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Ipswich High School's homecoming celebration for 2019 is this week. The theme is "Rock of Ages." You still have time to register your parade entry. Contact Shana Gohl at the school, 426-6571. The parade begins at 1 p.m. on Friday. The parade route will remain the same as last year. The parade entries will line up on First Avenue by Holy Cross Church. The route will begin at First Avenue and Fifth Street, down Alma Avenue, turning on Main Street heading north, turning again on Fourth Avenue....
The South Dakota Department of Transportation began asphalt concrete work on Highway 12 from Roscoe to Ipswich on Tuesday, Sept. 24. The work includes signage, milling and asphalt concrete paving. Traffic will be reduced to one lane and controlled with flaggers and pilot car. This work is part of a nearly $4.5 million contract with Anderson Western, Inc. to do repair work on Highway 12 in the Aberdeen region. Motorists are asked to be aware of suddenly slowing and stopped traffic, and to be aware of construction workers and equipment adjacent...
There will be a Cloverbuds 4-H Club Open House on Sunday, September 29 at the 4-H Building in Ipswich starting at 5 p.m. The Open House will begin with a business meeting with the parents followed by a furnished meal. This is an informational meeting to help parents decide if Cloverbuds is for their child. Cloverbuds is open to youth ages 5-7 as of January 1, 2020. This group does fun activities, explores different topic areas, promotes creativity, has hands on active learning, and teaches how to work as a team. Parents need to attend with...
The local P.E.O. chapter will be hosting a “Tour Of Homes” on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 from 1-4 p.m. There are three homes to tour and refreshments will be served at UCC Fellowship Hall during the tour hours. All proceeds will be used to support the annual scholarship given to a local high school senior girl who will be furthering her education after high school. The local chapter has given over $15,000 in local scholarships which began in 1984. Enjoy the beauty of fall by touring these beautiful homes and treating yourself to refreshments. Tic...
This is homecoming week at IHS, so hopefully the weather will cooperate as well as it did for the earlier Edmunds Central homecoming festivities. That weather was awesome. But the advance forecast for Friday looks like we might actually slide by in between a Thursday system and a Friday night/Saturday a.m. system and that would be great. It might become a little chilly on Friday, but it's that time of the year. Congratulations to the Ipswich girls' volleyball team for winning their own tournament last Saturday in Ipswich. And hopefully it will...
From the Ipswich Tribune January 5, 1928 edition CAR LICENSES ARRIVE The new 1928 automobile license plates have arrived for Edmunds County. County Treasurer Nehl has 2000 of them stacked up in his office waiting distribution. Gilbert Jones was the first person in Edmunds County to resister his car, therefore he received number 23-1000. Thirty-five licenses have been sold to date. The plates are the same size and shape as those of 1927 with white lettering on a red background. All motor vehicles licensed for the year 1927 may operate with the...
The Ipswich Lions Club recently provided vision screening for 496 local school children using the South Dakota Lions Foundation Vision Van. Children from pre-school through high school from Ipswich, Edmunds Central, Faulkton, and Leola had their vision checked courtesy of Ipswich Lions club members. Children from area Hutterite Colonies in their respective communities were also screened by Ipswich Lions Club members. All children were screened the second week in September in their communities....
Ipswich swept its own Ipswich Subway Invitational high school volleyball invite on Saturday in the Tiger Den. The Lady Tigers indeed won all four of their matches, capped by a 25-23, 25-20 defeat of Langford Area in the title match. South Border had topped Herreid/Selby Area 2-0 for third place in the event and Lemmon swept Kimball/White Lake in the fifth-place affair. Aberdeen Christian claimed seventh with a win over Leola/Frederick. The four wins improved Ipswich to 12-3 at that point in time...
Ipswich swept both the girls and boys varsity team titles at a cross country invite hosted by Potter County last Saturday. And that was the initial opportunity this season for them to both be eligible for their respective team titles! "It was the first time putting varsity together (as teams) and I thought we ran really good," said Coach Todd Thorson. "It was wet and windy, but everyone that ran today showed up focused and ready to compete. That includes JV and middle-school as well." Helped by Tessa Kilber's first-place 19:38.67 win of the...
Ipswich/Edmunds Central dropped a home field Lake Region Conference high school football decision by a 42-8 margin last Friday in Ipswich. The Tigers were finally able to get on the score board in the fourth quarter, thanks to a final quarter 18-yard touchdown pass from Ethan Gilbert to Ty Kadlec. And they tacked on a two-point conversion thanks to Gilbert's keeper run. The visitors had led 14-0 after a quarter and 28-0 after intermission. They increased their margin to 35-0, entering the final...
Ipswich bumped heads with a couple of traditional LRC powerhouse teams in high school volleyball action earlier last week, prepping for its own invitational tourney on Saturday. The Lady Tigers indeed traveled to Warner on Tuesday, Sept. 17 and lost that league match by a 3-1 verdict. The Lady Tigers then hosted league foe Northwestern Area two nights later in the Tiger Den and were defeated 3-0 by the Wildcats. In the Tuesday match, Ipswich actually got off to a great start with a 25-22 victory. But the Lady Tigers couldn't sustain that...