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The Frenchman Board of Education accepted several resignations as well as approved a purchase for new technology equipment during a Sept. 15 meeting in Fleming. The hour and a half meeting also included action items for extra duty assignments and substitute teachers. While approving the consent agenda, board members approved resignations from Linda Hawthorne and Carol Clark. Hawthorne, the District Bookkeeper, has been with Fleming Schools for 20 years, Superintendent Steve McCracken said. Hawthorne plans to retire on Sept. 30 and will...
Corn Festival plans, swimming pool drawings and a change to the current golf cart ordinance topped agenda items at the Haxtun Town Council meeting Monday night, Sept. 14. The Council continues to meet at the Haxtun Community Center to allow for social distancing practices. With a full board minus member Craig McCarty, Mayor Brandon Biesemeier opened the meeting with roll call and pledge of allegiance. Skipping ahead to the lone discussion item on the agenda, the swimming pool, board members...
Fleming voters will be tasked with a number of decisions when it comes time to vote this November. Both the Town of Fleming and the Frenchman School District have questions for voters on the ballot in the upcoming election. The Frenchman Board of Education ballot question is asking voters who live within the school district boundary to approve the collection of additional mills on property taxes. The District is asking to continue collecting up to two mills annually for seven years. In 2000, the local school district successfully passed a bond...
Haxtun School District has received more than $280,000 in COVID-19 relief funds over the past six months and during the most recent Board of Education meeting, District Bookkeeper Lynda Firme gave board members a breakdown of how those funds have been spent. All CARES and ESSER dollars must be spent by Dec. 31. The CARES Act aids state and local government entities navigating through the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to CARES Act funds, the Haxtun School District received addition...
When Fleming students returned to school this fall, they were greeted by new music teacher, Laurianna May. May joins new Fleming staff members Danielle Wernsman and Rylie Salyards, who were featured in last week's issue of the Herald, for the 2020-21 school year. Laurianna May First year teacher Laurianna May is no stranger to the Logan County area as she grew up in Sterling and graduated from Sterling High School in 2012. After high school, May attended Laramie County Community College in Wyomi...
Each year the anniversary of the end of World War I marks the national holiday Veteran’s Day, celebrated on Nov. 11. For the upcoming holiday, Veteran’s Service Officer Steve Firme is asking for the public’s help to honor all those in Phillips County who have served in the United States armed forces. Firme hopes to publish a complete list of living Veteran’s this upcoming Veteran’s Day and hopes the community will help make sure no names are left off. On Memorial Day, Firme said, we honor those who have passed but on Veteran’s Day, the goal is...
It is often said there is no place like home and there are no truer words for Carol Scheel. Carol has called Haxtun home for more than eight decades and so it's only fitting that when the community celebrates "Wide Open Spaces" on Saturday, Sept. 26 that she leads the Corn Festival parade as Grand Marshal. This year marks the 99th annual Haxtun Corn Festival and Carol remembers being at all but one of the past 85. Her fondest memories are of the Saturday mornings in late September when she...
When school started in mid-August, Fleming schools welcomed three new teachers including Danielle Wernsman, first grade teacher, and Rylie Salyards, high school business teacher. The new line up of staff members also includes new music instructor Laurianna May. Danielle Wernsman Danielle Wernsman takes over Fleming's first grade classroom as former first grade teacher Kortney Firme takes on her new role of principal this year. Wernsman brings with her more than 12 years of experience in...
A phone call to parents from Superintendent Darcy Garretson on Labor Day announced that all Haxtun High School students would be on remote learning until Sept. 16. The call said there have been three positive COVID-19 cases within the high school. "Three students or staff member at Haxtun High School have been diagnosed with COVID-19," Garretson said in a letter to parents that followed the initial phone call. "Each case of COVID-19 is interviewed by public health." As part of that...
The Phillips County Commissioners have reached an agreement with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment regarding groundwater monitoring for the next several years. The agreement’s announcement as well as terms were announced during the Commissioners month end meeting on Aug. 31. Phillips County and the CDPHE’s Hazardous Material and Waste Management Division agreed that through year 2022, the State agency will prepare a sampling and analysis plan and continue to conduct groundwater monitoring at the County landfill. On Jan. 1...
HAXTUN STUDENTS Angel, a second grader, and Kenneth, a kindergartner, walk into school with their dad, Shad Grilli, on their first day of school on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Haxtun High School cheerleaders welcomed back all junior high and elementary students at the main doors with cheers and chants....
The Aug. 24 meeting of the Haxtun Hospital District Board of Directors may have been short, but the information presented was positive. Department heads and administration reported a number of positive outcomes from the month of July, including a grant from the Department of Local Affairs. According to Dewane Pace, HHD Chief Executive Officer, HHD recently received an infrastructure improvement grant that will allow for facility improvements over the next few months. “Haxtun Hospital, as we know, is in a building that was constructed and o...
Haxtun Police Chief Tanya Mayhew reported the re-registration of sex offender James Leonard within Haxtun’s city limits last week. Leonard, age 33, is registered at an address in the 200 block of North Wallace Avenue. According to Mayhew, Leonard must register as a sex offender annually following an October 2011 conviction in Phillips County Court for attempted sex assault on a child....
Being a brand-new teacher while starting school during a global pandemic will give new Language Arts teacher Jes-C French an advantage: she doesn't know what things looked like before. French, a Holyoke native, begins her teaching career at Haxtun High School this week. "People keep telling me things will look so much different this year, but I wasn't here before, so it will all be new to me," French said from her desk in her new classroom. French grew up in Holyoke and graduated from Holyoke...
Fleming junior/senior high school students are on remote learning status, just four days into the new school year. According to Fleming Superintendent Steve McCracken a student or staff member at the Fleming junior/senior high school has been diagnosed with COVID-19. As part of the public health investigation the person diagnosed is being kept home from the school until they are no longer infectious. Additionally, those who were in close contact of that person are also being asked to stay home from school for 14 days. “Because it is i...
Haxtun students return to the classroom this week and in preparation the Board of Education formally adopted the fall plan to return to in-person learning to meet all State mandates and recommendations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board voted on the plan during a meeting on Tuesday evening, Aug. 18. Students return to the classroom on Wednesday, Aug. 26 following two days of assessments. “Our top priority is for students to continue to obtain a quality education and maintain the social-emotional health they desire and deserve,” the plan sta...
Phillips County Commissioners voted and approved a motion during the month of July that will allow exempt employees the ability to earn comp time. The announcement came at the usual press briefing held at the end of the month. The County also acted on a number of new hires and wage increases through July in addition to hearing various county department updates. According to information compiled by County Administrator Pam Jensen, an exempt employee who works over 40 hours per week can earn comp time at a rate of 1:1 for time worked over 40...
Normally this time of year includes two-a-day practices on the football field and an early tournament on the volleyball schedule to get back into the swing of things with fall sports and the start of school; but this year is different. Changes within the Colorado High School Activities Association due to the on-going global pandemic cuts fall sports from both Haxtun and Fleming schools including football and volleyball. While students have or plan to return to the classroom this week and next in Fleming and Haxtun, they will not be returning...
The three career and technical education programs at Haxtun High School were recently awarded grant funds in the amount of $81,057. CTE is the practice of teaching specific career skills to high school students through programs such as FFA, Future Business Leaders of America and Family Career and Community Leaders of America. The three local CTE program advisors Jeff Plumb, Janet Brophy and Holly Kelley worked collaboratively to submit an innovative grant from Perkins V. This grant is a highly competitive grant with a total of 21 applications,...
Parents and staff members filed into the Fleming school/community library on Thursday evening, Aug. 6 to hear back-to-school plans from the Frenchman School Board. With school set to begin in just a week, many were filled with anticipation on what the school day would look like upon students’ return for the first time since the global COVID-19 pandemic that hit earlier this year. The Board began business with roll call, pledge of allegiance, prayer and approval of the agenda and following those house-keeping items, members jumped straight to th...
With a small crowd in attendance and at the Haxtun Community Center to continue to social distancing during their regular monthly meetings, the Haxtun Town Council acted on items relating to special event liquor permits, bought a new to the town street sweeper and made various committee appointments during a Monday night meeting on Aug. 3. Following roll call, the pledge of allegiance and approval of the agenda and consent agenda, Mayor Brandon Biesemeier asked if anyone in the audience wished to speak during public comment. While none of the...
With the start of the school year quickly approaching, parents and staff members have eagerly awaited news on Haxtun Schools’ plan for beginning the 2020-21 school year while in the middle of a global pandemic. That news came at a board of education meeting held in the school cafeteria last week. The meeting, attended by many concerned parents, contained a wealth of information about how administration planned to start school in just a few short weeks; however, much of the information provided was not well perceived by those in attendance. W...
More time was spent in a closed-door, executive session than in the regular July meeting of the Haxtun Hospital District Board of Directors last week. The Board met on Monday, July 27 and spent an hour conducting regular business before holding an hour-and-a-half long executive session to discuss issues relating to property. According to minutes from the meeting, Board Member Jeff Firme moved to enter into a closed-door, executive session at 8:01 p.m. to discuss the purchase, acquisition, lease, transfer or sale of any property interest. His...
By Candie Fix [email protected] The Haxtun Police Department re-registered William Riley as a registered sex offender within Haxtun’s city limits last week. On July 31, the HPD re-registered William Riley, 33, who lives in the 200 block of East Fletcher Street. Riley is required, by law, to register annually on his date of birth due to a conviction of attempted sexual assault on a child in Phillips County in 2007....
Although some things may have looked a little differently this year, for the most part, the 2020 Phillips County Fair went on without a hitch despite many local county fairs being cancelled due to the current pandemic. The Phillips County Fair kicked off last Tuesday with the horse show and featured nearly 120 youth entrants with both 4-H and FFA projects. According to Phillips County Livestock Agent Jessie Stewart, there were also over 130 entrants in the open shows at this year's fair. The...