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This is Sunshine Week and we all would like some sunshine for a few days, especially this year. But that obviously isn't quite what that means. Open government and transparency in our various political entities are what Sunshine Week focuses upon. And that should really be our focus of attention year around, not just one week in March. So take time to read all the legal notices that are in this week's editions of our papers. They are that vital! But there are a lot of other things going on in March including an upcoming Ag Week and Ag Day,...
We are saddened to print the obituaries of two Roscoe business persons who we worked with during our years at Gibson Publishing. We worked with Bernice Hettick while she was at Roscoe Hardware and with John Beyers at First State Bank of Roscoe. We were honored to know them both. Our condolences to their families. They were both community boosters and were interested in school activities. Particularly those who were members of their extended families! I’m sure that when they could, they enjoyed following those teams. Speaking of sports teams, t...
We were listening to the 70’s channel on the car radio and heard “Short People” on Casey Kasem. The song had been a hit in the top 10 for a few weeks. You could not even sing that song now. If you’re too young to remember the song, I’ll remind you. The first stanza lyrics say “Short people got no reason - To live.” That made us think about how things have changed. You now have to be even more politically correct regarding sports mascots' names. And I would imagine that this is true all the way from elementary school teams all the way up throug...
Is this latest iteration of February weather rather surreal? We go from where we had experienced at least 12 straight days with a below zero low in Ipswich to Monday's near 60 above afternoon high. But that was only if you could actually see to read the thermometer and why was that? Blowing dust that's why! And this is the time of year when post-season athletic events can and would ordinarily be hampered with reduced visibility due to blowing snow, not dirt. I guess we'll have to check out the advance forecasts more carefully, because this is...
Dates to Remember Feb. 24, 2021 - ARC/PLC Producer Webinar @ 12:00 March 5, 2021 – QLA Program Signup Deadline March 15, 2021 – Grassland CRP Signup Starts March 15, 2021 – 2021 NAP Insurance Deadline March 15, 2021 – 2021 ARC/ PLC Signup Deadline April 23, 2021 – Grassland CRP Signup Ends ARC/PLC Producer Webinar Feb. 24th @ 12:00 South Dakota FSA Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) Producer Webinar https://globalmeetwebinar.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1434038&tp_key=f634131087 2021 ARC/PLC Signup ends March 15t...
How do you spell brr, this way, or even more r's depend how cold it really has been lately? So should we go brrrrrr or even more of the letter r to describe our recent bitterly cold spell. But it sounds like we might, just maybe get some relief in the long range forecast. And this word relief begins with the letter R. So depending on the amount of relief we can go rrelief or rrrelief or even more rrrrelief. You get the point and the month of March is literally right around the corner and its post-season sports events. So good luck to all the...
Several things to touch on so here goes! The weather? How about last Wednesday's power outage for several hours due to several days of that white stuff built up on power lines and trees. (A little is pretty, but a lot is pretty dangerous.) But as is usually the case some other locations had a longer outage, so it could have been worse. And it actually wasn't really all that cold yet. But still makes you wish you had a generator or two. And the weather has since turned bitterly cold at least for awhile. But February is almost half over and it...
Could the groundhog see his shadow? I doubt he could even see his nose in front of his face, seeing how foggy and frosty it has been lately. So we might have six more weeks of winter or we might not. Especially with climate change occurring on nearly a daily basis, that would be hard to predict. But the state climatologists seem to think that our drought conditions will continue for at least a while, but they might only be as accurate forecasters as that groundhog. Well, February is sort of the start of post-season high school events, one of...
February is right around the corner, believe it or not. And one of the first things we associate with February is a ground hog for obvious reasons. And I guess there will also be a Super Bowl in early February despite the coronavirus pandemic. Our weather hasn't been very winter like lately, regarding snow anyway. The storms mostly miss us to the south and we are lucky to catch the bottom end of a North Dakota storm from time to time. We go from unusally mild to fairly cold, but not bitterly cold for this time of year so we are getting spoiled...
This is a historical week on several different levels for many reasons. Enuff said about that!...
by Tena Gibson I love old movies. Turner Classic Movies is my first check when the TV comes on. Recently I watched an oldie that had lessons for us now. The setting was shortly after the Civil War in Missouri. Some residents of the area were pro-south and some were pro-north. Thomas Mitchell the father of the family (he played Scarlett O’Hara’s father in Gone in the Wind) was on the southern side. He wanted to know the color of a man’s pants (gray or blue) before he got to know you. A big money northerner was burning homes and barns in hopes...
One of the annual events that hadn’t been postponed due to the virus was the South Dakota Snow Queen Festival. Phase one, the Junior Snow Queen, was crowned last Saturday in Aberdeen. That would be Miss Faulkton, Olivia Hadrick. Miss Congeniality Lydia Meier of Groton has Edmunds County ties. Phase two will be the Senior Snow Queen events, culminating with Saturday’s crowning of the Queen. Ipswich will be represented by Lindsey Grabowska. Ipswich’s junior candidate was Karlie Gohl. Edmunds Central did not have queens this year. The weath...
In spite of all that's happened this year, the year has passed by rather quickly, especially in the newspaper world. Here for example we publish two fairly large editions during the holiday season and sometimes there is an early deadline for one or both of them. But since the holidays came on a Friday and our newspapers go to the printer on a Tuesday and hopefully in the mail on Wednesday to the local customers, our deadline weren't affected and we still have had the normal time to publish both editions. We hope that's true unless the winter...
Dear Santa, 2020 was a hard year for all of us, and as I’m sure you know, the world continues to battle a global pandemic. It’s not been all bad though, and what can only be called a Christmas Miracle, our healthcare workers are beginning to receive a lifesaving vaccine. Americans have buckled down, and we’ve done our best to make the Nice List – I hope you’ll keep my Christmas list in mind as you’re making the rounds this year. All I want for Christmas is… • All of our healthcare workers, senior citizens, and those most vulnerable to r...
Was the winter solstice on December 21 this year? It seems like I had heard that somewhere. That did seem a little early, but maybe not. At any rate it might be quite a long time until we begin to actually experience the effects of the longest day of the year. Somewhere I also heard that there was less than a minute more daylight right away, so you indeed shouldn't notice that for awhile. But time flies when you're having fun or getting older and I would imagine that could be scientifically proven. Especially if it's in the form of a phone...
The high school indoor sports seasons are underway. And there are plenty of contests left in the 2020 portion of their schedules. So hopefully Santa will bring some Christmas presents in the form of wins. The Tiger mat team has had some individual placements in its first couple of outings and their girls and boys basketball team has had some early signs of success. Meanwhile, the North Central Thunder hoops teams will hopefully get a visit from Santa as well, and coincidentally North Central was actually slated to host Ipswich in a girls/boys...
Our weather is going to slowly trend back towards normal for this time of the year, whatever normal is! All good things must come to an end. I've noticed golfers both in Ipswich and Aberdeen (don't know about Roscoe) over the past weekend. And you guys should also be out fishing. The old adage that "fish bite best" when the wind is in the west" has been put to the test, because our winds during these drought conditions mostly seem to emanate from the west, mainly straight west, but they are so strong that you often notice southwesterly or...
December 11 — Deadline to apply for CFAP 2.0 December 25 — Office closed. January 1 — Office closed. March 15 — Deadline to apply for 2021 NAP coverage March 15 — Deadline to sign 2021 ARC/PLC contracts Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 (CFAP 2) USDA is making available up to $14 billion for agricultural producers who continue to face market disruptions and associated costs because of COVID-19. CFAP 2 is a separate program from the first iteration of CFAP (CFAP 1). Farmers and ranchers who participated in CFAP 1 will not be automatic...
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...
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...
Thanksgiving will be on Thursday, but we already had our turkey dinner with all the trimmings served up by the Ipswich UCC church on Sunday. They did a drive-thru delivery so you didn't even have to leave your vehicle. But we won a turkey from one of the Ipswich business places (ISB Agency) so thank you guys (it was a real live turkey—well, not exactly live, but frozen!) I can also report on the state VB tourney results, if you have been living in a cave and hadn't heard. We'll concentrate on the B's because that's what we are. Jordan Opp's H...
One down and one to go. What I'm referring were the remaining high school state athletic tournaments for the fall season. Football championships were decided last weekend in Vermillion and this week will be the state volleyball tournaments, including the State B in Huron. The 9A football game in our division turned out to be a total defensive struggle with Warner coming out on the short end of the scoreboard, losing only to the defending champions from Canistota/Freeman last Thursday in the Dome. You don't expect low scoring in nine-man format...
Let's hope this turns out to be true this year: "You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country —until next election." I couldn't have said that any better myself, because these words were penned by Stephen Vincent Benèt an American poet, writer and novelist, who once received the Pulitzer Prize for his epic poem "John Brown's Body". Or...
Some have called today (Nov. 3) a historical day. But in South Dakota, November 2 is an important day. That day is the anniversary of the day when the two Dakotas became states — Nov. 2, 1889. They would become the 39th and 40th states for sure, but in which order? That’s a good question. Alphabetically you’d think that N comes before S, so that’s how it was ultimately determined? Not so. Actually what happened was that President Benjamin Harrison signed the statehood papers and what he did was to shuffle the papers, so no one (except him?) w...
The winter is slowly retreating and since climate changes occur on a daily basis, the weather goes from one extreme to the other. So don’t be too surprised if you can get your mower out of cold storage and take care of those leaves that haven’t been raked or in some cases waiting for a good northwest wind to dislodge them from your trees. And it’s a good thing we didn’t have all that big of a wind during the snow events last week. Speaking of snow, how about that football win in the Tiger stadium, otherwise known as the Snow Bowl. You guys di...