Articles from the March 21, 2024 edition
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Sonnenberg, Harvey, Boebert top vote-getters at Congressional District Four Candidate Forum
When Colorado Congressman Ken Buck announced on Nov. 1, 2023 that he would not seek another term for office, there was no shortage of interested individuals coming forward to vie for his 4th Congressi...
PC voters favor Biden, Trump in primary election
Information made available from the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, as of March 15, indicates a Phillips County voter turnout of 52.92 percent of active voters for the March 5 presidential primary election. This exceeds the statewide voter t...
A top Colorado farming region is running out of water, must retire land to avoid well shutdown
For 17 years, Nate Midcap has spent his winters traveling hundreds of miles across the plains of northeastern Colorado to measure how far water levels have fallen in farmers' wells. In bad years, he...
Two of three appointees approved; Skiba withdraws nomination
Two of the Governor’s three appointees to the state Parks and Wildlife Commission won Senate approval, but not without a fight. And the third — acknowledged as the author of the state’s wolf restoration ballot measure — withdrew his nominat...
Under the Wire
Of all the “doms” out there, kingdom, freedom, maximum, on and on, boredom is the one kicking my rear right now! It is 69 degrees right now, frozen stock tanks are off the list as are shutting down th...
Fearless Faith
Overwhelming is only one of many descriptors assigned to the world today. News images and stories are at times both horrific and disappointing. We face the stark fact that in successive generation...
Relentless Gardener
Birds have different niches in which each family of birds needs shelter and food. The key to developing great habitats for birds is to have a diversity of specific plants for the types of birds that visit your yard. It doesn’t require scrapping w...
Capital Review
Remember when Democrats fiercely defended freedom of speech and freedom of expression with few limitations? That was when Colorado Democrats still had to compete with Republicans for statewide elected offices and legislative majorities. Having graspe...
Extension Spotlight
The pictures, video and news reports coming out of western Nebraska and the Texas Panhandle this week are another eye opener of the destructive power of wildfire. Homes, farms, ranches, pastures, fences, crops and livestock all lost in a matter of...
Times Past
13 Years Ago March 22, 1939 Proposing that school districts in the west end of Phillips County withdraw from the county high school system and form a union high school at Haxtun, local sponsors of...
Six Fleming student-athletes earn basketball All-Conference honors
Six Fleming Wildcat student-athletes recently earned All-Conference designations following the completion of this year's basketball season. Four members of the Lady Wildcat squad that finished their...
Fleming Track and Field
FLEMING WILDCAT track team members are pictured front row (l-r), Hayley Chamberlain, Brooke Schaefer, Emoree Lousberg, Hadley Stull, Ciana Lousberg and Lu Echevarrieta; middle row (l-r), MadiKay...
Bulldog Baseball
THE REIGNING STATE Champion Haxtun Bulldog baseball team members are pictured front row (l-r), Zach Statz, Trevon Thayer, Ryan Davis, Coleman Firme, Zach Fryrear, Kanin Koberstein, Aspen Starkebaum,...
Bulldog Track and Field
HAXTUN BULLDOG track team members are pictured front row (l-r), Callum Mackay, McKenleigh Payne, Lexi Imhof, Blake Michael, Jinjer Stroyek, Annie Wilson, Emma Lemesany, Serenity Dick and Kaiya Hall;...
