Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
The Area I and II Spring Community and Family extension Leaders will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024 in the NVN Senior Center, 120 3rd St, Newell, SD, starting with registration between 9:30-10:00 AM. The theme is “Bloom with Grace”. Everyone is invited to attend the meeting. Speakers will include at 11 AM, Mental Awareness […]
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Amber Shaykett Middle School Jerome Fergen, Upper Elementary, and Lainey Sheeler, Lower Elementary High SchoolJayden Tesch, Jenna Yule Not Pictured: Lily Niles, Middle School
Continue ReadingWIT Coalition Too Good For Drugs is an Evidence Based Curriculum that Sabrina was able to bring into the Newell Middle School Students this semester. Students are taught to live safe, healthy and drug-free lives. The Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) program introduces and reviews a series of skills to prepare children to make healthy […]
Continue ReadingDenise Schipke-Smeenk Denise grew up on the Schipke sheep farm and graduated from Newell High School in 1972 with 66 classmates. She just returned from AZ where she met up with several classmates for a balloon ride to celebrate the fact they survived 70 years. Friends throughout her life are some of Denise’s most treasured […]
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Taffy Howard Dakota Scout Guest Columnist On Feb. 27, Americans across the nation celebrated National Term Limits Day. National Term Limits Day celebrates the ratification of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, setting a limit of two four-year terms for American presidents. Until Franklin Roosevelt, no president had served more than […]
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Chess team First Place Winners
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Faron Ralph Franke, 60, of Belle Fourche died March 20, 2024 at Monument Health Spearfish Hospital. Faron was born July 11, 1963 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota to Armand and Norine Franke, joining two older sisters, Delphine and Dallerie. He graduated from Belle Fourche High School with the class of 1981. He enlisted in the […]
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Mary Ellen Swanson, 76, of Rapid City passed away Sunday, April 7th peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones after a brief battle with cancer. Born February 24, 1948, to Oliver “Liddy” and Lillian (Nonnast) Ainsworth, Mary and her four sisters were raised by their mother in Belle Fourche. Mary Ellen married the love […]
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On Tuesday, April 9 an election took place at the Belle Fourche Community Hall. The election was held to let the community decide who should be the mayor, who should serve on the city council and who should be on the school board. After the polls closed the ballots were counted by hand. Ballot counting […]
Continue ReadingBronc Men’s Results 100 Meters: 3rd-Kash Le LaCheur-11.40a-11; 16 Kyren Nulle 12.04a- Yr: 12 200 Meters: 5th Kash Le LaCheur 23.87; 12. Slater Humbracht 25.75; 22. Payton Jackson 27.09. 400 Meters: 15. Carsyn Hahne 101.42; 22.Matthew Murraine 1:05.76 800 meters: 8th Justus Funk 2:15.67, 13. Nathan Hudson 2:27.77, 21. Kale Williams […]
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