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 SCHOOLS honored Veterans during a ceremony sponsored by the National Honor Society earlier this week. Students who honored their family members with special speeches during the ceremony are pictured (l-r), Kortlyn and Haylie Carpenter with their dad, Ron Carpenter, United States Marine; Ryan Davis who honored his brother, Andrew Davis, active United States Navy; and Seth and Stellan Seger, who honored their grandfather, Darwin Jeffers, United States Navy and United States...
Phillips County electors cast 2,351 ballots in the general election on Nov. 5. That is an 82 percent voter turnout if gauging it from the 2,871 active registered voters. If using the 3,123 total registered voters, it is 75 percent. Results will not be considered official by the Secretary of State's office until the County canvasing board has completed its process and the County Clerk's Office files its final report with the State. Electors had an exceptionally lengthy ballot because of...
On Oct. 24, Alyssa Molde celebrated the completion of her Ogallala Commons Internship with a Harvesting Ceremony, marking a milestone in her professional and personal growth. Molde completed her internship at Retread Threads in Haxtun, a local nonprofit, where she gained valuable work experience. Throughout her internship, Alyssa engaged in hands-on work, gaining valuable skills in areas such as retail management, customer service and nonprofit experience. Her internship was sponsored by...
No cat has more lives than Donald Trump’s political fortunes. To be sure, he is as skilled at retail politics as anyone since Bill Clinton, but he also benefits from being habitually underestimated by his adversaries. His unprecedented political rehabilitation wasn’t merely a product of Republican support. Democrats and the dominant liberal media must ask themselves, “Did our relentless obsession with demonizing Trump instead breathe new life into him?” Democrats were convinced they could b...
[The body of this article was first shared some fifteen years ago, and it continues to generate robust conversation whenever the topic arises. We have ceremonies to properly dispose of worn flags. Might there be something similar for old Bibles? Oh well, into the abyss once more!] Nearly every family has them and doesn’t know what to do with them. Should they keep them, throw them out, recycle them or (gasp) burn them with the other paper trash? “They” are the Bibles of generations, some torn,...
13 Years Ago Nov. 15, 1939 Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Lundberg of the Fairfield community celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on Monday, Nov. 13. They came to Colorado 43 years ago. Their children are Mrs. B.J. Anderson, Mrs. Paul Holmquist, Mrs. Henry Anderson, Mrs. Eph C. Johnson, Roy Lundberg and Arthur Lundberg. Miss Helen Crist and E.J. Witt, Jr., Haxtun young people, were married here Saturday afternoon by Rev. E.F. Weaver, pastor of the Church of the Brethren. The ceremony took place at the...
The Lady Bulldogs punched their ticket to the 2A State Volleyball Tournament at the Denver Coliseum this weekend with a Region 12 Championship on Monday. Haxtun enters the State Tournament as the ninth seeded team and is set to face Del Norte in round one on Thursday. Haxtun's road to State was delayed due to Colorado's winter weather. What was supposed to be Saturday afternoon Regional pool play was forced to be played on Monday, Nov. 11 due to snow that covered much of the mountains over the...
A 60-point home field victory over Hoehne sends the Haxtun Bulldogs to the quarterfinals round of 8-man playoff action. Fall winter weather forced Colorado High School Activities Association officials to run a number of audibles as snow blanketed much of the southern and mountain areas of the State. Brackets throughout all classifications saw schedules changes, forcing games to be played on Sunday and even into Monday the following week to allow teams to travel safely to playoff destinations,...
After going 7-3 overall and 5-1 in the 6-man North League, the Fleming Wildcats' season has come to a close after the first round of playoffs. The Wildcats advanced into the post season as the ninth-ranked team in a 16-team bracket which pitted them against the eighth-ranked Arickaree Bison. Due to weather, the date, time and location of the opening round of playoffs was changed. The game, originally slated for Saturday at Arickaree, ended up taking place on Sunday at Prairie High School....
The Fleming Lady Wildcats have made their way to the 1A State Championships set for Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 14-16 with a Regional sweep over the Lone Star Lady Longhorns last week. The Lady Wildcats enter the 12-team bracket as the number three seed. Fleming hosted Lone Star last Friday for Regional play. They entered the single-game tournament as the number three seed playing number 22. The Lady Wildcats cruised to the three-set win by scores of 25-15, 25-12 and 25-10. Junior hitters Ashley...
