Articles from the January 13, 2021 edition
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Superb spellers
HAXTUN ELEMENTARY and junior high hosted the annual Spelling Bee before the holiday break with Taylor Frank taking honors as top speller of the bee. Others who placed and will advance to the Regional...
By Haxtun Town Council votes to give $1,000 donation to pool fund; fund stands at $82,500
Lori Lundgren, Mayor Pro-Tem, presided over the first Haxtun Town Council meeting of the new year in absence of Haxtun Mayor Brandon Biesemeier. Council members met on Monday, Jan. 4 at the Haxtun Community Center to better practice social...
County distributes nearly $150,000 in COVID relief funds
Phillips County has distributed close to $150,000 in COVID relief funds to local businesses. That money has been given as grant funds to Phillips County businesses who applied for funding through the County’s application process. Word of distribution...
Saturday clinic, new providers now available at Haxtun Health
Haxtun Health is always striving to provide the best quality healthcare for our community and that begins with offering an array of healthcare services at convenient, accessible times. After listening to the needs of our community, the hours for the...
Fearless Faith
The checklist began before sundown by syncing the six by 24 mm finder scope with the primary barrel of the five inch (127 mm) equatorial Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. Lightweight and efficient, it...
Under the Wire
What’s in a name? Well, for some a lot more than was intended. Among the hundred or so emails my office computer attracts each day came a prime example of perhaps too much or too little thought g...
Extension Spotlight
As we look forward to a new year with excitement for new opportunities, it can be important to look back into the past as well. The past can not only teach us but can inspire us, especially when...
Times Past
13 Years Ago Jan. 8, 1936 Harvest subscription campaign brought to a sensational close Saturday night: Mrs. A. R. Haskins and Mrs. Ella Sharpe win new Chevrolet cars. Checks amounting to 10 percent...
Premier FC to return $4.5 million to member-owners in early 2021
Local ag-lending cooperative Premier Farm Credit has announced that they will mail $4.5 million in Cash Patronage Dividend checks to their member-owners in early 2021. “Getting a Cash Patronage Dividend check shows that the borrowers of Premier F...
Special visitors
BUD BIESEMEIER holds a small goat the Haxtun Health Extended Care Unit in late December. The kids belong to Cyd and Pat Dick and family who brought them in for residents to enjoy....
Eric Kipp
Eric Allen Kipp passed away Dec. 14, 2020 in Chappell, Neb. with longtime girlfriend Lori by his side. Eric was born May 1, 1971 in Wray to Frank Allen Kipp and Mary (Riggs) Kipp. He was a lifelong re...
Thomas Davis
Thomas Duane Davis died on Jan. 7, 2021 while in care at the North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley due to complications with COVID. Tom was born on Nov. 24, 1947 in Haxtun to his parents Andrew and...
Evelyn Berdine Koberstein
Evelyn Berdine (North) Koberstein was called to the heavenly garden on Dec. 18, 2020 at the age of 90. Berdine was born to Claude V. and Goldie E. (Hall) Koberstein on June 10, 1930 in Phillips County. She spent her childhood southwest of Holyoke in...
Mable Postal
Mable Louise Postal, a resident of Brighton for more than 50 years, died Dec. 10, 2020 of natural causes at the home of her nephew in Westminster. She was 93. Mable was born to G. J. "Joe" Moon and...
Leonard Anderson
Leonard Lee Anderson died Dec. 22, 2020 at Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center in Brush at the age of 88. He was born Oct. 19, 1932 on his grandmother's (Lola Griebel Anderson) homestead north of Webster,...
Kenneth Salyards
Kenneth Laverne Salyards passed away Jan. 6, 2021 at the Haxtun Hospital at the age of 92. He was born in Haxtun on April 23, 1928, the son of Lloyd and Anna (Holmes) Salyards. Ken attended schools in...
Darrell Hiatt
Darrell Russell Hiatt passed away on Nov. 28, 2020 at Melissa Memorial Hospital at the age of 88. He was born Nov. 24, 1932 to Wayne and Doris Hiatt in Ovid. Darrell married Jean Hettrich on June 27,...
