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Plans are in full swing for Ipswich Commercial Club's fourth annual Hometown Holiday Weekend, planned December 10-12. Many businesses and organizations are planning specials and treats for this three-day event. Hometown Holiday Weekend flyers can be found in next week's Ipswich Tribune. Some of the activities planned include: • Gingerbread House Contest - open to all ages. Bring your completed display to the Edmunds County Courthouse Community Room by noon on Friday, Dec. 11. Prizes will be a...
Local individuals, club members and business employees are decorating Christmas trees for the annual Wily Wizards 4-H Club Holiday display at the Edmunds County Courthouse. To keep everyone safe, there will not be a lighting ceremony. There will be time to view the trees on Friday, December 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. Trees will be on display for you to enjoy at your leisure from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday. They will also host special viewing hours on Saturday, December 12 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. There will be 47 trees lining the hallways and in t...
The Ipswich Public Elementary students will celebrate Christmas with their Christmas Concert on Thursday, December 3, 2020. In an effort to keep the attendance numbers low at indoor activities and events, there will be two performances. • Preschool, Jr. Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First and Second grade students will perform at 6:30 p.m. • Third, Fourth, and Fifth grade students will perform at 7:30 p.m. Parents and small children will be allowed to attend the performances of their children. Both performances will be livestreamed during the...
Are you guys still eating turkey left-overs, we are! And we are getting down to turkey sliders, turkey quesadillas and turkey vegetable soup, so we are making progress. It seemed like a long extended holiday weekend and that it indeed was. Especially this year! But all good things must come to an end, especially when you are having fun and for that matter the entire month of November passed by in record speed. One reason for that might have been the rapid temperature swings with desert like...
The weather has been mild so far after our early snowfall. A good chance for you to get your Christmas lights up. The Ipswich Commercial Club is sponsoring a Christmas lighting contest again this year. There are four divisions: religious, best of lights, contemporary, and business. The winners will win $20 Business Bucks to be used in participating businesses in Ipswich....
FSA Encourages farmers and ranchers to vote in County Committee Elections The 2020 Farm Service Agency County Committee Elections began on Nov. 2, 2020, when ballots were mailed to eligible voters. The deadline to return ballots to local FSA offices, or to be postmarked, is Dec. 7, 2020. County committee members are an important component of the operations of FSA and provide a link between the agricultural community and USDA. Farmers and ranchers elected to county committees help deliver FSA programs at the local level, applying their...
Memorial Services for Patricia Sonstegard, 74, of Ipswich, will be 2 p.m., Saturday, December 5, 2020 at Zion Lutheran Church, located in Gramm Funeral Home, 720 N. 6th Street, in Ipswich. Patricia passed away Monday November 23, 2020 at Avantara of Ipswich. Patricia was born in Aberdeen to Andrew and Agnes (Schwab) Kraft on January 8, 1946. She was raised near Ipswich and graduated from Ipswich High School. She continued to live in Ipswich while working as a Certified Nursing Assistant while... Full story
Richard "Dick" Marko, 84, of Aberdeen, and formerly of Ipswich, SD, passed away Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at his home. Mass of Christian burial was at 10 a.m., Tuesday, December 1, 2020, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich, with Father Tim Smith, Celebrant and Father Mark Axtmann con-celebrating. Burial followed at the church cemetery. Richard "Dick" Marko, son of William "Bill" and Margaret (Mullner) Marko, was born July 11, 1936, in Westport. He was raised on the family farm with three br... Full story
An Edmunds Central High School senior has won a $10,000 prize for promising to be a safe driver. Austin Faw of Roscoe was announced Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 as the winner of this year's Lesson Learned SD program during an all-school assembly in Roscoe. "This program is a great way to recognize young people who have pledged to be safe drivers," said Department of Public Safety Cabinet Secretary Craig Price. "Young people who learn to be safe drivers carry on those habits throughout the rest of their...
The Ipswich/Bowdle 2020-21 high school wrestling schedule will begin on Saturday, Dec. 5 at Stanley County. The event will be a limited spectator event due to covid. "Yes, you must have a wrist band, which were given out to athletes, two per wrestler," says the Ipswich AD Dan Knust. And this year's Tigers' cooperative varsity wrestling program will be without Leola, as that school has elected not to continue to participate this season. So it will indeed be the Ipswich/Bowdle Tigers. A total of 11 seventh through 12th grade wrestlers have been w...
Local volleyball players have been named to the Lake Region Conference honor team. Chesney Olivier is on the Conference first team. Other players on the first team are Mary Fites of Aberdeen Christian, Peyton Melius and Isabel Aesoph of Faulkton, Sydney Schell and Hannah Schentzel of Northwestern and Ava Nilsson and Jennifer Aman of Warner. Paige Mehlberg and Lindsey Grabowska are on the second team. Other players on the second team are Joclyn Haven of Northwestern, Kendyl Anderson of Warner, Joy Rohrbach of Aberdeen Christian, Taylor...
Ipswich opens its 9-12 girls basketball season at Sully Buttes on Tuesday, Dec. 8 and returns to host Hitchcock-Tulare on Dec. 12 at 4 p.m. starting with JV action. This will be a senior dominated team with many of the familiar faces from volleyball. Girls in grades 9-12 out for basketball include: Seniors: Hailey Bierman, Halie Feldman, Kate Geditz, Lindsey Grabowska, Halle Heinz, Tarynn Kleffman, Ashton Loken, Paige Mehlberg, Chesney Olivier, Bailey Pitz; Sophomores: Katie Bierman, Vanesa Diaz, Emily Knoll, Baylee Kulesa, Quincy Olivier,...