What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
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Two wins on the basketball court last week leaves the Haxtun Bulldogs with a 9-4 overall record and according to MaxPreps, a .69 winning percentage. Just five games remain on the schedule before post season competition lights up. The Bulldogs were on the road last week as they traveled east to Nebraska on Tuesday for a match up with the Chase County Longhorns. Haxtun ran the ball every chance they could, giving them an early 18-12 advantage over the home team after just one quarter of play. The...
Phillips County's new Family and Consumer Science Extension Agent Stephanie Starkebaum began her position with Colorado State University in early January and she is already hitting the ground running. Starkebaum, a Phillips County native, brings with her several areas of expertise including health, wellness and finance. Starkebaum grew up on a farm just outside of Paoli and attended Haxtun Schools. While in high school, she participated in many extracurricular activities including 4-H, FBLA,...
Just two months after board elections, the Frenchman Board of Education has declared a vacancy and is accepting letters of interest from community members to be a school board member in Fleming. The vacancy comes following a resignation from Nick Wernsman. Wernsman was appointed to the Board in November. Wernsman presented a letter of resignation in a mid-January board meeting. He cited a recent move outside of District lines as his reason for the resignation. According to Superintendent Steve McCracken, the first step to fill a school board...
Seven games remain on the regular season schedule for the Fightin' Bulldogs. Thus far, the team is 7-4 overall and rank number nine in top 10 standings according to the Colorado High School Activities Association. Granada holds the top spot in all of 1A. Last week the Bulldogs suffered a close, three-point loss to the Holyoke Dragons but picked up a win the following night over the Otis Bulldogs. Friday night's match up with Holyoke marked the second for the two teams this season. In the first,...
With just four weeks left of play in the regular season, the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs have a handful of league games remaining on the schedule. One of those will take place Friday at the home of the Caliche Buffs, Haxtun's lone game this weekend. Last week, the Lady Bulldogs picked up a win over Otis but suffered a loss to Holyoke. The team currently holds an overall 4-7 record. The Lady Bulldogs hosted two games last week, kicking things off on Friday with a contest against the Lady Dragons from...
What was once the Haxtun Community Childcare Center is now operating as Little Sprouts Learning Center. Changes in the childcare center's operational business organization took place at the first of the year and reflects a new beginning for the local center. Now under the direction of Lindsey Scheopner, Little Sprouts Learning Center has one main objective and that is to provide a safe and caring environment for the children of Haxtun and surrounding communities. Scheopner was born and raised...
For the second time this season, the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs took on the Sedgwick County Lady Cougars. The Lady Cougars currently hold the third place seed in Colorado High School Activities Association 2A rankings. Despite falling by 26 points, Head Coach Arlan Scholl is impressed with the way his team battled against a top-ranked team. “This was another difficult opponent, finding them ranked at the top RPI of the 2A teams in the State,” Scholl said. “Again, the girls battled hard, but just could not come away with the win.” In the first m...
The Haxtun Bulldogs notched a 17-point win over the Sedgwick County Cougars on Friday night. The win over the Cougars marks the second for the Bulldogs this season as the two teams also met at the beginning of the season. Haxtun came out on top in that contest as well. "I thought this was a good bounce back game," said Head Coach Jayden Stieb. "The boys have been playing really good defense lately. We're still trying to work out some things on offense." The 54-37 win over Sedgwick County gives...
Swearing in a new police chief, paying off the main street bond and employee job descriptions and pay scales topped agenda items at the Haxtun Town Council's first meeting of the new year. Council members met on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at the Haxtun Community Center. At the start of the meeting, new Police Chief Nathon Nadow took his oath of office. Nadow was selected as a finalist for the chief position in December when Council members voted to offer him a conditional job offer. The conditional job...
Nathon Nadow took over as Haxtun's Police Chief last week. He was officially sworn into office on Tuesday, Jan. 4 and began duties the following day, Wednesday, Jan. 5. Nadow takes the reins after the resignation of former Chief Tanya Mayhew who resigned from her position late last fall. His addition to the local police force brings the department up to two including Chief Nadow and Officer Tom Bullard. Nadow was born in Brighton and grew up in Keenesburg. He moved to Sterling seven years ago an...
The Phillips County Sheriff's Office welcomed new Deputy Darrell Smith recently. Smith and his wife, Kyla, and their children moved to Haxtun a year and a half ago. "We have been loving it," Smith said of his rural Haxtun living. Smith grew up in Stockton, Calif. but moved to Colorado almost a decade ago when he took a job with M-V Equipment. He worked there in the accounting department but the company eventually sold and he chose a different career path. After M-V, Smith took a job with the...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs notched a win in the record column in their first outing back from Christmas break. An 18-point win gives the Lady Bulldog team their third win this season. Haxtun currently holds a 3-5 record. Haxtun hit the road twice in the first weekend of basketball action as the team traveled to take on Yuma on Friday and Prairie on Saturday. In Saturday's action, both teams put nine points on the board in the first quarter at the home of the Lady Mustangs. The second quarter was a...
The Haxtun Bulldogs dropped to 5-3 with two losses the first weekend back from Christmas break. The Bulldogs fell on the road to Yuma on Friday night and to Prairie at the home of the Mustangs on Saturday. “Obviously it wasn’t the start we wanted coming out of break,” said Head Coach Jayden Stieb. “We learned that we still have a ton to work on.” The Bulldogs first outing from the holiday break pitted them in a match up with the Yuma Indians. Yuma, who is in the same Lower Platte League as the Bulldogs, is a 2A team. The Bulldogs played a...
The Haxtun Town Council approved a conditional job offer for the open police chief position on the local police department. Former police chief Tanya Mayhew resigned from her role in October. Her last day on the department was Nov. 1. A committee formed to seek a new police chief, led by Haxtun Town Council member Rob Martinez, formally announced Nathon Nadow as the selected candidate for a conditional offer of employment. The conditional offer now allows Nadow to enter the next step of the hiring process which includes further testing...
Eleven Fleming students will embark on their final big outing together as the Class of 2022 prepares for their senior trip. Cheri Bornhoft and members of the senior class presented trip details to the Frenchman Board of Education held on Tuesday, Dec. 14 following the conclusion of the annual holiday program. The group of 11 seniors plan to travel to Galveston, Texas for their senior trip slated for March 15-18, 2022. The senior class raised their own funds through concession stands and other fundraisers over the past four years. A few...
Haxtun residents experienced a near 20-hour power outage earlier this month and since then, questions continue to arise regarding the power failure and a solution should it ever happen again. The Town of Haxtun is currently working on a solution should an outage event occur again and Superintendent Ron Carpenter explains how the outage occurred and how it was eventually restored. On the morning of Dec. 6, the Town of Haxtun experienced a power outage that lasted just shy of 20 hours. The cause of the outage was failure of equipment belonging...
Haxtun senior Taylor Schram committed to continuing her volleyball career by signing a letter of intent with North Platte Community College. Schram made her commitment in front of family, friends, coaches and administration at Haxtun High School last week. Schram played setter and outside hitter her senior year as a Lady Bulldog. She was instrumental in leading her team to a final four finish at the State Volleyball Tournament in November. The Lady Bulldogs finished the 2021 season with a 24-5...
Post-season honors continue to roll for the 2021 State Champion Bulldog football team. The Bulldogs earned an impressive 13-0 record on their trek to Haxtun High School's eight state football title last month. Haxtun shut out Mancos 40-0 on Nov. 26 to earn the 8-man Championship at CSU Pueblo's Thunderbowl stadium. 2021 All-State football team designations were recently released by the Colorado High School Activities Association in conjunction with Colorado Preps and MaxPreps. Teams are created...
The Lady Bulldogs enter Christmas break with a 25-point win over the Lady Warriors from Leyton, Neb. Haxtun picked up their second win at home Thursday night and will break from play until action resumes just after the first of the year. Offensively, the Lady Bulldogs came out hot against Leyton, putting 14 points on the board in just the first quarter. Haxtun added 22 in the second to hold a 36-9 advantage at half time. Scoring in the third quarter was much the same as the Lady Bulldogs upped...
Despite their first loss of the season last week, the Haxtun Bulldogs head into Christmas break in the number two spot in Colorado High School Activities Association rankings. Haxtun fell to Holyoke on the road Tuesday night but bounced back for a win over Peetz on Thursday. The Bulldogs are currently 5-1 overall and will begin league play when they return from break on Jan. 7. Haxtun traveled Tuesday night to the home of the 2A Holyoke Dragons. Both teams, who share the same Lower Platte League...
Haxtun Health Board of Directors met for a short meeting Monday, Dec. 6 to adopt a proposed 2022 budget. The meeting lasted just under an hour with the only order of business being the budget and adopting a meeting schedule for the coming year. According to information presented from Chief Financial Officer Joleen Stroyek, the 2022 budget reflects a three-percent increase in growth and a three-percent increase in rates. Next year’s figures also show salary increases, salaries for vacancies, supply cost increase and filling new positions to s...
Phillips County onboarded a new Veterans Service Officer recently. Jeremy Kilpatrick takes the reigns following the retirement of Steve Firme. Firme served Phillips County Veterans for five years before passing the responsibility onto Kilpatrick in September. Kilpatrick grew up in the Akron area and graduated from Akron High School in 2010. After high school, he enlisted in the United States Navy where he was stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a guided missile destroyer on the DDG 93 USS Chung...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs recorded their first win of the season Saturday night with a 55-47 win over the Caliche Buffaloes. The Lady Bulldogs picked up the eight-point win on their court in front of a home crowd. Week three rankings keep Haxtun in the seventh seed in all of Colorado 1A girls’ basketball action. “The girls came out strong and really wanted a win,” Head Coach Arlan Scholl said. “We played a great floor game, but a few of our shots around the basket just would not go in and Caliche got hot and hit some outside shots so the gam...
The Haxtun Bulldogs improved to 4-0 on the season while outscoring their two opponents by a combined 61 points in contests last weekend. Haxtun notched wins over Sedgwick County and Caliche to hold onto the top spot in Colorado 1A rankings and remain undefeated. "These first few weeks of the season have gone fast," said Head Coach Jayden Stieb. "We're getting as much done in practice as we can but when it comes down to it the game experience is better than any practice we can have. The boys...
BEN HENRY, middle, shows his look of surprise after he hops up with his brother, John, to visit with Santa Claus during his annual visit to Haxtun in conjunction with County Christmas. The Haxtun Chamber of Commerce's County Christmas event was held downtown Haxtun on Tuesday, Nov. 30. The brothers are the sons of Ryan and Michelle Henry, Haxtun....
