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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MIKE ENSMINGER, in the combine, and Brandon Durbin, grain cart driver, cut a wheat field south of Haxtun on Monday morning near the Gary Koch farm. Many local farmers spent the hot, Fourth of July weekend in the field cutting wheat. According to Scott Kirkwood at CHS Grainland, Mike Salyards brought in Haxtun's first load of wheat on June 29. Fleming's first load was from Lambert Farms, Christopher Land on July 2. Kirkwood expects Haxtun and Fleming locations to bring in about 50 percent of a...
By Candie Fix [email protected] The third Saturday in July always brings community members together as crowds gather downtown for the annual Haxtun Old-Fashioned Saturday Night. The night, which promises a car show, vendors, burn out and other activities is now in its 33rd year as a local favorite The event, started in 1988 by Dale and Sherrilyn Smith, is sponsored each year by the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce and brings with it an atmosphere of an old-fashioned fun with music, friends and family along with the car show and cruising. This...
Meal prices, graduation requirements, hiring a first-grade teacher … all action items at the final board meeting of the Frenchman Board of Education before school begins in the fall. The local Fleming school board does not typically meet in July, making the next regularly scheduled meeting in late August when students will, hopefully, return to school with some normalcy. “We will be following the recommendations from the Centers of Disease Control and working closely with the Northeast Colorado Health Department as we start the school year in...
PAOLI HUSTLER 4-H members volunteered to help serve the county-wide food bank at the Haxtun Community Center on Wednesday morning. Pictured above are Kaylee Lock, Haylie Carpenter, a Food Bank of the Rockies volunteer and Grace Stone. Each year, 4-H members volunteer to help as part of local community service projects....
With more than 20 years of experience in physical therapy and massage therapy, Physical Therapist Wendy Evans recently joined Haxtun Hospital Physical Therapy with the goal of helping patients get back to doing the activities they love most. Evans' addition allows Haxtun Hospital to offer new, specialized physical therapy services to the community. New service lines Additional service lines now offered include phonophoresis, trigger-point dry needling, Pilates reformer rehabilitation, massage...
Throughout the month of June, Phillips County Commissioners conducted several items of business related to storms that struck Paoli and Haxtun the same month. In addition to hearing information related to removal of storm debris from the County Landfill Manager, the Commissioners met with other local and state officials to assess the damage in addition to adopting a resolution to declare a local disaster emergency due to the severe thunderstorms. County Road and Bridge employees assisted the Town of Haxtun with a multi-day clean-up in addition...
HAXTUN HIGH School graduate, Brooklyn Davis, was selected as the recipient of the P.E.O. Chapter BX 2020 scholarship. She is pictured above with members Vicki Fuesz, left, and Joyce Barkey, right. Brooklyn is the daughter of Tom and Dana Davis, Haxtun....
As with nearly every business, the horse business has its ups and downs. If you are in the business of raising and/or selling them, awhile back we were in one of the industry’s little “valleys.” Since other business people have to deal with this same situation I began looking around for ideas we might be able to apply to our circumstances. The first tactic I noticed was in a furniture ad. “Buy now,” the ad said, “Make no payments until 2009.” The idea, of course, is to apply to the “right no...
Everyone would like a clearer picture of what is happening these days in the social, medical and cultural arenas of our lives. We all have our lists of things that we prefer not to see, or just as damaging, things that should have been seen that we ignore. It is tempting to isolate ourselves from most of it. Unfortunately, it’s not going anywhere fast. Centuries have shown that these concerns have always been with us in one form or another. Seeking understanding and the greater clarity it b...
Safety during fair It's almost fair time! Although this year has been unpredictable and frustrating, we in Phillips County are fortunate that we get to participate in county fair! This is the event everyone has been looking forward to ever since the stay-at-home orders started in March. Safety is extremely important during a fair. There are activities, animals, food and other opportunities that can lead to an emergency. Although you can't prepare for everything, following these safety tips can...
Letter to the Editor, The Help Haxtun Committee would like to update the community on our efforts to raise money for those businesses that were mandated to close because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Our first distribution of $10,000 was given to the businesses and employees on Friday, April 24. The final distribution of $15,000 was given to businesses and employees on Wednesday, July 1. The total funds of $25,000 were given to 10 businesses in our community who have 28 employees. The businesses and employees in our community that these funds were...
Letter to the Editor, In response to the Letter to the Editor in the Herald dated July 1, where the author states she believes Haxtun was built on love, therefore, the community response must rally behind her, in the name of love and “ask” that a confederate flag being displayed in a window be taken down, I for one do not in any way share her sentiments, and I will not be a conscript in her torches and pitchforks to force physical change on a neighbor. She calls the flag hate while her manifesto symbolic of love. Gee, if that’s not the Sagit...
13 years ago July 10, 1935 The Haxtun Harvest H. P. Groves, a resident of this community for more than 30 years, passed away at his home in Haxtun on Wednesday evening, July 3. Mr. Groves came to Colorado in 1902 and homesteaded 10 miles north of Haxtun. He was 59. Curtis Arnold, son of Mrs. Roy Welch of this city, passed away at the family home last Friday at the age of 12 years. The little boy had seen failing health for some time and was stricken about eight months ago with a serious heart...
Kathryn Margaret (Leffler) Debus passed away on Saturday, July 4, 2020 in Haxtun at the age of 86. Kathryn was born on Aug. 20, 1933 at her parents' home in Greeley to Carl and Hattie Eisenach Leffler. She graduated from Greeley High School in 1951. On Aug. 2, 1959, she married Arlen Debus at St. Paul's Congregational Church in Greeley. They would have been married 61 years this coming August. To this union, three daughters were born: Marsha in 1960, Janette in 1962 and Colleen in 1963. The...
