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HAXTUN first grader Evan Atchison pets a kid at the FFA petting zoo last week as member Dylan Buccelli holds the young goat in the Ag Shop. Each year the local Chapter hosts the petting zoo in conjunction with National FFA Week. Once students were finished learning about animals at the Ag Shop, they took the FFA's grain train back to the school building....
Haxtun Health has a number of building projects in the works, all of which were highlighted in the Chief Executive Officer report at a Board of Directors meeting last week. CEO Dewane Pace announced the receipt of a grant from the Department of Local Affairs to upgrade infrastructure. He also gave updates on construction progress in the main street project and Fleming Clinic remodel during a Feb. 22 meeting. Pace told board members that Haxtun Health recently applied for and received funding from the DOLA to complete a significant...
With just a few months remaining in the 2020-21 year, Frenchman Board of Education members and administration are looking ahead to the next. During a recent meeting, board members voted to lengthen the school day by nine minutes next year while approving the District calendar for the 2021-22 school year. Next year, Fleming students will start school at 7:55 a.m. and dismiss at 3:50 p.m. “By adding nine minutes to each day, we were able to subtract three school days in the year,” Fleming Superintendent Steve McCracken said. Currently, Fle...
Kellogg-Ewing-Leavitt Insurance Agency recently announced they have merged with CIA-Leavitt Insurance. Both agencies are Leavitt Group partners and are part of a network of insurance brokers whose collective strength allows members to provide national resources to their clients. “We are excited to join with CIA-Leavitt,” said Doug Stumpf, Kellogg-Ewing-Leavitt Co-Owner. “Our team now has extended resources to design insurance plans that support the objectives of our clients’ businesses. We will continue to provide superb client service, local o...
Craig Tori, employee of Nebraska Safety and Fire Equipment, Inc., recently passed the NAFED Kitchen Fire Extinguishing System exams. By passing this exam Tori has demonstrated superior knowledge of hazards inherent in different occupancies and the ability to apply codes, understand regulations, manufacture requirements and standards regarding kitchen hood systems. Nebraska Safety and Fire Equipment, Inc. has over 30 employees serving clients in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and South Dakota. The company provides and installs fire alarm,...
Northeast Colorado Health Department added a new county-level vaccine data dashboard to the current website including information on the current vaccine phase, doses administered, age and race/ethnicity. Data is updated daily, Monday through Friday by 10 a.m. This data includes vaccinations reported through the previous day for Northeast Colorado residents, regardless of the county the vaccine was administered. Numbers may differ from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's...
Senator Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, has an early victory in the resumed 2021 legislative session, with a bill on allowing consumers to buy a share of a livestock animal for meat directly from a producer. Senate Bill 79 won unanimous approval from a Senate committee on Feb. 22 and a 34-0 vote from the full Senate on March 1. It now heads to the House. The bill was reviewed by the Senate Health & Human Services Committee and applies to cows, sheep and hogs. An amendment offered on Feb. 22 added bison and goats. The bill excludes fish and...
Haxtun Health has now launched Telehealth appointments for the community. As of March 1, patients can now utilize this appointment service for many healthcare needs from the comfort of their home or if they are on-the-go and don’t have time to come in. These appointments are perfect for things like follow up appointments or prescription refills. The platform is also extremely simple and easy for patients to use. When an appointment is scheduled, the patient will receive a text message link for their appointment. It’s really as simple as cli...
DANA CHINTALA, pictured above with daughters Megan Chintala and Whitney Chintala and wife Lisa Chintala, was recognized in a brief ceremony on Saturday during the Fleming versus Sedgwick County basketball games for his contributions as a basketball official. Official Kevin Fergus presented Chintala with the National High School Officials Association Outstanding Contributions plaque that evening. Chintala has served has served as a high school official for 26 years. During his presentation,...
My vet mentioned recently that I had never written about him. That does put him in a rather exclusive group. Over the years when I have needed a break from reporting on my own embarrassing moments, I mixed in a few from folks around me. Some were not too happy about it, either. When he said that to me, there seemed to be no regret in his voice. In fact, I got the impression his observation was part of the answer to my question whether he could stop by to look at a four-legged patient needing...
Some weeks there are certain phrases or words that pop up unbidden but that are nevertheless welcome. During the recent cold snap, “gratitude” tended to rise above the flurry of other words, in part because the weather was dangerous and problematic, even in mostly benign settings. Gratitude was expressed for pipes unfrozen, animals protected, electricity and furnaces that provided warmth and heat. Food on the table, coats in every closet, and cell communication in case things got rough were all...
Wrestling's regular season has wrapped up and teams are awaiting Thursday's regional bracket release. With the change to eight-person brackets for State, extra pressure will be upon the wrestlers at this weekend's regionals. Only the top two in each weight class will advance from each region for the boys and four from each of the girls' regions. There will also be no consolation bracket until the quarterfinals this weekend. Lamar's girls dropped a dual to Eaglecrest (42-12), but the Savages won...
Plant Select Plants are excellent for being able to tolerate drought, extreme climate changes and insect and disease issues. There are a variety that are hardy for our area. These listed below are the new introductions that underwent seven seasons in a trial before being released to the public as good choices. SteppeSuns® Hokubetsi, Helichrysum trilineatum “P021S” is a shrub that grows in the Maloti mountain range of southern Africa. It is a shrub that forms a rounded, dense, silver shrub with clusters of bright yellow strawflowers. Fuzzy stem...
I recently saw the profile and picture of the new officer with the Haxtun Police Department. A young fellow in his first police gig. I had to dig into my scrapbook to find the newspaper profile from 47 years ago of a 21-year-old me in a small burg with badge 001. There was no 002. In the photo it’s obvious my armament is a Smith & Wesson revolver with 12 spare cartridges in loops on the gun belt. Today’s Glock guys with three spare mags might laugh, but there was a reloading technique where you could get six out the belt and into the gun alm...
13 Years Ago March 4, 1936 Andrew Krueger, age 10, of Amherst, passed away at the McKnight hospital in Haxtun Friday night following an operation for a ruptured appendix. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Krueger. In addition to his parents, Andrew is survived by four brothers and five sisters. The Dailey basketball team annexed a championship last week by emerging victor of the Logan County tournament at Sterling. Two of the Dailey players were named on the all tournament team, bringing...
Barbara Fix Barbara Ann Fix passed away on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 at the Haxtun Health Extended Care Unit at the age of 82. She was born on May 30, 1938 to Glenn T. and Irene (McCoy) Hendon in Greeley. Celebration of life arrangements are pending. Baucke Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements....
With a 1-1 finish in the second to last week of regular season basketball action the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs hold a 7-5 overall record and stand 5-3 in league play. The Lady Bulldogs have one final game remaining on the regular season schedule before advancing to post-season play. Over the past week, Haxtun faced off with the top-ranked 2A Holyoke Lady Dragons and the Wiggins Lady Tigers, both on the road. The Lady Bulldogs fell to Holyoke but bounced back for a win in Wiggins to go 1-1 on the...
The Haxtun Bulldogs ended the week 1-1 with a win over the Dragons in Holyoke on Tuesday and loss to Wiggins on the road Friday. The team is set to take on Sedgwick County this week before moving onto post-season play. As of press time, the Bulldog team holds an 8-4 record. Haxtun traveled to Otis Tuesday evening for a 1A match up with the 2-10 Bulldogs. Watch next week's edition of the Herald for results of the Bulldog showdown in Otis. In last week's Phillips County showdown, the Bulldogs...
The Sedgwick County/Fleming wrestlers have taken a couple weeks off from competition to get ready for the Region 3 Regional Tournament to be held in Akron March 5 and 6. On March 5, the 106-145 pound wrestlers will compete and then on March 6 the 152-285 pound wrestlers will compete. This year only the top two in each weight division will advance to the State Wrestling Tournament to be held in Pueblo at the Southwest Motors Events Center located on the Colorado State Fairgrounds on March 12. In...
Fleming's Lady Wildcats dominated on the basketball court over the past week with a 50-point win over Stratton/Liberty and a huge victory over the then 11-1 Lady Cougars out of Sedgwick County. The week opened on Friday night when the Lady Wildcats hosted the Lady Knighted Eagles from Stratton/Liberty. The Lady Knighted Eagles entered the contest at 5-6 on the season. Fleming opened solid putting up 30 points in the first quarter while holding their opponent to zero. The advantage allowed for...
The Fleming Wildcats went 1-1 over the past week in back-to-back home contests. The Wildcats defeated the Stratton/Liberty Knighted Eagles on Friday before falling to the 2A Sedgwick County Cougars on Saturday. The win and loss put the Wildcats at 5-5 overall on the season; they remain at 2-2 in the North Central league. The Wildcats jumped to an early six-point lead in the opening quarter on Friday night against the Knighted Eagles, 20-14. They expanded that advantage by another eight points...
