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Avantara Ipswich Administrator, Ted Huss has been honored with the prestigious 2019 Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award from the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) Huss was one of the eight South Dakota finalists. Each year, ACHCA recognizes the leaders of top-performing Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF's) across the country through the Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award (EPFLA). This year, 1,111 Administrators were nominated based on data-driven criteria used to objectively identify high-performing skilled nursing facilities...
The Edmunds County Conservation District along with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service invites you to their Annual Soil Health Clinic on Monday, February 3, 2020. The free meal starts at 5 p.m. at the Ipswich High School lunchroom and presentations to follow at 6 p.m. The agenda includes Centrol crop consultant, Lee Briese, of Edgely, N.D. Lee will discuss his experiences working with low producing salt-effected fields and his strategies to bring these fields back to production. Lee received his B.S. in Crop and Weed Science from...
FEM Electric hosted their annual pancake breakfast on Friday, Feb. 24, 2020. FEM Directors and staff members helped out cooking and serving....
Ipswich girls basketball junior Halle Heinz had a memorable week last week. She scored her 1,000th point last week vs. Groton. She also broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a career vs. JVC on Saturday....
Believe it or not, Ground Hog Day is right around the corner and there will probably be about six more weeks of winter regardless of Phil's verdict. For starters there have been memorable major winter storms during some previous post-season tournaments, but we hope that won't prove to be true this year. The post-season varsity sports season indeed starts in February with wrestling and girls basketball action getting the spotlight, though the high school boys basketball teams won't start their regional action until early in March. So good luck...
HIGH SCHOOL The High School SUBWAY Student of the Week last week was senior Lexi Stafford. Lexi challenges herself by taking higher level classes as well as Dual Credit Courses. Lexi maintains a 4.0GPA while having a job after school and taking stats for the girls basketball team. MIDDLE SCHOOL The Middle School SUBWAY Student of the Week last week was eighth grader Sam Grabowska. Sam's perfect attendance allows him to participate in class everyday. Sam is willing to help others and is a good role model for the other Middle School students....
HIGH SCHOOL Junior Halle Heinz is the Subway Student Athlete of the Week. Halle scored her 1,000 point last week vs Groton and broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a Career vs JVC on Saturday. MIDDLE SCHOOL Seventh grader Max Kulesa has been chosen as the Subway Student Athlete of the Week. Max has had an outstanding start to the Middle School season. He always has a great attitude and works hard in practice to make his team better. He works to improve his fundamentals every day in practice and it shows as his aggressiveness on...
Northern State University in Aberdeen has released the dean’s list for the fall 2019 semester. Students who have earned at least a 3.5 grade point average for the semester are eligible for the dean’s list. Local students on the list include: Full-time students with a 4.0 GPA - Bailey Hammrich, Shaunay Jones and Margaret Thares of Ipswich, Madeline Miller of Mina and Kendra Hinz of Roscoe; full-time students with a 3.5-3.99 GPA - Chelsea Weig of Ipswich; and part-time student with a 4.0 GPA - McKenzie Preszler of Roscoe....
A total of 313 students at Mitchell Technical Institute have been placed on the Fall Semester 2019 President’s List, according to MTI President Mark Wilson. To be named to the list, students must earn a term GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and complete at least 12 credit hours of academic work during the semester. Wyatt Haux of Mina is on the Fall 2019 President’s List....
From the Ipswich Tribune April 23, 1924 edition CARNIVAL HERE THIS WEEK Local Legion Planning Big Time Friday and Saturday nights You may be sure that the Legion Carnival to be held on Friday and Saturday of this week will be a success. The Legionnaires and Auxiliary are working diligently to make this the best event of the season. There will be plenty of entertainment and shows to keep everyone busy all evening. The upstairs will be devoted to stunts while the downstairs will be moving pictures and bowery dance. The Melody Five Orchestra of...
Dr. John William "Bill" Bloemendaal, 89, orthopedist and surgeon, passed away peacefully at his home on January 13, 2020. Bill was born on February 10, 1930, in Aberdeen, to Dr. Gerrit and Gladys (Williams) Bloemendaal, parents of Dutch and Welsh descent. He was raised in Ipswich. His father was a family physician, his mother a registered nurse, and together they devoted their lives to the needs of the community, using their family home for their medical practice. Later they started the Ipswich... Full story
Ipswich swept a homecourt girls/boys Saturday afternoon varsity basketball doubleheader vs. James Valley Christian last Saturday in the Tiger Den. The girls topped their visitors 45-35 and the boys held on for a hard-fought 58-51 victory. A highlight of the girls' outcome was that junior sharpshooter Halle Heinz broke her own sister Kamryn's career three-point field goals record and had obtained 154 career treys, as of our newspaper deadline at least. But talking about treys, teammate Bailey Pitz got Ipswich off to a good start with a trey of...
The Ipswich Area varsity wrestling team wrestled on Tuesday, January 21 and Saturday the 26th last week. On Tuesday the team traveled to Mobridge to compete in the Mobridge-Pollock Invite which was in a round-robin format. The team earned a third-place finish out of seven teams. Tanner Frickson, Denver Wolff, Matt McCloud and Carter Heinz all contributed team points. The team then traveled to Arlington on Saturday to compete at the Kingsbury County Invitational. The team got 12th out of 18 placers with 43 team points. Individually Carter Heinz...
An Ipswich vs. Groton Area girls/boys basketball clash of the Tigers on Tuesday, Jan. 21 in Groton produced mixed results. (And they were both one-point outcomes.) Ipswich indeed escaped with a 41-40 non-conference girls' win over its hosts, but dropped a 55-54 boys' verdict in the nightcap game. And the Groton boys remained undefeated after that narrow come-from behind boys' win. But getting back to the girls' verdict! Halle Heinz highlighted it with her 1,000th career point and finished with a 19-point evening, concluding with a huge basket...
Ipswich Area Youth Wrestlers competed in Warner recently. Results were: First Place: Chance Miller, Elliot Unser, Tate Bukaske, Jaxon Horst, Ryder Steen Second Place: Gunnar Knittel, Sophie Knittel, Isaiah Kadlec, Rylan Sanborn, Bryce Hochalter, Clayton Horst, Jonah Theisen, Ben Hoyle Third Place: Weston Weisser, Tyler Gellhaus, Gavin Sanborn, Steven Geditz, Edison Unser, Rowan Bollinger, Tucker Habeck, Gavin Horst Fourth Place: Elliot Kallas, Owen Schwartz, Serenity Guthmiller, Oliver Miller, Micah Theisen, Marley Guthmiller, Dracyen... Full story
Ipswich hosted a girls/boys Lake Region Conference showdown with Faulkton Area last Thursday in the Tiger Den, games that could also possibly affect the Region 2B power rankings. Faulkton gradually pulled away from the Tiger girls for an eventual 48-31 victory, despite a game-ending trey by Ipswich's Kate Geditz. The visitors had led 14-10 after a quarter, but only scored one point in the second quarter, compared to Ipswich's nine-point scoring burst, capped by Halle Heinz with six straight...