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Local residents will celebrate Independence Day this weekend. Many offices and businesses may be closed on Friday, July 3 in anticipation of the 4th on Saturday. You could get your fireworks at a local stand to celebrate at home. Of course be careful and keep safe. If you want a bigger show there are choices, depending how far you want to drive. Mina Lake is again planning their Freedom Festival. There will be activities for kids on Friday afternoon at the Wakeside. Friday evening festivities...
Several local youth participated in the Kickball Tournament in Roscoe on Saturday, June 27. The event was a fundraiser for the 2021 Edmunds Central Senior Trip. Champions of the Kickball Tournament were the Ball Kickers. Team members were Max Geditz, Ty Kadlec, Eric Severson, Josh McQuarie, Trevor Beyers, Will Kadlec, Jordan Nierman, Carson Simes and Ian Beyers....
The quarterly meeting of the Edmunds County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) will be held on Thursday, July 2 in the Ipswich Fire Hall at 7:30 p.m. The meeting agenda includes grant funds updates. They are attempting to schedule Operations Classes in Bowdle and Ipswich and an Awareness Class in Ipswich. A Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) meeting and a Citizen’s Corp. Council meeting will be conducted after the LEPC meeting. For more information contact the chairman, Leland Treichel....
Starting July 1, drivers in South Dakota will no longer be able to use mobile electronic devices, including cell phones, for texting or other purposes while they drive. House Bill 1169, which was passed during the 2020 legislative session, prohibits drivers from using a phone for social media uses. The new law allows drivers to hold the phone to their ear to talk, but any data entry other than putting the contact number into the device must be done under a hands-free mode. Violation of the new law is a primary offense and is a Class 2...
Do people use the term Happy Fourth of July? Well, if they don't, I will. Happy Fourth of July! And you can say Happy Birthday to our country at the very least. That's especially true this year in spite of the pandemic Several things are still going on as scheduled or possibly modified. I understand that Faulkton will still have a few individual activities over the long weekend, if not the Parade or Rodeo. And Mina Lake will more than make up for that. Those guys are scheduling more events than ever and turning it into a true...
From the Ipswich Tribune April 1, 1925 edition NEW CHATTEL MORTGAGE LAW A chattel mortgage law with sharp and terrible teeth in it has been discovered among the measures passed by the state legislature. An amendment to the present law on chattel mortgages was slipped through in the face of the farm bloc which puts a grave responsibility upon the mortgage to escape a felonious act. Under the new law the mortgagor is bound to give notice in writing to the mortgagor of the removal of the death of any mortgaged property or animal and failing to do...
The Edmunds County Conservation District has a youth garden in Ipswich. District Manager Meshele Townsend said the garden is usually a project of youth, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic she is doing the work. "I do so miss the kids," she said. As things are harvested Townsend will give it away. She asks that people call her, 426-6701, and she can set up times to distribution. The produce will include potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet onions, and then pumpkins in the fall...
The Aqua Addicts Waterski Team will perform at Wylie Park at 7 p.m. on July 4, 2020. They will be performing at Dahme Lake, their home site, every Thursday at 7 p.m. for the rest of the summer....