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Wow, has this month (and year) already gone fast? It certainly seems that way and one of the first indications that we are well into January is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, to be celebrated on Monday, Jan. 20. So that means that there won't be any mail service that day, even though our office will indeed be open. But if you are mailing items to P.O. Box 7 in Ipswich for our January 22 publications, just remember to mail them sometime yet this week to ensure that we receive them in a timely manner. The weather has been fairly...
It traditionally doesn't snow all that much in January, just like it sometimes doesn't rain all that much in July. That is considered to be what's normal, if you can call anything about the weather normal nowadays. So far this month (and year), what we've had for moisture has been somewhat of a wintry mix and not all that much yet. But it certainly doesn't take much of that to make the roads a mess. Especially because it has been fairly mild in the late afternoon the past few days and sometimes with quite strong wind gusts. And if there wasn't...
Media outlets are releasing “best of” lists for the decade. Is 2020 really the end of the previous decade or the beginning of the next? Americans are probably as split on that question as they are politcally. A case can be made either way, if not a very strong one. Maybe you can see the answer if you indeed develop 2020 vision in 2020. (We’ll see how that goes!) In the meantime, I have just three words — happy new year! (and NOT Let It Snow!)...
The Christmas and New Years seasons are quickly arriving or have arrived, hence our early deadline for the newspaper editions this week and next. The deadline for next week is noon on Friday. Santa has already been generous to our area high school sports program, with at least one win for all of our area girls and boys basketball teams. And the Ipswich Area wrestling program has already experienced some success as well. And our hours of daylight will soon begin to imperceptibly lengthen, but the main winter season will sooner or later bring us...
It is indeed that time of the year and our deadlines to submit articles and/or ads for the Dec. 25 and January 1 editions of our newspapers have been moved up accordingly. So the deadline for materials for next week's publications will now be this Thursday at 5 p.m. for next week's Ipswich Tribune and Roscoe-Hosmer editions and then again next Thursday, December 26 at 5 p.m. for the following January 1 dated editions. Hopefully the papers will all have been delivered to the post office, so our in-county subscribers will be receiving them on...
The winter sports seasons are upon us, starting with wrestling last week and now girls and boys basketball beginning later this weekend for our area teams. That includes a Sioux Falls Pentagon classic on Saturday where both the Ipswich girls and boys hoopsters will play Hitchcock-Tulare. Then the area fans can see both the North Central Thunder girls and boys vs. their Ipswich counterparts on December 17 in Ipswich. And according to the calendar, just the Ipswich girls will be in another classic on December 28 in the Huron Arena, the site of...
I usually mention the weather in this column and what can I say, the climate has made the headlines again! In whatever form the latest round of precipitation arrived during the past weekend's winter storm throughout South Dakota, it has undoubtedly added to a calendar year (2019) total moisture record and as you know (in our area of the state at least) a good chunk of that has been in snow. But we along with the rest of a sell-out crowd took a chance on the roads and the city streets in Aberdeen to attend the Medora Christmas concert in the...
Apparently more and more people are deciding to stay at home during the Thanksgiving week and give their kitchen utensils a much needed workout. Just be careful though. And traveling might be more of an issue this year anyway because of winter weather forecasts in our area. The southern part of the state was expecting to get most if not all of the first round of snow (not us?) and then the second bunch, more widespread might possibly begin later on Thanksgiving Day into the weekend. So keep those snow shovels and/or blowers handy just in case....
DATES TO REMEMBER November 28 — Thanksgiving Day-office closed. December 2 — Final day to return ballots for the Edmunds COC Election in LAA #3. December 6 — Deadline for 2019 MFP Signup.December 13-Deadline for 2020 Dairy Margin Coverage Program enrollment. February 29 — Deadline to sign LIP application for payment and provide documentation. Eligible voters in Local Administrative Area (LAA) 3, who did not receive a ballot can obtain one from their local USDA Service Center. David Palmer is nominated in Edmunds County, to serve as COC member...
by Trent Osborne Ipswich School Superintendent Public schools and its surrounding community are asked daily to help prepare every student to become tomorrow’s leaders. That’s why, this year, we celebrate the whole public school community during American Education Week. Education and leadership preparation takes a village! That is why, during American Education Week 2019 we would like to salute ALL of those involved in making our school district outstanding. School board members, administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers, foo...
After today, Wednesday, Nov. 20, the rest of the work week and even into the weekend, our area weather is forecast to be quite decent for this time of the year. And that is especially timely for the Ipswich Commercial Club's Turkey Days drawings at each of the participating business establishments, beginning as early as Wednesday at some of the area businesses. Yes, the sign-up hours and specific days do vary from location to location, but the participating businesses are also sponsoring ads in this edition, so be sure to check it out. If I'm...
Congratulations to the Ipswich Lady Tigers for their Region 2B high school volleyball win last week. Their initial opponent in the tourney, the North Central co-op, played well in a loss and both teams will return a solid nucleus next year. It is also state championship week in football in the high school ranks starting with three straight nine-man games outdoors in Brookings on Thursday. One of the teams the I/EC Tigers defeated during the regular season Herreid/Selby Area made it all the way to the State 9B title game, as did Britton-Hecla...
It seems like during a somewhat wet year there are more tree leaves than ever and even trees that were slowly getting to be half dead got a temporary reprieve this summer. There are various methods of collecting the leaves, starting with the old fashioned rake and bag (no doubt the cheapest way to attack the problem). And you can see the more expensive alternatives in competing television commercials. And if all these don't appeal to you, Mother Nature might decide for you with one of those blizzard-force northwesterly winds that re-deposit...
Congratulations to the cross country runners at the State B in Huron on Saturday. It turned out to be quite a decent day and the calm before the storm. From then on it's felt more like November or even December, but on the plus side it didn't precipitate much if any in the past few days. Getting around Highway 37 detours north of Huron and in the city itself was about as big a challenge as the cross country course with its hilly terrain. So it was a good thing that the Class B races were a little later this year from those of us arriving from...
There's a first time for everything, they say. And now this is true of the Northern State University Gypsy Day parade. That's right the parade was wisely canceled because of the winter storm that was persisting in the Aberdeen area well into Saturday. So no parade this year and also no high school Friday night football game this past week. Ipswich/Edmunds Central was scheduled to host Herreid/Selby Area and their area was indeed getting a whole bundle of snow among other things. So the game was wisely postponed until this Monday and even though...
I can't believe it! Apparently it has already become that time of the year for rapid and extreme weather changes, in transition from summer to winter. And I still too vividly recall all those late winter storms earlier this calendar year that lasted well into spring. So we will definitely get some really cold air that us and our gardens aren't used to and how much precip. and in what form will accompany the cold front does remain to be seen. And there are still Friday night football games around the area this weekend and that could be...
October, I can't believe it. Yes, it's the start of the holiday seasons especially if you wish to think of Halloween as a holiday of sorts. And the stores certainly do! We will also be ushering in pheasant hunters, which has become a holiday season in and of itself. We are certainly getting closer to a possible killing frost, but we have had so many tomatoes already, I don't think I will worry about them, just pick some green ones for a green tomato pie or let them slowly ripen in the basement. Even the worst ones are usually quite an...
This is homecoming week at IHS, so hopefully the weather will cooperate as well as it did for the earlier Edmunds Central homecoming festivities. That weather was awesome. But the advance forecast for Friday looks like we might actually slide by in between a Thursday system and a Friday night/Saturday a.m. system and that would be great. It might become a little chilly on Friday, but it's that time of the year. Congratulations to the Ipswich girls' volleyball team for winning their own tournament last Saturday in Ipswich. And hopefully it will...
The month of September reminds me of June, there's something going on every weekend. For instance we just attended the Northeast South Dakota Celtic Faire, not right in Aberdeen this year, but at the youth camp on the beautiful shore of Richmond Lake. The reels and jigs sound unbelievable at that venue (a few years ago there was a folk festival benefit fundraiser in that same spot, so we knew the live music would be awesome and it was.) The month will close out with a film festival at the Capitol in Aberdeen and that's always interesting for...
The weather for Edmunds Central's homecoming picnic lunch, parade and later that evening football game versus Deuel in Ipswich was ideal, perfect actually! Not even windy! But the only bad thing was that the football team sustained its first football loss of the season. Deuel showed up with nine guys and their coaches in a bus rather early in the evening and I'm thinking to myself that couldn't really be their nine starters with no reserves. And that was obviously too good to be true, because the rest of the Cardinals showed up awhile later in...
One nice thing about Monday holidays is that they make the next Friday roll around a little faster and this week for sure, since it’s EC homecoming week. Congratulations to the royalty and good luck in all the activities the rest of this week. Especially the sports teams! The only real casualty of the week might be a few toads that will decide to hop off their toad stools at an inappropriate moment during the homecoming parade. They're all over the roads and sidewalks especially in towns, except when they're trying to hop into your garage d...
With the upcoming long Labor Day weekend, our deadline for news and advertising content will be on Friday at 4 p.m. And it is always important to remember that our regular deadlines are always on Monday at noon for our Wednesday weeklies. Generally speaking, if you mail, email or deliver something to the office on Tuesday, it will go into the following week's edition. So enjoy the weekend, especially if you intend to attend the State Fair in Huron. And one more time, we'll wish good luck to all the area 4-Hers at the fair. The Ipswich/Edmunds...
Welcome to a new school year, because it's now here. Or if you'd still rather want to say that school is right around the corner, it's now a very sharp and short corner. Of course there'll be a little interruption of our area school schedules with the State Fair in Huron and to our area 4-Hers, good luck with your projects and livestock showings. And there promises to be a lot of great music at the upcoming fair, some free and some not so free. And that was certainly one of the features of last week's Brown County Fair in Aberdeen. You could...
Baseball season on the local level took its final swing during the 2019 campaign with the Warner-Ipswich-Northwestern Legion baseball team attending their state tournament this past weekend hosted by Groton. The W.I.N. team also includes some players from the Roscoe area, so our entire area is well represented. Unfortunately W.I.N was defeated in both of its outings played under the double-elimination format. The W.I.N aggregate lost their Friday's opener 7-1 to the eventual champion Claremont/Britton, which eventually edged the host team...
The school year is rapidly approaching and time for the Class of 2020 to make some memories of a lifetime. It is quite a coincidence that the year 2020 will have such historical significance, the 2020 census, Leap Year in February (29 days) and of course the 2020 commencement programs in May. But last and certainly not least will be the 2020 presidential election year in November, ending months upon months of suspense as to who will become our next president. On a different subject we just...