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Ipswich School celebrated Red Ribbon Week the week of Oct. 24, to share an anti-drug message while exploring ways to be active, healthy and drug-free. The students signed a poster 'pledging' to be drug-free. Students enjoyed activities daily to show their support in being drug free including: • Monday - "Our Dreams are too big for Drugs" - wear pajamas • Tuesday - "Hats Off to being Drug Free" - wear a hat • Wednesday - "Catch the Wave to a Drug Free Life" - wear a Hawaiian shirt • Thursda...
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. The polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The sample ballots were published in the Oct. 26 Ipswich Tribune and Roscoe-Hosmer Independent. There are two local contests — Edmunds County Auditor and County Commission for District 3. Their profiles can be found in this week’s edition. The polling places are: Precinct #1 votes at the M Station - Mina (Townships: Belle, Clear Lake, Cortlandt, Pembrook, and Richland). Precinct #2 votes at the 4-H Building in Ipswich (City of Ipswich; less residents north of...
There were plenty of Truck or Treat participants on Sunday on Main Street Ipswich. Grandma's Ceramics Shop sought volunteers to share Halloween goodies....
The Feeding South Dakota Mobile Food Pantry will return to Edmunds County on two days. The Food Pantry will be in Ipswich on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 8 election day, so the pickup will be by the swimming pool. The Food Pantry will return on Nov. 14 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Bowdle. Proxy pickups are allowed. Complete the SD Feeding form and give it to your proxy to bring with to the food distribution. Proxy forms are also available with the driver at each distribution. Income guidelines...
The Ipswich Lions will host a Blood Drive on Monday, Nov. 7 from 1 to 6 p.m. in Fr. Bormann Hall. To make an appointment contact Jerald Brooks, 605-380-1925 or online at vitalant.org An hour of your time could change someone’s life. Before you roll up your sleeve to help someone else, take care of yourself. Eat a healthy, low-fat meal within two hours of your donation. The day before, eat a salty snack. when you donate blood, you lose about a gram of salt. Hydrate by drinking eight to 16 ounces of non-caffeinated, non-alcoholic beverages one h...
There are a few items to briefly comment on here. For one thing the upcoming time change. And please don’t get me started on that! It was fun to watch the ocean of faces in the recent All-State Orchestra and Chorus concert. It’s always fun to look for and hopefully locate some familiar faces. Fun to watch and easy on the ears. Even the trumpets seemed to be quite mellow. Tena looks at it as a live version of “Where’s Waldo.” You look for the unique items in the chorus. The boy with a large red afro hair really stood out. One year an Ipswich s...
The average October precip. for Ipswich is currently 1.60. October ranks 7th for amounts of precip. during a year. Snowfall is possible by the end of the month mainly because of freezing night time temps. by this time. Snowfall is rare though because my records show only nine Octobers out of 47 have measurable amounts of snow and all melted in a few days. The most measurable snowfall for the month of October is 11 inches during 2020. The 11 inches came from three snow events on the 20th, 22nd & 24th. The rest of the nine months had...
Two candidates are vying for the seat to serve as County Commissioner in the Third District. Candidates Micheal J. Geditz and the incumbent Jerome Schaffner. Only voters in the Third District are eligible to vote in that election: voters in Cleveland, Fountain, Harmony, Ipswich, Kent, Liberty, Powell, Rosette, and Union Townships and those in the northeast section of Ipswich City (North of US Hwy 12 and East of 4th Street). Each candidate answered a few questions: Micheal J. Geditz Family and Background: I am a lifelong resident of Edmunds...
November 7 — Ham Patty on homemade bun, green beans, sweet potatoes, juice, milk November 8 — Ham & Cheese Sub, corn, broccoli, peach pear sauce, milk November 9 — Taco Salad, salsa, black beans, mandarin oranges, baby carrots, milk November 10 — Tator Tot Hotdish, beets, apricots, homemade buns, milk November 11 — Barbeque Pork Sandwich, carrots, baked beans, applesauce, milk...
Dale R. Oster, 90, Bowdle, died Monday, October 24, 2022 at the Bowdle Nursing Home. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m., Friday, October 28, 2022 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Bowdle, led by Pastor David Peterson. Interment followed at the Church Cemetery with military graveside rites by the Bowdle American Legion Post. Dale Raymond Oster, son of Matilda (Schlepp) and John Oster, was born at Bowdle on December 14, 1931. He was raised and educated in Bowdle, graduating with the Bowdle High... Full story
Ipswich hosted Lake Region Conference foe North Central on Tuesday, Oct. 25 during high school volleyball action in the Tiger Den. The hosts were able to close out the 2022 regular-season action with a straight-sets 3-0 win. The individual set scores were 25-16, 25-9 and 25-15, respectively, all favoring the host team. But the visiting Thunder were able to hang around at various stages of all three sets - even the second set where a Natalie Bieber kill would produce them a 8-8 tie. But they...
The Pride of the Prairie newspaper in Bowdle sent questions to the candidates for Edmunds County Auditor. The questions and their responses can be seen below. 1. Name 2. Family 3. Work History 4. Past Experiences (clubs, organizations, etc.) How are some other ways you volunteer or help serve the community? 5. What motivated you to want to run? 6. What attributes do you have that you feel are essential for people successful in this position? 7. What is your vision for the future of this position in the county? 8. How do you decide what issue...
Ipswich captured its Region 6B high school volleyball opener 3-0 on Monday in the Tiger Den. That will send the Tigers to Faulkton to compete for a 6B bracket championship on Thursday. The Tigers indeed obtained a relatively easy straight sets win over the Raiders and the set scores were 25-17, 25-16 and 25-11 respectively. Ipswich would total 96 hits that included 34 kills led by Gracie Lange at 44-48 with 19 kills. Next would be Baylee Kulesa at 29-33 with 12 kills. The visitors utilized...
Turner Thorson, an IHS senior, was one of three Tiger boys at the recent state cross country meet in Huron. Turner's time was incorrectly printed as 18:50.58. The correct time was 18:15.58. He placed 23rd barely behind the other two IHS boys in the race, Dylan Wald and Xavier Kadlec. The boys' team finished fourth in the State B team standings, thanks to that trio of Tiger boys finishing so close together throughout the race. Turner has also recently been named a South Dakota Academic All...