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Four new teachers join the staff at Fleming School for the 2022-23 school year. The year kicked off last week for students in grades four through 12 and younger students return this week. New teachers Jaxon King, Tamara Ashburn, Lynette Harms and Megan Chintala recently took over their respective classrooms and are welcoming students back this fall. Jaxon King Jaxon King is one of two new staff members to return to their alma mater this year. King grew up in Fleming on his family's farm. He...
Northeast Board of Cooperative Educational Services was able to host Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. at the Northeastern Junior College on Monday, Aug. 15. Dr. Payne presented to over 325 educators, counselors and administrators from the Northeast region. Eight school districts including: Akron, Julesburg, Haxtun, Holyoke, Merino, Peetz, Revere and Yuma participated, as well as the NE BOCES staff. The entire auditorium was filled with attentive and engaged educational professionals throughout Dr. Payne's...
Colorado State University Extension, Colorado Sorghum Producers and the CSU Crops Testing Program invite the public to attend one of several Sorghum Field Days to see new and adapted hybrids side-by-side in trial plots. Plans are to discuss hybrid characteristics, new herbicide tolerant hybrids, production challenges and agronomy. Field days will be held at the Akron USDA-ARS Station, four miles east of Akron on Hwy. 34 at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 13; Walsh at the Plainsman Research Center farm at 10 a.m. on Sept. 15; and Sheridan Lake at our field...
The High Plains Heritage Quilters are gearing up for the 2022 Haxtun Corn Festival Quilt Show on Saturday, Sept. 24. The show will be from 1-4 p.m. at the Haxtun Community Center. The show is for all levels and ages of quilters who are encouraged to enter quilts of all sizes, wall hangings, table runners, place mats and anything else quilted. For more information contact Diana Green at (970) 520-1529 or (970) 774-7206....
I have often said everything I know about people I learned from a cow. Today, however, I am writing about something I doubt even a cow could understand. We all have heard about “Test Tube Meat," the brain child of some who wanted a part of the “huge” profits all of us have been making calving cows and running feedlots the past hundred years or so. They, however did not like the idea of borrowing a few million dollars to buy land, machinery and cattle just to get started and then have the privi...
Many of us feel shackled when pondering what to do with hundreds, even thousands, of photos and slides accumulated over decades. It only takes a few minutes of perusing old images for nostalgia to set in, and more often than not, the pictures are unceremoniously returned to their filing place/drawer/shoebox knowing that today just isn’t the right day to sort memories and give them their due. Photos and slides represent a snapshot of our lives in the moment, and a cause for contemplation. The P...
This week sees everyone joining the party, as the final fall sports get their seasons underway. Football champions will be looking to get their title defenses off on the right foot, while volleyball really gets rolling. Golf, cross country, softball and soccer all continue to progress through their respective slates. The easy highlight of the week one schedule in 6-man football is a rematch of last season's title game, as Cheyenne Wells hosts Stratton on Friday night. The Tigers, who lost six se...
Not long ago, Colorado was one of the safest, most prosperous states in the nation. Today, Colorado is a mess. Crime is soaring. The economy is faltering. Energy prices are rising. Schools are struggling. Many of today’s problems are the predictable result of “progressive” policies adopted during the four-year reign of Governor Jared Polis and large Democrat majorities in the legislature. In the next few months, Colorado voters must decide if they’ve had enough. Democrats pursued legislation tha...
Letter to the Editor, Muriel Brown’s wishes will not be forgotten. The last few years of her life was a struggle but she endured to make sure her beloved town would be taken care of. It was an emotional roller coaster of love, mistrust, hurt feelings, sadness, confusion, frustration and anger that unfortunately we both lived through to get to the outcome she wanted. She is gone too soon, but she will be remembered in this community by her generous gift. She was born and raised in this small town and wanted to leave her personal investments t...
13 Years Ago Aug. 25, 1937 The one-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevenson of south of Haxtun was brought to town Monday evening for medical attention after the little fellow drank a small amount of kerosene. According to Dr. J.W. Kinzie, who gave the youngster treatment, he was not suffering any ill effects Tuesday morning. A special softball game between a colored girls' team and the Texaco Oilers will be played at the Haxtun diamond Wednesday evening. The colored team is known as Metz...
The Haxtun Police Department recently re-registered a sex offender within Haxtun’s city limits. According to Police Chief Nate Nadow, 28-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....
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs kicked of the 2022 season with the annual Sedgwick County tournament last week. This year's team boasts 29 players under the direction of Head Coach Don Schelling and Assistant Coaches Marissa Schelling and McCall Etl. Don Schelling is in his first season as head coach following his role as an assistant coach for the team last season. The Lady Bulldogs went 1-2 in Sedgwick County last week. The team faced off with Briggsdale, Sedgwick County and Flatirons Academy in the...
The boys of fall are back! Thirty-eight players on this year's Haxtun Bulldog football team have been putting in the work over the summer and since the start of practice last week and rightfully so, the team has a lot to defend. As the 2021 8-man State Champions, the Bulldogs know the taste of victory and are looking for more. Head Coach JD Stone and his staff of assistants have been working with this year's team since last season ended. The boys have been in the weight room since just after Chr...
6 FLEMING LADY Wildcat volleyball players are pictured front row (l-r), Maddy Zink, Emoree Lousberg, Laney Schliesser, Lexi Schaefer, Brooke Schaefer, Siena Donnelson and Savannah Taylor; back row (l-r), Autumn Volkman, Kiely Bretz-Hoskins, Quincy Stull, Ashley Bornhoft, Kally Kirkwood, Maddy Harms, MadiKay Serrato and Ciana Lousberg. The Lady Wildcats are coached by Head Coach Megan Chintala and Assistant Coach Kylie Chamberlain....
6 FLEMING Wildcat football players are pictured front row (l-r), Nicholas Long, Mason Mollohan, Wyatt Sonnenberg, Colton Cochran, Grady Bechtle, Peter Brekel and Hudson Stull; middle row (l-r), Bryson Salvador, Derek Houser, David Betley, Matix Haney, Christian Polly, Kale Volkman and Pierson Japp; back row (l-r), Kody Donnelson, Nolan Japp, Harry Harms, Kolten Houser, Braylen Feather, Hayden Lockard, Blake Feather and Wyatt Cochran. The Wildcats are coached by John King and assistant...
Dorothy Jeane Brundige passed away on Aug. 1, 2022 at age 100 having lived a full wonderful life, filled with many adventures, family, friends and with an enduring faith until she was called home. Dorothy Jeane Beckman was born at her parent's home, southeast of Haxtun on Jan. 17, 1922 to Theodore and Liddie (Johnson) Beckman. As a young girl, her mother began calling her by her middle name Jeane, a name she was given in honor of her mother's beloved friend; she would go by Jeane for the rest of...
