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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This year's Fleming High School Homecoming King and Queen was revealed during halftime of Friday's football game against Weldon Valley. King Blake Feather and Queen Kally Kirkwood were selected by Fleming's student body for this year's honor. Feather was crowned by reigning King Joel Muller; Kirkwood was crowned by former Queen Haley Harms....
Board members from the local Chamber of Commerce presented a formal plan to move forward with the director position to the Haxtun Town Council on Monday night, Oct. 3. Chamber President Jim Helfer told the Council plans are in place to create a full-time position that will serve as the director of both the Haxtun and Holyoke chambers in hopes to hire and retain a quality individual to serve both communities. Since the beginning of spring, the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce has been without a director and within that time, board members have been st...
This year's theme for the Haxtun Corn Festival was "Pulling Together" and community members from both Holyoke and Haxtun found it a very fitting opportunity to debut a new collaboration between the two groups who have done just that to form a committee regarding election integrity. The group entered a float and manned a booth at the event over the weekend to spread the word of what they are all about. Following the last election, many people have taken an interest in the election process, namely...
Garden-wise, early fall sometimes takes short shrift when it comes to impressing people. It is a time when things begin to look fairly tough in the stalk and dry on the edges. The flowers that gave their all through the summer months are yet game although it takes a little more intensive care to keep them at their best. The coleus is a slightly darker shade, the petunias less determined to offer up more blooms, and the garden produce a little less plump than a just a few days ago. There are...
Growing up in Eastern Colorado there were two things I had little, if no, experience with and never developed a like for. Deep water and high places. In a region with about 12 inches of annual precipitation, I grew up without seeing much deep water. We had the Poudre River which ran too fast to get in when it was deep enough to swim in. Then the water was 34 degree snow melt, not many opportunities for swim lessons. Later I moved farther east to South Platte River country, often described as a m...
13 years ago Oct. 13, 1937 G.W. Gordon, president of the Haxtun State Bank, was notified Monday morning by the Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo., that the bank's membership in the Federal Reserve System had been confirmed. The directors of the Haxtun institution besides Gordon, J.A. Brooks, C.J. Mosier, C.L. Reynolds and M.W. Gordon. Highland Center News – Leo Butte left to join the CCC last Wednesday. His parents have received word that he is stationed at Red Feather Lake...
The Haxtun Bulldogs dominated the Caliche Buffaloes on Friday night, hammering out their second league win of the season. Haxtun stomped the Buffs on the road last week, advancing to 6-0 while handing Caliche their second loss of the season. The Buffs suffered a loss the week before to the Sedgwick County Cougars leaving them 4-2 on the season. The Bulldogs scored on their first drive of the game with an 18-yard pass from Quarterback Ryland Wolff to tight end Keegan Colglazier for the first six...
The Lady Bulldogs have won six of their last seven games, including the last three giving the team a 10-8 record as the final four games of the regular season approach. The most recent win came on the road against the Lady Buffaloes at Caliche on Friday night. The Lady Bulldogs took down the home team with a sweep. Haxtun is set to face Otis, Sedgwick County, Weldon Valley and Merino to round out the regular season schedule. Haxtun started off slow early in the first set against the Lady Buffaloes, who hosted the Lady Bulldogs in their annual h...
The Fleming Wildcats maintain their number two spot in Colorado High School Activities Association's 6-man rankings following a commanding Friday, Oct. 7 homecoming victory over the Warriors of Weldon Valley. The Stratton Eagle remain in the top slot. Friday night's contest on Fleming's home field opened with a Wildcat touchdown by junior Wyatt Cochran in the opening minutes of the game. Cochran followed it up with a blocked kick which he picked up and returned for the second touchdown of the...
The Fleming Lady Wildcats went 1-1 in last week's home-court action. They took a three-set sweep over Weldon Valley in a Friday evening homecoming match and fell to the then seventh-ranked Simla Lady Cubs on Saturday. The Lady Wildcats entered last week's play in the number three slot of Colorado High School Activities Association's 1A rankings. They held a 12-2 record on the year when they met up with the Lady Warriors on Friday. Weldon Valley came close within five and four points in Friday's...
NINTH GRADE STUDENTS at Fleming Schools, pictured left to right, Ashley Bornhoft, Cade Lousberg, Braylin Salvador, Wyatt Northrup and Jared Betley check out a football and baseball card collection of Austin Hanes at the Fleming Library Association's Collectors' Day. Over 280 visitors viewed collectors' collections at the annual event hosted on Sept. 30....
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The dementia journey can feel hopeless, chaotic and exhausting … unless caregivers have the tools that bring hope, predictability, lower stress and well-being for everyone on the journey. Learn how hope and beauty can be enjoyed on the journey, get a glimpse into the evidence-based DAWN Method approach to caregiving and understand next steps in learning more about dementia care by attending “Gifts of Dementia: Understanding Strength-Based Care” sponsored by Colorado State University Extension. Dementia refers to a syndrome where cognitive funct...
Dona Mae (Green) West Lightsey died Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 at the age of 91. Dona was born to Henry and Marie Green on Feb. 3, 1931 in Fleming, where she grew up on the family farm and graduated from Fleming Schools in 1949. April 4, 1953 she was married to Robert (Bob) West in Sterling. They had two sons Paul and David. Bob died in 1995 and Dona was remarried to Wilbur Lightsey in 2001 who passed in 2017. Dona loved nursing, horses, knitting, dancing, camping, boating, fishing and...
