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Haxtun Future Business Leaders of America recently competed at the District Leadership Conference at Northeastern Junior College. The following students placed in the top 10: First place: Agribusiness, Brock Miller*; Website Design, Emily Anderson and Kelsie Hadeen*; Intro to Programming, Jack Feik, Zach Fryrear and Zach Statz*; Spreadsheet Applications, Kanin Koberstein*; Journalism, Kash Workman*; Introduction to FBLA, Mikayli Benson*; Electronic Career Portfolio, Samantha Seger*; Graphic...
At its Jan. 19 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners met with Mattie Haney, representing the Northeastern Junior College Foundation. She spoke about the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative and requested a letter of support from the board. She explained that Northeastern Junior College can apply for state-funded Matching Student Scholarship grants that help off-set costs of student attendance such as tuition and fees, books, room and board, etc. The NJC Foundation raises funds to provide the match funding. It applies to serve as...
Colorado State University Extension's Family and Consumer Science Department recently worked with Haxtun Elementary School's third and fourth grade students to encourage them to take a proactive approach to brain health. Recent neuroscience studies have shown that teaching children how the brain works and fostering a growth mindset can improve their motivation to learn, ability to process information and retain knowledge. Studies have also shown that engaging in art and music can promote...
Farmers who want to sell raw milk directly to consumers are one step closer to being able to do it legally. A bill co-sponsored by Senators Byron Pelton, R-Sterling, and Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, recently won a unanimous vote from the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Senate Bill 43 “is about freedom and choice” for consumers to pick the foods and beverages they want to consume and to help promote local agriculture producers, Roberts told the committee on Jan. 18. Many other states already allow for direct sales of raw mil...
I am not a big “Banquet Goer," however one banquet my family attends is the Brush Area Chamber of Commerce Ag Appreciation dinner. It is the one get-together that draws together just about every rancher and farmer in the entire area. They always put together an interesting program, vying for the attention with one thing in common with everyone else in attendance. Sometimes they bring entertainment in with guest speakers or a comedian or other forms of information. They accomplish their goal nice...
Time flies when you’re having fun, or at least when you’re a National Weather Service reporting station. For over two decades, the daily routine has included recording highs and lows from the previous weather day: precipitation amounts, wind velocities and directions and other noteworthy meteorological events. While ultimately compiled and collated with other volunteer observer sites across the nation, the original data is most often hand recorded prior to being sent in over the net. Dep...
A food emergency occurs when there is an adulteration or contamination of food, actual or threatened, that affects or may affect human health and requires immediate attention. There can be several causes of a food emergency; natural, technological/accidental, adversarial/human-caused. Some examples of these include animal disease outbreaks, wildfires, chemical spills, dam failures, cyber-attacks and biological terrorism attacks. When a food emergency first arises, a lot is going on to figure out the cause. There are investigations to see if...
13 Years Ago Feb. 8, 1939 Miss Gladys Spanjer, and Glenn C. Haynes, Haxtun young people, were married last Friday at the home of Rev. E.F. Weaver, pastor of the Brethren Church. The marriage took place at 4:30 o'clock. They were accompanied by Miss Erma Banks, Miss Della Riley, Leo Butte and Clair Spanjer. Dailey News - Mrs. A.A. Fuesz, Miss Golda Ebbert and Miss Kathryn Deboise made a business trip to Sterling Thursday afternoon. 70 years ago Feb. 10, 1954 Fleming News - Members initiated into...
It’ll be a battle against the Rams in the Lady Bulldogs’ final two regular season outings as the team preps to take on Akron and Merino this week and next. Haxtun is set to host Akron in the final regular home game this Friday night and next week, travel to take on Merino at the home of the Lady Rams. Haxtun hit the road in both of their contests last week, first traveling to Caliche to take on the Lady Buffs and the next to Wray for a match up with the Lady Eagles. The Lady Bulldogs put nine points on the board in the first quarter in Cal...
Haxtun Health has joined the Colorado ALTO (alternative to opioids) Project to reduce the administration of opioids in the hospital’s emergency department. Haxtun Health’s goal is to improve pain management for its patients and return them to a maximum quality of life while also recognizing and controlling the inherent risks of prescribing highly addictive medications like opioids. Haxtun Health’s clinicians are dedicated to understanding and responding appropriately to their patients’ physical and emotional symptoms of pain in addition to taki...
The Haxtun Bulldogs hit the road for Friday/Saturday action last weekend as the team took on Caliche and Wray in two Lower Platte League contests. With just two weeks left of the regular season, the Bulldogs are slated to take on Akron at home this week and Merino on the road the following week. Haxtun traveled to the home of the Buffs Friday night in the Bulldogs second outing with Caliche this season. The home team jumped to a six point advantage in the first quarter but the Bulldogs played tight throughout the second to find themselves down...
Phillips County Economic Impact and Opportunity scholarships are available youth of the County. The scholarship is meant to award and recognize young individuals in Phillips County who have contributed to, have the desire to or have fostered the overall economic growth, economic innovation, community development or entrepreneurial spirit of Phillips County. Nominations can be made for any youth between the ages of 12-21 who reside in Phillips County. Scholarship winners will be announced at the annual Phillips County Economic Development...
The Sedgwick County/Fleming boys’ team had a busy final week before Regionals. They hosted their last dual on Thursday, Feb. 1 in Ovid against Burns/Pine Bluffs, Wyo. They then traveled to Dayspring Christian and Yuma on Friday and Saturday for duals tournament. These meets marked the final of the regular season. Individual results for wrestlers competing against Burns/Pine Bluffs out of Haxtun and Fleming are as follows: 120-pound Kaiden Schelling won by forfeit. 125-pound Coleman Firme won by forfeit. 132-pound Gage Helgoth pinned Caysen R...
The Fleming Lady Wildcats returned to their home court last weekend after being on the road for the three consecutive games prior. Fleming hosted the Weldon Valley Lady Warriors for a league contest on Friday and hosted Genoa-Hugo/Karval on Saturday afternoon. Fleming's offense hit 76 points on Friday night against Weldon Valley who managed just 21 total points. Several Lady Wildcat players saw double digits in that contest with sophomore Brooke Schaefer leading the charge at 16 points. Senior...
The Fleming Wildcats added a league victory over the Weldon Valley Warriors last Friday at Fleming. The team suffered a loss to the Genoa-Hugo Pirates the following night at home. Fleming took control over Weldon Valley in the first quarter on Friday night and maintained the lead throughout the game. They finished with an 8-point upper hand, 40-32. Senior David Betley led the Wildcats in points, rebounds and steals with 11, seven and four, respectively. Freshmen Dane Cunningham and Treyson...
Quentin Walter "Bud" Biesemeier passed on peacefully Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 at the Haxtun Hospital Extended Care Unit at the age of 93. Bud was born Nov. 11, 1930 to Walter and Emma (Finkner) Biesemeier at the then-family home in Paoli. Bud and his sisters, Edith and JoAnn, and their parents moved several times during his early years, until Walt purchased the farm site southwest of Paoli in 1942. This would become Bud's permanent home for the next 60 years. Bud attended school at the Broadway Scho...
