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Santa Claus stopped for a visit in Ipswich during the Hometown Holiday Weekend last week. The Ipswich Commercial Club hosted three days of holiday activities Dec. 6-8. Santa stopped at the annual Highway of Hope Holiday Fair after the children's carnival....
Local churches will celebrate the Christmas season next week. Schedules for local churches include: Holy Cross, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) and St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Churches: St. Thomas the Apostle in Roscoe will have a Christmas Eve Mass at 5 p.m. on Dec. 24. The OLPH Church in Leola will have a Christmas Eve service at 8 p.m. The Holy Cross Church in Ipswich will have a Christmas Eve Mass at Midnight. The choir will begin singing at 11:30 p.m. There will be a Christmas service at 9 a.m. at Holy Cross Church. First Baptist...
The Middle/High School Christmas Concert on Monday, Dec. 10 in the school theater featured a variety of holiday selections. Vocal and instrumental groups shared Christmas music. Becky Nierman and Charlene Blondo were the directors....
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! And Santa did come early with a few presents for at least some of the area high school sports teams. Particularly in basketball, where the EC girls and boys and Ipswich's girls and boys all have at least one win under their belts. And the Tiger boys have three pre-Christmas wins under their Christmas tree to lead that list. As we stated in this column last week, most of the local area with the exception of Hosmer customers would be getting their next week's paper and the following week's edition on December...
Ron Hoffer will celebrate his 80th Birthday on Dec. 30, 2018. Greetings may be sent to him at PO Box 312, Roscoe, SD 57471....
The Ipswich Commercial Club sponsored a Christmas Lighting Contest as part of the Hometown Holiday Weekend. The winners were: Reason for the Season (Religious) - Lynette Kraft Fun and Festive - Tiffany & Ethan Hannasch Best Use of Lights - Greg & Brenda Geditz A portion of Lynette's lights are pictured. See this week's Tribune newspaper to see photos of each winner....
Ipswich made a Saturday trip to Webster quite worthwhile by capturing both ends of a girls/boys non-conference basketball doubleheader. The Tiger girls got back on the win track with a hard-earned 46-37 victory and the boys picked up their third straight win of the young season with a convincing 61-34 outcome. In the girls' game, Halle Heinz scored 24 points to lead all scorers and she included a quartet of treys. Next was Abby Grabowska with 10 points. Tessa Kilber was next with five points and she included a lone trey. Sydney Loken also...
Ipswich/Leola/Bowdle (ILB) competed in a Plankinton wrestling invite on Saturday, Dec. 15. The Tigers faced some difficult opposition to say the least. The Tigers were able to get a six-place placement from Tanner Frickson, who scored nine of the team's 12 team points, at 120. Zach Geditz, competing at 170 was able to obtain ILB's remaining three team points. The tourney was won by Burke/Gregory with 201 points, edging Redfield Area's 185. Altogether there were 17 teams in the event, with the Tigers finishing in 17th. The team will now be idle...
Ipswich opened its 2018-19 boys' high school basketball campaign with a pair of Lake Region Conference victories, one on the road and then one at home. The Tigers indeed topped Eureka-Bowdle 72-31 in Bowdle last Tuesday and returned home to conquer the Langford Lions 60-32 two nights later. Against E-B the Ipswich contingent gradually extended its lead and eventually placed 11 players in its scoring ledger. Will Kadlec led the balanced effort with 15 points and featured three treys. Ben Kulesa... Full story
Ipswich split a pair of Lake Region Conference girls' prep basketball games last week, playing without the services of Kamryn Heinz, still out with a injury. Ipswich came away with a 37-19 LRC victory in its season opener at Bowdle last Tuesday evening. The Lady Tigers indeed prevailed over Eureka-Bowdle in somewhat of a defensive battle. But the opponents' defense would then also help contribute to a 52-40 IHS girls' LRC loss last Friday at Langford Area. In that one, Ipswich only managed four points during the final quarter, enabling the...