Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
Publisher’s Opinion This opinion column was written with some reluctance to break a journalistic practice of staying neutral/silent in political campaigns and races. I recently had a conversation with a friend, an Aberdeen lawyer who had lobbied for Homestake Mining Company during my time active in politics. We talked of those days we worked together […]
Continue ReadingI went to the City Council meeting 6-17-2024. I got about the same response I have always been getting. NONE. We have a serious water hole at the corner of Zeiback & US 85 when it rains. When will something be done about this situation? If you go north on 13th Avenue to National St. […]
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During the springtime in France, brilliant red/orange poppies appear by the millions. May is the best month to find them in fields, creeping up through crevices, in back yards, ditches, and otherwise empty spaces. Poppies are magnificent flowers the world around. In 1915, a poem titled “In Flanders Fields’ captured the imagery of […]
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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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