Emotions ran high Sunday afternoon, May 12 as the Holyoke High School Class of 2013 celebrated a successful high school career at their graduation ceremony. Clad in black caps and gowns, 38 seniors crossed the stage in the HHS gym to receive their diplomas. After proudly marching in to a processio...
For nearly four decades, Cathy Sullivan has welcomed kids into her classroom at Holyoke Elementary, but when the children exit the building for summer break Friday, May 24, Sullivan will officially begin her retirement. “I still can’t quite get my head around the fact that I am not going to be...
Holyoke City Council members aimed to reduce the problems caused by uninhabitable and dangerous buildings during a work session after the Tuesday, May 7 council meeting. Many issues were raised from the April 8 storm that caused damage around town. Concerns for procedures and safety measures were ...
Jacki Smith, a 2006 graduate of Haxtun High School, is a doctoral candidate and is doing a project on Phillips County benefactor William Heginbotham as part of her dissertation research. Smith will be in the area in mid-June, and it is her goal to conduct oral history interviews with local residen...
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Ten days after saying goodbye to his family in Holyoke, Carlos Diaz, 48, was in a tragic accident in Mexico and he died May 7. When he flew out of DIA in Denver April 25, it was Diaz’s plan to go to...
Motorcycle crashes killed 82 riders and passengers on Colorado’s roads last year. Over two-thirds of those killed (69 percent) were not wearing a helmet, so the Colorado Department of Transportation...
The description on the photo used for the May page in the Enterprise’s quasquicentennial calendar simply said “Phillips County Bank,” which Enterprise staff is hoping refers to the Phillips County...
Cliff Dwellers Acting and Singing Society of Wray are presenting “Bingo,” a delightful musical comedy based on a book by Michael Hertzmeier, Ilene Reid and David Holcomber. Production is courtesy of...
The Northeast Colorado Health Department received word that a cat has tested positive for rabies near the Washington/Yuma County lines. The cat was an ill outdoor cat that bit and/or scratched an adult...
Jessica Baeza plans to attend the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and major in business marketing. She received the Jack Geist Memorial Scholarship, Holyoke Lions Club Scholarship, University...
Vocal students define music as “It’s not what I do, it’s who I am,” and they certainly took that to heart and to the stage Thursday, May 9 at their annual spring concert in the HHS auditorium....
Holyoke K-6 students enjoyed Field Day activities Friday, May 10. Irving Bencomo Dominguez, Alicia Torres, Lucinda Mares and Vanessa Zapata Rodriguez—Kindergarten Katelyn Kropp and Carter Van Overbeke—First...
May 20-24 Elementary Breakfast Monday, May 20: Sausage and cheese muffin, breakfast burrito or cereal with yogurt, fruit, milk. Tuesday, May 21: Ham and egg bagel, sausage gravy with biscuit or bagel...
The National FFA Organization in partnership with John Deere awarded $2,000 scholarships to Janna Smith of Haxtun High School FFA and Mary Lenz of Wray High School FFA. This scholarship is from MV Equipment...
Every time it appeared as though the Holyoke baseball team was preparing to make a comeback in the 2A District 7 championship game, Yuma extended their lead just far enough to keep the Dragons at bay,...
As they did for most of the season, the HHS baseball team dominated in the first two rounds of the 2A District 7 Baseball Tournament in Akron, knocking off Merino 16-2 and Wray 10-0. “We didn’t make...
Holyoke tracksters closed out the season at the LPAA/YWKC League Championships in Wray Saturday, May 11. The boys scored 95 points to finish in fourth while the girls placed ninth, scoring 52 points. Jacinda...
Holyoke’s girls’ golf team finished the season on a high note, placing first in the league tournament in Brush Monday, May 13. The win also gave HHS the top spot in league standings for the season....
For the second time this year, racers took to the Phillips County Raceway to duke it out on the dirt track Saturday, May 11. New lights were put up in the corners to help the view. The track was in great...
Thanks to funds from the District 5 4-H Council, Phillips County libraries recently received copies of James Owen’s “Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West,” “Cowboy...
Roughly 170 fifth-grade students from Holyoke, Julesburg, Wray, Haxtun and Platte Valley attended AgFest at Phillips County Event Center Friday, May 3. The event was put on by CSU Extension. Children were...
On Thursday, May 2, VM Odells LLC, the owner of the Bella’s Market operating in Wray, filed in Federal Court to sell the Wray store to NECO Grocery LLC, a grocery operator with a store in Holyoke and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency administrator Juan M. Garcia recently announced that farm payments, which had been temporarily suspended, were scheduled to resume Wednesday,...
Seaboard Foods’ new feed mill took in its first load of corn Thursday morning, May 9 at the facility two miles west of Holyoke just off Highway 6 and County Road 35. Feed mill manager Mike Benedict said...
