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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In anticipation of getting their celebrations underway, Fleming High School's Class of 2022 kept their commencement ceremony short and sweet, yet traditional. The 11-member class gathered in caps and gowns on Sunday, May 15 surrounded by a full gymnasium of family, friends and supporters for the hour-long event. Ushers Braylen Feather, Nolan Japp, Jaime Nab and Alaina Schliesser escorted the graduating class. Following the invocation given by Harry Harms, Class President Natali Boerner welcomed...
PRESCHOOLERS perform Letter Pop at Haxtun's Elementary School program "Movie, Music & More!" on Tuesday evening, May 10. Pictured above (l-r) are Micah Benson, Cayson Bellendir, Waylyn Harris and Oliver Ensminger. The preschool class performed first, followed by elementary students and then a performance from the junior high and high school music department....
The Poppy Lady The red poppy, or Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of lives lost to war since World War I, 1914-1918. Just how did the red poppy come to be such an important symbol that many of us wear on Poppy Day and Memorial Day. It all started with a poem. In 1915, Lieutenant Colonel John McRae, a Canadian surgeon, saw bright red poppies blooming on the fields where so many soldiers had lost their lives and was inspired to write the poem, “In Flanders Fields.” Moina Michael, who took a leave of absence from her teaching career to sere ov...
The 2022 General Assembly session came to its constitutionally mandated conclusion shortly before midnight Wednesday, May 11, bringing forward 657 bills during its 120 days. What remained on lawmakers’ agendas until the very last day included bills on collective bargaining for county workers, the school finance act and a bill on hospital visitation. The collective bargaining bill, Senate Bill 230, was already watered down by the Senate, exempting counties of less than 5,000 population (which included Phillips and Sedgwick) and allowing c...
Did you ever get the feeling you’ve wasted your life? Maybe you should have gone into another line of work? Everyone else seems to have done better with their life than you? No? Well, me neither. Most of the time. Normally I’m pretty content with my life. I get to talk to about three million people on the radio every week day morning and write these columns. My wife and I have put together a nice little ranch with a decent house, plenty of grass and some good cows and horses to look at. Truth is...
What a curious thing among collectors, the tendency to value imperfection, error, and mistake over perfection. This is especially true of those who collect postage stamps, currency, and coinage. A much higher value is found in those few items among the millions of others that are the exception to the rule, the abnormal, the unique. With postage stamps, errors are of three general categories: misprints, misperfs and non-perfs. Misprints are just that, printing efforts that fall short, are...
By this time next week, only a handful of titles will remain to be awarded in the 2021-22 athletic calendar. Hardware will find its way home this week for Class 1A baseball as well as all five classifications in track and field. Only one of the five district champions in 1A baseball made it into the state semifinals, as upsets were the order of business over the weekend. Second-seeded Cheyenne Wells fell to Haxtun on Friday in one of the regional finals, 3-2. The Tigers had won their opener...
13 Years Ago May 19, 1937 Seniors to graduate Thursday from Haxtun: Kenneth Boeve, Victor Crossland, Verne Conquist, William Des Voigne, Rex Edwards, Lowell Heiny, Milton Hill, Clinton Jeffers, Clyde Jeffers, LeRoy Lingle, Laurence Lucke, Virgil Miller, Lloyd Rambow, Frank Radford, John Rhodes, Robert Schachterle, Gilbert Seger, Floy Ahnstedt, Marian Barkey, Alice Crossland, Sylvia Fuesz, Irma Lee Hair, Coral Hart, Avalee Henry, Mildred Hill, Hazel Hunt, Opal James, Carie Mae Jessen, Eloise...
As the 2021-22 school year winds down, Haxtun High School honored students with an awards ceremony last week. Below is a list of academic awards handed out by faculty and staff: Isaac Andersen: Perfect Attendance, Mr. HHS, Principal's Honor Roll, The Neuron Award. Emily Anderson: Certificate of Achievements in World Studies, Superintendent's Honor Roll, Outstanding Algebra 1, Letterman Chenille. David Avery: Principal's Honor Roll. Fallon Bamford: Certificate of Achievement in World History....
Charisse "Chari" Marie Lambert passed away Tuesday, May 10, 2022 in Fleming at the age of 65. Chari was born on Aug. 20, 1956 in Greeley to Ruby Hanson. She went to Greeley Elementary and graduated from Portland High School in Texas. She also attended some college at Texas A&M University. She was a Teacher in Mathis, Texas and in the Fleming Special Education Department. Chari married Russell Lambert in Fleming on June 4, 2005. She enjoyed interior design and camping and especially her children...
The Haxtun Bulldogs are Regional Champions and in the 1A State Baseball Final Four following nailbiter wins over top 10 teams last week. The Bulldogs traveled south to Cheyenne Wells to face off with #10 ranked Stratton and the second seeded home team in Regional action. One-run wins over the Stratton Eagles and Cheyenne Wells Tigers gave Haxtun the Regional Title and one of four spots in the Championship finals slated for this week in Lakewood. Haxtun entered the 16-team 1A Regional/State... Full story
The final meets of the season are over and the Haxtun track team is headed to State! Several relay teams and a handful of both girl and boy participants qualified for individual events. State track will be later this week at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood. For a complete list of those who qualified for the Colorado State Track Meet, see inside this week's edition of the Herald. Last week, Haxtun tracksters participated in three events, including the Tom Meyer Invite in Akron, The St....
For their final meet before the 1A State Track Meet slated for end of this week, the Fleming Wildcat track team traveled to Limon last Saturday to compete in the 1A Invitational. The girls' team finished in second place out of 29 teams competing with 60 total points. In addition to their second place finish, the Lady Wildcats broke four 1A Track Meet records and two school records. Top-10 placers from the 1A Track Invitational are as follows: Girls 100-meter dash: Zoey Vandenbark, first, 13.21...
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