Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
Clay Anderson was recently inducted into the South Dakota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame. The SDIAAA is dedicated to all the men and women who, through their efforts, have made interscholastic athletics a positive experience for student-athletes. Their work has brought honor to themselves, their school, community and the SDIAAA. Clay is a […]
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Jim Thompson and wife Sherry share 5 children, 19 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren, the most important thing in their life. Jim has also been selected to: Casey Tibbs Rodeo Hall of Fame in South Dakota. North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame. Black Hills Stock Show Hall of Fame. South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame […]
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The high school track and field team had a select few athletes qualify for the prestigious Howard Wood Dakota Relays meet hosted in Sioux Falls on May 1st and 2nd. This year’s qualifiers were Gabe Raba in discus, Gavin Pearson in 400 meter run, and the boys 4×400 team of Gavin Pearson , Caeyn Howard […]
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Sturgis Williams Middle School hosted a make-up quad meet Wednesday in April, with teams competing from Belle Fourche, Sturgis Williams, Stagebarn, and Lead-Deadwood. The meet had a limited number of events, featuring hurdles, relays, and field events. Top results in the 100-meter hurdles were: 7th grade boys— Blake Willert took 5th, and Jackson Reeves took […]
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On Tuesday April 21st a JV meet was on the schedule for the Broncs, however this was changed to a Varsity and JV meet combined, allowing for the whole team to compete. A number of athletes moved their way up the school leader board again at this meet. For the boys, Gabe Raba moved to […]
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On Tuesday April 21st, the middle school track and field team travelled to Custer for a meet. For a number of 8th graders, this was their first meet of the season after a Math and Science Club trip to Florida and numerous inclement weather cancellations. Top finishers for the boys were as follows with only […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—On Tuesday, April 14th, the high school track and field team Bronc throwers competed in Spearfish’s JV invite against Douglas, Hill City, Hot Springs, Oelrichs, Lead-Deadwood, Rapid City Central, Rapid City Stevens, Sturgis Brown and Spearfish. On the boy’s side, 85 competitors competed in shot put with the Broncs results as follows: Junior Charlie […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—On Thursday, April 16th, the Broncs high school track and field team travelled to Rapid City to the South Dakota School of Mines O’Hara Stadium for the Track-O-Rama meet with 24 schools competing . Coach Wattier comments that with many double A schools in attendance at such a large meet, just placing top 8 […]
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BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.— April 21, 2026—Jeff Morford has joined First Interstate Bank as a Community Branch Manager. In this role, Morford is responsible for developing and maintaining client relationships utilizing the full spectrum of banking services. Morford has 37 years of experience in the financial industry, previously serving in various community banking and loan servicing […]
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On Friday April 10th, the high school track and field team competed in the Queen City Classic in Spearfish against 22 other teams. The Broncs had two athletes who set new school records at the meet. On the men’s team, Chris Jewett set the school record in the javelin with a throw of 130 feet […]
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