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The body discovered in an abandoned building in rural Phillips County earlier this has been identified. Phillips County Sheriff Thom Elliott said the remains are that of Bradley R. Dye, 56, of Castle Rock. The cause of death has been ruled as suicide. On June 13, the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a body with a gun in an abandoned building near a farmstead at county roads 57 and 40 near Amherst. According to Elliott, the body had no identification and there was no vehicle found at the location. Following a canvass o...
BUDDIES KASON HADEEN and Tannor and Cail Wilson sit near the curb of the Haxtun Fire hall while waiting for the burn out competition to start during Haxtun’s 33rd annual Old-Fashioned Saturday night. Austin Wilson, Tannor and Cail’s dad, was a finalist in the competition. For photos of winners from this year’s car show, turn to pages 4 and 5....
The Haxtun Town Council tackled a long list of action and discussion items during the latest regular meeting held on July 13 at the Haxtun Community Center. The 2019 financial report, special event permits and applications, and ballot questions for the upcoming election topped agenda items for the monthly meeting. As all meetings do, the Council kicked things off with public comment following roll call, the pledge of allegiance and approval the agenda and consent agenda. During which, Garry Hadeen, with the Haxtun Housing Authority, asked...
Haxtun Police Chief Tanya Mayhew registered a sex offender within the city limits on Wednesday, July 15. Michael Woodward, 40, is required to register annually after convictions of internet sexual exploitation of a child and sexual exploitation of a child. Woodward is registered to the address 710 South Washington Avenue, #A....
The 2020 Phillips County Fair kicks off next week and this year's honored couple is excited and humbled to be at center of the "Barn in the USA" themed annual event. Gail and Pat Wiebers are no strangers to Phillips County activities, making it only fitting for them to hold the title of Grand Marshals. Gail grew up south of Fleming in the New Haven community where he was especially active with cattle in 4-H. In a family of 12 children, Gail and his siblings showed cattle, dairy cattle and...
By Candie Fix [email protected] The third Saturday in July always brings community members together as crowds gather downtown for the annual Haxtun Old-Fashioned Saturday Night. The night, which promises a car show, vendors, burn out and other activities is now in its 33rd year as a local favorite The event, started in 1988 by Dale and Sherrilyn Smith, is sponsored each year by the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce and brings with it an atmosphere of an old-fashioned fun with music, friends and family along with the car show and cruising. This...
Meal prices, graduation requirements, hiring a first-grade teacher … all action items at the final board meeting of the Frenchman Board of Education before school begins in the fall. The local Fleming school board does not typically meet in July, making the next regularly scheduled meeting in late August when students will, hopefully, return to school with some normalcy. “We will be following the recommendations from the Centers of Disease Control and working closely with the Northeast Colorado Health Department as we start the school year in...
Throughout the month of June, Phillips County Commissioners conducted several items of business related to storms that struck Paoli and Haxtun the same month. In addition to hearing information related to removal of storm debris from the County Landfill Manager, the Commissioners met with other local and state officials to assess the damage in addition to adopting a resolution to declare a local disaster emergency due to the severe thunderstorms. County Road and Bridge employees assisted the Town of Haxtun with a multi-day clean-up in addition...
Doctor Ben Stephenson is the new Chief of Staff at the Haxtun Hospital District. His appointment came early last week following a resignation of Doctor Breck McCarty from her duties as both a physician with the District and Chief of Staff. Dr. Breck McCarty’s resignation is effective as of June 30. Board of Directors for the Haxtun Hospital District met last Monday, June 22 and during the Chief of Staff report, were informed of Breck McCarty’s resignation effective at the end of the month. Following the news, board members reviewed the medical...
Phillips County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a body with a gun in an abandoned building earlier this week, according to Sheriff Thom Elliott. Deputies discovered a mummified, unidentified deceased white male at an abandoned farmstead near Phillips County roads 57 and 40, near Amherst, on June 13. A release from Sheriff Elliott says it appears that the victim died from a gunshot wound to the head. The body, he said, had no identification and there was no vehicle found at the location. Elliott said a canvass of surrounding c...
The ending to the 2019-20 school year and the recent COVID-19 pandemic has left many parents and community members wondering what the coming year will look like. Even with the 2020-21 school year approaching quickly, Superintendent Darcy Garretson told Haxtun Board of Education members during a Tuesday night meeting last week that there is still so much unknown at this point. “I held an all-staff meeting earlier in the month to share the information I had,” she told board members in her administration report at a June 16 meeting. “It was good...
The recent pandemic caused the cancellation of many things this spring, including the annual meeting of the Phillips County Economic Development Corporation. Despite not being able to gather together in April to celebrate the organization's success and grant and intern recipients, PCED Executive Director Trisha Herman compiled a list of top notable happenings for the year. Perhaps one of the biggest 2019 accomplishments, Herman said, is that PCED completed a six-month housing study with...
Waking up on Tuesday morning was like a dream, a really bad dream. Storms that struck the Haxtun area on Monday night, June 8 and into the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 9, tore through the community, ripping up entire trees, knocking out power and causing damage some say can only come from tornados, although there was no official sighting of one. Some reports from the weather service have indicated the damage was from a derecho, a straight-line wind storm that is associated with a...
TREES AND HEADSTONES in the Haxtun Cemetery were uprooted during a late-night thunderstorm on Monday, June 8. Winds, reportedly from a micro burst, swept through the area wreaking havoc all over town knocking over trees and limbs while taking down power lines. Haxtun residents lost power shortly after midnight and as of Tuesday afternoon remained without electricity. Town crews, County employees and community members rallied all day Tuesday to begin clean up efforts and restore power. For more...
It’s official, Haxtun will not open the swimming pool this summer season. The Town Council took official action on the pool’s opening during a meeting early last week. State mandates regarding strict guidelines for indoor swimming pools allow for only four persons at a time due to the current COVID-19 situation. That, along with problems getting parts to fix the current pool, forced the Council to make the decision to close the pool this season. Mandates set forth by Colorado’s Governor Jared Polis as well as from the Colorado Department of Pu...
Many of the topics of conversation at Phillips County Commissioner meetings over the month of May pertained to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, upcoming events and a variance request by the County from a public health order set by the State. The variance, which was approved late last month, allowed for the raceway season to get started over the weekend. According to the variance approved by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Phillips County was granted approval to host the raceway 2020 opener, held last Friday and Saturday...
When it comes time to help, Haxtun residents never fail to do so and when the recent pandemic occurred and the call went out to help those affected most, that’s exactly what happened. Many local businesses were forced to shut their doors for the past several months in order to comply with orders from Colorado’s Governor Jared Polis. The closure not only affected the businesses that were forced to close, but also the employees who work there. The Haxtun Chamber of Commerce, along with several other individuals, formed a fund titled Help Hax...
The Frenchman School District has a new principal. The Board of Education in Fleming voted during a meeting on May 18 to hire Kortney Firme to fill the role for the coming year. The District is now seeking a first grade teacher to fill a vacancy Firme leaves to accept the new position. Two months ago, members of the Board of Education failed to pass a motion to approve a contract for then principal Stacy McDaniel, creating an opening within the District. Firme, who has taught first grade in Fleming for the past five years, brings with her 13...
Normally, the Haxtun Community Center would be the setting for the annual year-end athletic awards for Bulldog athletes; decorated in all red and black featuring pictures of each student athletes, but not this year. Despite restrictions in place regarding public gatherings due to the current pandemic, members of the Haxtun Booster Club did not miss an opportunity to acknowledge athletes for their successes this year by doing so with featured videos from each coach on the School's YouTube...
Phillips County's variance request from portions of Colorado Governor Jared Polis's Safer at Home executive order has been approved by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The variance relates to specific functions including planned public gatherings, restaurants, places of worship, bars and gyms. The variance was good through May 26, at which point the State was expected to re-evaluate the Safer at Home plan. According to Phillips County Emergency Manager Bob Heldenbrand,...
On June 1, the Colorado High School Activities Association plans to lift the moratorium against all in-person condition sessions between coaches and high school athletes. The announcement came following a meeting last week with the CHSAA Resocialization Task Force. “Starting on that day, any decisions regarding athletics and activities through the summer months will be made at the local school district level,” said CHSAA Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green. “The CHSAA's administrative oversight for athletics and activities will resume when...
For the first time in two months members of the Haxtun Board of Education met in person, this time in the school’s cafeteria to allow social distancing for members and administration. In March and April, the group met via Zoom due to pandemic restrictions. The recent COVID-19 pandemic not only has local meetings looking much different these days, it also has educators in a whole new world of learning as they prepare for next year; not only with expected budget cuts but also with the possibility of changes to in-person learning. In her report t...
The May 18 meeting of the Haxtun Hospital District Board of Directors brought re-organization following elections this spring. Despite not having an election due to lack of interested citizens in running, the Board is down a member, Scott Thompson, who finished his final term after 10 years last month. Thompson served as President over the past few years. Two members did choose to run again, including Kent Bamford and Rod Salvador, but even with the two returning members, the Board of Directors still short one member. At the start of the...
There was the traditional pomp and circumstance. The usual welcome, valedictorian and salutatorian speeches as well as the ever-favorite slide show presentation, but the one thing missing was a gym packed full of friends, family, faculty and community members helping to celebrate the Haxtun graduating Class of 2020. On Sunday, May 17 at 1 p.m., as regularly scheduled, graduation went on despite the nation's current pandemic and COVID-19 social distancing guidelines and instead of a gym full of...
For the past two years, the Fleming Town Council, maintenance employees and office staff have worked diligently on a major sewer project for the Town of Fleming and two weeks ago, the project was completed and the system was put into use. According to Maintenance Superintendent Keith Beck, the system is up and working properly and he expects a final walk through with all partnering agents later this month. Beck gave the report to Fleming Town Council members during a Zoom meeting on Tuesday, May 12. He said the project’s generator has been test...
