Articles from the March 20, 2019 edition


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  • USAF Offutt Brass performs in Ipswich Monday

    Mar 20, 2019

    Offutt Brass, the brass ensemble from the United States Air Force Heartland of America Band will perform a free, family-friendly entertaining and patriotic community concert on Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7 p.m. in the Ipswich School Theatre. This outstanding six-member musical group from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is comprised of two trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba and percussion. With a program that features a wide musical variety of classical, jazz, popular marches, and patriotic...

  • "The Case for Easter" study at First Baptist

    Mar 20, 2019

    The First Baptist Church of Ipswich is exploring “The Case for Easter” over the next four Sundays at 9 a.m. beginning on March 24. They will study the bestselling book The Case for Easter by Lee Strobel. He retraced his spiritual journey from atheism to faith by showing how the evidence he obtained from experts in the field of history, archaeology, and ancient manuscripts led him to the verdict that Jesus truly was the Son of God. In the four-week study for Easter, Strobel investigates the story surrounding the resurrection of Jesus Chr...

  • Spring Concert

    Mar 20, 2019

    Ipswich Middle School and High School presented their Spring Concert on Tuesday, March 12 in the School Theatre. The Middle School Choir did selections from “Fiddler on the Roof Jr.” The Middle School students will be presenting the musical. Four of the play principals are pictured in “Sunrise, Sunset.” The Fiddler performance was scheduled for March, but has been postponed to later in the school year. The High School vocal and instrumental groups also performed their concert music. The perform...

  • Fiddlin' Around

    -deg|Mar 20, 2019

    It's now officially spring according to the calendar and that's also evidenced by our longer days of sunlight, which we hadn't seen much of lately, due to that devastating blizzard last week. Somebody said that the groundhog should hide out until next year, because he was so wrong (or right?) forecasting when spring would arrive. Hopefully we won't get all that much more white stuff until next fall or winter. Or even all that much rain for the time being for obvious reasons as well! That blizzard cut into my personal attendance at the boys'...

  • Vocal Festival

    Mar 20, 2019

    Ipswich fourth to sixth grade students participated in the annual SDMEA Festival held in Mobridge. It was originally scheduled for Monday, March 4, but due to weather it was rescheduled to Thursday, March 7th. They were able to take half of the students since the high school girls basketball team played in Huron that same evening. Pictured top to bottom/left to right: John Blondo, Sawyer Kirkham, Hope Wagner, Gracyn Kadlec, Jayda Gisi, Bella Unser, Madison Olson, Praise Lange. Not pictured:...

  • Frederick Miller

    Mar 20, 2019

    A memorial service for Frederick Joseph Miller, 77, of Ipswich, will begin at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at Gramm Funeral Home, 720 N 6th Street in Ipswich. Frederick passed away on March 15, 2019. Frederick was born to Andrew and Irene Miller on June 25, 1941 in North Olmstead, Ohio. In 1956, he and his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he graduated from Camelback High School in 1959. He then met and married the love of his life, Marjorie J. (White) Miller on April 28, 1962, and...

  • The Library Remembers When

    Mar 20, 2019

    From the Ipswich Tribune, Thursday, May 30, 1935 edition Early day lawyer lands in jail, all cause of accident One of the first lawyers to practice law in Edmunds County had an experience behind bars in 1890, purely by accident and was released after considerable shouting. The Edmunds County Democrat of Feb. 8 of that year reports: “A.F. Stowe, in company with several others called at the jail to see the insane Russian, while there Stowe spied his client Buckner, and soon they were engaged in conversation and did not notice the turnkey and t...

  • Ipswich players on LRC honor teams

    Mar 20, 2019

    Ipswich basketball players were named to the Lake Region Conference (LRC) All-Conference teams. IHS senior Kamryn Heinz and sophomore Halle Heinz were on the girls basketball first team. Kamryn Heinz and Laurie Rogers of Warner were Co-MVP picks. Abby Grabowska, a senior, was on the girls basketball second team. Will Kadlec, IHS junior, was on the boys basketball LRC All-Conference second team. Senior Jacob Nierman was a honorable mention pick. The boys co-MVP’s were Zech Clemens of Northwestern and Tyler Ogle of Faulkton....

  • IHS girls coach honored

    Mar 20, 2019

    The girls basketball head coach of the year in Region 1 is IHS coach Brian Hogie. The South Dakota Basketball Coaches' Association made the announcement. The assistant coach from Region 1 is David Williams of Clark/Willow Lake....

  • Basketball champions in three classes

    Mar 20, 2019

    It’s the little things that make a difference in any sports tournament of any sort at any level and that was certainly true during the State B boys’ high school basketball tourney at the Barnett Center in Aberdeen last weekend. Clark/Willow Lake indeed took care of all the little things, plus a huge defensive effort throughout its three-day competition. And for the eventual State B champion Cyclones, that definitely proved to be the difference in an otherwise quite balanced event! That defense all started in their first game of the tourney Thu...

  • State AAU winners

    Mar 20, 2019

    The 2019 State Youth Wrestling Tournament was held March 15-17 in Brookings. Local wrestlers and their placings were: Second place: Marley Guthmiller, Parker Gill Fifth place: Denver Wolff Seventh place: Sophie Knittel Eighth place: Serenity Robinson, Matt McCloud and Tanner Frickson...