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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JUDE AND ARLO Klimek play in the dirt with their heavy equipment toys in front of their house on Strohm Street as the real life machines do the same just down the street. The Town of Haxtun began the long-awaited street project on Thursday, Aug. 4. The project, passed by voters in previous elections, will include repaving more than 40 blocks worth of streets in Haxtun. Right now, Superintendent Ron Carpenter said the project is in phase one, which includes grinding the old asphalt and working...
Mayor Brandon Biesemeier submitted his letter of resignation to the Haxtun Town Council during a Monday evening, Aug. 1 meeting at the Haxtun Community Center. Biesemeier notified the Council in early spring that he and his family planned to move outside city limits and he would no longer be able to fulfill his term as Mayor. “Please accept this letter of resignation from my current position as Mayor of the Town of Haxtun, effective Aug. 14,” Biesemeier said as he read his letter out loud. “As I stated previously in a meeting, I would soon...
With school starting just next week, the Haxtun Board of Education tended to final details in preparation for the return of students in an early morning, Aug. 3 meeting. Board members hired several staff members and opted to increase base pay for paras, educational program coordinators, clerical staff and others on hourly wages. The Wednesday morning meeting kicked off with approving assignments for Jeanna Clark, Judy Berkheimer, Kelly Crossland and Austin Mitchell. According to Haxtun Superintendent Marsha Cody, Jeanna Clark was approved as a...
Some of the best pollinators in the world include hummingbirds and bees and insects of various kinds. Without pollinators, the earth would be hard set to produce the amount of food that is required for us to exist. Pollinators are the unsung heroes of survivability. When educational disciplines lag significantly behind the curve in the cross pollination of ideas, their survivability is also in question. The field of theology, it’s been said, is twenty to thirty years behind comparable a...
A recent, rare, Hodgson family vacation via automobile, drew me from the familiar flatlands of Eastern Colorado to an area so starkly different, it could have been the moon as far as I knew. In fact, it looked like an entirely different planet compared to what I have grown used to. Our trip took us across the seemingly endless rocky hills and canyons of extreme W. Colorado and Eastern Utah. An area which to this grassland orientated cattleman, had no economical value to a rancher. I did find...
13 Years Ago Aug. 11, 1937 Mistaking a poison powder containing strychnine for what she thought was a stomach powder caused the tragic death here last Thursday of Mrs. Lavenna Mathews of south of Fleming. Mrs. Mathews, who was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Sanders of Haxtun, was 18 years of age and was the mother of a two-year-old boy. She was able to tell of the incident before she passed away. Pumpkin Vine News - Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Kinzie and children left on a trip to the mountains...
C. Wilbur Kipp passed away on Aug. 6, 2022 at the age of 95 in Haxtun where he resided his whole life. Wilbur was born the first-born son of Clarence and Agnes L. (Erickson) Kipp on May 11, 1927. He attended and graduated from Haxtun Schools. During high school, he was employed by the Foster Lumberyard of Haxtun. He was baptized into Christ in 1938 and became a member of the Haxtun Church of the Brethren, where he has served, in many capacities, for his entire lifetime. In 1944 following high sc...
Sheryl Anne Wagner passed into eternal life on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Sterling at the age of 79. She dearly loved her family. At her request, no services will be held. Sheryl was born in Sterling on July 22, 1943 to Arthur and Georgia (Thompson) Wagner. Sheryl was a graduate of University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, and was employed for 32 years as an elementary school teacher in Sterling RE1 Valley District; three years at Crook Elementary School and 29 years at Campbell Elementary School...
