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What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
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On Monday, Jan. 30, Holyoke Schools hosted the 16th annual Honor Band. Haxtun students who participated are pictured above (l-r), Bryden Woodside, Gabriel Becerra Acosta, Michael Knox, Lillian Garrison and Anika Wright. Not pictured is Mollie Wernsman. More than 140 students were selected from 14 area schools through an audition process and band director recommendations. Guest clinician for the 69 member high school band was Dave Williams from Manitou Springs High School. Risa Lamorie served as...
Against the odds of another winter storm, Haxtun Health carried on with their free to the community Annual Girls' Night Out Event on Saturday, Jan. 28. The evening, known for its lighthearted focus on women's health, dinner, chocolate and a little wine, was a success despite the weather conditions. Highlighting the evening was Haxtun Health's celebration of women's health by honoring the 2023 class of Wellness for Women award nominees: Megan Wolff, Dottie Oman and Stephanie Starkebaum. The...
Julie Thayer’s January court appearance was brief. The 42-year-old Haxtun resident appeared in Phillips County District Court for a second time on charges of identity theft, forgery and criminal impersonation. And for the second time, the case has been set over for a hearing on advisement for another 30 days. In December, Thayer announced her intent to apply for assistance with the public defender’s office. Since then, Thayer applied for a court-appointed attorney, however, at her January court date it was announced that she does not qua...
Phillips County, along with the Division of Fire Prevention and Control, is attempting to utilize the Holyoke airport as a water refill station for Single Engine Air Tankers in the event of a large fire requiring State assistance. In order to accomplish this, volunteers are needed to attend a half day training and be willing to be contacted in the event the State is providing aircraft to assist with a local fire. Volunteers would be asked to respond to the airport and assist with filling aircraft with water. The SEAT reload training is...
A Caring Pregnancy Resource Center of Northeast Colorado held the organization’s annual fundraising banquets on four consecutive evenings with four locations in Sterling, Holyoke, Yuma and Brush, Jan. 27-30. This year’s banquet theme “Planting Seeds of Growth” featured speaker Amy Ford, Co-founder and president of Embrace Grace ministries, an international non-profit that has trained and equipped over 950 churches in all 50 states and multiple countries to open their doors and hearts to women with unexpected pregnancies. “The pregnancy center s...
The looming crisis on the Colorado River, which supplies water to seven states and feeds the billion-dollar agricultural industries in California, Arizona and Colorado, is prompting Colorado lawmakers to ramp up their attention to water issues. That includes converting what was once an interim committee that met only a few times a year to look at a limited number of issues to become year-round. Under Senate Bill 10, sponsored by Senators Jeff Bridges, D-Greenwood Village, and Cleave Simpson, R-Alamosa, the interim water resources and...
Most persons have experienced the participatory sport known as busting drifts, if not this year, then certainly in seasons past. Anyone is eligible for the sport if they have enough courage and the right vehicle. The sport is at its edgiest when the outcome is in the hands of drivers who apply a variety of maneuvers to achieve the goal of not becoming snowbound at the side of the road. Variables include speed, lighting, wind velocity, visibility, base conditions, vehicle clearance, temperature...
If you have spent the past three months stranded half way between Jeffry City and Mayoworth, Wyo., you probably haven’t heard about stimulus dollars flowing into just about every citizen’s bank account. I’m not going to try and explain it all. Just ask around and you will get an earful about this. I can, however, point out that these programs grew from aid to individual citizens to businesses, large and small with one exception. At first ag enterprises were not included. Later that was chang...
13 Years Ago Feb. 2, 1938 Included in the cast of the annual junior class play Rex Mooney, Everett McConnell, Jeane Beckman, Georgibelle Smith, Mary Clark, Junior Meakins, Phyllis Anderson, Reinder Deburh and Jean Young. "Broadway Bound" is the name of the play set for Thursday night of next week at the Rialto Theater. Sub-zero weather visited Haxtun for a brief spell this week, but the storm was of short duration. The cold spell was discomforting to residence of this community, especially so...
Haxtun Schools recently released the list of honor roll students for the first semester. Those on the Superintendent’s Honor roll achieved a grade point average of 4.0. Principal’s Honor Roll includes students with grade point averages of 3.5 to 3.9. Below is a list of all Honor Roll students: Superintendent’s Seventh grade: Bella Andrades, Paige Oliver, Eli Horton, Leah Edwards and Jayce Boerner. Eighth grade: McKynleigh Payne, Anika Wright, Jinjer Stroyek, Blake Michael, Emma Lemesany, Lexi Imhof, Luke Gales and Paige Firme. Ninth grade...
The Haxtun FBLA Chapter had a successful day at the District Leadership Conference held at Northeastern Junior College last week. Students spent the day competing in live presentations or participating in workshops put on by local students. This year, 58 students attended the conference. The following are the results of the objective tests and the live presentations. Advertising: Tyler Mavis*, sixth place, Trent Wernsman; Jake tori, seventh place. Agribusiness: Brock Miller*, first place....
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs notched a huge league win over Caliche at home Friday night. The win gives the team seven total on the season as the final few weeks of regular season play winds down. In the next few weeks, Haxtun is set to face Akron and Merino, both league match ups, before post season play is set to start. For the second time this season, the Lady Bulldogs matched up with the Lady Buffs from Caliche on the hardwood. This time was much different than the first as Haxtun came out on fi...
Three games remain on the Haxtun Bulldog's regular season schedule and these last few weeks are big ones when it comes to match ups. Head Coach Jayden Stieb says his team is working to fix the small things in order to play sound basketball as the team prepares to face Merino, Peetz and Akron before the post-season begins. Over the past week, the Bulldogs stayed home in back-to-back contests in Haxtun last week. Haxtun notched a win over Caliche on Friday but fell to a tough Wray team on Saturday...
Despite going 2-1 in last week’s basketball action, the Fleming Wildcats have dropped from number seven in Colorado High School Activities rankings to number nine. The Wildcats took wins over Akron and Weldon Valley, but fell to Genoa-Hugo who previously held the number eight spot. The week’s play opened on Tuesday, Jan. 31, with a home contest against unranked Akron. Fleming held a two-point advantage after the first quarter, but Akron gained control in the second to hold a four-point, 26-22, lead at the half. The Wildcats chipped two points o...
After going 2-1 last week with wins over Weldon Valley and Genoa-Hugo, the Fleming Lady Wildcats prepare to meet the top-ranked Flatirons Academy Lady Bison this week. Fleming fell to 2A's Akron Lady Rams to open the week. They kept pace throughout the game and out scored the Lady Rams by five in the third, but fell short by three overall, 41-38. Senior Lexi Schaefer led her team in scoring with 11 points in the game. She hit three shots from outside the three-point arc. Seniors Maddy Harms and...
The Sedgwick County/Fleming wrestlers completed in their final week of the regular season traveling to Greeley where the boys dualed Dayspring Christian and the girls dualed Greeley West on Friday, Feb. 3. The boys’ team lost their dual by a score of 42-30, but did give up 24 points to open weights on the night. The girls won their three-women dual 12-6. Winning matches for SCF were 126-pound Scotty Engle, 157-pound Bryan Van Houten Bagby, 165 lb. Grant Statz, and 175-pound Ryan Davis. All four of these wrestlers won by fall. Gage Helgoth w...
Helen Elaine (Hebbel) Gibbs passed away peacefully in her rural farmhouse outside Haxtun, as she wished, with her daughters by her side on Jan. 29, 2023 at the age of 88. Helen was born to Heinrich (Henry) Wilhelm and Ethel Flossie (Skinner) Hebbel in Peetz on Dec. 5, 1934. Helen's childhood was full of adventure growing up at the foot of Lewis Canyons. She fearlessly explored every nook and cranny of the canyons on horseback often taking a lunch and staying all day. She had many pets including...
