Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
BELLE FOURCHE—A local resident has turned her passion for Halloween into a festive way to help neighbors in need during the holiday season. Colleen Nafus and her husband, Steve, have created an homage to almost every scary movie you can think of, and more. Walking up to the spine-chilling house, visitors will see REDRUM scrawled […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—Every year the Belle Fourche Rec Center goes all out for Halloween. They invite everyone in the area to come trick-or-treating indoors, free of charge. This year on October 31, the Halloween Spooktacular welcomed over 1,100 individuals through the doors. That was up from around 700 last year. The line to get into the […]
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Introduction: Thank you to Owl Creek Organics in Nisland for your continuing spon- sorship of Roots Grow Deep and Strong! A while back, I was honored to serve as a long-term substitute at South Park Elementary School. I’ve always liked the kids. It was an extraordinary experience, one that evoked a lot of personal memories […]
Continue Readingby Mary Buchholz These articles come from newspaper microfilm from the Belle Fourche Public library, using a new microfilm reader and printer. The photographs are from the Tri-State Museum. 89 years ago Belle Fourche Bee September 18, 1936 PERSONALS –Donald Smith, Lon Brown, Lewis and Lowell Sisson left Tuesday morning by auto for Brookings, where […]
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NEWELL—On a chilly Halloween evening, it is nice to have a warm place to go to celebrate the holiday. Kids of all ages were invited to come in costume to the annual Harvest Festival and Trunk-or-Treat at the Newell City Hall on October 31. City Hall was transformed into a fun, festive place filled with […]
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VALE—For the past several years, the Vale community has come together to create lasting Halloween memories for the area children. Each fall, the Vale Community Club sponsors a Trunk or Treat event. This year, it was held the weekend before Halloween, on Sunday, October 26. Now everyone gathers in the parking lot of the Vale […]
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By Nancy Henderson, The path Morgan Krul took to reach her goal of working for the City of Belle Fourche as a member of the Belle Fourche Recreation Center staff had its share of challenges because Morgan traveled that path in a wheelchair. A 2024 graduate of Belle Fourche High School, Morgan was born with […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—Take a fun fall event, couple it with beautiful weather, add neighbors, kids, costumes, vendors, and food trucks, and you just might have the largest turnout yet at the Belle Fourche Pumpkinfest, held on October 25. In fact, according to Kristi Thielen, museum director, in all of the years she has been involved in […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—A special evening to celebrate the 12 cross country runners who qualified for the state competition in Huron was held at the Branding Iron Steakhouse on October 22. “We have six boys qualified and six girls qualified,” explained boys’ head coach Matt Wattier. “We’re going to take off on Friday, and the meet is […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—Sometimes, when something is meant to be, everything seems to fall in place at the right time. This is what happened when Hannah Wolf, owner of Elizabeth Ann’s Bridal, decided to open a new store in Belle Fourche. About the same time Wolf was looking for a change from the corporate world, her grandma, […]
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