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FLEMING PRESCHOOLERS registered and received their new library cards at the conclusion of the school year in late May. Preschoolers in the afternoon class are pictured with their cards, front row (l-r), Ashdon Nielsen, Kye Scherf, Claire Overturf and Lexi Castillo; back row (l-r), Teacher Hailey Ruff, Wesley Robbins, Katarina Krieger, Calla Hoppe, Jaxson Einspahr, Harrison Cochran and Aide Alex Bandy....
House Bill 20-1349, also known as The Colorado Option, has passed the House of Representatives and is now in the Senate. Haxtun Hospital Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace updated members of the Board of Directors on the house bill during a meeting in late May. According to Pace, during the committee phase in the Senate, bill amendments can take place. “We are watching carefully as the first change that has been proposed would remove all healthcare providers from being required to participate, except for hospitals,” Pace said. “This means...
The Haxtun Swimming Pool project marches on; to date the committee tasked with raising funds to construct a new swimming pool in Haxtun reports a total of $358,000 so far. “The committee is encouraged by donation progress over the past six months,” Committee Member Lee Salyards said in a recent update. The goal, Salyards said, is to locally raise $750,000. “We’ve seen so many local businesses and individuals step up and give, which gets the project closer to its goal.” The goal figure is one provided by a grant writer who has experienc...
The Eastern Colorado Community Fund and Northeastern Junior College Foundation recently announced a new partnership. “Northeastern Junior College Foundation is extremely pleased to have entered into an agreement with the Eastern Colorado Community Fund,” said Jim Smith, President of the Northeastern Junior College Foundation. “This collective venture will enable both entities to benefit — to use each other’s strengths to continue to fund the needed financial assistance in Eastern Colorado — to secure and grow those assets to provide edu...
JUST SEVERAL WEEKS shy of the one year anniversary of a severe June thunderstorm that caused mass destruction throughout town, new welcome signs went up on the east and west ends of Haxtun. The early June storm last year tore down numerous trees, ripped through small structures and damaged the old welcome signs. With help from Points West Community Bank, the Town of Haxtun partnered with IWS in Sterling to construct and install new welcome signs on both ends of Highway 6. Pictured above are...
This is the final week of the 2021 legislative session; by law, legislatures must adjourn by Saturday, June 12, although they are not expected to go much beyond Wednesday, June 9. It’s been a busy week, with more than 200 bills still awaiting final resolution as of June 1. What’s been completed in the final full week includes Senate Bill 116, which reached its final resolution on June 3, when House Democrats approved the bill on a 40-24 vote and the Senate concurred with amendments added by the House Education Committee back on May 20. The bil...
ANA RESENDIZ, left, and Jordan Alvarez, at right, received the Fleming Library Association Scholarships this year. The two are 2021 graduates of Fleming High School. Resendiz has been a library patron and summer reading participant since preschool and served as a teachers' aide in the library her senior year. Alvarez has been a part of hosting Dr. Seuss Nights at the library for several years. Both graduates were chosen, in part, based on their involvement with the library while in school at...
Today’s column is written for male readers only. Sorry ladies. Today you’ll just have to flip the pages to the classifieds or somewhere else. The subject matter I intend to deal with in the next few paragraphs is just ... well, let’s say, it’s too sensitive to us guys for you to see. OK, men, now that the women are all gone, I’ll explain the secrecy. It’s not that females wouldn’t have understood. In fact, it’s the opposite. They would probably understand. Even worse, they would agree with me....
Seemingly overnight our irises are back in full force after being shredded a year ago by storms. It’s a reminder of the resilience of nature and God’s divine touch on creation. It’s not only surprising that they recovered, but that everything we planted came back. Bearded or beardless, dwarf or full blown, all are hardy inhabitants of gardens that are eagerly blooming. We’ve tried to keep up with all the names of the current plantings but after a while, an absence of plant marker stakes doomed...
Less than three weeks remain in the 2020-2021 athletic year and the champions of Season D will start being crowned this weekend. Girls tennis leads the parade, as the State tournament gets underway on Friday. Fort Morgan will have representation at the Class 3A meet after Olivia Wolff earned the Region 4 title for #2 singles. Ashley Anderson and Kaitlyn Bell are the alternates for #1 doubles, while Ali Guerrero and Allie Lauck (#2 doubles alternates) and Raelynn Carlock and Rebecca Bratrsovsky...
Our area received above average rainfall in May which changed a once parched wheat crop into one with great potential. According to the Colorado Mesonet, May rainfall in our area ranged from 2.2 inches at the Burlington south weather station to 4.4 at the Akron weather station. Every producer I have spoken with over the last couple of weeks is planning to apply or has already applied a fungicide to prevent an outbreak of wheat stripe rust given the conditions that it thrives. An extension top dress nitrogen experiment is showing a large...
Letter to the Editor, My letter addresses several different angles about Memorial Day. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t a service for the day this year. But this statement comes with some reservations. Our local Veterans have provided us with this service for years and many of them have done it for decades. If you have attended this event over the years it has fallen on a few to provide this for the community and many of them are not able to continue this tradition for their own health reasons. For me, this yearly service takes o...
13 Years Ago June 10, 1936 A course in vocational agriculture will be available to students in the Haxtun High School this coming year, according to J.A. Grant, principal. C.W. Scofield, who has been engaged in the high school at Joes during the last two years, will be the new instructor at Haxtun. Deaths: Mrs. H.L. Friend, 74, a resident in the south country for the last 18 years, passed away at her home Saturday morning, June 6, 1936. Mrs. Elmer Felderman is a daughter of the deceased. Funeral...
And that's a wrap on the regular season. The Haxtun Bulldog baseball team finished the final week of regular play on a high note with wins over Briggsdale and Prairie last week. The Bulldogs earned the third seed in the District 4 baseball tournament happening this week at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling. Haxtun holds an 8-6 overall record and are 7-5 in league play as the Bulldogs head into game one of District action Tuesday. Last week the team traveled to take on Briggsdale in what...
Bulldog tracksters took the road to Kiowa on Saturday, June 5 for the lone meet of the week. Top-10 results from the Kiowa Klassic contest are as follows: Girls 100-meter-dash: Allie Thompson, sixth, 13.98 Four-by-200 meter relay team: fifth place, 2:00.11. 800-meter sprint medley relay team: second place, 2:00.90. Long jump: Ella Coffin, seventh place, 14 feet, 7.75 inches. Discus: Cassidy Goddard, fourth place, 101 feet, two inches. Boys 100-meter-dash: Owen Knode, sixth place, 11.91....
The Fleming Wildcat track team competed in the Platte Valley Meet #2 at Kersey on June 4. Top-10 placers from the meet are as follows: Girls 800-meter run: Madi Serrato, sixth place, 2:49.93. 1,600-meter run: Serrato, fourth, 6:25.22. Boys Long jump: Nolan Japp, third, 18 feet, 4.5 inches. Triple jump: Japp, fourth, 37 feet, one inch....
HAXTUN RED T-Ball team members are pictured front row (l-r), Leyton Sparks, Kyla Wilson, Tanner Wilson and Otis Edwards; back row (l-r), Coach Joey Gerk, Camden Kelley, Maddy Deering, Tyson Bazan, Nolan Ham, Amber Edwards and Coach Collyn Heinz. Not picture is Ben Henry....
HAXTUN GREY T-Ball team members are pictured front row (l-r), Victoria Clark, Tylee Gorman, Kelbin Boerner, Lio Ayala and Reese Biesemeier; back row (l-r), Coach Joey Gerk, Jakson Yockey, Emerson McClanahan, Kortlyn Carpenter, Tyndle McConnell, Lincoln Bowers, Charleigh Kurtzer and Coach Collyn Heinz. Not pictured are Quynn Lambert, Christian Fleharty and Pete Salyards....
HAXTUN MACHINE Pitch red team members are pictured front row (l-r), Rylie Ham, Cail Wilson, Allison Plumb and Emerson Frank; back row (l-r), Coach Joey Gerk, Knox Edwards, Stellan Seger, Jemi McBride, Reid Oliver, Dylan Bazan and Coach Collyn Heinz. Not pictured are Jaxon Larsen and Rory Vandenbark....
HAXTUN MACHINE Pitch grey team members are pictured front row (l-r), Vivian Crossland, Evan Mull, Max Feik, Tripp Biesemeier and Nikolas Kleve; back row (l-r), Coach Joey Gerk, Remington McClanahan, Mollie Ham, Adley Kurtzer, Karson Hofmeister, Mason Boerner, Conner Goddard, Jacob Brown and Coach Collyn Heinz. Not pictured are Treyton Biesemeier and Cooper Ensminger....
