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ELEMENTARY The Ipswich Public Elementary students will celebrate holidays with their Christmas Concert on Thursday, December 1 in the School Theatre. There will be a matinee performance at 2:15 p.m. and an evening performance at 7 p.m. The Preschool and Jr. Kindergarten students will perform at the 7 performance only. MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL Ipswich Middle School and High School music students will perform their Christmas Concert on Thursday, December 8 at 7 p.m. The concert will feature music from the middle school choir, 6-7 band, 8-12...
Get into the Christmas spirit by joining the Wily Wizards 4-H Club at their annual Christmas at the Courthouse Lighting Ceremony. The lighting ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 9. Hear music by the Ipswich High School Choir while enjoying treats furnished by the club members. After the choir you can browse the three levels of the Courthouse viewing the trees decorated by county businesses and families. If you are not able to make the lighting ceremony you are able to view the trees at your leisure from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday t...
Funeral services for William "Joe" Geditz, 73, of Ipswich were at 10:30 a.m., Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich, with Fr. Timothy Cone officiating. Burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, Ipswich, with Military honors by Elstad-Archer American Legion Post #67. Joe passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, November 22. Death found Joe surrounded by family and friends, which is fitting given that's the way he most enjoyed life. Joe was born January 2, 1949 to John and Bettie (Steen) Ged... Full story
Doris Geist 88, of Roscoe passed away Sunday, November 20, 2022, at Avera St.Lukes Hospital Aberdeen. The Funeral Service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Roscoe, with Pastor Tony Hansen officiating. Visitation one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at Morningside Cemetery in Roscoe. Following burial will be a time of fellowship and luncheon at the church. Doris Mae (Brandner) Geist was born to Emil and Emma (Hieb)... Full story
ELEMENTARY The Ipswich Public Elementary students will celebrate holidays with their Christmas Concert on Thursday, December 1 in the School Theatre. There will be a matinee performance at 2:15 p.m. and an evening performance at 7 p.m. The Preschool and Jr. Kindergarten students will perform at the 7 performance only. The students will perform the Christmas musical “It’s Christmas, Carol”. Please join them for a night of holiday music as they celebrate the Christmas Season. MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL Ipswich Middle School and High Schoo...
The 31st Annual South Dakota North Area Honor Band will present their concert on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 4 p.m. at the Johnson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Northern State University. Dr. Haley Armstrong, director of Bands and Coordinator of Musical Activities at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, is the director for this year’s event. Three Ipswich students, Hannah Beyers, Lawson Santema and Gavin Wollman, have been selected to participate in the Honor Band. The South Dakota North Area Honor Band was created when area b...
Donald C. Perrion, 85, Ipswich passed away on November 18, 2022, at Angelhaus in Aber-deen, surrounded by his family. The funeral service will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at Schriver Funeral Home in Ipswich, formerly Gramm Funeral Home, with Father Tim Cone of the Holy Cross Catholic Church officiating. Visitation will be one hour before the service at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Holy Cross Cemetery following the service. Friends and family are invited to gather... Full story
On October 25, 2022, Mary Kub East of Ann Arbor, Mich. passed away at the age of 72 years, alongside a loving family who cared for and loved her very much. Mary was born October 4, 1950 in Aberdeen. Her family lived on a farm southwest of Ipswich that had been homesteaded by her grandfather Albert in 1906 and still remains in the family. She attended a one-room grade school near the farm until starting high school in Ipswich, where she graduated in 1967 as valedictorian. She continued her... Full story
Ipswich High School first nine weeks honor roll has been released. Students on the list are: SENIOR 4.0 and Higher — Kamryn Boettcher, Tyler Hettich, Baylee Kulesa, Quincy Olivier, Ashley Ptacek, Turner Thorson, Ashlyn Weig 3.70-3.99 — Ian Beyers, Kaitlyn Bierman, Madison Geditz, Emily Knoll 3.0-3.69 — Carter Geditz, Wesley Kirkham, Evan Onken, Jersey Peschong, Cody Russell, Lawson Santema, Colby Sylte, Gavin Wollman JUNIOR 4.0 and Higher — Hannah Beyers, Sam Grabowska 3.70-3.99 — Jace Alberts Konsor, Trevor Heinz, Chet Peterson 3.0-3.69...
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...
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...
Elizabeth "Beth" Ann Pond, 79, of Ipswich, passed away Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at Bethesda Home of Aberdeen. The Funeral Service will be at 11 a.m., October 29, 2022, at the Ipswich United Church of Christ, Ipswich. Pastor Tim Fugman will be officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. A time of fellowship and luncheon will follow the service at the church hall. Burial will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Powell. Elizabeth "Beth" Ann Pond was born May 15, 1943,... Full story
Ipswich attended the State B high school cross country meet on Saturday in Huron, highlighted by their boys' fourth-place effort in their team standings with just the minimum number of three runners with no pushers. (They scored 55 team points.) Dylan Wald led the Tigers earning a 20th-place individual medal in 18:12.09. Next were Xavier Kadlec in 21st at 18:12.04 and Turner Thorson in 23rd in 18:50.58. There were a total of 114 runners in this event individually won by Josiah Schroeder of...
Ipswich dropped a 42-20 Class 9AA high school football playoff outcome to Bon Homme in Tyndall last Thursday. The hosts would receive a 30-yard TD pass from Riley Rothschadl to Landon Bares plus a PAT kick by Easton Mudder to get on the board. They would add a short carry into paydirt by Rothschadl the quarteback followed by a PATs pass from Rothschaldl to Isaac Crownover. They added an early second-quarter touchdown run by Jackson Caba of 10 yards with a PAT kick by Crownover which would put...
Ipswich lost a five-set high school non-conference varsity outcome to Hitchcock-Tulare at Tulare last Thursday. "Volleyball is one of the few sports that you can score more points than the other team and still lose," explained Coach Trent Osborne. "We outscored them 103 -101 but just didn’t score at the right times." What happened was that Ipswich got behind with 25-22 and 25-21 losses. But the Tigers regrouped to win set three 25-17 and set four 25-19. That evened things at 2-2, but the Patriots would prevail 15-10 in the tie-breaker set. O...
North Central lost a 74-22 Lake Region Conference high school football outcome to Ipswich at Ipswich last Friday. What happened was that the hosts would get ahead 38-0 after a quarter without ever needing to punt. But both teams scored 22 points in the second quarter and the Tigers' briefly led 52-0 earlier in the second stanza thanks to a 55-yard TD breakaway by Tyler Hettich plus a Max Kulesa PAT run. And a Colby Sylte fumble recovery TD run of 45 yards was next on Ipswich's agenda. But the...
The regional cross country meets in high school autumn sports is beginning Wednesday. Ipswich has been moved into Region 1B over in Webster, while North Central is in Class A and their regional cross country action is in Chamberlain. There is just one weekend left of the regular season before the football play-off season begins. Locally that will be a Lake Region Conference event between Ipswich and North Central to be hosted by Ipswich on Friday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Time certainly has flown by so fast, it seems. There are always a few things in...
On Friday, October 7 the Groton Area 8-12 Band, the Groton Area 6-7 Band, and 11 area school bands including Ipswich, will converge in Groton for the Lake Region Marching Band Festival. The parade of bands will travel from South to North on Groton’s Main Street from Railroad Avenue to 9th Avenue, beginning at 10 a.m. This festival originated in Milbank then moved to Waubay for 11 years. Since 2013 Groton has hosted the festival and it plans to remain there for the foreseeable future. Bands will be evaluated on their performance by a panel of t...
Ipswich School Parent/ Teacher Conferences will be Thursday, October 6 from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. and Friday, October 7 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. There will be a normal school day Thursday, October 6 and no school on Friday, October 7. (The school will also take the Columbus Day/Native American Day off on Oct. 10.) Middle school and High school conferences will be held in the classrooms. Elementary conferences have been pre-scheduled with the parents. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held Thursday, October 6 from 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. and Friday, Oct...
Gypsy Day is Saturday in Aberdeen with a parade at 9 a.m., if I recall. So good luck to all the high school bands in the parade and their ratings. The weather hasn’t been all that warm and some fairly recent Gypsy Days have indeed been downright chilly. So speaking of chili, you might want to grab some hot chili to eat. It will warm you up from the inside. Hot coffee isn’ t a bad idea either. Some vendors might actually be selling hot coffee or hot cocoa that day. Or you could bring your own coffee container from home. Ipswich did quite wel...
Ipswich traveled to Bowdle in Lake Region Conference high school volleyball action last Monday vs. North Central. But the visiting team would escape with a straight-sets 3-0 win. The Tigers indeed won set one 25-16 and set two 25-15. But the third and deciding set was somewhat closer, 25-19, favoring the visitors. The hosts were 50 of 73 at the net with 15 kills; Ipswich, 73 of 81 hitting attempts that featured 28 kills. Natalie Bieber led NC at the net with a 12 of 19 effort with five kills, followed by Billie Jo Hoffman 12-21 with two kills....
IN HIGHMORE The Ipswich cross-country contingent attended a Saturday meet in Highmore where the Tiger girls were second only to Potter County (6 to 31). Individually this was won by the Battlers' Dannika Kaup in 19:20.50, while Autumn Fallis of H-H was second in 19:25.45. Ipswich, meanwhile, was paced by Gracyn Kadlec who was seventh in 20:44.15 and Madisyn Gellhaus was ninth at 21:06.81. Their third scorer that day would become Ava Davis, 29th, in 24:40.37. Ipswich entered three girls in the JV event, led by Aubree DeRaad seventh in 22:48.94....
Ipswich School Parent/ Teacher Conferences will be Thursday, October 6 from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. and Friday, October 7 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. There will be a normal school day Thursday, October 6 and NO SCHOOL Friday, October 7. Middle school and High school conferences will be held in the classrooms. Elementary conferences have been pre-scheduled with the parents. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held Thursday, October 6 from 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. and Friday, October 7 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Ipswich School Theatre. The books are pri...
The Ipswich Lions Club recently provided vision screening for over 650 local school children using the South Dakota Lions Foundation Vision Van. Children from pre-school through high school from Faulkton, Ipswich and Edmunds Central had their vision checked courtesy of Ipswich Lions club members. Children from area Hutterite Colonies in their respective communities were also screened by Ipswich Lions Club members. All children were screened the second and third weeks in September. Eighty...