Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
BELLE FOURCHE—On Friday May 8th, the Belle Fourche Middle School track and field team competed in their final meet of the season. The Middle School Black Hills Conference meet was held in Spearfish this year and consisted of the following teams; Belle Fourche, Custer, Douglas, Enning/Union Center, Hermosa, Hill City, Hot Springs, Lead-Deadwood, Rapid City […]
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Twelve South Dakota basketball standouts spanning multiple generations headline the South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026. The 16th annual induction banquet is set for Aug. 22 at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls. The class is highlighted by three Mr. Basketball honorees — Rapid City Central’s Steve Anderson, Emery’s Chris […]
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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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