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Ipswich residents filled the newly-remodelled City office on Monday evening, March 20 to learn more about the City Council storm sewer project. Mayor LeRoy Kilber and Joe Whitlock with Stockwell Engineers of Sioux Falls spoke on the Drainage and Storm Sewer project the city has taken on. The project is planned in five phases. A drainage study was completed in the spring of 2021. Stockwell was contracted to evaluate the stormwater collection system and identify current deficiencies and recommend improvements. The city’s goal is to begin to r...
The Marcus P Beebe Memorial Library is holding a “SCAN DAY” on April 19, 2023 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. “SCAN DAY” is an opportunity for you to bring old photographs, documents, postcards, letters, diaries, service records, etc. to the library and have an electronic copy made. This will help preserve the item in case the original gets lost or eventually disintegrates with age. It also makes it easy for you to share family history by email, Facebook, and share with genealogy websites and groups. Each person is limited to 10 to 15 items and a 40-mi...
The Ipswich Public Library invites you to “do a craft” or “assemble a puzzle” to while away the winter blahs. A table is set up to do Diamond Painting and a second table is set up to assemble a puzzle. Come with a friend(s) and spend five minutes, two hours, or all afternoon with the activities. The tables will be set up until June 1. The library is open Tuesday through Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m....
South Dakota family farmers and ranchers are in San Francisco working to develop policy that supports the future of their farms, ranches and rural communities during the 121 National Farmers Union Convention held March 5-7. "The work you are doing here is big," said Doug Sombke, President of South Dakota Farmers Union (SDFU), during a breakfast meeting with Farmers Union members ahead of March 6 delegate session. "It is because of the work you do through grassroots policy that we are seeing posi...
Ipswich Middle School and High School music students will perform their Spring Concert on Tuesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. Featured music groups include the 6-7 band, 6-7 choir, 8-12 band, 8-12 choir, under the direction of Nate Collins and Becky Nierman. Students will perform the music they are working on for contest. High School Band and Vocal contest is March 29, at Johnson Fine Arts Center at NSU. The Elementary and Middle School band contest is April 15 at Holgate Middle School in Aberdeen....
Monday was allegedly the first day of spring, believe it or not. Up in this neck of the woods, you wouldn't necessarily believe it with the chilly weather we have had to endure lately. But South Dakota's snow cover seems to melt away quite faster in the southwestern part of the state and of course the temperatures tend to average out quite a bit warmer. Even though those guys can get wintry weather from time to time in the form of those infamous late spring blizzards. I can remember a particular May Day snow storm there that was unreal. Now we...
From the Ipswich Tribune September 26, 1929 edition Blacksmith Shop Burned to Ground Tuesday The blacksmith shop belonging to Thomas Schirado, Jr. better known as the Lowenstein shop, burned to the ground Tuesday morning at 3:20 a.m., defective wiring being the cause. The fire was first noticed by Chas. Bostock who was awakened by the reflection of the flames on the window pane in his room at the Conrad Rooming house. The alarm was turned in and the fire department responded. However, the flames had made such rapid progress that nothing could...
March 27 — Chicken Tender Sub, green beans, taco salad, fruit sauce, milk March 28 — Ham Patty on homemade bun, sweet potatoes, baby carrots, fresh fruit, milk March 29 — Beef Pizza, corn, broccoli, peach pear sauce, milk March 30 — Tator Tot Hotdish, beets, juice, homemade bun, milk March 31 — Scrambled Egg Patty, edamame, peppers and onions, long john, applesauce, milk...
Quinton Wolff, 88, Long Lake, died Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at the Avera Eureka Healthcare Center. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 18, 2023 at Zion American Lutheran Church, Eureka, led by Pastor Ryan Gage. Interment was Saturday at Salem Lutheran Cemetery, five miles west of Long Lake. Quinton Ferdinand Wolff, son of Magdalena (Kammerer) and Ferdinand Wolff, was born May 27, 1934 in Petersburg Township 18 miles northeast of Eureka. He was brought up on the same farm and... Full story
A team of 11 SDSU students competed in the Undergraduate Range Manage- ment Exam (URME) held at the Society for Range Management Annual Meeting in Boise, Idaho Feb. 12-16. The team earned a second-place finish against 21 other schools from North America. The team consisted of Tyler Geltmacher of Bushnell, Ill., Landon Wolter of Wessington Springs, Kaitlyn Preszler of Roscoe, Kaitlin Schieuer of Sioux Falls, Alexandra Medvec of Richfield, Minn., Elise Anderson of Miles City, Mon., John Sump of...
The Edmunds County 4-H Shooting Sports held their second postal on March 13. Shooting a qualifying score enables the shooters to participate in the State Shoot in Ft. Pierre on April 22-24. Sixteen BB Gun shooters, four air pistol shooters, and 17 archers competed. BB Gun members are coached by Joe Galbraith, air pistol is coached by Doug Wittmeier, and archery is coached by Jim Kanable. Qualifying for state in BB Gun were Beginners Bailey Heintzman-296, and Mahlia Kadlec-258; and Juniors Lincoln Beyers-334.2, and Nevaeh Moser-358. They will...