During these times of increased rates for our utilities, come and join us to learn more about watering and designing your landscape to utilize water more efficiently. The water conservation program will be held on April 8 in Yuma at the Orphanage fro...

Northeast Colorado has a significant population of people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity. These conditions reduce quality of life and life expectancy and increase health care costs. Our eating habits contribute to all of these...

The Don Fix Memorial Scholarship is available to the graduates of Holyoke and Haxtun High Schools. It is also available for eligible students already attending colleges or trade schools. The scholarship requirements are a 2.50 grade point average...

Colorado State University Extension and the Colorado Certified Crop Advisors are announcing the second Crops Input Conference; the date is Friday, March 10. Location is both via Zoom connection and in-person at the DeSoto Building located in...

Farm and ranch families are accustomed to dealing with challenging times and 2023 is shaping up to be very demanding. Inflation will not only affect household budgets it will also result in rising farm and ranch input prices. Higher input costs...

The March 15 deadline for farmers to make their ARC/PLC decisions for the 2023 crop year is fast approaching. In an effort to provide growers with the most up to date information needed to make this important decision, Colorado State University...

Northeast Colorado BOCES, in conjunction with Haxtun School District, will be offering free developmental screening to children ages three through five, children who will not attend kindergarten next year and turned three by January 2023. The screen...

Northeast Colorado BOCES, in conjunction with Fleming Schools, will be offering free developmental screening to children ages three through five, children who will not attend kindergarten next year and turned three by January 2023. The screen will...

Phillips County, along with the Division of Fire Prevention and Control, is attempting to utilize the Holyoke airport as a water refill station for Single Engine Air Tankers in the event of a large fire requiring State assistance. In order to...

A Caring Pregnancy Resource Center of Northeast Colorado held the organization’s annual fundraising banquets on four consecutive evenings with four locations in Sterling, Holyoke, Yuma and Brush, Jan. 27-30. This year’s banquet theme “Planting...

Haxtun Schools recently released the list of honor roll students for the first semester. Those on the Superintendent’s Honor roll achieved a grade point average of 4.0. Principal’s Honor Roll includes students with grade point averages of 3.5 to...

Community members are invited to a webinar on Thursday, Feb. 9 from 12-1 p.m. to learn more about diabetes and oral health including routine care recommendations, insight on home care and how blood glucose control is related to oral health. Dr....

The March 15 deadline for farmers to make their ARC/PLC decisions for the 2023 crop year is fast approaching. In an effort to provide growers with the most up to date information needed to make this important decision, Colorado State University...

The Phillips County Fair Board is gearing up for another eventful week in July. The 2023 Phillips County Fair is slated for July 25-30 at the fairgrounds in Holyoke. This year’s Grand Marshal selection will come from the Haxtun area. Those wishing...

Superintendent’s and Principal’s Honor Rolls for fall semester of 2022 for grades 7-12 at Fleming High School were recently released. Principal’s Honor Roll is for grade point averages falling between 3.5-3.74 and Superintendent’s Honor Roll...

Local ag-lending cooperative Premier Farm Credit will pay a record $6.5 million in cash patronage to its customer-owners in early 2023. The financial services cooperative has returned more than $26 million through its Patronage Program since 2019...

A Caring Pregnancy Resource Center of Northeast Colorado prepares to host several annual fundraising banquets from 6-8:30 p.m. on four consecutive evenings with four locations including Logan, Phillips, Yuma and Morgan counties. This year’s...

The county assessors and treasurers are working on the 2023 tax rolls for their counties. The tax roll includes an assessment on irrigated acres from the Republican River Water Conservation District. The RRWCD assessments fund the district’s...

The Colorado State University Crops Testing Program and CSU Extension are inviting producers to a Cowpea (black-eyed pea) Production Webinar. The free webinar will be live online on Thursday, Jan. 19 from 9-10:30 a.m. hosted on Zoom. This meeting...

Dear Santa, I want a lot of toys and a punching bag. Merry Christmas! Love, Cole, age 3 Dear Santa, I would like a robot for Christmas! I want new play-dough too! What are your favorite cookies? Love, Jack, age 4 Dear Santa, I want you to bring mom,...

Dear Santa, This Christmas, I am four years old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is a t-rex and a race car! And I promise to leave out a letter for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Bruce P.S. Pleas...