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CREWS began tearing down what was left of the existing Haxtun Swimming Pool on Friday, Jan. 6. The demolition comes after news that the Town of Haxtun received a Great Outdoors Colorado grant for $923,000 for a new public pool. The new pool features plans for lap lanes, a toddler slide and new light fixtures, as well as zero entry, or stairless, access to better serve people with disabilities and young children. Plans are to complete work on the pool later this year....
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....
The Fleming Town Council held their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, via Zoom, due to weather conditions. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Stefan Betley at 6:35 p.m. The following council members were present: Andrew Muller, Bill Langridge, Bonnie Jackson, Suzanne Wales, Cathy Castillo and Alex Gapter. Also present were Joelle Gapter, Lewis Frank and Karen Bretz. Additions/Corrections to the Agenda: Betley asked for additions or corrections to the agenda. Hearing none, it was moved and seconded to accept the agenda...
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 Colorado General Assembly began its 2023 session next Monday, Jan. 9. With dozens of new lawmakers joining the legislature, out of 100 total, the session promises to be a little more chaotic than usual. In the State House, there will eventually be 31 new lawmakers out of 65. Republicans lost ground in the November elections, dropping from 24 members to 19, a historic low. Democrats, at 46, now hold a better than two-thirds majority, meaning they could override any veto from the Governor. That also gives them the ability to send...
The 100 members of the Colorado General Assembly returned to the State Capitol on Mon. Jan. 9, with leadership from both parties laying out their priorities for the next 120 days. Governor Jared Polis also gave a hint about his priorities in a revision of the 2023-24 budget he sent to the Joint Budget Committee on Jan. 3. Polis submitted a proposed budget to the JBC on Nov. 1, seeking $42.7 billion in all funds, including $16.7 billion in general funds, which is made up of corporate and individual income tax revenue and sales and use tax...
Everywhere I turn, I have heard a lot about the wonder of technology. It has worked itself into our lives, like it or not. Ironically, agriculture, usually one of the last bastions to resist change, seems to have embraced it completely. GPS, I guess, now allows tractors to drive a straight row while the operator reads a magazine, at least that is what my son-in-law used to do. My tractors don’t have it and there is no place to hang a monitor on my horse. Nevertheless, I recently discovered h...
Every few months or so a rather government-ish looking letter fueled with urgency arrives in the mailbox. The wording and appearance of this and similar letters mimics something more insidious, something filled with apparent officiousness but totally lacking in substance. It is quite simple. The goal is to separate you from your pocket book while manipulating your good will and common sense. How to convince you to believe something from nothing without bumping into legal prohibitions? Use...
Wheat stem sawfly is a native insect that feeds on grasses in Colorado. The insect was first identified by entomologists in Colorado around the late 1800’s and primarily fed on range grasses. However, wheat stem sawfly emerged as a Colorado wheat pest in 2010 and damage from this insect has been expanding and increasing since. Today, this pest is estimated to cause $30 million in damage, according to Brad Erker, Executive Director of the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation. As a result, Colorado State University is focused on addressing c...
13 Years Ago Jan. 5, 1938 Hunters from all of Northeastern Colorado converged at Haxtun last Monday and took part in the most extensive rabbit drive ever held in the part of the state. Covering 225 square miles in the day's campaign, it was estimated that 7,000 rabbits were killed. Approximately 1,200 persons participated in the hunt sometime during the day. A baby girl was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Anderson at the family home southeast of town. Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Radford were...
A Caring Pregnancy Resource Center of Northeast Colorado prepares to host several annual fundraising banquets from 6-8:30 p.m. on four consecutive evenings with four locations including Logan, Phillips, Yuma and Morgan counties. This year’s banquet theme “Planting Seeds of Growth” features speaker Amy Ford, Co-founder and president of Embrace Grace ministries, an international non-profit that has trained and equipped over 800 churches in all 50 states and multiple countries to open their doors and hearts to women with unexpected pregn...
The county assessors and treasurers are working on the 2023 tax rolls for their counties. The tax roll includes an assessment on irrigated acres from the Republican River Water Conservation District. The RRWCD assessments fund the district’s ongoing Compact Compliance efforts. In the past, the assessment was $14.50 per irrigated acre. Acres irrigated in the 2022 calendar year will be assessed $30 per acre on the upcoming tax roll. In 2016, the Republican River Compact Administration, consisting of the State Engineers from Kansas, Nebraska a...
The Colorado State University Crops Testing Program and CSU Extension are inviting producers to a Cowpea (black-eyed pea) Production Webinar. The free webinar will be live online on Thursday, Jan. 19 from 9-10:30 a.m. hosted on Zoom. This meeting will offer agronomic and marketing insights into this drought-tolerant and low water use crop. CSU Extension Specialist Sally Jones-Diamond will present the CSU cowpea variety trial results from 2022. Joel Schneekloth, CSU Extension Water Resources Specialist, will talk about water-use of cowpea under...
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...
The Fleming Lady Wildcats continued their undefeated season with a Championship win in the Winter Hoops Tournament last weekend. The tournament marked the opening of the 2023 portion of the basketball season. Fleming hosted Flagler, Gilpin County and Arickaree last week for girls' and boys' tournament play. Action kicked off on Friday night for the Lady Wildcats with a win over Flagler. The home team opened with a 14-point advantage after the first quarter of play, 19-5. The Lady Panthers kept...
The Fleming Wildcats tacked on two in the win column last weekend at their own Winter Hoops Tournament. The Wildcats grabbed wins over the Flagler Panthers and the Arickaree Bison to go 2-0 for the week. Tournament play opened on Friday, Jan. 6 - a couple weeks later than orginally scheduled. The tournament was postponed due to winter weather. Fleming met up with Flagler on the opening night of play. Fleming jumped to an early 11-point advantage in the first and widened the scoring gap by...
The Sedgwick County/Fleming boys and girls wrestlers all traveled to Oshkosh, Neb. to participate in the Garden County Invitational. This was their first competition since Dec. 9, 2022 in Southern Valley. The boys were scheduled to go to Wray and the girls to Sutherland, Neb. on Dec. 17, but didn't make the trips due to the weather. Both teams performed well in their first competitions of the new year. The girls finished in 8th place out of 16 teams and earned their first individual champion...
HAXTUN HIGH SCHOOL senior, Aly Lock, and her swim medley relay beat the 3A state qualifying time at Mountain View High School in Loveland on Dec. 10. Beating the State qualifying time qualified the relay for the Colorado State 3A Swimming and Diving Championships slated for Feb. 10-11. Qualifying medley relay team members are pictured (l-r), Addie Goldenstein, Summer Martin, Tayla Martin and Aly Lock....
Gertie Jo Lewis passed away Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022 at her home in Holyoke at the age of 95. Gertie was born December 31, 1926, in Daykin, Neb. to Emil H. and Elnora T. (Krueger) Fisbeck. The family moved from Nebraska to a farm southwest of Holyoke when Gertie was six weeks old. In 1930, then moved to Paoli where her family owned a filling station. She attended grade school there before graduating from Haxtun High School with the Class of 1944. After graduation, Gertie had various employment in H...
On Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022 Lonna Reed, loving wife and mother of two children, passed away at the age of 71. Lonna was born on May 31, 1951 in Haxtun to Merle Dean "Diz" and Cella (Thrasher) Garrett. She graduated Haxtun High School in 1969. On April 30, 1982 she married Kevin Reed, and moved to Alliance, Neb. They raised two sons, Jason (Jernigan) and Randy. After moving back to Haxtun in 1996, Kevin and Lonna moved a couple times more - Salina, Kan. and Bellevue, Neb. It was in Bellevue that Kevi...
