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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TOP SPELLERS from the Haxtun Spelling Bee qualified for the Regional Bee. Winners and alternates are pictured front row (l-r), Jinjer Stroyek, Taivyn Bullard, Emma Lemesany, Kira Christensen and Liam Nall; back row (l-r), Adriel Rodriguez, Mikayli Benson, Corbin Andersen, Lexi Imhof and Kinsley Koberstein. Andersen won the Haxtun Spelling Bee held on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at the Haxtun Community Center. The Regional Spelling Bee will be held in Haxtun on Feb. 9, 2022....
Haxtun Health Board of Directors met for a short meeting Monday, Dec. 6 to adopt a proposed 2022 budget. The meeting lasted just under an hour with the only order of business being the budget and adopting a meeting schedule for the coming year. According to information presented from Chief Financial Officer Joleen Stroyek, the 2022 budget reflects a three-percent increase in growth and a three-percent increase in rates. Next year’s figures also show salary increases, salaries for vacancies, supply cost increase and filling new positions to s...
Phillips County onboarded a new Veterans Service Officer recently. Jeremy Kilpatrick takes the reigns following the retirement of Steve Firme. Firme served Phillips County Veterans for five years before passing the responsibility onto Kilpatrick in September. Kilpatrick grew up in the Akron area and graduated from Akron High School in 2010. After high school, he enlisted in the United States Navy where he was stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a guided missile destroyer on the DDG 93 USS Chung...
The Fleming Town Council met for their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 8 at the Fleming Community Center. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Sue Einspahr at 6:30 p.m. The following council members were present: Stefan Betley, DeeAnn Christopher, Nancy Glaspie, Ken MacCrone and John Stone. Also present were Bill Langridge, Bonnie Jackson, Michelle Asfeld, Lewis Frank, Joelle Gapter and Keith Beck. Approval of the Agenda: Betley added “appoint council member” following the Clerk’s Report. It was moved and second to accept the a...
Nash Ham Cameron and Jocelyn Ham, Haxtun, announce the birth of their son, Nash Alan Ham, on Nov. 30, 2021 at Colorado Plains Medical Center in Fort Morgan. Nash weighed seven pounds, six and a half ounces and measured 20 inches at birth. Grandparents are Brian and Sandy Ham, Haxtun, and Rob and Arlene Martinez, Haxtun. Big sister Willow, 18 months, welcomed Nash home....
I have lived my entire life near small towns. I’ve never had an address connected to a big town for very long. If the little town I lived near became a big one, or heaven forbid, began calling itself a city, I moved. The town I live near calls itself a city but I think they’re kind of teasing about that, with our two stop lights. The truth is, I’m afraid of big towns. It’s the traffic that scares me the most. In fact, I’d rather get beaten by three guys with sticks than drive through a genuine...
As we make our way haltingly through life there are but a few things that have accompanied us in the long haul. One case in point is a stalwart bit of greenery that has quietly bided its time with us for better than forty years. It was given to us by a previous owner who had nurtured and cared for it untold years prior to its adoption by us. It has determinedly gone about its business, as we have ours, shouldering the vagaries of life and living. It is a hoya plant with long trailing shoots and...
With state spirit now in the books, the fall sport season has officially come to a close. While no area squads brought home titles from last weekend's event, two did earn top three finishes. Swink nearly found its way into the top two for the 2A/3A Game Day Cheer, as the Lions finished third with a total of 90.3 points. That left them just two points back of the second place team. Holyoke nailed down third place in the 2A All-Girl Cheer competition with 73.35 points. Their tally left them only f...
13 Years Ago Dec. 30, 1936 The wedding of Miss Ardythe Crowell of Haxtun and Gus Anderson of Holyoke occurred in Sterling Christmas morning at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. J. Willard Scott. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Victor Schroeder, pastor of the First Evangelical Church. As a result of a systematic program conducted under the guidance of the Nebraska College of Agriculture, there was a marked increase in the number of trench silos built and filled in that state this year....
HAXTUN ELEMENTARY student Skylor Scheffer builds a shoebox gift online with help from Teacher Laurie Wilcox for the annual Operation Christmas Child project. Students had the opportunity to choose gifts and supplies for the boxes online while also including a note for the child who receives it. Wilcox traveled to the main Samaritan's Purse Center in Charlotte, N.C. where thousands of boxes have been packed for the project. Boxes built online will to go the most remote and needy areas of the...
THE HAXTUN FIGHTIN' BULLDOGS were honored as 8-man State Champions Sunday afternoon during the first quarter of the Denver Broncos football game against the Detroit Lions at Empire Field at Mile High. The NFL and Denver Broncos honored State Championship teams from all classifications on Sunday. Bulldog football players are pictured front row (l-r), Kailin Kelley, Ashton Ayala, Michael Gerk, Owen Knode, Kyle Fryrear, David Avery, Braden Plumb, Kash Workman, Avian Caldron, Victor Knapp, Gage...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs recorded their first win of the season Saturday night with a 55-47 win over the Caliche Buffaloes. The Lady Bulldogs picked up the eight-point win on their court in front of a home crowd. Week three rankings keep Haxtun in the seventh seed in all of Colorado 1A girls’ basketball action. “The girls came out strong and really wanted a win,” Head Coach Arlan Scholl said. “We played a great floor game, but a few of our shots around the basket just would not go in and Caliche got hot and hit some outside shots so the gam...
The Haxtun Bulldogs improved to 4-0 on the season while outscoring their two opponents by a combined 61 points in contests last weekend. Haxtun notched wins over Sedgwick County and Caliche to hold onto the top spot in Colorado 1A rankings and remain undefeated. "These first few weeks of the season have gone fast," said Head Coach Jayden Stieb. "We're getting as much done in practice as we can but when it comes down to it the game experience is better than any practice we can have. The boys...
Fleming's Wildcats dropped their third contest of the three-game season last weekend - this time by just four points - to the visiting Caliche Buffaloes. Two games remain on the Wildcats' agenda before Christmas break. The home team found themselves down by nine after the opening 10 minutes of play last Friday, 23-14, but closed in on seven points of that gap in the second; outscoring the Buffaloes, 20-13. Caliche remained on top at the half, 36-34. Third quarter scoring looked fairly even with...
The Sedgwick County/Fleming Wrestling team traveled to Oxford, Neb. to participate in the Southern Valley Invitational. The team finished in seventh place out of 21 teams. The team put in a good 12 hours of wrestling on the 10th of December. 106-pound sophomore Kaiden Schelling finished his day with a record of 4-1 and in second place. Kaiden defeated Coleman Chism (Waunita-Palisade) with a fall in :22. He then defeated Brody Epp (York) with a fall in :23. He lost his next match to Braxton...
