What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
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As news of the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, local schools, event organizers, churches and medical facilities plan and prepare. Late Monday night, March 16, Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke announced that multiple individuals have been tested for the coronavirus after triggering a screening that meets the criteria for a possible positive case in Phillips County. The cases have been sent to the State for testing. "Public health officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environm...
Jessie Stewart fills a new role as Phillips County 4-H Agent with Colorado State University Extension. Stewart, who lives in Haxtun, started her new position on March 6, one that was left open in August 2019 when then 4-H Agent Kindra Plumb announced her resignation. Stewart, who is originally from Johnstown, is nearing her one-year anniversary of moving to Haxtun, when she then took a crop specialist job with ServiTech. While in high school, Stewart showed goats and pigs through her local FFA...
The American Farmer has long been viewed, and rightfully so, as the backbone of our nation's economy and leading provider of the breadbasket for the world. As they strive to meet the growing demand for corn to satisfy increasing world need, one area grower has been honored through the 2019 National Corn Yield Contest. The national contest, sponsored annually by the National Corn Growers Association, recognizes farmers from across the country for their efforts and exceptional results. Kyle McConn...
Together, the Haxtun and Holyoke chambers of commerce are teaming up to help food banks in Phillips County. The local chambers are partnering to help with efforts to restock the four Phillips County Food Banks, one of which includes the Haxtun Community Food Basket. Together, the two chambers of commerce plan to facility a county-wide food drive that will begin next Monday and continue through April 8 with distribution set for Easter and the summer months. More than a dozen businesses in Haxtun and Holyoke plan to have collection boxes at...
The Colorado General Assembly, after a wild week of news conferences and concerns over the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, aka COVID-19, has closed its doors for the next two weeks to protect public health. Lawmakers are tentatively scheduled to return on Monday, March 30, but legislative leaders have said that pausing of the 2020 session could be extended if public health requires it. The best way to keep the public safe is for lawmakers to not be there, eliminating the need for people to come to the building, according to Senate Minority...
A friend of mine runs a pretty fair sized company for our neck of the woods. The company is old, the friend is relatively young. The mix is interesting. There are good features to a company being around a long time. If they’ve been in business that long, it must be a pretty sound outfit providing a necessary service. There also are disadvantages to a company being around since dirt was invented. The company can start to take their customers for granted. That’s probably why they hired my you...
Frozen in place Frozen in place is one apt metaphor for where many of the world’s countries find themselves as the COVID-19 virus continues its journey through the human race. In disappointing, though not unexpected fashion, a few entrepreneurs have seized the opportunity to make money by leveraging fear of the unknown. Fortunately, they are the exception and not the norm. In contrast, heroic efforts are playing out on a daily basis as neighbors and communities discover there is strength in b...
You can always tell when the first of the year rolls around in the cattle business. This is the time of year when your mailbox fills with bull sale flyers, catalogs and every newspaper or cattle twice as heavy from advertisements. These ads feature calving ease bulls, bulls to improve your weaning weights, bulls with superior carcass traits, maternal bulls and the list goes on. We also can expect to see indices with expected progeny difference for every trait you can imagine. Buyers should be able to get a bull purchased, but there are some...
13 years ago March 13, 1935 The Haxtun Harvest Miss Eleanor L. Sand, senior at the state teachers' college at Greeley was recently initiated in the Phil Alpha theta honorary history fraternity. Miss Sand was one of three new members to be initiated. Miss Effie McIntyre, daughter of Mrs. Pearl McIntyre of Dailey, and Dale Kennedy of Fleming, were married on Sunday, March 3, in the parsonage of the Grace Methodist Church in that city. Following a short honeymoon in Denver, the young couple will...
Participants and attendees of last week’s Colorado State Basketball Tournament were part of history in the making, but not for the traditional and expected reasons. Pandemonium caused by recent developments with the COVID-19 outbreak forced several last-minute changes determined by the Colorado High School Activities Association in the Tournament’s format and ultimately resulted in a complete cancellation following round one on Thursday. Ruling by CHSAA late Wednesday evening was made to limit the number of attendees who would be allowed to...
