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State Senator Justin Cronin resigned his seat in the South Dakota State Senate on Aug. 28, 2019. Cronin has represented District 23 in the State Senate since 2017. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a position he has held since the beginning of this year. From 2009-2017, Cronin served in the South Dakota House of Representatives where he was Assistant Majority Leader from 2011 until 2015. From 2015 until 2017, he chaired the House Appropriations Committee....
First Baptist Church of Ipswich will move their Sunday, Sept. 8 service to Aberdeen. The worship service will be combined with their Sunday School kick-off, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Storybook Land Visitor Center at Wylie Park in Aberdeen. A potluck lunch will follow the special service....
The annual Powell Church service is planned on Sunday, Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Powell Church in the Pioneer Village in Ipswich. Carl Perry of Aberdeen will be the guest speaker. The CCR Trio will provide musical entertainment. A potluck supper will follow in the UCC Fellowship Hall in Ipswich....
Agtegra recently gave a donation to the Ipswich Fire Department for continued training....
The Ipswich American Legion Auxiliary will meet on Sept. 10 at the FEM Building for a 6:30 p.m. pot luck supper. The meeting will follow. This meeting will start the new year. All are welcome....
One nice thing about Monday holidays is that they make the next Friday roll around a little faster and this week for sure, since it’s EC homecoming week. Congratulations to the royalty and good luck in all the activities the rest of this week. Especially the sports teams! The only real casualty of the week might be a few toads that will decide to hop off their toad stools at an inappropriate moment during the homecoming parade. They're all over the roads and sidewalks especially in towns, except when they're trying to hop into your garage d...
Members of the Ipswich School Board used the 2018-19 school year to broaden their knowledge of school board work and in doing so earned statewide recognition for their dedication to their craft. The Ipswich School Board earned a Silver Level award for their participation in the Associated School Boards of South Dakota’s board recognition program: ALL, which stands for Act, Learn, Lead and honors the work of school boards who strived to enhance their knowledge base of board work. By participating in ASBSD activities, training opportunities a...
Ipswich won a pair of high school volleyball outings last week to open its 2019 campaign, one at home and the other on the road. Credit the Lady Tigers with a 3-0 Lake Region Conference sweep over Aberdeen Christian last Tuesday in Aberdeen, as well as a much closer 3-1 win over non-league opponent Highmore-Harrold two nights later in the Tiger Den. That one was capped by a hard-fought 27-25 victory of the third set after the visitors had erased their deficit to 2-1 with an equally tight 25-23...
Score one for the host team in area high school football last Friday! Ipswich/Edmunds Central indeed dominated Lake Region Conference foe Northwestern Area 42-2 for its second straight win of the young season and moved to 1-0 in league play as a result of the victory. The Tigers methodically put together a 60-yard touchdown drive after the teams had exchanged punts on their respective initial possessions. The Tigers got decent field position right at midfield after the Wildcats' punt and Kaden...
Ipswich traveled to Pierre last Friday for a multi-class, multi-division season-opening high school cross country meet. Tessa Kilber placed eighth among 33 individual contestants with her 16:44.13 clocking. Melanie Jacobs of Aberdeen Central edged her runner-up teammate Zoe Douglas 15:17.28 to 15:36.90. Ipswich's Emily DeRaad also finished 16th in 17:40.86. Meanwhile, Maxwell Geditz competed for Ipswich in the boys' varsity race and placed eleventh among 28 boys (14:33.98). Again the boys' champion represented Aberdeen Central in 12:48.46, as...
Morris Grosz got his first hole-in-one at the Split Rock Country Club recently. Grosz got the ace on Hole 7, using a 9 iron. Witnessing the shot were Tim Gillick, Les Holland and John Gillick....
The Trail Days committee is seeking input from the public. A meeting has been scheduled to discuss new ideas for next year’s event. The meeting will be Thursday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. in the Beck Law Office Conference Room. Everyone is welcome to attend....