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COLTON COCHRAN took first place honors in the Fleming Spelling Bee last week. Local winners advance to the Regional Bee slated for next week in Haxtun. Colton, an eighth grader, is the son of Shawn and Jeannine Cochran, Fleming, and Elly Lambertson, Holyoke....
New hires, refinancing a loan and changes to salary schedules all topped action items on the Haxtun Board of Education agenda in a recent January meeting. Board members approved refinancing a loan taken out for upgrades to the HVAC system. Refinancing is expected to save the district over $20,000. According to information provided at the meeting from Superintendent Marsha Cody, the original balance of the loan with All American Finance was $1,515,463 with an interest rate of 4.02 percent. Cody said loan officers for All American Finance...
February brings changes to the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce as former Director Jenn Oberle leaves her position and Interim Director Kelcie Yockey steps in. Oberle, who served as director for three years, resigned from her position as she and her family plan to relocate to Hawaii. Yockey assumed the interim director position on Feb. 1 and plans to steer the Chamber as the organization gears up for the annual membership drive and annual banquet. She plans to also continue to host monthly meetings...
Haxtun Health welcomed a new member to the Board of Directors. Rebecca Ensminger took an oath of office to serve on the local hospital district board in a meeting in late January. Ensminger’s addition fills the one vacant position on the board, bringing the board to full membership. Others serving the local hospital in a volunteer capacity as board members include Kent Bamford, Chair, Rod Salvador, Vice Chairman, Jeff Firme, Secretary/Treasurer, and Pastor Jeri Soens. “This is a great Board, Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace said fol...
It will be a busy week ahead for the lawmakers from northeastern Colorado, with the first full week of committee hearings, including four bills sponsored by Senator Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, and Representative Rod Pelton, R-Cheyenne Wells. But whether all four would make it out of their assigned committees is debatable, given where those bills have been assigned. The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee reviewed two of Sonnenberg’s bills on Tuesday, Feb. 1. (As of press time, the bills had not gone through the committee h...
THIS BALD EAGLE was spotted a mile east of Haxtun, perched high up on a branch looking west towards town last week. According to numbers from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, there are nearly 200 bald eagle nests in Colorado as of 2020....
Today’s column deals with the fun-packed, exciting life of living on a ranch. Other ranchers reading this are at this moment thinking, “This is going to be a very short story.” Fact of the matter is, they are right. Busy? Yes. Free Time? None. Fun-packed and exciting? Not so much. Don’t get me wrong. We and most other of those folks who dedicate their lives to a cow’s welfare wouldn’t trade places with hardly anyone. Fun and exciting? Very little time for that. The lifestyle keeps us tired, o...
Religious art comes to us in many shapes, sizes, forms and media. Aside from the liturgical holidays of Christmas and Holy Week, one of the most often art-adapted scripture can be found in John 4:5-42. It is the familiar story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, a sacred writing that brings both the woman and Jesus into unlikely conversation with one another. It is often depicted in ways that place Jesus clearly in charge of the chance meeting. Various works underscore the power...
The regular season of the winter campaign is rapidly coming to a close and the performances just keep getting more impressive. The focus of this week's update is those outstanding outings. Last Saturday gave us a match-up of #1 vs #2 in Class 1A girls, as Briggsdale hosted Fleming. The top-ranked Falcons stamped themselves as favorites for the state title with a 58-36 win, that also gave them the North Central League title. The loss was the first for Fleming, who closes out the regular season...
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 1800s 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 cropping...
13 Years Ago Feb. 3, 1937 A chick hatchery will be located at Haxtun during the coming months, it was announced by C.H. Whomble, owner of the General Electric hatcheries in northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska. Mr. Whomble is seeking several good flocks of hens to supply hatching eggs. The hatchery will be located in the Suhl building east of the Suhl garage. Mrs. Leonard Sharpe entertained a number of young people last Sunday afternoon in honor of her son Keith, who was celebrating...
For the second time this season the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs picked up a win over the Caliche Lady Buffaloes. This time, Haxtun earned the win on the road at the home of the Lady Buffs. The win puts the team at 5-8 overall with just a handful of games left on the regular schedule. The Lady Bulldogs traveled to Caliche High School where they kicked things off with an 18-5 lead after the first quarter of play. Defensively, Haxtun held the Lady Buffs to single digits, just eight points in the second...
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...
The Fleming Wildcats dropped to 5-8 overall after suffering to close losses on the road last week. The Wildcats fell by five at Akron last Thursday and by just one against a highly ranked Briggsdale team. Fleming came out on top in the opening quarter of Thursday's game at Akron jumping to a seven-point lead, 20-13. The Ram defense took over in the second quarter and held Fleming to just two points while the offense tacked on 15 to take a six-point advantage. Akron held a 28-22 lead at...
The Fleming Lady Wildcats dropped their first contest of the 14-game season last week at the home of the top-ranked Briggsdale Lady Falcons. The Lady Wildcats also dropped a spot in the Colorado High School Activities Association rankings putting them in the number three spot behind Briggdale and Flatirons Academy - a team they'll meet in the coming weeks. The Lady Wildcats opened with smooth victory, 48-26, over the Akron Lady Rams to open the week on Thursday. Saturday's contest at Briggsdale...
The Sedgwick County-Fleming wrestlers recently hit the road for two days of competition last week. They traveled to Curtis, Neb. to compete in the Medicine Valley Invitational on Jan. 28 where they finished in third place out of 14 teams. They then traveled to Stratton to compete in the Stratton Invitational on Jan. 29 where they finished in second place out of 15 teams. Results for wrestlers competing out of Haxtun and Fleming from the Medicine Valley Invitational are as follows: Kaiden...
Beverly Ann (Cranwell) Struckmeyer passed away Jan. 21, 2022 after a lengthy battle with illness. Bev was born Nov. 9, 1944 in Imperial, Neb. She was the third child of Kenny and Margie Covert Cranwell. She was raised a half mile north of Lamar, Neb., and lived beside the Miner family, who were lifelong friends. Bev attended school in Lamar, Imperial and in Holyoke for one year, graduating from Imperial High School. While attending high school in Holyoke, she met the love of her life, Lee Struck...
Tsugio Yoshimoto passed away Jan. 26, 2022 at the Sedgwick County Nursing Home in Julesburg at the age of 97. Tugo was born June 16, 1924, at Sedgwick to Hideichi and Hide (Toyota) Yoshimoto. He graduated from Ovid High School. Tugo’s family farmed north of Sedgwick for many years. He was one of the last farmers in the county to employ a team of horses for his farming operations. He was proud of his farm and was honored when his beet crop was named one of the “High Ten” for Great Western Sugar. In 1949, Tugo married Elsie Sato at the Sedgw...
