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The Haxtun Health Board of Directors selected a concrete company to move forward with a project to replace three parking lots at the main hospital campus. The Board of Directors voted, on Aug. 26, to go with L.E.C. Construction out of Greeley to begin the first of three phases to replace the north, south and emergency room parking lots at the main hospital campus. In addition to that vote by the Board, Chief Executive Office Dewane Pace announced the promotion of Julia Biesemeier to Chief...
Food service funding, current school year numbers, new hires and the approval of several invoices were all topics of reports and action items during an Aug. 28 meeting of the Frenchman Board of Education in the Fleming School/Community Library last week. The Board approved several 140-day staff agreements as well as named two as critical shortage teachers. The August board meeting opened with reports from staff members now that staff are back in the building following summer break. Food Service...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs may have had a slow 0-2 start in their first outing this season but they came back with a vengeance, picking up four wins on the road last week. The Bulldogs took down Holyoke on Thursday and later defeated Otis, Dayspring Christian Academy and Arickaree in tournament play at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling on Saturday. The 4-0 week puts the team at 4-2 on the season as the Lady Bulldogs prepare for their home opener against Wichita County on Friday. Haxtun...
The 2024-25 school year is off and running and as students returned to the classroom in August, five new staff members joined the list of Fleming faculty members who welcomed them back. New staff members include Ashley Steward, Junior High English and Elementary Physical Education; Sheila McCabe, Junior High and High School Science; Gentry Etl, First Grade; Nate Japp, Construction Trades; and Bethany Nicolet, School Counselor. Fleming students in grades fourth through 12th returned for the fall...
Haxtun's new junior high social studies teacher Dylan Huss is one of four new teachers at Haxtun Schools this fall. Huss along with Collyn Heinz, Riley Thompson and Jessica Japp, joined Haxtun faculty in welcoming students to the classroom for the 2024-25 year in mid-August. Huss grew up in Iliff and graduated from Caliche High School in 2020. He attended Northeastern Junior College and later the University of Northeastern Colorado in Greeley where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in...
Administration updates and reports and a single action item is all that board of education members tended to in a mid-August meeting lasting just 35 minutes in the high school library last week. The Haxtun Board of Education approved a lengthy list of staff assignments and heard detailed reports from Superintendent Aron Jones and Elementary Principal Becky Heinz on Tuesday, Aug. 20. In doing so, the Board reviewed preliminary enrollment numbers for the current year, took the next step in...
The Bulldog football team kicked off the 2024 season in the exact same place the 2023 season ended ... in the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl. Haxtun took on Melrose, New Mexico's 2023 8-man State Champions, in the season opener on Friday night, Aug. 23. Last year's season came to a close in the 8-man State Championship where the Bulldogs earned a Runner-Up title in the ThunderBowl. Seven seniors lead this year's 32-member roster that includes five returning starters on defense and six on offense. Head...
After nine months of off season work the Haxtun Lady Bulldogs return to the volleyball court. The team took the court this past Saturday in the annual Sedgwick County tournament were they faced off against Sedgwick County and Briggsdale to kick off the 2024 season. Six seniors top the list of the 31-member roster this year. The varsity line up brings back six with starting experience. Head Coach Don Schelling said his varsity team attended a camp in western Colorado over the summer and later...
By Candie Fix [email protected] Four new teachers joined staff at Haxtun Schools who welcomed students back to school last week. High school and junior high students returned to school on Aug. 13 and elementary students started the 2024-25 school year on Aug. 15 following several days of fall assessments. Collyn Heinz, Riley Thompson, Jessica Japp and Dylan Huss join the faculty at Haxtun Schools as new staff this year. All take on new and various roles throughout the building teaching...
The Haxtun Police Department re-registered a sex offender living within Haxtun's city limits. Steven Michael Saign lives in the 200 block of North Wallace Avenue. According to the local police department, Saign is a dual resident, meaning he is registered at two locations; one on North Wallace Avenue and a another on County Road 7 in Phillips County. This is his required quarterly registration. Saign was convicted of sex assault on a child and sex assault on a child, age 15-18, by someone in a position of trust on Nov. 29, 2012 in El Paso...
Voters within the Frenchman School District boundaries will see a ballot question in November regarding matching funds on a possible BEST grant to construct a new school building. The ballot measure, and the decision to move forward in the pursuit of a new school building, follows a recent survey. According to information from Fleming Superintendent Steve McCracken, the District recently sent a survey through ALMA, the student information software. The results of that survey, he said, were 70...
A unanimous vote by the Haxtun Town Council approved a request from CHS, Cenex Zip Trip for a liquor license on Monday night, Aug. 5. The vote, performed by roll call by Mayor Pro Tem Lori Lundgren, came following a public hearing the same night. The Monday evening meeting opened with public comment from Doug Henderson with CHS's Cenex Zip Trip store #78 in Haxtun. He said the store submitted an application for a fermented malt beverage and wine retail license in light of the current situation...
Haxtun's first ever community calendar is hot off the press and will be available at back to school night next week. Release of calendars will be held in conjunction with Haxtun School's back to school night for students in grades kindergarten through sixth on Aug. 13. Community calendars are a product of the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce and the work of Director Jessica Ayala with help from the staff at The Haxtun-Fleming Herald and Haxtun Schools. Calendars will first be placed on the desks of...
Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace told Haxtun Health board members about new psychiatry services offered on campus, reported the addition of new testing equipment in the laboratory and gave a tentative opening date for the new main street clinic in downtown Haxtun. The news of an opening this fall came during a July 22 Board of Directors meeting in the upstairs meeting room of the Extended Care Unit. Pace said as of last week, Haxtun Health administration plans to open the main street clinic...
FACS teacher and FCCLA adviser Holly Kelley presented to the Haxtun Board of Education in a mid-July meeting. The meeting was the first for new Superintendent Aron Jones and while short, contained a wealth of information and several staff appointments before school starts in less than a month. Kelly gave the Board an overview of both her Family and Consumer Science clases and the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America club she oversees throughout the year. As for FACS, Kelley said her...
July first marked the beginning of Aron Jones' career at Haxtun Schools. The new superintendent is in his first few weeks in his new role at Haxtun and already meeting staff, colleagues, students and community members in preparation for the year ahead. Jones officially signed a one-year contract following a lengthy superintendent search this spring. "I am excited for students and teachers to be here," Jones said from his Haxtun High School office last week. "I am excited for kids to be here,...
It's fitting that Jerry and Vernette Haynes will be honored as grand marshals of the 2024 Phillips County Fair - it's the same county fair that brought the two together over 40 years ago, creating a lasting legacy of passion, service and dedication to the youth of Phillips County and those surrounding it. The Haynes' are no strangers to the grand marshal honor as the pair were named the same for Sedgwick County's fair last year. Jerry, who had just returned to Holyoke from college, was serving...
It’s mid-July and that means Haxtun’s Old-Fashioned Saturday Night is just around the corner. The 37th annual event is slated for Saturday, July 20 in downtown Haxtun and promises the popular car show as well as town-wide garage sales, poker run, vendors, burnout competition, valve cover races, beer garden and more. Saturday morning’s activities kick off with town-wide garage sales. Thus far, more than 33 locations have registered to host garage sales around Haxtun. Maps for garage sale sites will be available the day of at Haxtun Super’s and Z...
Things are moving along with Haxtun Health's main street clinic project. In a late June meeting of the Haxtun Health Board of Directors, Project Manager Mike Ensminger gave an update on construction progress. According to the update information, window frames have been installed and Skarco is in the process of installing glass now. Several of the windows are complete at this point. Now that all the window frames are in and glass is being installed, crews will finish brick work with window sills....
The Haxtun Town Council acted on a special events liquor permit for Old-Fashioned Saturday Night and approved an intergovernmental agreement with the Phillips County Clerk for November elections during July's monthly meeting on the 1st. The Council met at the Town Hall in a short, 40-minute mid-summer meeting. With the exception of Council Member Bob Coinek, who was absent, a nearly full board reviewed documents submitted by the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce for a special events liquor permit for...
Fleming School is adding a Construction Trades program for high school students. The addition of construction course work comes following a vote in a late-June meeting by the Board of Education. According to Superintendent Steve McCracken, the construction trades class will teach students the skills needed to enter the carpentry industry. Students will learn all phases of residential home construction including foundation preparation, framing, electrical, plumbing and finish work. "We are...
The Haxtun Board of Education officially announced results of the recent BEST grant cycle and although the District did not receive funds this year, plans are to continue to move forward with applying again in 2025. "The Haxtun Board of Education regrets to inform our community that we did not receive the 2024 BEST grant, but we are committed to improving our facilities and learning environment for our students and will continue to re-apply in the next BEST grant cycle," said an official...
The fourth of July marks the debut of the Bulldog Putting Greens, a new disk golf course at the Haxtun Park. The course is the final product of work by Trey Bivins, who has been instrumental in the design and install stages. Disk golf is a game in which a frisbee is thrown into a series of metal baskets situated on an outdoor course. The object is to complete the course using the fewest possible throws. It is played using similar rules to golf. The first tee of the Bulldog Putting Greens is...
The Town of Haxtun's emergency siren system is getting a much needed update. With grant funds from FEMA, Town crews will begin tearing down and preparing for the installation of new sirens next week. Haxtun Police Administrative Clerk Vickie Freemyer submitted a grant for funds to replace the current 50+ year-old sirens system. Grant funds were awarded on Dec. 14, 2023 with a 90/10 split. The total cost of the project is expected to be $49,078; of that, FEMA will cover $44,170, 90 percent of...
Haxtun's 2024 summer ball program etched it's place in history last week with a complete sweep of the Border League softball and baseball tournaments. Haxtun teams claimed championship titles in both the 9-12 and 13-16 softball brackets as well as the pee-wee, little league and babe ruth brackets. Softball tournaments were played Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Oshkosh, Neb. while baseball played Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Chappell, Neb. The 9-12 softball team, led by Noah Toops and...
