Carthage, SD

The Huron Post 7 Legion played a pair of doubleheaders on the road Tuesday and Wednesday, sweeping one and dropping both games in the other. Tuesday, Post 7 traveled to Sioux Falls to take on Post 15 and came away with a pair of victories, 10-3 and 17-8. In the...

HURON — As part of the regular Beadle County Commission meeting Tuesday, the commission met as the county board of adjustment to consider a conditional use permit for Chase Decker to open a body shop, with custom paint work, in Yale. The land has not been officially purchased at...

HURON — The Brookings Junior Legion Chutes came to Huron Wednesday night and put a few balls into orbit against an undermanned home squad, playing with just nine players as they dropped the doubleheader by scores of 19-2 and 8-0 at Memorial Stadium. In the first game, Chutes’ bats...

After 39 years running Ward’s Store & Bakery, Patti Ward has made the hard decision to put the business up for sale. “I’ve made a very difficult decision with lots of prayers and the guidance of God to sell my historic family business,” said Patti. “In my heart I know this is the best thing to do for De Smet to revitalize with new blood. I will miss my business. I have worked at this store since I could read the numbers on the cash register. Our store has been in my family for 65 years.”

A large fire broke out Wednesday night on a farm south of Winfred. The cause is currently undetermined. The call came in at 6:34 p.m. and firefighters were on site for nearly two hours. Six trucks responded. “We have nine trucks. Three are the city’s and six are the county’s,”...

Anyone looking to take part in some July 4th activities won’t have to go too far. The Ramona Volunteer Fire Department is holding its annual parade on Monday, the 4th. The parade will start at 11:00 Monday morning on Main Street in Ramona. Parade entries need to be at the school there between 9:30 and 10:30 for the line-up. After the parade, there will also be games on Main Street.

HURON — Positioning for the opportunity to claim “Orv’s $5,000 Pot of Gold” will shift into high gear during a Fourth of July Special set for Monday at Dakota State Fair Speedway. Drivers in four classes — late model, modified, Midwest modified and street stocks —...

BROOKINGS - The Huron 13U Teener team traveled to Brookings and swept a pair of games Tuesday against Brookings’ Bombers Maroon team. The first game kicked off with a bang, as Huron scored nine runs in the top of the second inning, only to have the home team answer with six runs in the bottom of the inning. The Tigers were able to add two runs in the fourth and six in the sixth to seal a 15-10 victory.

HURON — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has released a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the location and design of a new multi-purpose building and visitor contact station for Huron Wetland Management District (District) in South Dakota. The proposed new building would serve as a visitor contact...

Iroquois HOSA-Future Health Professionals competed at the International HOSA convention held in Nashville, Tenn., June 22-25. Eight members and two advisers, Daphne Moeller and Scott Beehler, attended. Two teams, one middle school team and one high school team, participated in the Health Education event. Eighth-grade students were allowed to join...

Work began Thursday morning, as Arturo Garcia started removal of the false front of the old Humphrey Drug building in downtown Huron, revealing the original brick facade of the building.

DE SMET — On Thursday, June 23, a group of interested parties met at the S.D. Game, Fish, & Parks kiosk on Highway 14 south of De Smet, with a view toward the future on the agenda. The group was gathered to learn of a project in the making...

Trinity Palmquist grew up in a household with two older sisters who were athletic and competitive. Trinity grew up watching her sisters Saddie and Maddie compete. The youngest of the trio had no choice but to pick up a basketball or golf club and try to keep up with her elder siblings.

At the Lake Preston Museum, considerable progress has been made in restoring the exterior of the building to its former beauty. To accomplish a transformation was not an easy task, but thanks to the hard work of City Finance Officer Brenda Klug, museum board members and generous donors, the project is close to completion.

Lake Preston will be hosting the 2012 Kingsbury County Cancer Walk on July 13 at the Lake Preston track. Originally the Kingsbury County cancer walks were part of the American Cancer Society, with funds going back to them. Since 2008, the money raised by the walk has been kept in the county and distributed to those diagnosed with invasive cancer.

Henrietta (Henri) Truh, the “pickle lady” of Carthage, compiled eight decades of home cooking and canning experience into a cookbook, “Tried and Truh.” Truh became responsible for many of her family’s meals when she was 11 or 12, and had a commercial kitchen built in her garage nine years ago when she was 83.

Just short of 400 youth and approximately 675 cattle from 31 states met in Grand Island, Neb., from June 19 -24 for the Charolais Junior National Show and Leadership Conference. Those in attendance were Hadlee, Bentlee and Cambree Holt, Khloe and Kinzlee Olson and Ava Malone, all from Lake Preston.

Iroquois HOSA-Future Health Professionals competed at the International HOSA convention held in Nashville, Tenn., June 22-25. Eight members and their two advisors Daphne Moeller and Scott Beehler attended. Two teams, one middle school team and one high school team, participated in the Health Education event. Eighth grade students were allowed...

YALE — DeLor Stahl, 93, of rural Yale, passed away Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at his home. His funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Bethel Mennonite Brethren Church in rural Yale. Burial will be in the church cemetery. His service will be live-streamed through the church’s website.