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  • Gallery Tour planned for this Sunday at Phillips County Museum

    Jean Gray, Museum Volunteer|Sep 19, 2024

    For a current look at historic photos and artistic endeavors the place to be on Sunday, Sept. 22, is at the Phillips County Museum. The event, planned that afternoon from 1:30-4:30 p.m., represents the first ever Gallery Tour at the museum located at 109 S. Campbell in Holyoke. The Gallery includes artwork and photography from many late area artists, photographers and collectors. Each person attending the tour receives a brochure with information about each piece and there will also be museum...

  • Phillips Co. Museum receives couple's gift & creations for display

    Jean Gray, Special to The Herald|Apr 24, 2024

    On Wednesday, April 15, Phillips County Museum volunteers, Carol Haynes and Hilda Hassler, opened a box of gifts sent to the museum by Jeffery and Ina Clem of Penrose. The box contained a "double wedding ring" quilt, plus an assortment of handcrafted knives and a cribbage board made from rocks and wildlife antlers. Ina (Matney) Clem is the daughter of Reverend Mark and Jean Matney, who served the Buffalo Grass Church of the Nazarene, Haxtun, from November 1982 until their retirement from...

  • "Sew Blessed" group seeks to aid young and old using recycled items

    Jean Gray, Special to the Herald|Mar 1, 2023

    Each Monday a group of women gather in the Haxtun Church of The Brethren basement with a spiritual presence that involves sewing, recycling and laughter. The resulting projects offer more benefit than these simplistic descriptions. The women working under the moniker "Sew Blessed," spend each Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. sewing items that serve youngsters and the elderly here at home and young people around the world. The sewers recycle items such as t-shirts and pillowcases to create new...

  • Corn Festival & Fran Gilliland turn 101

    Jean Gray and Candie Fix, HF Herald|Sep 14, 2022

    For all of Fran Gilliland's 101 years, she's lived in a small town. Fran was born in rural northeast Nebraska and later moved with her husband, Keith, and then two high school aged daughters to Haxtun where she continues to reside today, at home, with the help of her daughter Cindy. Fran turned 101 on Sept. 8 and in just two weeks, she will lead the parade as Grand Marshal of the 101st annual Haxtun Corn Festival. An honor just one Haxtun citizen holds; being the same age as the community's...

  • Fran Gilliland happily remains a "small-town girl" after 100 years

    Jean Gray, Special to the Herald|Mar 9, 2022

    Fran (Ruzicka) Gilliland lived the first 20-plus years of her life in Plainview, a town with a population of just over 1,300 that is "tucked" into the northeast corner of Nebraska between South Dakota and Iowa. Fran, a tiny woman with a huge personality, now lives in Haxtun, a small town that is "tucked" into the northeast corner of Colorado between Wyoming and Nebraska. She said she started life as a small-town girl and is happy to say she remains one although at times during the interim of...

  • Haxtun's Jeane Brundige continues a life well lived at 100 plus

    Jean Gray, Special to the Herald|Mar 2, 2022

    One hundred years spans a lifetime and a quarter for most people, but for Jeane (Beckman) Brundige that 100 years represents one lifetime well lived. That message came through the vast number of greetings written in her 100th Birthday gift book laid out at a party held in the dining room in the Haxtun Health Extended Care Unit to celebrate Jeane's 100th birthday on Jan. 17, 2022. One of those greetings indicates the affection Jeane's daughter-in-law Jody feels for her. "A life lived to its...

  • Church of the Brethren offers a safe place for all age groups to gather

    Jean Gray, Special to the Herald|Feb 16, 2022

    The Haxtun community offers options these days for hosting community events, including two fine school gyms and an elegant community center. That was not the case in the 1920s and 1930s when the large capacity of the Haxtun Church of the Brethren building served the community by hosting events such as eighth grade commencement, high school graduation, funerals and marriages. Today, the school, other local churches and the community center meet the space requirements for those events, but there...

  • Haxtun resident Jim LaJudes finds Open Mic to showcase talent

    Jean Gray, Special to the Herald|Feb 26, 2020

    Jim LaJudes' life on the High Plains of Colorado, where his is surrounded by prairie grass and farm ground, could be likened to his being "a fish out of water." In Jim's case, however, he is a surfer without an ocean and a musician with limited venues. Still, Jim says he loves the small town of Haxtun where he and his wife Janene now live. And, although he may find surfing a difficult sport to participate in without an ocean, he always brings his music with him. Jim's music comes through a...