Holyoke News

The Colorado Master Gardener program in the Golden Plains Area is accepting applications this fall with a November 18 deadline.

Three candidates will be sworn into office at the Nov. 17 Re-1J school board meeting.

Application for a grant for the first phase of a bike/pedestrian trail will be put on hold after city council members decided at their Oct.

Each year the Colorado State University Small Ruminant Work Team conducts an annual Small Ruminant Program.

While the official school count is subject to change until the finalization date of Nov.

A free mobile health clinic is coming to Holyoke and Haxtun on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Salud Family Health Centera TMs mobile unit features screenings for diabetes, hypertension, anemia, cholesterol and dental.

Thanks in large part to a grant from the CDPHE Women's Health Section, Northeast Colorado Health Department is in the process of expanding their family planning services in Logan County.

Sen. Michael Bennet listens to Eastern Plains farmer Lorin Starkebaum after a meeting near Holyoke on Wednesday.

With a short agenda at their regular meeting Monday, Aug. 31, Phillips County Commissioners gave updates on Event Center and Courthouse heating system construction projects.

Seven new teachers began the 2009-10 school year in Holyoke this week as classes began in the Re-1J School District on Tuesday, Aug.

Hijinks and hilarity hit the stage last weekend when Phillips County Arts Council brought back community theatre.

Holyoke School District Re-1J recently announced its policy for children who may receive free and reduced price meals served under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

Raychel Dias of Ft. Morgan, Colo., won First Place with this adorable photo. Raychel Dias ENLARGE Second Place Kim Kramer of Holyoke, Colo., won Second place with this photo of her granddaughter, Layna Wear, with her baby calf Albert.

A woman avoided serious injury in a single car rollover accident at 2:30 p.m. on Interstate 76, 16 miles west of Sterling.

Northeastern Colorado Association of Local Governments directors on Wednesday approved a grant of $10,000 to Morgan County to prepare an application for an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant for rail infrastructure for an industrial park west of Fort Morgan.

Although it wasna t part of the agenda for the July 7 city council meeting, council members spent the following day working on airport planning.

Focusing on integrity of the selection process for the past year's random student drug testing, JR/SR High Principal Susan Ortner presented information on an audit process at the July 7 meeting of Holyoke Re-1J Board of Education.

Those looking to get a good feel for the one-room school house setting in Phillips County during the late 19th and early 20th centuries would benefit from visiting the Pleasant Prairie School building at Phillips County Museum, located south of the museum building and the old Reimer gas station.

Returning to his home town, Bret Miles is excited to have started as Holyoke School Districta s new superintendent and looks forward to summer planning and a great 2009-10 school year.

With 27 years of experience in area cooperatives under his belt, Rick Unrein began his President/CEO duties on Monday, July 1 at Grainland Cooperative.