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 final baseball pitch has been thrown and the last relay baton passed and so the Haxtun Bulldogs wrapped up 2020-21 sports seasons in late June and to celebrate, athletes, friends, family and supporters gathered for the annual awards banquet at the Haxtun Community Center. Sponsored by the Haxtun Booster Club, the awards celebration is a time to gather and recognize all athletes of Haxtun High School while also honoring deserving individuals, this year a couple, as Super Boosters. This year,...
For more than three decades the Haxtun community has been accustomed to beautiful flowers with impeccable detail and florist Rebecca Ensminger plans to continue that tradition in her new business venture, Every Bloomin' Thing. Rebecca and husband Mike Ensminger purchased The Country Rose from Marilyn Michael on July 1. The new name, Rebecca says, pays homage to previous owner Marilyn Michael while adding in her own touch to the name. Rebecca said Marilyn had wanted to use the name Every...
The conclusion of baseball and track season over the past few weeks has brought an end to all high school sports for the 202-21 school year. The Haxtun baseball team ended their post-season run at Regionals and several Bulldog tracksters brought home medals from the State Track Meet, both events held in late June. Haxtun track athlete Allie Thompson earned All-Conference honors for her efforts in her junior track season. In order to earn the post-season honor, track athletes must earn a first...
It was a box that could only have come from a shop overflowing with decades of “I may need that someday.” It’s not a bad mindset to have if we are going to learn to caretake our only planet a little better than we have in the past. Reduce, reuse, and recycle has become the mantra of younger and wiser generations who have inherited a boat load of problems foisted on them by us. What kept me from throwing the box away, however, was not social conscience but rather curiosity. A sparkle of glass...
If I could find my “Under The Wire” column written exactly one year ago, it is a pretty sure thing there was a reference to our part of the country being very dry. We were ankle deep in dust with poor to no grass and a rapidly shrinking hay stack. Adding insult to injury, hot dry winds howled nearly every day. Everyone who prayed, almost always included a request for rain. One year ago there was an explanation when something that should have happened, didn’t. “Due to Covid," kept tractor...
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” is a proverb that simply means trying to do what someone else does or think like someone else thinks is a compliment to that person. Well, parents you should feel flattered, because your kids spend a large amount of time watching your actions and then imitating them. People often imitate or follow along with others without thinking about their actions, sometimes when doing unsafe acts. So, when you are in your vehicle with your kids, remember that children learn by imitating what they see adu...
13 Years Ago July 8, 1936 Opening of a modem meat department at the Birrell Food store has been announced for Friday of this week by J.D. Birrell, proprietor of the firm. The meat department has been equipped with a new refrigeration system in connection with a modern display counter. Several hundred pounds of fresh meat may be stored in the refrigerator and the store will be able to keep an adequate stock on hand at all times. Five new stars at one swoop were added to the Hollywood f...
The Haxtun Police Department re-registered a sex offender within Haxtun’s city limits last week. According to Police Chief Tanya Mayhew, 27-year-old Kaden Broaddus lives in the 200 block of South Washington Avenue. Broaddus is required to register as a sex offender annually on his date of birth as part of a conviction in Logan County in 2020 for unlawful sexual contact, a misdemeanor offense....
Annabell Ruth (Crossland) Sharpe passed away June 23, 2021 at the age of 90 at her home in Commerce City with her family by her side. She was born Nov. 24, 1930 to Edgar and Elizabeth Ann (Guernsey) Crossland. Annabell attended South Star School in Yuma and graduated from Haxtun High School, Class of 1948, Salutatorian. On Aug. 18, 1949 she married Ronald Arthur Sharpe. They lived and worked on the Sharpe homestead, south of Haxtun until 1954. From 1954 to 1961 Ron and Annabell lived in Washingt...
