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Twenty-five Ipswich seniors received their diplomas Saturday, May 15 in the school gym. Valedictorian Matthew Hettich spoke. Co-Salutatorian Lyndsey Grabowska also addressed the audience of family and friends....
Ipswich’s Annual Summer Event – Trail Days – will be held June 18-20. The three-day event will kick-off on Friday, June 18 with the Trail Days Cup Golf Tournament at the Split Rock Country Club. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. with a shot-gun start at 12 noon for the four-person scramble 18-hole golf tournament. Later that day join the Amazing Race Ipswich Scavenger Hunt with your team of three to four people and win tickets to Saturday’s Concert. Pre-register by June 11 to ensure T-shirts by contacting Heidi at 605-380-1989. The race be...
Holy Cross Parish is presenting a teaching and exposition of Sacred Relics on Saturday, May 22 at 3:30 p.m. The presentation begins in the church at 3:30 p.m. The Exhibition in the Hall opens after the presentation at 4:30 p.m. Father Carlos Martins of the Companions of the Cross will be here with an extraordinary Vatican collection of over 150 relics, some as old as 2000 years. Among the treasures will be relics of St. Joseph, St. Maria Goretti, St. Therese of Lisieux (the "Little Flower"), St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Thom...
The Ipswich Public Library Summer Reading Program is free to all, ages birth to 12. Attend in person or participate by taking home an activity bag. Programs will be outside as much as possible for social distancing. Pick up a reading log to return for a T-shirt. Pick up your second reading log and continue reading tales. Each program attendance and returned reading log enters your name for the end of program drawing. Registration is open until May 26. List child’s name, age, parent’s name, and phone number by texting Deb Gillick at 605...
U.S. Senator John Thune stopped in Ipswich on May 5. Sen. Thune visited the Tiger Post. He stopped to look at the children's projects and led in the Pledge to the U.S. Flag. The Senator spoke with Ipswich community leaders at the Sylte Farms Corporate Office....
The Ipswich Commercial Club has decided to have their annual City-Wide Rummage Sale on the first Saturday of August. This year’s sale is on August 7. Start collecting your treasures for the sale!...
Tena put up a red, blue and white wind sock on a flag pole. You may have noticed the new strange flags on Monday, because that is the 17th of May (Syttende Mai). And they indeed are the Norwegian flags celebrating that country's own birthday similar to the 4th of July in our country. And by the way the 4th seems to come around faster and faster after an all too fast 30-day June. Tena is partly Norwegian and partly German. I don't know that Germany actually has some sort of a holiday. Quite possibly there is at least a Germans from Russia...
The Ipswich Historical Society is sharing articles written by IHS students. The students visited the museum, researched and wrote about events, people and businesses in the community. Ipswich’s Churches by Ashton Loken I chose the churches of Ipswich because it is a topic that interests me, and I really wanted to learn more about them. I looked at the Ipswich Centennial, a book with a lot of information. I learned about how Ipswich has a long history of churches, sanctuaries and different places for prayer; here is some history about four of th...
From the Ipswich Tribune December 29, 1927 edition GROUND HOG DAY The idea of Ground Hog day seems to be of German origin. In Germany however, it was the badger that foretold the weather February 2. When the first Germans coming to America brought this belief with them, the common ground hog or woodchuck was adopted in place of the badger, because the latter was not so well known here. But the belief that the weather on February 2 predicts warm or cold weather for six weeks to come dates back to the fifth century, when the festival of...
MacKenzie Gerth is the outreach coordinator at Safe Harbor, who serves Edmunds County. Safe Harbor is the family violence shelter and resource center located in Aberdeen. The agency assists men, women, and children with safety planning, shelter, advocacy during or after leaving an abusive situation. Abuse in a relationship can be emotional, physical, financial, or stalking and so many more. Safe Harbor can also assist victims of sexual assault, stalking, all forms of family violence or elder...
The regional high school golf meet is scheduled for May 24 at the Broadland Creek golf course in Huron. Ipswich was also scheduled to enter a pre-regional warm-up meet in Huron on Monday, but those results were not available as of our newspaper deadline. The Tiger boys' golfers had also attended a James Valley Christian invite there last Thursday. Luke Peterson became the medalist that day. He carded a 81 that proved to be one stroke better than the runner-up Sam Hansen of Great Plains Lutheran Academy. Next for the Tigers was Matthew Jaenisch...
Ipswich competed in the Lake Region Conference track and field meet last Thursday, hosted by Ipswich. And that was an understatement! The Tigers actually dominated the meet, especially at the varsity level. (This meet featured both some varsity and middle-school events.) Ipswich swept the varsity team standings, winning the girls' event with 219.5 team points and the Tiger boys scored 175 with Warner placing second in both cases. (The Monarch girls tallied 94.5 team points and their boys, 153.)...