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Politics featured its share of extreme polarization in 2018 and weather-wise it was somewhat of a dry year with its share of extremes, as well. Here is the first six months of 2018 in review. JANUARY Miss Ipswich Abby Noltner and Junior Miss Lindsey Grabowska competed in the State Snow Queen festivities in Aberdeen last January and Noltner was crowned the first runner-up, second only to Hannah Sumption of Frederick. A newly formed agricultural cooperative was named Agtegra Cooperative just in...
Jerome and Geralyn Malsom of Hosmer will be part of the Avera January 2019 mission team to Jeremie, Haiti. Donations will be collected through Sunday, January 6, 2019. Needed at the Gatineau clinic are small tubes of muscle rub, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Needed for the children at Mother Theresa's (now St. Theresa of Calcutta) orphanage are new or gently worn athletic shoes for children ages 2 to 8. Cash donations made out to the Avera Foundation will be used to purchase prescription...
Ipswich musicians played in the 45th Annual Merry Tuba Christmas on Dec. 8. Tuba players Gavin Wollman, Sawyer Kirkham, and Mac Heinz, were part of the group, hosted by Northern State. They played at the Lakewood Mall, Walmart and Target....
The Ipswich girls went 3-0 last week with three homecourt non-conference wins. They topped Hitchcock-Tulare 52-47 on Tuesday, defeated Groton Area 49-35 on Thursday and bested Florence/Henry 48-31 on Friday. The trio of wins improved Ipswich's overall mark to 5-1. Against H-T, the Lady Tigers grabbed a late two-possession 48-42 lead with an Abby Grabowska trey and the rest was history. But they had trailed 14-12 after a quarter, before grabbing a narrow 26-23 halftime edge. The IHS lead was...
Ipswich claimed two more boys' high school basketball wins this past week, both non-conference. The Tigers were able to handle Hitchcock-Tulare 50-32 last Tuesday in the Tiger Den and the IHS boys added a 48-44 come-from-behind win at home over Florence/Henry on Friday. That improved the Tigers record to 5-0 entering the Christmas break and their next appearance will be another homecourt girls/boys doubleheader hosting Waubay/Summit on December 29. Then on January 3 the Lady Tiger girls and...
Another quick reminder — our deadline for the Jan. 2 edition will be Friday at noon, as we will print on Saturday. But it won’t actually be mailed until Wednesday, Jan. 2. So have a Happy New Year and don’t be too hard on yourself when (and not if) you break that first New Year’s resolution. You probably notice that you are reading this on Thursday not Wednesday. We had a miscommunication with the printer, so this week’s paper was actually printed on Wednesday morning. Tuesday holidays are tough. Hope your’s was enjoyable!...