Edmunds County Tribune -

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 weather was decent over the weekend after that Wednesday, Dec. 30 snow. And we thus had a real January thaw already. That’s something. Some years we don’t ever experience a January thaw.

Global warming? You decide.