Articles from the June 3, 2020 edition
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Season opens at PCR
HAXTUN'S MATT FIRME stands in for his interview as a top-three placer in front of the grandstands at the Phillips County Raceway in Holyoke Saturday. The 2020 race season opened at PCR on Friday...
By Variance approval allows for start of race season
Many of the topics of conversation at Phillips County Commissioner meetings over the month of May pertained to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, upcoming events and a variance request by the County from a public health order set by the State. The...
Gift fund reaches $19,300 for local COVID-19 relief efforts
When it comes time to help, Haxtun residents never fail to do so and when the recent pandemic occurred and the call went out to help those affected most, that’s exactly what happened. Many local businesses were forced to shut their doors for the p...
Cockroft and Goemmer honored as Rising Stars at Northeastern
Northeastern Junior College recently announced that Garrett Cockroft and Fallon Goemmer were selected as recipients of the Rising Star Award by the Colorado Community College System and the State Stud...
HEA rallies members and elected officials to have a say in PUC actions
The local electric cooperative in Northeastern Colorado, Highline Electric Association is urging members and elected officials to voice their frustration with the Colorado Public Utility Commission’s recent actions to exclude participation from m...
Patterson joins BOCES as Special Ed Director
Michelle Patterson joins the Northeast Colorado Board of Cooperative Educational Services team as the Director of Special Education. The Northeast BOCES provides cooperative educational services for...
General Assembly returns following 10-week COVID hiatus
The Colorado General Assembly returned after a 10-week hiatus to do the one thing they're required to do every year by the State Constitution: pass a balanced State budget. It got off to a somewhat...
HHS releases honor rolls
Haxtun High School recently released the list of students who qualified for the principal and superintendent’s honor roll for the second semester of the 2019-20 school year. Principal’s Honor Roll Those on the Principal’s honor roll with a grade poin...
Son Up to Son Down
Since the weather has gotten nicer, we’ve been spending a ton of time outside. My boys could be out there from sunrise to sunset just digging in the dirt, playing on their playground or roaming the p...
Fearless Faith
Creating personal space and time away from everyday life has always been an important self-care concept, one that is also recognized scripturally. Nevertheless, the world-wide pandemic is now fully pr...
Under the Wire
Think you’ve got a bad job? Join the club. Nearly everybody, at one time or another, decides they must have the world’s worst job. Heck, I have those thoughts from time to time ... and I don’t even ha...
85 years ago - May 29, 1935
13 years ago - May 29, 1935 The Haxtun Harvest The Lutheran Church at Haxtun, which has been closed during the past three years except for occasional services, will be opened the early part of June...
Grass website offers tools for livestock producers
The question is on the top of ranchers’ minds right now; how much grass will we have this summer? Overall, it was dry last fall, over the winter and so far, this spring. How much grass will there be this summer? Directly related to that question, how...
Carl Etl
Carl Paul Etl entered into eternal life on Saturday, May 23, 2020 at the age of 92. He was born on Aug. 15, 1927 to Paul and Sophie (Riter) Etl. Carl grew up on the family farm south of Fleming in the...
Joan Starns
Joan Starns passed away on Friday, May 29, 2020 at her home in Haxtun at the age of 83. Joan Jacqueline Cowen was born Jan. 1, 1937 in Ft. Morgan to Glen Howard Cowen and Gladys Almira (Harding) Cowen...
