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MOLLIE HAM pets a snake from Party Safari at the Fleming School/Community Library. The snake is held by Randy Lewis, from Party Safari, and Alex Gapter and Tasha Hickey. The summer safari event is part of the Fleming Summer Reading program, held every Tuesday and Thursday mornings. For more information on summer reading activities in Fleming follow the Fleming Community Library Facebook....
The 2024 Phillips County Fair is just a month away. The event is slated for July 22-28 in Holyoke at the PC Fairgrounds. The local Fair Board recently released this year's fair book, which is now available in businesses in Haxtun and Holyoke. Jerry and Vernette Haynes will be honored as Grand Marshals of this year's week-long event this summer. Jerry and Vernette have deep family roots in Phillips County and a rich history with the Phillips County Fair. Jerry's parents, Delbert and Emily, also...
Haxtun's 4th of July Party in the Park promises all of the summer favorites ... burgers, disk golf, ice cream, face painting and of course, fireworks! Next Thursday the Haxtun Lions Club plans to host a 4th of July Party in the Park including burgers and outdoor games at the Lions Club Gazebo starting at 6 p.m. The fireworks show, sponsored by the Haxtun Volunteer Fire Department, is set to start at dusk. In addition to burgers and games, plans are to debut Bulldog Putting Greens, a disk golf co...
The Haxtun-Fleming Herald website has a new look. Online readers will notice a new monarch theme with a clean, modern, next-generation look. The change in the website rolled out two weeks ago with a layout that features more photos and stories on the site's top banner and a page layout customizable to fit weekly news articles and content. Herald subscribers receive free access to the website, which features a complete online edition along with the weekly printed edition. Visitors to the site,...
The Thirteenth Judicial District Nominating Commission will meet July 30 at the Morgan County Justice Center, 400 Warner St., Fort Morgan, CO 80701 to interview and select nominees for appointment by the governor to the office of district judge for the Thirteenth Judicial District (Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma counties). The vacancy will be created by the retirement of the Honorable Charles M. Hobbs. The vacancy will occur on Oct. 2. To be eligible, the applicant must be a qualified elector of the Thirteent...
Recent political conversations have once more drawn national military conscription into the light, albeit reluctantly. Count that as no surprise given today’s geopolitics, but know also that it is nothing that has not been visited before. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, by most a brilliant Civil War strategist of his time, acknowledged the roles that were to be played. “Those who remained faithful to non-resistance faced persecution from the larger community. Early Confederate draft law had no...
I’ll never forget the day my daughter brought him home. He was so ugly. She was so in love. This was one of those, “Daddy it followed me home. Can I keep him?” events. It was obvious why this fine looking specimen was left to wonder about aimlessly. The truth of the matter is, nobody in their right mind would have wanted to be seen with him. As my female child stroked his dirty, tangle hair with uncommon tenderness, hundreds of thoughts raced through my mind. One question kept leaping to the t...
As a longtime resident of Haxtun and someone who has spent over three decades serving in various capacities — from education to corrections — I've seen the critical role healthcare plays in our rural community. While I currently serve on the Haxtun Health Foundation Board of Directors and work at the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, the views expressed here are my own, based on years of community involvement. Rural hospitals, including ours, are often the backbone of the community, providing not just physical care but also vital menta...
13 Years ago June 28, 1939 Miss Grace Viela Davis and Mr. Harold Russell Gueck, young people of the Dailey-Haxtun community, were the principals at a June wedding last Sunday, which took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Davis of Dailey. In a setting made colorful by huge baskets of gladioli, the ceremony was performed at three-thirty o'clock by Rev. L.D. Cayton, pastor of the Dailey Evangelical Church. The murder trial at Akron was brought to a close Saturday night...
The Haxtun Police Department recently re-registered a sex offender within Haxtun’s city limits. According to Police Tom Bullard, 30-year-old Kaden Broaddus lives in the 200 block of South Washington Avenue. Broaddus is required to register as a sex offender annually on his date of birth as part of a conviction in Logan County in 2020 for unlawful sexual contact, a misdemeanor offense....
On Sunday, June 9, 2024 Rebecca Anne Peterson passed away peacefully into God's arms at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood. Becky was born on Aug. 10, 1957 in Holyoke to Donald and Shirley Vernon. She graduated from Holyoke High School in 1975 and worked at Melissa Memorial Hospital until 1982. Then in the summer of 1982 she met her husband-to-be, Randal Peterson. They married Oct. 1, 1982 and began a 42-year run of God's blessings. Becky and Randy had three children, Randal Peterson Jr., Lena... Full story
1. Please give some background/history on the opening/purchase of your business. Who are the owners/key players in your building? Perk and Betty Odell purchased the original grocery store in the mid 1970's from Evelyn Peterson which was located Logan Street in Haxtun. In 1994, Perk and Betty decided to build a new store at the current location of 105 West First Street. Perk Odell and his son Tab Odell did most of the work themselves. 2. What services/products do you offer your customers? Haxtun...
Equipment enables manufacturers to create almost every modern product, from the clothes on our backs to the cars we drive. Acquiring the latest equipment and machinery consumes more than three-quarters of American manufacturers' annual capital budgets, Census Bureau data shows. U.S. manufacturers spent more than $135 billion on new and used equipment and machinery in 2021, according to the most recent Annual Survey of Manufactures. In all but one state, these expenses comprised more than 60% of...
During the past five decades, the U.S. has resettled over 3 million refugees, making it one of the leading countries for finding new homes for people fleeing violence, persecution, and war. In 2021, then-President Donald Trump lowered the annual cap of refugees that could be admitted into the country to 15,000. Even as the Biden administration has raised the ceiling to 125,000, the annual number of refugees arriving in the U.S. didn't immediately bounce back to pre-Trump administration levels....