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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HAXTUN HIGH SCHOOL Homecoming King Isaac Andersen and Queen K'lyn Bornhoft were crowned during homecoming festivities Saturday at Adam Wernsman Field. The two were given top royalty honors by a vote of their student peers. Other 2021 royalty members included Allie Thompson, Ella Coffin, Owen Knode and Osman Coss....
Haxtun's new restaurant is open and serving customers. Chandler's Backyard Bar and Grill opened at the corner of Colorado Avenue and Fletcher Street earlier this month and is aiming to serve the Haxtun community. Owners Alsey Chandler and Kristi Emory soft opened the business on Sept. 1 but officially celebrated with a ribbon cutting last Friday, Sept. 17. The two operate the local bar and grill together with hopes to add a full-service winery to the operation later down the line. Alsey said he...
The Phillips County Commissioners continue to disburse CVRF funds through grants to business owners in Phillips County. Throughout the month of August, the Commissioners distributed $123,529 to local businesses affected by COVID shutdowns over the past year and a half. In addition to giving to local businesses, the CVRF funds have also been given to local food baskets and helped the Town of Haxtun install a new drop box. In their first August meeting, the Commissioners meet three times each month, the County Commissioners voted to distribute...
The Phillips County 911 Authority Board submitted a request to the Public Utilities Commission to raise the monthly surcharge on phone lines to $2.30 per month. If the change is approved, it would not take effect until Feb. 1, 2022. The current $1.75 surcharge on land lines and cell phones is not bringing in enough income to provide for the increased costs in 911 dispatch staffing and costs to meet vendor annual costs. The Phillips County 911 Authority Board met on Monday, Aug. 23 at the third floor meeting room in the Phillips County...
Fall is finally here. I believe I like fall better than any other time of the year. Cooler days, fall colors and weeds quit growing. It is hard to find much wrong with fall except for one thing. Flies. Flies, of course, move inside your house in the fall. Somewhere there is a fly travel journal. Written right there on the first tiny page are the words, “At the first sign of fall all flies shall leave the manure piles, barns, backs of all bulls, any candy the kids have dropped in the yard and mov...
Some things are never meant to last. The bountiful summer produce we enjoy is the perfect example. Sweet corn, cantaloupe, summer squash, and rhubarb are rivaled only by the free-wheeling joy ride known as peach season. It is marvelous, wonderful, and all too fleeting. Western slope peaches are simply the best with Cache Valley peaches from Utah coming in a close second. If they were available year round there would be little anticipation of their arrival and use. It is the six week window of...
I guess it’s that time of year to make sure everyone is ready for the impending snow season. This is mostly a list of making sure you haven’t taken anything out of your vehicles that you may need when you are traveling this winter. Let’s go over the basics. Are your tires in good condition and do they have at least 3/16th inch of tread as required? I know you don’t take these out of your vehicle, but do you usually run snow tires during the winter? It’s a good time to get ready and make sure the tires are in good condition, and there are no cra...
Area teams were treated to a couple tastes of fall last week, and the cooler temperatures did little to slow them down. In a week dotted with top match-ups, several athletes turned in stellar performances. Jumping right into volleyball, Sterling's Sydney Henry reached a career milestone. The standout senior recorded her 1,000th career kill in a 3-0 sweep of Strasburg last Tuesday. She tallied a dozen in the next outing against Eagle Ridge Academy and is hitting .327 on the season. The Tigers...
13 Years Ago Oct. 7, 1936 According to W.J. Henderson, Extension plant pathologist, Phillips County farmers are losing a great deal more in producing smutted wheat than the cost of seed treatment. During the first 30 days of the 1936 shipping period, three carloads of smutted wheat were shipped from Phillips County. Henderson, in cooperation with A.F. Hoffman, county extension agent, will plant a test plot this month showing control of smut by seed treatment methods. Treatments included will be...
The intensity level was at a 10 in Haxtun's gymnasium last Tuesday as the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs cruised to a three-set victory over the Wiggins Lady Tigers. A victory over the defending 2A State Champions upped the Lady Bulldog's RPI, giving them a top five standing in 1A rankings with the Colorado High School Activities Association. Others who sit in the top five include Merino, Fleming, Briggsdale and Wiley, three of which Haxtun has left on the regular season schedule. The Lady Bulldogs found...
Chalk up another gridiron win for the Haxtun Bulldogs. A 50-0 shutout of the Caliche Buffs leaves the Haxtun football team with a perfect 4-0 record midway through the 2021 season with just five games left on the regular season schedule. In a warm, Saturday afternoon contest with Caliche it was all Bulldogs as the team put up 22 points in the first quarter alone. With 7:30 on the clock in the first, senior quarterback Owen Knode found junior Michael Gerk open with a short, eight-yard pass to put...
The Fleming Wildcats returned to their regularly scheduled 6-man action last week with a contest on the road at Pawnee. The Wildcats met up with the Haxtun Bulldogs for an 8-man contest the week prior, suffering their first loss of the season. This week's action put them back on track - dishing out their third shut out in the fourth week of 6-man gridiron action. The Wildcats met up with the Coyotes on the Coyotes' home turf last Friday evening. Scores by quarter were not reported on MaxPreps,...
Fleming's Lady Wildcats added two sweeps to their prior 7-1 season record last week. The local ladies traveled to Caliche on Tuesday, Sept. 14 where they took a quick win over the Lady Buffaloes and headed to Holyoke on Saturday, Sept. 18 to play a close contest with the 2A Lady Dragons. Tuesday's action at Caliche finished fast with the Lady Wildcats holding the Lady Buffaloes to single digits in sets one and three. Fleming earned a three-set sweep by scores of 25-9, 25-11 and 25-7. Sophomore...
ADDISON OLIVER, Haxtun High School freshman, is a part of the Pan Handle High School rodeo team in Nebraska. Last weekend she competed in Callahan, Neb. and North Platte, Neb., earning a spot at State finals in the poles division. On Saturday in Callahan, Oliver finished second in poles out of 70 competitors; on Sunday she finished in sixth place out of 70. In barrels, she took 26th out of 66 on Saturday and 16th out of 74 on Sunday. The top 30 in each division earn a spot at State and Oliver...
