Articles from the February 8, 2023 edition


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  • NC Thunder and Tiger fans raise funds for Hoven family

    Tena Gibson|Feb 8, 2023

    Edmunds Central School had Jaxon & Jhett Hartung Fan Support Night on Friday, Feb. 3 at the North Central vs. Ipswich basketball games. NC fans and IHS fans helped support the fundraiser. The event sponsored by the EC P.A.C. and EC Student Council featured a pie auction and split pot raffle. Many NC fans wore t-shirts with "Jaxon's Journey #ONETEAM" on the front and Hartung 30 on the back. Jaxon Hartung, a 13-year-old Hoven middle school student, has two cancerous brain tumors. He is the son of...

  • Feeding South Dakota Mobile Food Pantry comes to Ipswich on Feb. 14

    Feb 8, 2023

    The Feeding South Dakota Mobile Food Pantry will return to Edmunds County soon. The Food Pantry will be in Ipswich on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Edmunds County 4-H Building. The Food Pantry will be in Bowdle on Friday, Feb. 10 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Bowdle. Proxy pickups are allowed. Complete the SD Feeding form and give it to your proxy to bring with to the food distribution. Proxy forms are also available with the driver at each distribution. If you have any questions regarding...

  • Learn to paint with diamonds at the Library

    Feb 8, 2023

    The Marcus P. Beebe Library in Ipswich will host a Diamond Painting demonstration on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 10:30 a.m. in the library. Joline Buechler will demonstrate techniques and patterns. Diamond Painting is a cross between cross stitch and paint-by-number using beads....

  • Senior meals could return if there is interest

    Feb 8, 2023

    Is there interest in Ipswich for distributing Senior Meals to those 60 or older? David Coisman would like those interested to contact him at 605-426-6288 or 605-430-0104....

  • Weather - January 2023 Summary

    Marv Seyer|Feb 8, 2023

    Summary for January 2023 Highest recorded temp.— 39° on the 27th (Record 65° during January 1981) Lowest recorded temp.— -24° on the 30th (Record -29° during January 1988, 1996 & 2009) Number of days of zero or below temps.— 7 (Record 27 days during January 1978) Number of days in a row that the low temp. was 0° or below— 4 days Jan. 28-31 (Record 18 days during January 1978) Number of days for the whole month where the low temp. never got above 0°— None (Record 8 days during January 1978, 4 days in a row) Average high temp.— 23° (Average high...

  • Fiddlin' Around

    -deg|Feb 8, 2023

    February is a short month, but a lot of scheduled (and unscheduled) February events are starting to pop up. So you might just have to pencil them on your calendars as reminders. And lately the weather has been fairly mild for this time of the year. But it is that time of the year when it can be 32° above zero and still have 32 mph wind gusts making it seem much cooler. And our snow banks can shrink in the afternoon so then you wake up to frozen icy spots all over the place the next morning. Until they finally re-thaw! One annual February...

  • From Capitol Hill

    Feb 8, 2023

    House Report by Scott Moore Week four in Pierre has been busy and good. HB1080, titled prohibiting certain medical and surgical interventions on minor patients came out of Health and Human Services committee 11 yeas-2 nays and came through the full house of representatives Yeas 60 and Nays 10. We had a passionate debate in committee and on the house floor. SB 41 titled workforce housing was signed by Governor Noem this week and will bring $200 million to small and large communities. Foreign ownership of Agland and eminent domain along with CO2...

  • The Library Remembers When...

    Feb 8, 2023

    From the Ipswich Tribune August 8, 1929 edition CONFISCATED LIQUOR DESTROYED SATURDAY Beer and Canadian whiskey flowed freely Saturday afternoon in Ipswich at the court house yard when the liquor confiscated by the sheriff’s office was emptied and the bottles smashed up. Members of the local W. C. T. U. assisted in the breaking of bottles. Mrs. W. E. Herrick and Mrs. James W. McCarter presiding. Edwin Herrick and William Mears also assisted under the direction of officials. Eighty quarts of beer, 24 quarts of Canadian Scotch whiskey, m...

  • Ipswich School Lunch Menu

    Feb 8, 2023

    February 13 — Chicken Nuggets, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, fresh fruit, homemade bun, milk February 14 — Corn Dog, green beans, mixed veggies, pears, milk February 15 — Baked Potato with chili and cheese, applesauce, homemade bun, milk February 16 — Barbeque Pork Sandwich, chicken noodle soup, celery sticks, baby carrots, milk February 17 — Chicken Teriyaki, brown rice, peaches, cooked carrots, broccoli, milk...

  • Edmunds Central one act play honored at state

    Feb 8, 2023

    Edmunds Central's presentation of Epic Fail at the State One-Act Play Festival was named a Class B Superior Play on Feb. 4. The Festival was held in O'Gorman School in Sioux Falls Feb. 2-4. EC actors Ember Geist and Grace Roth were named Class B Superior Individuals. Director Sandra Beyers said the Edmunds Central play was one of five schools out of 15 that received the superior award in the class B division. The other honored plays were Menno - Dark Road, Rosholt - The Wizard of Oz, James...

  • Daryl D. Haar

    Feb 8, 2023

    Daryl D. Haar, 63, Bowdle, died Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at the Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota in Sioux Falls. Daryl Dean Haar, son of Lila (Job) and Dawaine Haar, was born at Ipswich on February 9, 1959. He was brought up near Bowdle and attended Bowdle Public School, graduating with the Class of 1977. He was then employed with Perry Hoffman Harvesting. Daryl married Dianna Frankfurth at Bowdle on June 30, 1978. They first lived in Kansas where Daryl worked with Sam Spicer in harvesting....

  • Ipswich hosts Rustlers in doubleheader

    -deg|Feb 8, 2023

    The Ipswich Tigers hosted non-conference Class A opponent Miller in a girls/boys twin-bill last Thursday, with mixed results. The Tigers girls came out on the short end of a 62-21 verdict but their boys would hold on for a two-possession 51-45 victory. The visiting boys had staged a late final-quarter rally, narrowing their deficit to one possession to trail by only three points. But the hosts would sink key free throws and get a defensive stop or two that would help seal the deal. This was...

  • Titans stop Tigrs in Leola

    -deg|Feb 8, 2023

    Ipswich was defeated 40-17 by Leola/Frederick in a typically low scoring defense-oriented Lake Region Conference girls' high school basketball confrontation last Tuesday, Jan. 31 in Leola. The hosts would slowly pull away, leading 8-2 at the first-quarter break and then 22-5 at intermission. They created even more distance leading 35-8 with a quarter to play. Ipswich was led by Gabby Wald with five total points, followed by Baylee Kulesa with four points. Marley Guthmiller added three points and Quincy Olivier and Karlie Gohl two points...

  • Ipswich/Bowdle wrestlers compete in Quad

    Feb 8, 2023

    The Ipswich/Bowdle wrestlers competed in the Warner/Northwestern Quad on Friday, Feb. 3. The results were: Britton-Hecla 33, Ipswich-Bowdle 24 132: Double Forfeit 138: Double Forfeit 145: Ben Suther (BRHE) over Beau Schilling (IPBO) (Dec 8-4) 152: Collin Beaner (BRHE) over (IPBO) (For.); 160: Dashel Davidson (BRHE) over (IPBO) (For.) 170: Conner Glines (BRHE) over (IPBO) (For.) 182: Justin Rohrbach (IPBO) over (BRHE) (For.) 195: Dane Hansen (BRHE) over (IPBO) (For.) 220: Kadyn Weisser (IPBO) over (BRHE) (For.); 285: Lucas Rowland (IPBO) over Tu...

  • Tigers travel to Roscoe to play LRC competition

    -deg|Feb 8, 2023

    North Central hosted LRC league foe Ipswich last Friday in Roscoe. The hosts would outscore Ipswich 51-44 in the girls' outing and Ipswich would then obtain a 64-47 win in the boys varsity game. The Thunder girls fashioned a late rally to upend Ipswich, though they had actually led their visitors 9-5 at the first-quarter break. But Ipswich would respond with a 22-13 halftime lead and still narrowly owned a 34-32 edge with that decisive final quarter to play. And the hosts would then outscore...

  • Duane A. Holsing

    Feb 8, 2023

    Funeral services for Duane A. Holsing, 86, of Cresbard, will be 10 a.m., Saturday, February 11, 2023, at Richland Church, rural Mina, with Pastor Jason Dignan officiating. Burial at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Powell Township, at a later date. Duane died Saturday, February 4, 2023, at Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m., Friday, at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 South Main Street, Aberdeen. Duane Arthur Holsing, was born on the farm near Ipswich, on June 28, 1936,...