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Details of the 2023 Phillips County Fair are out and organizers are gearing up for a full-filled week July 25-30 at the fairgrounds in Holyoke. The local fair board recently announced that Haxtun's Phil and LaVonne Hart will be honored as Grand Marshals of this year's week-long event this summer. The theme for the Fair will be, "Red, White and Blue - Veterans We Honor You!" While the official schedule is still being finalized, the Fair board announced new events like a CPRA rodeo, a hypnotist,...
The Haxtun Board of Education accepted three letters of resignation in a Tuesday evening meeting last week, one of which came from Secondary Principal Dustin Seger. In addition to approving the three resignations, board members approved a Monday school day in April to make up for time lost in snow and late start days as well as approved the 2023-24 school calendar. Seger’s letter was the first of three approved by the local Board of Education on Tuesday, March 21. The second two came from High School English Teacher Tracy Kennedy and A...
The Haxtun American Legion Auxiliary is sponsoring a Patriotic Quilt contest to honor veterans and provide support to wounded military personal. Operation First Response needs Cot Quilts for backpacks to provide to the wounded when they arrive at the hospital with no personal belongings. Larger quilts are delivered to medical facilities in the States. Contest requirements: quilts must be entered a the Phillips County Fair at the Event Center on Wednesday, July 26 from 1-6 p.m.; sizes allowed include 45x45, 36x36 and 70x70; must be red, white...
BRAYLEN FEATHER, Fleming Wildcat senior, was selected to play in the 23rd annual The Show: Colorado Boys' and Girls' High School Basketball All-Star Games presented by Biokats Sports Network. Biokats Sports Network is a Denver-based recruiting network for high school athletes. The Show was started in 2001 by the Denver Nuggets to showcase the State's best boys and girls high school basketball players. In 2016, Biokats Sports Network took over this prestigious event. Feather was a member of the...
The Colorado State House spent the weekend working on a trio of gun bills, with approval largely along party-lines, although there were a few Democratic defections along the way. Majority Democrats also invoked a rarely used rule to limit debate, after two solid days of Republican filibusters on the bills. The first bill, Senate Bill 168, would allow victims of gun violence to sue firearms manufacturers and dealers for damages in civil court, under a claim of wrongful conduct. It would overturn a 2000 law that supporters of the bill claim is...
Haxtun senior Kristopher Hadeen signed a letter of intent with 21st Century Equipment on Friday afternoon in front of family, friends and school supporters. Hadeen plans to attend Southeast Community College in Milford, Neb. as part of the John Deere Ag Tech Program. John Deere partners with various colleges for the John Deere Ag Tech Program which allows students to graduate with an Associate of Applied Science degree while also completing a cooperative work experience at a sponsoring John...
You gotta be kidding? That is my standard response to all the suggestions floating around out there about how I should be spending my “Stay At Home” time. Seems everyone has an opinion and you know what they say about opinions. Pick up a newspaper, magazine or turn on the radio or television and someone will be expounding the virtues of how they are filling their stay at home hours. Go for walks, get a dog, do a complete makeover of your yard, take up sewing, baking, archery or learn to pla...
“Temperance, tolerance, and moderation” has been a catch phrase emerging from over three centuries of denominational DNA. Though unable to pinpoint the exact moment it was coined, the embodiment of its ideals is deeply engrained in low church theologies of Anabaptism and Pietism, both owing much to the Radical Reformation gaining a toe-hold in Western Europe. As literal ‘re-baptizers,’ Anabaptists and Pietists were often subjected to torture and sometimes death for practicing believe...
State Representative David Ortiz (D-Littleton) makes a compelling advocate for the rights and struggles of disabled Coloradans. “I lived 30 years as an able-bodied leg-walker, a five-minute-mile running, hard-charging combat aviator — until a crash in Afghanistan left me paralyzed from the waist down,” he told the House Judiciary Committee. He understandably views himself as the unofficial representative of the disabled community and fashions his legislative agenda with that constituency in mi...
13 Years Ago March 23, 1938 In honor of their 70th wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. McConnell, were given a surprise party last Wednesday, March 16, by their neighbors and friends. Guests: Mr. and Mrs. Claud Olson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Goddard, Mr. and Mrs. Dana Archbold, and Mr. and Mrs. Abner Dunbar. Closing a successful basketball season, the Dailey High School team won the Logan County Tournament, which took place in Sterling last weekend. The title gives Dailey...
The Haxtun Police Department re-registered a 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. As part of his sentencing, he is required to...
HAXTUN BULLDOG TRACK team 2023 is pictured front row, (l-r), Jayleigh Bullard, Tessa Gales, Josie Freeman, Addison Imhof, Faith Woodside, Annie Guiterrez, Kinsley Koberstein and Julia Freeman; second row (l-r), Bobbi Starkebaum, Cassidy Goddard, Emily Anderson, Fallon Bamford, Heily Avery, Halli Philp, Kaylene Modrel, Mikayli Benson, Lilly Lemesany and Zoe Kurtzer; third row (l-r), Kayti Williams, Hadley Feik, Josh Wright, Kyle Fryrear, Jack Feik, Kailin Kelley, Brandon Nall and Christopher...
HAXTUN BULLDOG BASEBALL 2023 team members are pictured front row (l-r), Isaac Wagoner, Kyle Fryrear, Coleman Firme, Aly Lock, Joseph Helfer, Trevon Thayer, Brandon Nall and Bret Kanode; second row (l-r), Avian Calderon, Gerry Buccelli, Tate Michael, Kaiden Schelling, Carter Lock, Kanin Koberstein, Braden Plumb, Gage Helgoth, Aiden Starkebaum and Chase Goddard; third row (l-r), Coach Trent Ham, Kash Workman, Michael Gerk, Ryland Wolff, Corbin Andersen, Seth Seger, Grant Statz, Zach Statz, Kyle...
FLEMING WILDCAT track team members for the 2023 season are pictured back row (l-r), Matix Haney, David Betley, Pierson Japp, Beau Ashburn, Ashley Bornhoft, Jared Betley and Christian Polly; middle row (l-r), Lincoln Castillo, Nolan Japp, Kally Kirkwood, Maddy Harms, Kale Volkman, Wyatt Northrup, MadiKay Serrato, Ciana Lousberg and Caid Welch; front row (l-r), Siena Donnelson, Lexi Schaefer, Maddy Zink, Emoree Lousberg and Aitana Tome Carrillo. The Wildcat track team is coached by Lisa...
Spring sports seasons are in full swing and the Haxtun Bulldog baseball team is off to a perfect, 4-0 start. The Bulldogs kicked off the 2023 season in Akron on Monday, March 20 where they picked up double-header wins over the Rams. Just four days later, the team returned to the field, this time in Holyoke where the Bulldogs added two additional notches to the win column in the record books. This year's team boasts a whopping 34 members under the direction of Head Coach Trent Ham and assistant...
Ellis Edward Schmidt passed away Friday, Dec. 30, 2022 at the age of 99. Ellis was born Sept. 25, 1923, in Sterling to Alfred E. Schmidt and Amelia (Luther) Schmidt and lived on the same farm south of Fleming for 89 years. He attended two rural one-room schools, Prairie View and Highway. He graduated from Sterling High School in 1941. He enrolled in the first class of Junior College of Northeastern Colorado in the fall of 1941. He attended the first year and fall quarter the second year. In...
