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The best and brightest from the Class of 2022 were recognized for their academic achievements during their high school career. On May 9, Governor Kristi Noem and the Associated School Boards of South Dakota (ASBSD) honored students who were identified as the top one percent of their senior class, from the state's Public, Private and Tribal/BIE schools as part of the 32nd Annual Academic Excellence Recognition event. Students designated as their high school's honoree(s) received a certificate, So...
Ipswich High School Class of 2022 graduated on Saturday, May 14 in the school gym. The graduation was dedicated to the memory of their classmate, Kylee Sanborn, who passed away in 2019....
The next Edmunds County LEPC meeting will be tonight, May 18 at 7 p.m. at the Roscoe Fire Hall. The Citizen Corp Council meeting will follow....
My records verifies that it isn’t uncommon to have frosty mornings during May. They most naturally occur during the first two weeks but they can occur even on the last morning of May. The following are some facts about this topic: • 38 Mays out of 47 had frosty morning readings. • All in all, there were 152 frosty mornings in 47 years. • The most of these frosty morning readings occurred during 2002 with eleven. • Second to 2002 was 1975 & 1984 with eight. After this was 1979 & 2021 with seven. • The latest frosty morning reading occurred on...
The Powell Cemetery clean-up is planned on Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. The rain day is Thursday, May 26....
Ipswich Community Vacation Bible School will begin Sunday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Ipswich UCC. VBS will run from Sunday, May 22 through Wednesday, May 25 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. VBS is for youth ages four years old through fifth grade....
To the citizens of Edmunds County, Jonathan Waldner is currently employed by the Sturgis Police Department as a “Special Officer” during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Jonathan has worked the Rally for the last seven years and has been an integral member of the Bar Team for the last two years. As a Bar Team member, you meet all kinds of people who are attending the Rally and I have high demands of this team being professional with everyone they encounter since they represent the Sturgis Police Department. As his supervisor I have observed...
It definitely is that time of the year. The Ipswich graduation was last Saturday and the Edmunds Central graduation will be this Saturday afternoon. But it’s also nearly time for the post-season high school spring sports play-offs and the last one of their varsity careers for the seniors. We dodged a bullet by not experiencing those massive storms that hit the southern portions of our state last week and hopefully the weather will cooperative for our golfers and track and field thinclads. So good luck to our high school sports participants w...
The Ipswich High School boys won a golf invitational in Mobridge on Thursday, May 12. They indeed got balanced scoring, led by Chet Peterson in fourth with his 88. Next was Jace Konsor fifth with a 89. The third IHS scorer that day would become Tucker Kadlec in eighth thanks to his 95. And Trevor Larson had a 100 for ninth. The top individual boy that day would be Wyatt Larson of McIntosh with his 69. Meanwhile Ipswich entered two girls into their division including Mollie Simon in seventh with her 112 and Rylee Kleffman added a tenth-place...
From the Ipswich Tribune September 20, 1928 edition CURIOS ARE PLACED IN PILLAR OF ARCH It is doubtful if any one building fireplace or monument has as many countries or states represented as has the arch now being constructed over the Yellowstone Trail at Ipswich. Nearly all the states are represented and many foreign countries. Ernest Beebe picked a boulder out of a glacier in Alaska when there this summer and has put it in a permanent place where it may be seen when Ipswich is hoary with age. Loren Parmley now in Hawaii sent his father a sto...
Grace Katherine Bakken of Ipswich was among 3,523 graduates who received degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during commencement exercises May 13 and 14. Bakken earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the College of Business. The graduates are from 58 countries; 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico; and more than 250 Nebraska communities....
Three Northern State University students won awards for their entries in the Brown County Historical Society's annual research and writing contest. First place went to Scott Johnson for his paper, "The Rising Star and the Lake of Shining Shells: The Settlement and Pre-1900 History of Watertown, South Dakota." Johnson is a history major from Watertown. Reece Moehlenbrink received second place for "Robert Smalls: The Courage of One Ex-Slave." Moehlenbrink is a history education major from...
Mass of Christian Burial for Colleen Kay (Allbee) Fischer, 67, Roscoe, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 20, 2022 at the Catholic Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in Roscoe. Father Timothy Smith will be the Celebrant. Interment will be at 1:15 p.m. Friday, in the Holy Cross Catholic Church Cemetery in Ipswich under direction of Leonard-Gramm Funeral Home of Ipswich. Colleen died on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at Avera St. Luke's, Aberdeen. Visitation will be Thursday, May 19, 2022 from 5 to 7...
Ipswich middle school students partook in an interactive presentation on Thursday, May 5 at the Ipswich Public School Theatre with Soil Health Specialist Jim Clendenin. Jim shared with the 85 students his wealth of knowledge on soil structure, and the five basic soil health principles. The hour-long presentation focused on the importance of crop residue cover, benefits of low soil disturbance, the impact of living roots, diversity, and cropland livestock integration. Students assisted in...
Ipswich swept the annual Lake Region Conference track and field meet last Tuesday in Ipswich. The Tiger boys nearly doubled runners-up Warner 205 to 112.5. The girls were able to stave off the second-place girls' team from Northwestern 173 to 134. Ipswich also won the boys middle-school and North Central the girls. It was a beautiful day on a fast track. "What a great day to run a track and field meet," said head coach Todd Thorson."I would like to thank Dan Knust for organizing such a great mee...