submitted her resignation effective the end of December. The meeting opened at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29 and as their only item of business, board members voted to hire Holly Kurtzer as the new K-12 art teacher in Haxtun. Kurtzer will resume art classes for students when they return to the classroom fr...
The building at 242 South Colorado Avenue in downtown Haxtun is the future site of Town Square Realty. Realtor Johnna Harris closed on the property in November and with help from family and local contractors, plans are to open the office in just a few months. While work begins on the inside, Harris is asking for the community's help to learn the building's history. Town Square Realty first opened in Sterling in 2014 by Harris' mom, Wendy Jerman, who has been selling real estate since 2001. In...
