Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
NEWELL-Awareness is the key word for the Newell Irrigator Booster Club. The goal is to bring the school and students to the forefront of activities in this area and the committed adults of the Booster Club are endeavoring to make it happen. During the second meeting of the group, officers were elected and committees were […]
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NEWELL-Every three to five years, the family of Carl and Olive Anderson make a special trip to Newell. The cousins enjoy gathering and celebrating their Newell heritage. Among the cousins are many great and great-great grandchildren of Otto Donatus Anderson, the US founder of the Anderson family. Otto Donatus Anderson arrived in America in 1883 […]
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BELLE FOURCHE-Commissioner Stan Harms has handed in his resignation from the Butte County Commission and plans to retire out of the state. Tuesday, June 18 was his last commission meeting. Harms has been on the county commission for nearly 20 years. Harms noted that he couldn’t remember when he had first been elected to […]
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Harriette Zimmer, age 91 of Belle Fourche, died Saturday, May 25, 2024 at the Hendricks Community Nursing Home in Hendricks, Minnesota. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 1pm Monday, July 8, 2024 at St. Paul Catholic Church in Belle Fourche. Interment will take place in Pine Slope Cemetery. Visitation will be held 4 […]
Continue ReadingBy Sandy Rhoden After a lovely, mild day on Saturday the wind was strong as the sun shined on Sunday. It looks to be warming up just a bit, but rain and wind are in the forecast for this week. The Meade County Republican Women held a Legislative Candidate Forum in Piedmont last […]
Continue ReadingBy Karen Odell The weather forecast for Capitol and Tie Creek had been that there would be rain every day. Somehow that prediction was completely wrong. The sun was out every day, and the few clouds dissipated. Sunday was so windy that it was almost impossible to be away from the shelter of a building, […]
Continue ReadingBetty Olson [email protected] It was another nice warm, windy week and the rain we got on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday added up to 3/4th of an inch! B.C. Struble and Jacob Smith brought propane Monday morning and tried to fix a leak on the old propane tank at Taz and Amanda’s house but couldn’t […]
Continue ReadingBy Betty Bruner BELLE FOURCHE-The recent Butte County Commission meeting involved an extended discussion surrounding the petition to adopt an ordinance to regulate the hand-counting of election ballots, and a full story will follow in the upcoming weeks to clarify the reasoning behind the vote of the commissioners. The commissioners voted to reject the petition […]
Continue ReadingMeg English Lifeguards Micah Jones, Maddy Howard, and BFRC director Jody Westberg with Longfellow, the whale. Beacon Photo Longfellow, the iconic whale slide at the Belle Fourche Recreation Center swimming pool is a fish out of water. Not literally, of course because whales are not fish, and Longfellow is only a fabrication […]
Continue ReadingMeg English The Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce is very pleased to announce that a new chamber director has been hired. Michaela Horn will assume her responsibilities on May 28th. Originally from Casa Grande, Arizona, Michaela attended Montana State University in Bozeman where she earned a degree in organismal biology. Her career […]
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