Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
By Kandi Tonsager, The Belle Fourche High School opened their season on Tuesday April 8th at the Douglas Early Bird Invite, followed by the Queen City Invite in Spearfish on Friday April 11th. Highlights for the week in Bronc Track & Field: In Douglas, for the Ladies- Lia Mundt placed 3rd in the 3200 meter […]
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By Kandi Tonsager, On Saturday March 8th, 50 youth wrestlers took to the mats in Buffalo at the District 1 tournament. The top 8 placers in Districts move onto Regionals. Saturday March 15th, in Sturgis, 48 of those 50 wrestlers moved on to fight their way to the top 3 spots in their weight classes, […]
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BELLE FOURCHE—Imagine earning your share of $100,000 for just over 30 seconds of work. This past week Slone Weishaar, Belle Fourche and his team roping partner, Cannin Carson, Grassy Butte, ND pulled off this feat at the 2025 Wrangler Bob First Invitational Hooey Junior 10.5 Team Roping Championship at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, […]
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By Kandi Tonsager On Friday, March, 21st, the Bronc wrestlers celebrated a great year with an awards banquet. The mens and womens teams had many individual and team accomplishments over the season. The men’s team took 1st place at this year’s Black Hills Conference competition, the last championship was earned in 2008. The women’s team […]
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From Ryan Chervany, representing the Belle Fourche Soccer Association: “Each year we give out an award to a senior girl and boy who exemplifies the spirit of Belle Fourche Soccer by showing good sportsmanship, always being eager to volunteer and being a good role model to the youth of the program. The Sportsmanship Award is […]
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Belle Fourche Senior, Alex Klocek takes aim and seldom misses. In shooting sports, she has earned two national level awards and so many state awards that she has trouble recalling all of them. Alex’s talent in shooting sports has been rewarded with a scholarship to Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. On Friday, October 24, […]
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Jim was born September 19. 1947 in Bowman, North Dakota. To Paul and Stella (Burt) Thompson. He grew up in Oregon from 1951-1960 as his dad ranched in Baker, La Grande, and North Powder. During that time Jim was active in 4-H showing the grand champion steer at the Union County Fair twice. The Thompsons […]
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Belle Fourche area walleye fishermen transported their angling skills to Lake Oahe this past week. The quartet from left Ray Auer, Kim Smoot, Ron Ensz, and Bill Smoot were able to show some success. The group put nice eating size fish in the boat on days/times it wasn’t raining. Courtesy Photo
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