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The funeral service for Ruth R. Schumacher, 94, of Hosmer was 10:30 a.m. Saturday, December 2, 2023, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Hosmer with Janet Sandmeier and Deb Grismer officiating the service. Burial followed at the Bethany Cemetery. Ruth Rosina Schumacher was born October 4,1929 to John and Rosina (Hieb) Neifer on the family farm 14 miles northeast of Hosmer in McPherson County. She was baptized and later confirmed at the Hosmer Reformed Church. Ruth attended country school in...
The 32nd Annual South Dakota North Area Honor Band will present their concert on Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 4 p.m. at the Johnson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Northern State University. Dr. Terry Beckler, professor of percussion, bands and music education at Northern State University, is the director for this year's event. Ipswich senior Hannah Beyers was selected to participate in this year's honor band. The South Dakota North Area Honor Band was created when area band directors began...
The Ipswich Public Elementary students will celebrate Christmas with their Christmas Concert on Thursday, November 30. 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 7:00 performance only. The students will perform the Christmas musical “Secret Santa”. Please join them as they celebrate the start of the Christmas Season. MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL Ipswich Middle School and High School music students will perform their Christmas Concert on Thu...
Dennis Morris passed away on November 11, 2023, at the age of 77. He was surrounded by his loving family at his residence in Bismarck, N.D. A memorial service to honor Dennis's life and legacy was held at Nov. 16, 2023, at Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck. Interment was at a later date in Ipswich. Born on Dec. 20, 1945, in South Dakota, Dennis spent his early years in Ipswich. He attended Ipswich Public School, where he received his education. Following high school graduation, Dennis embarked...
The Edmunds County Jail has been closed since November 2022 when the Sheriff’s Office was relocated to the Community Room in the Courthouse. Edmunds County Sheriff Jonathan Waldner has proposed building a law enforcement center, including a jail, dispatch center and Sheriff’s office. Meetings in county communities are planned to discuss the project. • November 27 at 7 p.m. in Ipswich High School Auditorium • November 28 at 7 p.m. in the Roscoe Fire Hall • November 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Bowdle City Office Community Room • December 6 at 7 p.m....
The Ipswich Public Elementary students will celebrate Christmas with their Christmas Concert on Thursday, November 30. 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 p.m. performance only. The students will perform the Christmas musical “Secret Santa”. Please join them as they celebrate the start of the Christmas Season. Middle School/High School Ipswich Middle School and High School music students will perform their Christmas Concert on...
Ipswich High School athletes were named to the Lake Region All-Conference teams for volleyball and football. Marley Guthmiller, IHS sophomore, was on the second LRC team. The LRC 2023 team champs were the Warner Monarchs. Ava Nilsson of Warner was the conference MVP. Tigers on the LRC football team are seniors Trevor Heinz and Chet Peterson, junior Max Kulesa and sophomore Kyle Hettich. Casey Geditz, sophomore, was an honorable mention pick. Warner was the LRC 2023 football champions. The Offense MVP was Hunter Cramer of Warner and the Defense...
The Edmunds County Jail has been closed since November 2022 when the Sheriff’s Office was relocated to the Community Room in the Courthouse. Edmunds County Sheriff Jonathan Waldner has proposed building a law enforcement center, including a jail, dispatch center and Sheriff’s office. Meetings in county communities are planned to discuss the project. • November 27 at 7 p.m. in Ipswich High School Auditorium • November 28 at 7 p.m. in the Roscoe Fire Hall • November 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Bowdle City Office Community Room • December 6 at 7 p.m....
Herreid -Selby Area fashioned a 3-0 high school Region 6B regional victory while hosting Ipswich last Monday. The individual set scores all in favor of the hosts were 25-14, 25-16 and 25-11. The Wolverines obtained 68 accurate serves that included a dozen aces and were 71-84 in hitting that would include 30 kills. Defensively they came up with 61 digs. They used a balanced team effort on both sides of the net. “They served and passed us right out of everything we wanted to do,” said Coach Trent Osborne. “We found ourselves constantly scram...
The Ipswich Tigers Special Olympics Bowling Team participated in the Area Bowling Meet held in Aberdeen on October 20, 2023. Their teacher Dawn Graham said the team had a really good day. Each athlete bowled in a different bracket based on age and a three-game average score sent in with registrations. The places the bowlers received are as follows: Johnathan Kamps, second place; Isaiah Goetz, fourth place; Teagan Cody, first place; Cash Henderson, first place; Coy Stager, sixth place; Max...
North Central dropped a pair of close high school volleyball matches last week to close out their regular-season schedule at 11-17. The Thunder indeed lost a 25-11, 25-13 and 25-20 decision to Northwestern last Monday and a night later went the distance against Ipswich at home in Roscoe. (The Thunder lost this one 3-2.) They did win their first two sets by identical 25-18 margins. But Ipswich would bounce back with three straight wins to capture the match 25-12, 25-18 and a 16-14 tie-breaker....
Local high school musicians will be participating in the 2023 All-State Chorus and Orchestra. Chorus will begin rehearsals Friday morning, October 27 in Rapid City. Their conductor is Dr. Ryan Person of Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa. Edmunds Central participants are soprano Alanna Wiedrich, alto Sierra Haney, tenor Sadie (David) Vargason and bass Mitch Mohr. Ipswich participants are soprano Savannah Coisman, alto Gracyn Kadlec, tenor Gunnar Knittle and bass Adam Kanable. Alternates are Juliane Morgan (soprano) and Shaylee Coisman...
Funeral services for Kade R. Eulberg, 36, of Reliance was at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 21, 2023 at the United Church of Christ in Chamberlain with burial in the Pukwana Cemetery at Pukwana. Visitation began Friday with a 7 p.m. prayer service at the United Church of Christ in Chamberlain. Kade Ross Eulberg was born on February 16, 1987 in Chamberlain to Lisa Baker and father Dean Eulberg. Kade went to grade school in Dupree and high school in Ipswich graduating in 2005. After high school, Kade...
Ipswich was defeated 60-14 in a Class 9AA high school first-round football play off last Thursday in Howard. Ipswich would score the first TD of the night when it accepted a punt from Howard’s own territory to around the IHS 30. It was a 60-yard TD pass from Max Kulesa to Kyle Hettich. But the conversion play failed. Ipswich’s only other score came late in the second quarter a pass of 78 yards from Kulesa to Hettich. The host Tigers would end up with nine touchdowns and six conversions points. Their final TD was a run of 10 yards. A hig...
Both teams played with a lot emotion and fire, but Aberdeen Christian would eventually stave off Ipswich 3-0 in a league high school volleyball match last Tuesday in Aberdeen. In a post-game interview with a South Dakota Sports Scene reporter Ipswich coach Trent Osborne said "It's always a learning situation. We got better tonight, which is good. Some girls really came out. I learned some stuff; the kids learned some stuff. What could be bad about that." The hosts would indeed win the first set 25-20. And the second set was even closer at...
Ipswich claimed a league 3-1 girls high school volleyball win last Monday in the Tiger Den over Leola/Frederick Area. But the match was somewhat closer than the final score would indicate. The visitors would win their first set 25-23, but the hosts would rally for a 25-20 win of their own to tie things at 1-1. And they weren't through yet, winning the third set 25-19 and the fourth 25-21. Their coach was impressed with their whole evening. "That was our first five match sweep in a few years," Osborne said. "It started with the 6th/seventh grade...
Two Ipswich Middle School students participated in the annual Northwestern Middle School Music Festival, held at Northwestern High School on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. Ipswich students in the band were Emmy Ptacek and Olivia Kadlec. The Festival included a concert band of 90 middle school musicians and a 180 member mixed chorus. The band and choir members represented sixteen area schools. The festival choir rehearsed and performed under the direction of Katie Opp, K-12 Vocal Director at...
Mass of Christian Burial for David Ertz, 65, of Ipswich will be Friday, October 20, 2023, at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Church in Ipswich with Fr. Timothy Cone officiating. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, October 19, 2023, at Schriver Funeral Home, 720 N. 6th Street, Ipswich, with a Liturgical Wake Service starting at 5:30. Visitation continues on Friday one hour prior to service at the Church. David Joseph Ertz was born on May 2,1958 to Edward and Shirley (Kukrall) Ertz Jr in Aberdeen....
Ipswich attended its high school regional cross country meet last Wednesday in Webster. The Tiger girls would individually qualify three girls for the upcoming State B in Sioux Falls later this monh and one Tiger boy Xavier Kadlec. You need to have at least three individual runners to be eligible for team scoring purposes at the B and Ipswich will indeed have the minimum three runners to do exactly that. They were Madisyn Gellhaus in fifth at 20:55.69, Gracyn Kadlec in ninth at 21:48.22 and...
Ipswich came up short on the final score board in a high school volleyball match vs. Hitchcock-Tulare last Thursday in the Tiger Den. But there were some positives, especially in the third set, where the visitors salvaged a 25-23 victory after Ipswich had scored three straight points to climb to within two points at 23-21. But the Patriots would quickly regroup with two points of their own to seal the deal. Ipswich had trailed 25-17 in the first set and also would fall behind 25-6 in the second...
The Ipswich High School Homecoming activities were held last week. The theme was "Traveling with the Tigers." Coronation was held on Thursday, Oct. 5. Karlie Gohl and Chet Peterson were chosen Queen and King. IHS Royalty included Kadyn Weisser, Xavier Kadlec, Trevor Heinz, King Chet, Queen Karlie, Hannah Beyers, Evelyn Tran and Hailey Usselman. The Gala Day parade was Friday afternoon. The parade winners were: Elementary 1st place – Preschool/Jr/K 2nd place – 2nd grade Middle School 1st pla...
Mass of Christian Burial for Loretta Thares, 84, of Ipswich was at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, October 7, 2023, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich, SD with Fr. Timothy Cone serving as Celebrant. Burial followed at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. Loretta M. Thares was born to Daniel E. Wegner and Anna (Green) Wegner in Aberdeen on October 26, 1938. She grew up on the family farm near Mina. Her father leaned on her as a helping-hand with the farm work which consisted of harvest, driving trucks, and...
Ipswich attended a high school volleyball tourney hosted by Potter County in Gettysburg last Saturday. Ipswich was able to come away with one win and three losses in their four matches. The win would be against McIntosh 25-21 and 25-23 - both close decisions. But the Tigers were defeated 2-0 by Phillip 25-11 and 25-13 and Wolsey-Wessington 25-13 and 25-12. They also lost to Potter County 2-1 as they were able to win a set 25-19. But the hosts would regroup for a 25-20 win and a 25-16 victory. “We forged through some tough matches versus some v...
Ipswich picked up a non-conference high school volleyball win on the road versus Potter County last Thursday. The hosts were eventually outscored 3-1 by the Tiger netters. The individual set scores for Ipswich were 25-23, 25-20, 15-25 and 25-17. Ipswich got 14 kills from Marley Guthmiller and 10 from Gabby Wald. The Tigers totaled 42 kills. Ipswich had 12 serving aces, which were led by Guthmiller’s four. The Tigers added 41 setting assists, led by Josie Knutson with 14. They had 51 total digs in a team effort, led by Gabby Wald with eight a...
Ipswich was in contention for a varsity high school football win last Friday in Britton. But the hosts would eventually win the affair 48-30. The quarter scores were 20-8, 26-16 and 42-22, all favoring the hosts. But Ipswich actually did get on the scoreboard first with a Max Kulesa pass to Chet Peterson of two yards and Kulesa also passed to Casey Geditz for the two-point conversion. Ipswich's next TD would be a Kulesa kick return TD of 80 yards and Kulesa also passed for the extra points this time to Peterson. Ipswich then opened the third...