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The Frenchman School District in Fleming sought out a bond to match possible grant funds for a new school building in the Nov. 5 general election. The 4D bond issue on the ballot didn't pass, however, the school district plans to move forward in the BEST grant application process. In his superintendent's report to the Board in a Tuesday evening, Nov. 19 meeting, Steve McCracken thanked those who supported 4D as well as those who worked to get the question on the ballot. The bond, if it had been...
Haxtun Health recently made the final payment of a 2013 bond obligation. Chief Operating Officer Julia Biesemeier, acting as Chief Executive Officer, made announcement of the final payment in a November month-end meeting of the Board of Directors. Biesemeier continues to fill in for CEO duties in the absence of an executive in the Haxtun Health organization since the resignation of Dewane Pace in October. Biesemeier said that Haxtun Health recently made a final payment of $80,000, officially...
If it were put into a book, perhaps it would be titled simply NINE and contain exactly 332 pages. It took the 2024 Haxtun Bulldogs precisely 332 days to write their own story in a run for the school's ninth football title. On Friday, Nov. 29 at Dutch Clark Stadium in Pueblo, the story was finished, the book compete. The Haxtun Bulldogs are Champions, once again. The Bulldogs' story isn't that of love but rather starts out tragic - ending in triumph, right where it all began. Haxtun's football...
Nine members of the Haxtun Bulldog football team earned All-Conference accolades for their performances on the 2024 State Championship team. The Bulldogs went 12-1 this season, finishing with an 8-man State title last week. Seniors Grant Statz, Ryland Wolff, Ryan Davis and Tate Michael along with juniors Zach Statz and Colin Cone received All-Conference designations. Senior Brandon Nall and juniors Seth Seger and Cole Firme were named All-Conference, Honorable Mention. Post-season honors are dec...
By Candie Fix [email protected] Four Lady Bulldogs received post-season honors at the conclusion of the 2024 volleyball season. Haxtun made a run at the 2A State Tournament, ending the season with a top six finish. All-Conference honors are decided by vote of head coaches from each team's respective league. Head coaches nominate players from their team for post-season honors and then other head coaches from the Lower Platte League vote on final designations. Seniors Bobbi Starkebaum and...
Christmas is less than a month away, so that means Santa will make his appearance in Haxtun very soon. Haxtun’s Hometown Christmas is slated for Tuesday, Dec. 3. The annual event promises opportunities for local shopping, visits with Santa and a hearty chili supper at the fire hall. The event is sponsored by the Haxtun Chamber of Commerce. The Haxtun Fire Hall will set the scene for Santa’s visit the first week in December. Along with the annual chili supper beginning at 5 p.m., Santa is set...
Haxtun High School's gym will receive a major facelift next summer. The local board of education approved hiring Top Notch Painting for the gym painting project in a meeting early last week. In addition to the approval of the painting project, the Haxtun Board of Education approved several substitute positions and reviewed the 2023-24 audit. At the start of the Tuesday, Nov. 19 meeting, board of education members heard an audit presentation for the 2023-24 year from Auditor Scott Szabo....
The Haxtun Bulldogs are one step closer to their ultimate goal with a 28-8 semifinals win over Mancos at home on Saturday. The victory over the Bluejays punches Haxtun's ticket to the 8-man State finals, the third appearance for the Bulldogs in the past four years. The first of the Bulldog's two main goals this season was a League Championship, which the team secured at the end of the regular season. The next is a State Championship and it's within arms reach. The energy was pure electric as...
Chris Kelley is Phillips County's new Veteran's Service Officer. Kelley took over his new role with the County on Nov. 1 as an appointment made by the Phillips County Commissioners. Kelley grew up in Central, Nebraska and moved to Haxtun with his family when his wife, Holly, took a position with Haxtun Schools as the Family Consumer Science Teacher. After high school, Kelley served active duty with the United States Marine Corps from 1996-1998. He served as a Lance Corporal before he was involun...
The Monday night, Nov. 4 meeting of the Haxtun Town Council opened with a number of public hearings, including several to consider liquor licensing requests for special events and a retail liquor license. The November meeting opened with roll call, Pledge of Allegiance and approval of the agenda and consent agenda. At the start of the meeting, Andy Wernsman addressed the local Council during the public comment portion of the meeting. Wernsman, with the First National Bank of Fleming, spoke to...
The Bulldogs put up a dominating performance against Sanford in quarterfinals action on Saturday with a 46-point win that advances the team to the semifinals round of 8-man playoff action. The home field victory over Sanford leaves Haxtun 10-1 on the season and on a 10-game winning streak. For the second time this season, the Bulldogs met up with the Mustangs on the gridiron, this time in Haxtun with the Mustangs making the nearly 400 mile, one way trip. The two met initially on Sept. 13 in the...
Only six teams remain in each classification's bracket as of Saturday morning of the Colorado State Volleyball tournament and in their first year returning to 2A, the Lady Bulldogs were one of the top six teams in the State. Haxtun entered the 2024 playoff bracket as the ninth ranked team following a Region 12 Championship just three days prior to the start of the Colorado State Volleyball Tournament. Haxtun's road at the State Tournament started early on Thursday morning as the ninth ranked...
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. 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 County. According to the local police department, Saign is required to register quarterly....
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,...
Chief Operating Officer Julia Biesemeier continues acting duties in the absence of a chief executive officer at Haxtun Health. Biesemeier gave the Haxtun Health Board Directors a lengthy report in October's month-end meeting, updating members on a recent pharmacy inspection, status of the main street clinic construction, general operations and impacts to the organization due to recent flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. The State Board of Pharmacy was on site in Haxtun for an unannounced...
Tijana Milojevic and Madalina Cara are two 16-year-old girls visiting Fleming High School through the Future Leaders Exchange Program and while just four short months ago the two were complete strangers, they now live with the same host family and attend the same small high school, thousands of miles away from their home countries, forming a bond through an experience of a lifetime. The Future Leaders Exchange Program, or FLEX, is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program funded by the...
The Haxtun Bulldogs are the 2024 Plains League Champions. The team clinched the title following a 32-6 win over Sedgwick County on Friday night. The championship marks the Bulldog's third in the last four years. "Our League is special, proof of that is 90 percent of the State Championships have come out of it over the last 35 years," Bulldog Head Coach JD Stone said. "Winning our third league title in the last four years is very special to us, it was a major goal of ours, but it isn't our...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs are headed into post-season play this weekend. The volleyball team secured the 13th seed in a 36 team regional bracket released earlier this week by the Colorado High School Activities Association. The Lady Bulldogs are set to travel to the home of the Denver Christian Thunder on Saturday for Region 12 play along with Custer County. The three teams will play on Saturday with the winner advancing to the State Tournament slated for Nov. 14-16 at the Denver Coliseum....
Twenty-two Fleming High School students are taking college classes through Northeastern Junior College this semester through the concurrent enrollment program. Those 22 students are enrolled in 84 credit hours at the local college. The Frenchman Board of Education in Fleming voted in a Oct. 22 meeting to approve an invoice with NJC for concurrent enrollment for $14,204 for those 84 credits. According to Fleming Superintendent Steve McCracken, the majority of the classes are held on NJC's...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs added their 14th win of the season at home with a sweep over Dayspring Christian Academy on Friday, Oct. 25. According to the Colorado High School Activity Association's weekly rankings released on Monday, Oct. 28, the Lady Bulldogs are 11th in 2A. This week they are set to take on the second ranked Sedgwick County Lady Cougars in the final regular season outing on the road Friday night. Haxtun picked up a 25-9 set one win on Friday and rolled on with 25-13 and 25-11...
The Haxtun Bulldogs remain the top team in the Lower Platte and unbeaten in the league following a 62-0 home win over Dayspring Christian Academy at Adam Wernsman Field on Friday night. Thus far, the Bulldogs have allowed only six points in league play while putting 180 on the scoreboard. Haxtun faces their final league opponent this week with a contest on the road against Sedgwick County. The Bulldogs came out hot against the Eagles from Dayspring Christian Academy in the final regular season...
The recent October student count and armed school personnel update topped notable topics in the superintendent's report at the most recent Haxtun Board of Education meeting. The Wednesday, Oct. 16 meeting, featuring a short, two action item agenda, consisted mostly of staff reports in the hour-long gathering in the school library. Superintendent Aron Jones said a recent parent survey was in clear favor of armed school personnel on Haxtun's campus, with an 83.9 percent approval. He noted there...
The Haxtun Lady Bulldogs improved to 13-5 with a sweep over Kimball, Neb. at home on Thursday evening, Oct. 17. Of the team's handful of losses this season, three are to teams ranked in the top eight of their respective classifications, the other losses are to two teams who are among the top 20 in their classification. According to Colorado High School Activities Association weekly rankings released on Monday, Oct. 21, the Lady Bulldogs sit 10th in all of Colorado 2A. Simla currently holds the...
Upcoming elections, preliminary budget discussions, municipal code codification and an economic incentive application are all agenda topics that drew attention of Town Council members in a recent October meeting. Council members met for a regular monthly meeting on Monday, Oct. 7 at the Haxtun Town Hall. As the first item of business, the Haxtun Town Council voted to cancel the Nov. 5 municipal election and in doing so, declared three candidates elected for positions on the Council. Those...
