Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
The 2025 Newell Labor Day Celebration will soon be upon us! Begin making your plans to attend the annual event with exciting activities planned from August 23 through September 1. One of the highlights this year will be the opportunity to see the new arena grandstands that were just installed in June of this year! […]
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NEWELL—The hallways were filled with excited children exploring new classrooms and meeting new teachers at the Newell School Open House on the evening of August 14. All kinds of activities were planned for the students to participate in and get comfortable with the new year ahead, including a Title 1 scavenger hunt that sent kids […]
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NEWELL–During the recent Newell School Board meeting held August 11, the first reading of several policies was discussed. Essentially, the policies gained more clarification and came in line with state codified laws. Policy BDDH involves the public participation in school board meetings. There must be a sign-up sheet for participants to be able to speak […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—For the third year in a row, State Street was home to the Save the Vets Charity Smoke Off competition on Saturday, August 9. Armed Forces of America Motorcycle Club is the driving force behind the event and has been doing some sort of charity event every year for the past 12 years. Senior […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—After a summer filled with music, friends, family and food trucks, the last Hometown Thursdays is upon us! For ten weeks in a row the Belle Fourche community was given a gift of ten different musical acts. The week of August 7th has brought about the final musical performance for the summer. Dakota Country […]
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NISLAND—For the second summer in a row Owl Creek Organics and Natural Products hosted a Jam and Honey Festival at their country store on August 10. The Jam and Honey Festival started last year when the idea was suggested to Bernadette Jensen, owner, by South Dakota Specialty Producers Association. She thought that sounded fun and […]
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Beacon Readers: We our still working out details on a collaboration effort for long term continuation of the paper. All is going in a positive direction, but like when the Beacon started, it takes more time than you anticipate. Recent news of papers being closed across South Dakota are certainly a setback to those who […]
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SD Sports Hall of Fame Special to the Beacon 1979 Belle Fourche/1983 Northern State graduate. Cathy (Coyle) Grubb said, “My earliest sports memories include trying to keep up with my five brothers and sister in all the neighborhood sports we played from football in the street, softball, basketball and any other game we could invent. […]
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NEWELL—If you have traveled through Newell recently you have probably noticed all of the construction happening. The South Dakota Department of Transportation is undertaking a few big projects. They started in June with trimming and cutting down many of the big beautiful old trees that lined the highway going through town. DOT is also tearing […]
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NISLAND—Originally scheduled for Aug 2—to be held during the Butte/Lawrence County Fair—the Nisland Fair Rodeo (NFR) didn’t get to run as planned. The rains made the arena a muddy mess and for the safety of horses and kids the NFR was postponed by a week. Rescheduled for August 9, the arena was dry and kids […]
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