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Marvin Seyer of Ipswich recently completed and published a book called "50 Golden Years of the Yellowstone Trail Conference Boys Basketball Tournament." The book chronicles the YTC boys tournament from 1950-2000. It is a rich and one-of-a-kind collection of pictures, box scores, tournament programs and stories about outstanding athletes and healthy rivalries between area teams. Seyer dedicated the book to former Roscoe teacher and coach Harry Himmerich. He played in the tournament, coached and was a committee member for years. “Most i...
Ipswich Trail Days welcomes Frankie Ballard as the 2019 featured artist. He will perform on June 8, 2019 in the Ipswich arena. Ballard, a country-blues rocker, originally from Michigan, is now based in Nashville. He is a singer/songwriter for his country-rock anthems. He has several #1 country hits including Sunshine & Whiskey, Helluva Life and Young & Crazy. He has toured with Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Big and Rich and Bob Seger, to name a few. He is currently on...
This year's wind and abundant snow are leaving drifts of all sizes across the area. At the end of January Roscoe weather observer recorded more than 33 inches of snow this winter with more coming in February....
Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on Friday, Feb. 15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be no school on Friday or Monday, Feb. 18 - Presidents’ Day. Elementary conferences have been pre-scheduled with the parents. Middle School and High School conferences will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the classrooms. A Book Fair will be held Thursday, Feb. 14 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday, Feb. 15 during conferences, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the School Theatre....
Yes, it's that time of the year, nearly time for high school girls' basketball regionals to get underway across South Dakota including Region 2B. As in volleyball, two winners will advance from each 10-team region, each winning a 2B bracket championship. Those lucky 16 survivors, the SoDak 16 will then be seeded statewide into eight games on February 28 and those winners will advance to the State B tourney set for Huron on March 7,8 and 9. The 2B tourney begins on Monday with a pair of play-in games, number-eight vs. nine in the top bracket wit...
Two former Ipswich girls' track and field stars represented their respective university teams at an indoor invite at SDSU last weekend in Brookings. Macy Heinz runs for the University of South Dakota as a sophomore and Tori Moore is a Black Hills State University senior. The University of South Dakota won the women’s 4x400-meter relay to cap off the meet Saturday evening. That quartet consisted of sophomore Danielle Thompson, junior Ellie Wilson, sophomore Macy Heinz and senior Mallory Fine, clocked 3:52.54. Heinz had dropped another two s...
From the Ipswich Tribune, August 27, 1931 edition Big Difference in Car Prices Today A standard Chevrolet passenger car listing at $2,500.00! That message, if heralded from billboards or the advertising pages of newspapers today, would cause considerable wonderment and speculation among the millions of present Chevrolet owners. Yet it was a more or less familiar sight back in 1913 when the company was getting into its second year of operation, and actually priced one model at that figure, the highest at which a standard Chevrolet has ever...
Ipswich won three recent girls' high school basketball outings last week, capped by a 58-52 overtime victory over Waverly-South Shore during the Warner Classic last Saturday in Warner. The Lady Tigers had topped Sully Buttes in Onida by a 46-29 verdict a night earlier and had outlasted Waubay/Summit 49-41 in Ipswich last Tuesday. Now back to that stunning OT victory on Saturday! The W-SS Coyotes had netted an and-one layup plus foul shot for a 48-45 lead late in the contest. But Ipswich closed...
Ipswich was able to play one of its scheduled boys' basketball games last week, a road trip to Sully Buttes on Friday, won by the host team 55-30. They won each of the individual quarters, 9-6, 15-6 and 17-5, respectively to gradually outdistance themselves from the Tigers. Three reasons were Grant Johnson, Nick Wittler and Cameron Ogle. Johnson and Wittler each scored 15 points and Ogle added 14 counters. Indeed only two other Chargers were able to score. Ipswich countered with a 15-point scorer of its own, Maxwell Geditz, including a trey...
Ipswich/Leola/Bowdle, I-L-B, is scheduled to attend the Region 1B high school wrestling tourney on Saturday, Feb. 16 at Redfield, beginning at 9 a.m. The top four winners in each weight class will advance to the State B meet, scheduled on February 22-23 in Rapid City. Carter Heinz, a junior, was able to do just that last year and is obviously hoping to attend and place in this year's meet. And he probably wouldn't mind bringing along more Tigers, as well! The I-L-B varsity prepped for...
IHS students entered the FEM water bottle design contest. The winners were Emily Thorson, Olivia Gohl and Grace Beyers. Their designs will be featured on next year's water bottles. They each won a $25 gift card....