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Haxtun residents could see a ballot question in November pertaining to a major street project. Council members along with Town Superintendent Ron Carpenter looked over several different scenarios to fund the project during a Feb. 1 meeting at the Haxtun Community Center. According to Carpenter, the project would include 42 blocks of street, which has been mapped out to include those that have been deemed beyond patching, as well as some curb and gutter. Total, he said, the project is estimated t...
Phillips County moved to level blue on the State's new COVID dial. The change took place Saturday morning, Feb. 6 following official notification from the Northeast Colorado Health Department the day before. Phillips County had been, since the end of last year, in the designated orange, or high risk, level on the dial. In her notification to the Phillips County Commissioners, Trish McClain, Public Health Director at the NCHD, said she was unaware that counties could skip a level but given the...
For the first time this season, more fans packed the stands to watch the Bulldogs as the team took on the Prairie Mustangs at home Saturday afternoon. A level change on the new State of Colorado's COVID dial allowed each athlete seven fan tickets opposed to the two it had been since the start of the season. In front of a larger home crowd, the Haxtun Bulldogs jumped to an early 23-14 lead in a sometimes heated match up with the Mustangs from Prairie. The Bulldogs added another 13 points, three...
Despite two notches in the losing column this week, the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs held their own against top-ranked teams and continues to improve each contest. The Lady Bulldogs took on the number-one ranked team in 1A and a top-ranked 2A team over the past week as well as faced off with Prairie at home in front of a larger crowd this week. The Lady Bulldogs kicked off their full week of basketball action at Northeastern Junior College on Tuesday as the team took on a tough Briggsdale team. The...
Since the release of COVID-19 vaccinations, Haxtun Health has administered 350 vaccines, not wasting a single dose. Those numbers came from Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace during a Monday, Jan. 25 meeting of Haxtun Health Board of Directors. Pace told board members during his CEO report that Haxtun Health was the first hospital on the Eastern Plains to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Ben Stephenson, Haxtun Health Chief of Staff, was the first person to receive the vaccine in Haxtun on Dec. 18. Since receiving the Pfizer vaccine and...
The Phillips County Commissioners voted to rescind a motion authorizing employment with Pam Jenson as Phillips County Administrator last month. The resolution authorizing employment for Jensen had been approved just 10 days earlier. During a re-organization meeting on Jan. 12, Phillips County Commissioners Terry Hofmeister, Garold Roberts and Tom Timm, all voted to appoint Jensen as County Administrator for the 2021 calendar year. That motion requires a resolution, marking the second of the new year for the County. However, just 10 days later,...
Laura Schroetlin is the new Phillips County Administrator. Schroetlin, who has been with the County since August 2010, officially took over administrator duties on Jan. 28. Schroetlin began her career with Phillips County a decade ago as a part-time administrative secretary and later moved to full-time administrative support. Moving through the ranks, Schroetlin then became the administrator assistant and later interim administrator when Randy Schafer passed away. Following Schafer's passing,...
A 2-0 start including a four-point win over a top 1A team ... the Lady Bulldogs took the court ready to play in their first outing this season and did so with a bang. For the first time this 2020-21 school year, Lady Bulldog athletes took the stage to compete, opening their basketball season in Peetz Friday night. After upsetting the Bulldogs in green on the road, Haxtun hosted the season's home opener in a competition with Fleming on Saturday. "Our first two games of the season were fun and...
Jan. 18 marked the start of Season B, including high school basketball under new guidelines set by the Colorado High School Activities Association. With just the required nine practices under their belt, the Haxtun Bulldogs took the court in Peetz on Friday to kick off 2021 basketball action. The team is under direction of new Head Coach Jayden Stieb and Assistant Coaches Tanner Serrato and Lance Chapdelaine. Stieb takes the reins after serving as Assistant Coach the year before when the team...
After multiple delays, the trial for the man accused of murdering Kelsie Schelling is underway in Pueblo this week. Jury selection in the Donthe Lucas trial began Monday and is expected to last the majority of the week. Schelling, who was eight weeks pregnant at the time she went missing, was last seen in Pueblo on Feb, 4, 2013 when she met Lucas, her boyfriend at the time, to discuss her pregnancy. Lucas was arrested in December 2017 and has since been held on first-degree murder charges in the case. He has pled not guilty to the...
After 37 years with the Haxtun School District, Superintendent Darcy Garretson announced her retirement at a Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Garretson began her career in Haxtun in 1984 as the High School English Teacher. “… Fresh out of Colorado State University, I had no idea how my career would unfold or that it would last for this many years in Haxtun,” Garretson said in her retirement letter to board members. “Haxtun Schools, and the surrounding community has become my home, provided me with invaluable relatio...
Staff updates and administration reports took up the majority of an hour-long meeting of the Frenchman Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, Jan, 19. Fleming staff members Jessica Japp and Hailey Ruff presented to board members as well as Principal Kortney Firme and Superintendent Steve McCracken. While giving her monthly report, Firme touched on recent student test results, which came back better than expected following mostly at-home learning for the second semester of the previous school year. Firme said the tests, taken in the first two...
Lori Lundgren, Mayor Pro-Tem, presided over the first Haxtun Town Council meeting of the new year in absence of Haxtun Mayor Brandon Biesemeier. Council members met on Monday, Jan. 4 at the Haxtun Community Center to better practice social distancing, something they plan to do moving forward in 2021. The meeting, which last just 32 minutes, opened with traditional beginning of the year business, by designating a public meeting posting location. As has been for years, members of the Haxtun Town Council voted to designate the front door of the...
Phillips County has distributed close to $150,000 in COVID relief funds to local businesses. That money has been given as grant funds to Phillips County businesses who applied for funding through the County’s application process. Word of distribution came at the Phillips County Commissioners’ year-end meeting on Dec. 31. To date, Phillips County has received just under $300,000 in CVRF funds through the Department of Local Affairs, which was distributed throughout Phillips County to those in Haxtun, Paoli and Holyoke. Additionally, Help Colorad...
Colorado kids, including Haxtun student athletes, are pleading to Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to begin sport season B following a delay with the original January start date. The topic, which has been hot on social media platforms, was also a discussion item at the Haxtun School District Board of Education’s Dec. 15 meeting. The basketball season, which is included in Colorado High School Activities Association season B plan, was originally slated to begin in early January. However, push b...
The final meeting of 2020 centered around the upcoming year’s budget for the Board of Directors of Haxtun Health. Members met on Monday, Dec. 7 to approve the 2021 budget as well as resolutions that go with including those to appropriate sums of money and to set mill levies. To kick off the meeting, Marketing Director Julia Biesemeier presented information on potential funding opportunities for the main street clinic project. Haxtun Health purchased the old Smith Hardware building in the 100 block of South Colorado Avenue in the fall. Plans a...
Big things are coming to Haxtun’s main street. Members of the Haxtun Town Council heard plans for the old Smith Hardware building from Dewane Pace, Haxtun Health’s Chief Executive Officer. Haxtun Health purchased the building at 125 South Colorado Avenue this fall. Pace told town council members that demolition of the old building would begin soon and construction of a new, two-story building would follow. After the purchase of the building, Haxtun Health circulated a community survey to gain input on what to do with the space. According to...
Phillips County COVID-19 numbers are going down. As of Monday, Dec. 14, Phillips County has a total of 208 cumulative case since the onset of the pandemic and just 13 new cases over a 14-day period. According to the Office of Phillips County Emergency Management, for the first time since Oct. 21, Phillips County’s COVID-19 data is within or below Level Orange criteria in every category of the Colorado COVID-19 dial. In late November, Phillips County faced jumping from Level Orange to Level Red, which would have brought on a number of additional...
Five Haxtun Bulldog football players were honored with post-season awards following a six-game season. The team finished 3-3 overall with wins over Dayspring Christian Academy, Caliche and Akron in the 2020 season. The 21-member team is under the direction of Head Coach JD Stone and Assistant Coach Marc Bornhoft. Post-season honors are announced at the conclusion of the season and are determined by a vote of coaches from the Lower Platte League. Three Bulldogs received All-Conference honors,...
Haxtun Health has added two new family practice physicians to the lineup of providers currently on staff in addition to a new partnership with a podiatrist who plans to visit patients several times a month at the specialty clinic. Announcement of the new physicians came at a meeting on Nov. 23. Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace told board members in his report that Dr. Andrea Lewis and Dr. Trevin Cardon will be regular, part-time family practice physicians at Haxtun Health and both plan to work one weekend a month. “They are part of our i...
A temporary moratorium on all permits relating to the expansion and creation of new livestock facilities went into effect in Phillips County last month. The six-month moratorium began on Nov. 9 and will remain in effect until end of day, May 9. The temporary moratorium will allow the Phillips County Commissioners sufficient time to review, study, hold public hearings and prepare and adopt amendments to the zoning requirements, if necessary, in relation to plans of new and/or expansion of existing livestock facilities. The moratorium may be...
A late afternoon fire the day before Thanksgiving has left a local family without a home and in need of belongings. The camper the Preston family calls home erupted into flames on Wednesday, Nov. 25, sounding the alarm for the Haxtun Volunteer Fire Department. Fire crews arrived on scene shortly after 2 p.m. and were able to help Dean Preston and his five-year-old son, Kaden, to safety as flames shot out of the camper. Dean's wife, Carly, had just left to return to work from her lunch break....
The committee has formed, the plans are drawn, now it's time to come together and raise funds to build the dream; a new Haxtun swimming pool. Committee members on the Haxtun Pool Project have a renewed energy and a goal of raising $1,000,000 locally for a new swimming pool. So far, the group has a total of $185,000 pledged towards the project. The conditions of the existing pool now are to the point of no repair and the threat of closing what we do have is a real possibility. While this year...
Haxtun students moved to remote learning following a phone call to parents from Superintendent Darcy Garretson shortly after lunch on Thursday, Nov. 19. Students were released early from school that day and are expected to continue remote learning at home through Nov. 30. Garretson's phone call was followed by a letter with additional details, including information on when students are expected to return to in-person learning. As of Tuesday, Nov. 24, students in Kindergarten through fifth grade...
The spread of coronavirus continues in Phillips County and while the threat of notching one level higher on the Colorado COVID-19 dial inched closer, the Phillips County Commissioners worked diligently with the local health department to reach an agreement to remain at Level Orange - High Risk with a Local Public Health order in place for the next 30 days. The public health order keeps Phillips County at Level Orange and not higher on the dial at Level Red. The Public Health Order, which became...
