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This year the Wily Wizards 4-H Club is sponsoring a Tree of Kindness at the Courthouse for the veterans at the South Dakota State Veterans Home in Hot Springs. On the stars are items needed by the residents. If you would like to help, pick a star, purchase the item for a veteran and return it to the courthouse with the star attached. Do not wrap the gift. Return the gifts by December 16 so that they can be delivered to Hot Springs. Make this Holiday season brighter for the ve...
The Courthouse Trees lighting ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9. Hear music by the Ipswich High School Choir while enjoying treats furnished by the club members. Browse the three levels of the Courthouse viewing the trees decorated by county businesses and families. View the trees at your leisure from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Jan. 3....
Ipswich School will be participating in “12 Days of Christmas” again this year. They started on Tuesday, December 6. It was Spirit Day and students were asked to wear red and green. The remaining dress-up days are: • Dec 7 — Tree topper, wear a Holiday hat • Dec 8 — Deck the Halls, wear Holiday accessories • Dec 9 — Candy Cane day, wear red/white • Dec 12 — Shine Bright, wear lights • Dec 13 — Christmas Vacation, wear Hawaiian attire • Dec 14 — Santa Ho Down, wear cowboy/cowgirl • Dec 15 — Mad about Plaid, wear plaid • Dec 16 — Ugly Sweater d...
The Ipswich Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) team is having a Food Drive in recognition of the giving season. They are asking for donations. Items collected will be given to the Edmunds County Food Bank at their new location north of the courthouse. All students in grades K-12 are asked to bring one item based on the first letter of their last name. • A-F - non-perishable goods • G-L - canned goods • M-R - paper products • S-Z - pre-packaged desserts Students can bring items to the lunchroom through December 16....
The Ipswich K-5 students presented "It's Christmas, Carol" on Dec. 1 in the School Theatre. Carol, the grumpiest Elf in Town, was similar to Dickens "Christmas Carol." The 4-5 grade band and Preschool and Jr. Kindergarten students also performed....
The Feeding South Dakota Mobile Food Pantry will return to Edmunds County on two days. The Food Pantry will be in Ipswich on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Edmunds County 4-H Building. The Food Pantry will be in Bowdle on Friday, Dec. 9 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Bowdle. Proxy pickups are allowed. Complete the SD Feeding form and give it to your proxy to bring with to the food distribution. Proxy forms are also available with the driver at each distribution. If you have any questions regardi...
The weather was mild last Sunday for this time of the year, allowing a huge turnout at an Aberdeen Holiday Concert at the Johnson Fine Arts Center. The Medora N.D. summer musical cast were the performers. And they had been in Ipswich with their Christmas show a few years ago then at the Johnson Fine Arts Center three years ago, despite a massive blizzard in the area. And this year the concert featured the Waddington Brothers bluegrass band touring with the Medora group. They were indeed four brothers from southwestern North Dakota. The...
Summary for 47 Novembers that I have recorded Highest recorded temp.: 85° on Nov. 2, 1988 Lowest recorded temp.: -20° on Nov. 27, 1985 Current average high temp.: 40° Current average low temp.: 20° There was only one 80° day in 47 years and that was on Nov. 2, 1988. There was at least one 70° day during eight out of 47 Novembers. There was at least one 60° day during 19 out of 47 Novembers Hottest November on record: 2021 (Average high temp. 54°) Coldest November on record: 1996 (Average high temp. 25°) Number of Novembers that had a zero or...
From the Ipswich Tribune May 2, 1929 edition GIFTS FOR NEW LIBRARY Mr. Crane, living south of Scatterwood has donated two stone hammers to be placed in the new library building to be erected on Main street. It has now been planned to have glass cases in the library for articles of historical value and Mr. Crane also presented a stone skinning knife used by the Indians around the lake in pre-historic days. If any of the readers of the Tribune have anything of historical value especially affecting the history of Edmunds county, they may bring...
December 12 — Chicken Noodles, peas, cooked carrots, applesauce, homemade bun, milk December 13 — Hamburger, tomato soup, broccoli, juice, milk December 14 — Crispitos, corn, pinto beans, apricots, milk December 15 — Turkey in gravy, mashed potatoes, dressing, coleslaw, cranberries, fruit, homemade bun, cookies, milk December 16 — B-B-Q’s, baked beans, baby carrots, fresh fruit, milk...
Bernard "Benny" Leo Thares, 92, of Ipswich, passed away at Avera St. Luke's on December 2, 2022. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, December 9, 2022 at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich, with Fr. Timothy Cone officiating. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery following the Mass and a time of fellowship will follow the burial at Fr. Bormann Hall Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. at Schriver (Gramm) Funeral Home in Ipswich on Thursday with the Rosary starting at 7:30 p.m. Benny was... Full story
Darline Hammrich, 90, of Waconia, Minn., formerly Ipswich, passed away Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at Good Samaritan Society, Waconia, Minn. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m., Monday, December 12, 2022, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich. Burial will be at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. A time of fellowship and luncheon will follow the service at Father Bormann Hall in Ipswich. Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m., Sunday, at Schriver's Memorial Chapel, Aberdeen, with a 5 p.m. wake and rosary... Full story
Charlotte Schaub, 91, of Ipswich passed away on Dec. 5 at Avera St. Lukes Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending with Schriver (Gramm) Funeral Home of Ipswich....
Ipswich opened its 2022-23 girls' high school basketball campaign on Tuesday, Dec. 6 on the road vs. Sully Buttes. Details of that non-conference game weren't available as of our newspaper deadline. The Tiger girls would only win six varsity games last year with 15 defeats in a definite rebuilding season. Some of those outcomes were quite close, so that experience should be quite valuable this time around. Especially with four seniors, Baylee Kulesa, Kaitlyn Bierman, Ashlyn Weig and Quincy Olivier! Karlie Gohl will be a junior who should help...
The Ipswich boys basketball varsity finished 14-8 last year and would certainly like to be in the thick of things again this year under new head coach Stewart Bohle, assisted by Trent Osborne. They start the season on December 13 in a girls/boys twinbill playing North Central at Bowdle. (This is a league game.) The Tiger boys will return home to host Langford Area in another LRC clash on December 15 in the Tiger Den. That regular-season schedule will move along towards the post-season drama beginning with the regionals on February 27. (The...
The Ipswich/Bowdle wrestlers, coached by Carter Heinz, opened the 2022-23 season at the Stanley County Tournament on Dec. 3. New Salem-Almont, N.D. won the tournament with 194 points. Philip Area was second with 193.5 points. Ipswich and Bennett County tied for seventh place with 36 points. Three I/B wrestlers competed in the 195-pound devision. Grant Weisser was second, Justin Rohrbach was third and Darrel Yost was fourth. Kadyn Weisser was second in the 220-lb. division. The I/B results were:...