The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

State Representative Rod Pelton, R-Cheyenne Wells, will continue to represent the Eastern Plains come 2023, but it will be a district (and a seat) very different from the one he currently covers. 

Pelton has been the representative for House District 65 for the past four sessions, beginning in 2019. In an odd turn of fate, his county of Cheyenne is the furthest south in the district that extends all the way to the State’s northern border with Nebraska. 

The representative for the southern half of the Eastern Plains, Rep. Richard Holtorf, R-Akron, lives in Washington County, the furth...