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An old adage goes something like this "Good things will come for those who wait" and that has certainly been true for the Ipswich High School girls' basketball program. There's been more than one Lady Tiger team with quality personnel and coaches down through the years that didn't quite make it all the way and that includes last year's team that fell one win short of a trip to the B. The last time an IHS girls' hoops team had qualified for a state tournament bid of any kind was exactly 30 years...
The Ipswich Middle School and High School students will present a concert on Tuesday, March 12 at 7 p.m. in the School Theatre. The High School band and vocal students and Middle School band will perform their contest music....
A sign of spring is that only a few elite high school basketball programs are still in contention and this year one of those teams is the Ipswich Lady Tigers! They will indeed be making the trip to Huron for the State B on March 7,8,9 in the Huron Arena. The last time the IHS girls had attended a state basketball tourney was during the 1988-89 school year, when they were in the Class A ranks. That's some 30 years ago! So good luck to the Lady Tiger girls and their coaching staff. Your hard work and dedication has been rewarded! Another sign of...
From the Ipswich Tribune, May 30, 1935 edition NOT MUCH KNOWN OF PRAYER ROCK LEGEND Many are interested in the Prayer Rock on the South side of the entrance walk to the Memorial Library. This five ton boulder has laid on a hill side on the farm of Lewis Larson, south of Mobridge as long as any one can remember. Before the white men came, a deep path had been worn to this rock from the Cree Indian village on an adjacent hill and it is supposed that the Indians fell to their knees placing their hands in the prints on the rock. The present...
Deloris Richards, age 83, of Milbank died on February 28, 2019, at Milbank Care and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services were held on Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Central United Methodist Church in Milbank. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ipswich, at a later date. Deloris Mary Richards was born on May 29, 1935, in Powell Township, near Ipswich. She was the daughter of Elmer and Blodwen (Williams) Richards. She was educated in the rural school of Powell Township through the sixth... Full story
Berniece Bitz was born December 27, 1948. In 1970, Berniece graduated from St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Pierre. She enjoyed the nursing profession, especially long-term care nursing. She made this profession a lifelong passion until cancer impaired her health and she was no longer able to work. On July 2, 1973, Berniece married Willard Jundt at Aberdeen, fulfilling another life dream of being a wife, and soon after, a mother. Jeffrey was the only child born to this marriage, but the most true blessing a mother could ever ask for. She cherish... Full story
Ken (Popsi) Swearengen, age 87, of Fort Worth, Tex. passed away on February 27, 2019 in Fort Worth. Memorial Service was March 1, 2019 at Lucas Funeral Home, Keller, Tex. Inurnment will be at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colo. at a later date. He was born August 27, 1931 in Dallas, Tex. to Earl Emmett and Alda Ethel (Dugan) Swearengen. Ken worked as a mailer in the newspaper industry, where he obtained a lot of knowledge working at the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, the Catholic... Full story
The funeral service for Leone Spitzer, 96, Aberdeen, was 10:30 a.m., Monday, March 4, 2019, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Aberdeen, with Pastor D.T. Rawerts officiating. Burial followed at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Leone died Wednesday, February 27, at Bethesda Home of Aberdeen. Leone Schaible was born to Fred and Eva (Gutjahr) Schaible on July 27, 1922, on the family farm, four and a half miles southeast of Hosmer. This is the area where she grew up and attended school. She married Alv... Full story
Avenging last year's statewide final 16 girls' high school basketball loss, the IHS Lady Tigers indeed clawed their way to a 51-40 SoDak 16 win over Bridgewater-Emery last Thursday in the James Valley Christian Gym at Huron, as part of a SoDak 16 twin bill that also saw Warner knocking off Faulkton Area for a return trip to the State B in Huron later this week. Defense wins big games in any sport and the Ipswich Lady Tigers' defense rose to the challenge, especially surviving a late run by the...
Ipswich closed out its boys' high school basketball season at 11-10 with a Region 2B 59-42 loss to Potter County at Gettysburg last Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Battlers and Sully Buttes both qualified out of Region 2B for the SoDak 16 and its eight winners will comprise the boys' State B lineup slated for later this month in Aberdeen. Ipswich stayed right with the Battlers, but was outscored 17-2 in the final quarter. "Yeah, we let that fourth quarter get away from us," said IHS coach Tyler...
The Ipswich Wrestling Booster Club hosted the AAU District 4 wrestling tournament on March 2, 2019 in the Ipswich gym. There were 287 young wrestlers competing. Ipswich area wrestlers competing included: First place: Matt McCloud, Parker Gill Olson, Brantley Schwartz, Serenity Robinson, Sophie Knittel, Marley Guthmiller, Denver Wolff Second place: Brady Unser, Justin Rohrbach, Tucker Habeck, Bryce Hochalter, Lane Braun, Gunnar Knittel, Kadyn Weisser Third place: Ryder Steen, Lewis Judkins...