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Miss Ipswich Aleah Steger was crowned the 2019 South Dakota Snow Queen on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 in the Aberdeen Civic Theater. The IHS senior will have a year of many travels and appearances. The Ipswich Commercial Club is working on a reception in her honor later this month. The festival had another Ipswich twist also. This year's Frosty was revealed to be Ipswich grad Randy Grismer. Members of Aleah's royal court are the Princess of Summer, Emma Greiner, Miss Wilmot; Princess of Autumn,...
Optometrist Melanie Weiss will share her powerful message of hope and recovery in the Ipswich School Theater on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 at 7 p.m. Weiss said she had three surgeries in three years. Her third surgery, in 2010 was knee surgery. After the surgeries she started to use opiods for pain relief. She found that she had developed a tolerance for the medication. It began innocently, she said. She began increasing the doses. She had studied the medications in college and thought she could ha...
The Edmunds County Conservation District, Ducks Unlimited and USDA-NRCS are planning their Annual Soil Health Clinic on Monday, February 4, 2019 with a free meal starting at 5 p.m. at the Ipswich High School lunch room and presentations to follow at 6 p.m. in the theater. The agenda includes Bryan and Nick Jorgensen with Jorgensen Land & Cattle from Ideal. They operate over 12,000 acres of dryland cropland. A 100% no-till operation since the early 1990’s, they take pride in being stewards of the land. To reach these goals, they have d...
Congratulations to the Ipswich Snow Queen Aleah Steger who was crowned the 2019 State Snow Queen at a program last Saturday in Aberdeen. That is surely an honor and highlight for the community. Ipswich native Randy Grismer was revealed as Frosty during the Snow Queen event. And just in time for possible snow later in the week. They have indeed been talking about an upcoming weather change, but hopefully the real nasty stuff will stay to the south of our local area. Remember the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday holiday on Monday, Jan. 21. If you...
Nominations are being taken for the annual Ipswich Betterment Award. Nominate a person you think makes a difference in Ipswich. Last year’s winner was Deb Davis. Send nominations to “Ipswich Betterment Award,” Box 677, Ipswich, SD 57451. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 25, 2019....
Hannah Toennies is to be married to Riley Holsing on June 29, 2019. Hannah is the daughter of Tim and Kristi Toennies and Riley is the son of Kerry and Kam Holsing. Hannah teaches preschool at Aberdeen Christian School and Riley works for Agtegra....
The funeral service for Peggy A. Penfield, 80, of Ipswich, will be held on January 16, 2019, at 11 a.m. at Richland Church. Committal service to follow at 2 p.m. at Northville Cemetery. Peggy was born January 26, 1938, to Alfred and Ferol (Batteen) O'Neill on a farm near Powell, south of Ipswich. She was raised on the farm and attended country school. She graduated from Ipswich High School in 1955. After high school she started working with Dr. Bloemendaal at the Ipswich Hospital. Through this...
Lorraine Geditz, 76, of Port Orchard, Wash. and formerly of Ipswich, passed away on Jan. 3, 2019 after a battle with cancer. She requested to be cremated with no services. She is survived by one son, one daughter, four grandchildren and other family members and friends. Cards can be sent to Tammy Erks, 4852 Brasch Road SE, Port Orchard, WA 98367....
Eileen Vera Jung, 77, Roscoe, died Friday, January 11, 2019 at the Ipswich Care and Rehabilitation Center, Ipswich. A memorial service for Vera’s family will be at Lien Funeral Home, Bowdle, 10:30 a.m., Saturday, January 19, 2019 with Pastor James Grossmann officiating. Burial will be at a future date in Bethany Cemetery, Hosmer. There will be a public reception at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Dakota Café in Hosmer. Eileen Vera Mohr, was born September 18, 1941 to Anna (Guthmiller) and William Mohr at the Mohr farm northeast of Hosmer. She was baptiz...
The Ipswich boys played two basketball games last week on the road and at home with split results. They started the week by dropping a narrow 70-65 Lake Region Conference outcome on Thursday at Northwestern in Mellette. They trailed by 14 points midway through the second half, but decided they weren’t quite ready to board the bus. So they battled both the Wildcats and the game clock to claw back into contention. Will Kadlec completed an and-one opportunity to narrow his team’s deficit to one possession, 63-60. But the Tigers would need to fou...
Records are made to be broken and the Ipswich School school record for single-game treys was shattered by Halle Heinz during a 67-48 Lake Region Conference girls' high school basketball win over Northwestern here last Tuesday. Altogether Halle netted five of those treys in the opening quarter, helping create a 17-12 Lady Tigers' first-quarter edge. She added another five throughout the game, capped by her tenth at 1:52 of the final quarter for a 65-42 IHS lead at that juncture of the game....
Ipswich area youth wrestlers competed in Gettysburg on January 13, 2019. Results of the AAU tournament were: First place: Lane Braun, Serenity Robinson, Jackson Horst Second place: Marley Guthmiller, Tyler Gellhaus, Tucker Habeck Third place: Clayton Horst, Lewis Judkins, Rhett Weigel, Stetson Weigel The Ipswich AAU Tournament is planned on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019....
Ipswich/Leola/Bowdle (I-L-B) had a busy week last week, hosting a Thursday quad and then traveling to a Potter County invite in Gettysburg on Saturday. At the latter event, I-L-B placed 13th with 29 team points among 20 teams that scored. South Border won the event with 204.5 team points, narrowly outpointing the runners-up, Chamberlain, with 203 points. Ipswich/Leola/Bowdle was led by Carter Heinz, placing third at 195 for 19 of those points. Lucas Rowland placed sixth at 285, scoring the remai...