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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The Haxtun Health Board of Directors is down to four. Pastor Jeri Soens resigned from the board earlier this month, leaving the board of directors down a member. The news comes following a discussion a month earlier regarding the possibility of increasing the board’s membership from five to seven due to an increase in interest from the community. The April 24 meeting opened with an invocation from Chief Community Relations Officer Julia Biesemeier and approval of the agenda. At the start, during open forum, board members heard from community me...
Fleming kindergartners Harper Muller, left, and Jimmie Herring perform during Fleming's annual spring program. This year's presentation dubbed "Rainbow Connection" featured songs about rainbows, songs about colors and a skit written by local Grace Rossignol....
Property owners in Colorado can expect tremendous valuation increases when they receive their 2023 Notice of Valuation on or about May 1, including Phillips County. If you have not been following the local real estate market, it might be a shocking number. Over the past two years, a strong demand for real estate, increased building material costs, historically low mortgage rates, a steady migration from larger cities into Eastern Colorado and families upgrading to larger homes, have all contributed to these historic valuation increases. We...
The Colorado General Assembly is in its final days of the 2023 session, with adjournment to take place no later than midnight, Monday, May 8. Lawmakers have at least 200 bills to complete in the final week, including the Governor’s housing plan as contained in Senate Bill 213. The bill was gutted last week to remove most, but not all, of its language that stripped local governments’ control on zoning and other housing issues and ceding it to the State. As it exists this week, the measure now has to head over to the House, where progressive Dem...
Velda Lee Barlow passed away on April 28, 2023 in Sterling at the age of 81. Velda was born in Sterling on Aug. 5, 1941. A celebration of life is planned for Aug. 5, 2023....
When judging the success of churches, there continues to be a tendency to fall back on numbers. Attendees, members, baptisms, baby dedications, weddings and souls declared and delivered for Christ are all indicators of the value of the work that is being done. The more the merrier. Reality, however, sheds a different light on the work we think has been done. A glance backward in my own Western Plains district (comprised of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and northern New Mexico) provides interesting...
When cell phones hit the world, Sue and I were among the first to buy in. At the time we were living pretty complicated lives. All at the same time, we were traveling down the rodeo road and producing our new radio programs, all the while trying to keep track of four kids, too old to want to tag along with us and too young to trust all the decisions they might be making in our absence. Being able to travel with a phone you could use from anywhere was great. Not sure the kids would agree. Proof...
Wheat situation Colorado State University agronomists visited wheat testing trials in mid-April. Visited sites began at Walsh and continued north to sites near Lamar, Burlington, Prospect Valley, Sterling, Haxtun and Julesburg. Wheat trials south of I-70 are experiencing severe drought. Wheat stands are poor and yield potential is low. Disease observations found no virus (wheat streak mosaic or barley yellow dwarf) or stripe rust activity. Insect issues found were brown wheat mite, but populations were below economic treatment threshholds....
13 Years Ago April 27, 1938 A variety of weather, including rain, wind and dust storms, was experienced in the Haxtun region this week, with two to seven inches of moisture falling. During the wind storm here, Tuesday evening, a tornado struck a schoolhouse near Oshkosh, Neb., killing three children and injuring two others. Billy, Leroy Hielscher, infant son of Mr. and Mrs., William Hielscher, passed away at the home of his parents four miles southwest of Haxtun last Sunday. He was four months...
Tuesday morning started out like any other at Fleming High School; students filed in to their classrooms, slowly found their seats and teachers began the day's lessons. It was like any other day ... until the Grim Reaper entered a classroom, tapped its first victim on the shoulder and removed a student from class. The exit followed with a reading of the students obituary and from then on, it was no longer just a normal day. A partnership with the Colorado State Patrol and the Logan County Sherif...
The second annual Haxtun Relays at Holyoke High School took place Friday afternoon, April 28. Haxtun began hosting the relays on Holyoke's qualifying all-weather track last year under the direction of Head Coach Jared Anderson. Sophomore Jayleigh Bullard broke the Haxtun High School record in the high jump at the Haxtun Relays. Bullard jumped five feet, two inches taking first place in the event. That jump broke the record of five feet set by Kelly Carper in 1983. Haxtun tracksters top-10...
It's playoff time and with two wins to round out the regular season schedule, the Haxtun Bulldogs enter the 1A District 5 bracket as the number one seed with a 17-1 overall record. The team went 8-1 in league and holds the number one spot in State 1A rankings. The Bulldogs hosted Caliche on Saturday in the final regular season contest. Haxtun pulled away with two hugs wins, 15-0 in game one, and 12-1 in game two. The sweep over the Buffs gives Haxtun a six-game winnings streak as the Bulldogs...
The Fleming Wildcats competed at the Tom Meyer Invitational Track Meet in Akron on Saturday, April 29. Those finishing among the top-10 are as follows: Girls 100-meter dash: Kally Kirkwood, third, 13.06. 200-meter dash: Kirkwood, first, 26.43. 400-meter dash: Kirkwood, first, 1:04.15. 1,600-meter run: Emoree Lousberg, sixth, 6:51.10. Four-by-100-meter relay: Team of Lexi Schaefer, Brooke Schaefer, Maddy Zink and Siena Donnelson, third, 58.91. Four-by-200-meter relay: Team of Lexi Schaefer,...
