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The Ipswich Marching Band is preparing for the Gala Day parade, as well as local band festivals. They will attend the second annual Roncalli Marching Band Festival on Wednesday morning, Sept. 30. The event runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and will feature 11 bands. They will march along 15th Ave. from Main St. to Dakota St., eventually ending up in the Roncalli High School Parking Lot. The IHS band will also participate in the Groton Lake Region Marching Festival on October 9, according to IHS band...
National 4-H Week is October 4-10. This year’s theme is “Opportunity 4All!” They encourage everyone to explore the opportunities that are available. Over 100 years ago, 4-H became one of the first developed organizations for youth. The goal of 4-H is to help youth and their families learn the skills they need to positively impact their communities. As the largest youth organization in the county, 4-H grows confident, capable, and caring youth with the life skills to thrive in today’s world and succeed in their dreams for tomorrow. This is done...
Edmunds County farmer Andy Weisser, directed a $2,500 donation to Edmunds County 4H through America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Bayer Fund. Celebrating its 10th year, America’s Farmers Grow Communities partners with farmers to support nonprofit organizations strengthening rural communities. The program offers farmers the chance to direct a $2,500 donation to a nonprofit of their choice. It has awarded more than $33 million to over 8,000 nonprofits across rural America. “A better life is Bayer’s goal. Farmers are invested in the...
What a difference a year makes, what with the ongoing pandemic and resulting postponements. It has also been awhile since Ipswich and Edmunds Central have had their homecoming the very same week. So all I have to say about that is just be careful when you are trying to drive back and forth between the two places. Just don't get a speeding ticket! But that said, congratulations to the royalty and their royal courts at both schools. Homecoming is one of the highlights at every type of educational institution, right up through college. NSU had can...
The quarterly meeting of the Edmunds County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) will be held on Thursday, Oct. 1 in the Bowdle Fire Hall at 7:30 p.m. The meeting agenda includes grant funding and necessary classes. A Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) meeting and a Citizen’s Corp. Council meeting will be conducted during the LEPC meeting. For more information contact the chairman, Leland Treichel....
Fall Conservation Topics by Eric Rasmussen, District Conservationist Ipswich NRCS Field Office Fall is just around the corner and there is a laundry list of things everyone will be trying to accomplish before the white stuff begins to fly. I want to take this moment to share some timely conservation topics to consider as you prepare for winter. NOW is the time to inventory your shelterbelts and windbreaks! Soon, leaves will be falling, and it will be hard to decipher whether you have a live tree or not. Early orders submitted to your local...
Joey Langstraat, grandson of Bernard and Deloris Thares of Ipswich, made his first hole-in-one On Sept. 5, 2020 at Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan. Joey, the son of Mike and Laurie (Thares) Langstraat, is a senior at Basehor-Linwood High School. He hopes to play golf at the collegiate level. He used his pitching wedge for the 140-yard shot and the ball hit the green and rolled about two feet into the cup. Joey was playing in the golf course's Patriot Day Tournament that raises funds...
A graveside service for Shirley J. Gisi, 79, of Ipswich, was Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at Holy Cross Catholic Church Cemetery in Ipswich. Fr. Timothy Smith led the service. Shirley Jean Gisi was born on June 5, 1941 to John and Winifred Kraft in Aberdeen. She graduated from Aberdeen Central High School in the Class of 1959. Shirley married Vincent Nigg on October 8, 1962; four children were born to this marriage. She worked at the Beverly Nursing Home for a short period of time and then for the Edm...
The Ipswich/Edmunds Central high school football cooperative got back into the win column with a huge 44-20 Lake Region Conference league victory over North Border last Friday in Leola. The convincing win improved the Tigers' record to 4-1 and they are currently 3-1 in league play. Another league rival, Faulkton Area was to have visited Ipswich on Friday, Oct. 2 to cap both Ipswich's and Edmunds Central's respective homecoming weeks. (The Trojans are coached by IHS graduate Shayne Geditz.)...
Ipswich hosted a high school cross country meet at Split Rock on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon last week. "It was a good day to run," Coach Thorson explained. "I didn't run some varsity athletes because they had other workouts planned for the week." And there were indeed no Tiger runners in either of the varsity events. So Aberdeen Roncalli swept the girls' event with a team championship score of 9 team points, led by Paige Schmidt first in 19:42.59 and Sarah Schmidt second in 20:08.94....
Ipswich defeated Langford Area 3-0 in a Lake Region Conference league rivalry last Thursday in Ipswich. The Tiger girls won the first set 25-13 that ended with a Langford hitting error. The second set also went in Ipswich's favor 25-10 thanks to Paige Mehlberg's set-point kill. But the third set proved to be a whole lot closer and Mehlberg also capped that 26-24 victory with a decisive kill. (She had just claimed Ipswich's 25th point with yet another kill.) "We tried to do a few more things offe...
Ipswich outlasted North Central 3-0 in girls' high school volley action Monday evening in Ipswich. It was indeed a straight-sets win against a scrappy Thunder team that continued to improve as the evening progressed along. "They were very scrappy just as we anticipated," said IHS coach Trent Osborne. "We were able to get them out of system with our serving enough to get ourselves some good swings in transition offense. I thought our passers and setters really did a nice job of getting the hitters some great looks.” Ipswich won the initial s...