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Bulldog athletes compete again HAXTUN GRADUATES Isaac Andersen, Taylor Schram, Owen Knode and Allie Thompson took part in the Colorado High School Coaches Association All-State games in Pueblo last week. Andersen played football, Schram and Thompson participated in volleyball and Knode competed in basketball. Andersen's team won, the girls' volleyball participants placed third and Knode's basketball team won. The CHSCA All-State Games is a capstone event for top senior athletes to represent...
The Fleming Town Council met for their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 8 at the Fleming Town Hall. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Stefan Betley at 6:30 p.m. The following council members were present: Andrew Muller, Bill Landridge, Suzanne Wales, Alex Gapter and Bonnie Jackson. Cathy Castillo was absent. Also present were Ken MacCrone (left at 6:40 p.m.), Jeff Schiel (left at 6:45 p.m.), Keith Beck, Joelle Gapter, Lewis Frank, Mathias Wales, Tola Wales, Michelle Asfeld and Sandy Nichols (arrived at 7 p.m., left at 7:12...
PAM HOLCOMB, cook at Chandler's Bar and Grill in downtown Haxtun, took top-10 honors in the Cash-Wa Distributing recipe contest with her breakfast calzone entry. For her top placing in the contest, Holcomb won a cash price and was recognized with a letter from Cash-Wa's Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Marketing, Michelle Harter. Holcomb's breakfast calzone, featuring a country gravy dipping sauce, will be on the menu at Chandler's Bar and Grill later this week....
Colorado Girls State is a statewide program sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary with a goal to provide an outstanding, unique and coveted educational opportunity for the young women of our nation that instills the basic ideals and principles of American government through the American Legion Auxiliary Girls State and American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation citizenship training programs. The Girls State program is honored and blessed to be recognized as an amazing leadership and...
Friday, June 10 marked 30 days since the end of the 2022 General Assembly session and the deadline for all bills sent to the governor to be signed, vetoed or become law without his signature. The General Assembly introduced 657 bills during its 120-day session that began on Jan. 12. Of those bills, 144 were lost, leaving 513 headed to the governor’s desk. Governor Jared Polis vetoed four bills in the weeks following the May 11 adjournment: • House Bill 1218 would have required certain commercial and multifamily dwellings to install ele...
JESSIE Bornhoft and Joel Muller, Fleming High School graduates, received the Fleming Library Associations Scholarships. Both Bornhoft and Muller participated in Library programs such as summer reading and Dr. Suess nights. While in high school, the two also helped in the library with various activities. Fleming's preschool class, who will move up to Kindergarten next year, received certificates and library cards. Those pictured include (l-r), Preschool Aide Alex Bandy, Robby Robbins, Xander...
These days, every new idea seems to involve the internet or a computer. That is, every new idea by everyone but me. While the rest of the world seems to think only in terms of e-mail, Web sites and Dot coms, I remain a hold out for hammer, nails, post holes and ideas that involve sweat. I’m never going to change the world with my ideas, therefore, to survive I had better join into this new way of thinking. I’ve decided to get modern, get hep, get digital or whatever you call today’s thinking All...
It is a good thing that we don’t have crystal balls. They would come to define our health, our mental prowess and our schedule in unhealthy ways. We would become calendar watchers consumed with fear, unable to stave off impending calamity while blaming others for our sorry lot in life. How fortunate we are, then, to rest innocently in the tension of knowing and not knowing. We are creatures in search of equilibrium, a challenging quest in a busy complicated world. That is not to say we should s...
Letter to the Editor, I encourage you to vote for Jessie Vance for House District 63. Jessie is a rock solid conservative. He is pro-gun (NRA A rating), pro-Life and pro-Trump. I have worked with Jessie for the last few years while he was Chairman of the Yuma County Republicans and I was vice-chair. I know that he is committed to our conservative values, rural Colorado and electing Republicans. Under his leadership we flipped the long held by democrats county commissioner seat in Yuma County. Jessie has the temperament and spine to be an effect...
13 Years Ago June 16, 1937 In the presence of a large number of relatives and friends, Miss Lucille Crossland and Mr. John Larson of Haxtun were married last Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E.F. Weaver, pastor of the Church of the Brethren. An unannounced bicycle trip to Holyoke by two seven-year-old Haxtun girls caused their parents a great deal of worry here Sunday evening. The youngsters, JoDelle Barker and Dolores Thornhill, started about five o'clock...
Eric William Barkley passed away on Sunday June 5, 2022 at his home south of Fleming at the age of 47. Eric was born on Nov. 20, 1974 in Sterling and lived most of his life on his family farm near Fleming. Eric graduated from Fleming High school and attended Northeastern Junior College. Eric attended Fleming United Methodist Church and was a member of the Sterling Elks Lodge. Throughout the years, Eric enjoyed farming, riding horses and motorcycles, snowmobiling, playing on pool league,...
Arnold Lee "Arnie" Constance entered his eternal home on June 10, 2022 at his residence in Sterling. Arnie was born July 25, 1937 to Fred and Lela (Dutro) Constance in Crook. He was raised in the Iliff area. His first three years of schooling was in a one-room country school, then two years at Padroni. He completed his education in Iliff, graduating from high school in 1955. He married Leota Harms on June 26, 1959 and they were married just shy of 63 years. He started a long career working for f...
