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Queen Aleah Steger and Jr. Queen Maci Luce, along with the South Dakota Snow Queen Festival, invite you to join them for the 74th South Dakota Snow Queen Festival, to be held January 3 to 11, 2020. Representatives from local communities, including Jr. Miss Ipswich Ashley Ptacek and Jr. Miss Edmunds Central Maria Ulmer, will be featured at the Jr. Snow Queen coronation and Talent Contest held the evening of January 4, 2020. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Aberdeen Civic Theatre. Miss...
South Dakota officials were cautioning travelers that travel may be nearly impossible in many areas during the weekend and Monday. Ipswich emergency crews were called to an accident involving a semi on the icy, snowy roads on Saturday west of Ipswich. Motorists should visit www.safetravelusa.com/sd, download the SDDOT 511 app or call 5-1-1 to check the latest road conditions and travel advisories before heading out. Sign up for ClearPath511 for closure notifications by text message or email. The South Dakota DOT urges you to: Keep a winter...
The weather was wet, wet, wet and even wetter than that during the calendar year of 2019. And this mostly on, sometimes off moisture pattern continued throughout the year of 2019, now including portions of December. This all made the fall row crop harvest a real ordeal in many cases and possibly even impossible in a few instances. Enuff said about that! JANUARY Those occasional winter storms sometimes made traveling somewhat of a hazard as well. But there was one area annual event that was able...
Media outlets are releasing “best of” lists for the decade. Is 2020 really the end of the previous decade or the beginning of the next? Americans are probably as split on that question as they are politcally. A case can be made either way, if not a very strong one. Maybe you can see the answer if you indeed develop 2020 vision in 2020. (We’ll see how that goes!) In the meantime, I have just three words — happy new year! (and NOT Let It Snow!)...
Three Ipswich athletes were named to their respective Aberdeen American News 2019 All-Area teams. Two senior gridders on the All-Area Football Team are Ethan Gilbert and Carter Heinz. Meanwhile Chesney Olivier is mentioned on the All-Area Volleyball Team, an area of the state that’s loaded with talent....
From the Ipswich Tribune July 23, 1924 edition THE GUMPS ARE COMING Andy and Min, those funny cartoon characters from the pen of Sidney Smith that have become so popular of late in the Comic Cartoon supplement of the leading daily papers, will pay us a visit in person on Saturday, July 26, together with a company of twenty people presenting a three act farce comedy drama entitled “Andy and Min In Politics” with vaudeville between the acts. It is said to be one of the funniest of all cartoon plays and one that will appeal to the old and you...
The Ipswich Area wrestlers experienced some positive results during a tourney in Plankinton on December 21. Coach Todd Naasz was happy with their performance at the tournament: "This is the most place winners we have had at this tournament since we started going a few years ago. There was a lot of great competition and we were able to gauge where we are and the areas we need to improve on." Four of the eight wrestlers indeed placed in the tournament, led by Carter Heinz with a second-place effor...
The Ipswich boys' basketball varsity hit a barrage of last-minute three-point baskets to keep things interesting for the home town fans in attendance at a girls/boys non-conference twinbill vs. Webster Area. The contest was eventually won by the visiting boys 71-66 on Saturday, Dec. 21 in the Tiger Den. The Tiger boys had trailed by as many as 13 points, 60-47, a little earlier in the final stanza. But they regrouped with a furious late rally, started by a Ty Kadlec trey to shave Ipswich's...
Ipswich gradually pulled away from Webster Area for a 61-50 non-conference girls' high school basketball win during a Saturday, Dec. 21 girls/boys doubleheader in the Tiger Den. Webster had led 14-13 after a back-and-forth opening-quarter started by an early 4-0 Bearcats' edge. But Ipswich responded with a 17-12 second-quarter scoring cushion propelled by a Bailey Pitz quarter-opening trey to lead 30-26 at intermission. Ipswich had trailed 26-25 quite late in that stanza, though. But that's...