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Archive For November 2008
Help your town by shopping local
November 25th, 2008
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it at least a dozen times. When you buy things in your local community, you keep the sales tax here and you help preserve what is left of your main street. If you...
Football award winners
November 25th, 2008
Custer students selected for Augustana Band Festival
November 25th, 2008
Custer High School band members Nicholas Castro, Ariel Cisneros and Michelle DeHaven were selected to represent Custer High School at the 51st annual Augustana College Conc...
Custer students selected for Augustana Band Festival
November 25th, 2008
Custer High School band members Nicholas Castro, Ariel Cisneros and Michelle DeHaven were selected to represent Custer High School at the 51st annual Augustana College Concert Band Festival in Sioux F...
Help your town by shopping local
November 25th, 2008
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it at least a dozen times. When you buy things in your local community, you keep the sales tax here and you help preserve what is left of your main street. If you...
Gang members acquittal is state s O.J. case
November 25th, 2008
Don’t you love it when the judicial system actually works once in a while. Don’t you hate it when it fails so miserably to bring perpetrators to justice? As a nation we suffered through this with...
Black Hills Mountain Lion Foundation meeting Dec. 6
November 25th, 2008
The Black Hills Mountain Lion Foundation will hold its annual meeting on Dec. 6 at the Journey Museum in Rapid City from 1-5 p.m. A free to the public educational seminar will address the relationship...
Hermosa: No lease with fair board
November 25th, 2008
As far as the Town of Hermosa is concerned, it no longer has a contract with the county fair board for the operation of the Custer County Fairgrounds.
That was the message delivered by Town of Hermos...
Local GM dealer drops franchise
November 25th, 2008
The front page ad in the Western Trader said it all for Bill Murner Chevrolet-Buick last week.
“After 32 Years...It’s Time for a Change.” Thirty-two years ago Bill Murner Sr. bought Campbell Mo...
Hells Angels are found not guilty
November 25th, 2008
Custer County States Attorney Tracy Kelley said she knew what the verdict would be before it was read. Not because she wasn’t confident in the case she and her assistant attorneys had put together,...
Carrie M. Buchan
November 19th, 2008
Carrie M. Buchan was born July 23, 1908, in Bradgate, Iowa, to Mike and Sine Madsen.
She married John H. Buchan on Dec. 9, 1932, in Fairmont, Minn.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, she...
Jacob Clifford Elger
November 19th, 2008
Jacob Clifford Elger was born Nov. 20, 1989.
He died Oct. 26, 2008, at Children’s Hospital in Omaha, Neb.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents.
Survivors include his mother, Diana...
Alice Doody
November 19th, 2008
Alice H. Doody was born Feb. 18, 1924, in Chicago, Ill, to Albert and Irene (Preusner) Leinen.
She died Nov. Ill., 2008, at Custer Regional Senior Care in Custer, S.D., surrounded by her...
Dennis Cordell
November 19th, 2008
Dennis Francis Cordell was born Oct. 13, 1930, on the family farm north of Watertown, S.D., to Peter J. and Katherine (Jellesma) Cordell. He attended school in Watertown and helped his par...
Dennis Cordell
November 19th, 2008
Dennis Francis Cordell was born Oct. 13, 1930, on the family farm north of Watertown, S.D., to Peter J. and Katherine (Jellesma) Cordell. He attended school in Watertown and helped his parents o...
Samuel L. Murrey
November 19th, 2008
Samuel L. Murrey was born May 23, 1921, at Jacksonville, Fla., to Matthew and Mae (Luking) Murrey. At age 18, he graduated from Bolles Military Academy. In 1942, Sam joined the U.S. Army Air C...
Veterans: We owe them for doing it
November 19th, 2008
An old friend of mine came home on leave from the military the other day. He’d been in a dusty, rocky, barren place just before that; a place populated by strange people with unfamiliar customs. Yes...
Annual Community Christmas schedule set
November 19th, 2008
By Parker Knox
Work has begun on the myriad of details involved in the Custer Community Christmas Project, a multi-faceted program whose over-riding goal is bringing the entire community to...
Community pays it forward for Ski
November 19th, 2008
Just when life couldn’t be any worse for Robert “Ski” Kaliszewski and his wife, Iris, things took another drastic turn. Soon after finding out he was diagnosed with l...
Community pays it forward for Ski
November 19th, 2008
By Billy Drown
Just when life couldn’t be any worse for Robert “Ski” Kaliszewski and his wife, Iris, things took another drastic turn. Soon after finding out he was diagnosed with lung canc...
Fire guts firefighter s home
November 19th, 2008
The Custer Volunteer Fire Department was called to a structure fire at 829 Crook Street at 5:10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17. The home is the the residence of Justin and Ashley Boggs.
Upon arrival, the f...
Chronicle welcomes Billy Drown
November 19th, 2008
After spending the past couple of years in the northern Dakota state, South Dakota native Billy Drown couldn’t be happier to be back in the southern Dakota state, especially since he is now located...
Auction revenue down
November 19th, 2008
By Jason Ferguson
Revenue may have been down $18,000, but Custer State Park Officials are still happy with money made from its annual buffalo auction, held last Saturday morning at the park...
Gary Leon Wilson
November 12th, 2008
Gary Leon Wilson was born Aug. 9, 1949, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., to Luther Leon and Reba Eileen (Tomlinson) Wilson.
He attended Soroco High School in Oak Creek, Colo., graduating in...
Gary Leon Wilson
November 12th, 2008
Gary Leon Wilson was born Aug. 9, 1949, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., to Luther Leon and Reba Eileen (Tomlinson) Wilson.
He attended Soroco High School in Oak Creek, Colo., graduating in 1967. G...
Paul Downen
November 12th, 2008
Paul S. Downen, 91, Rapid City, formerly a Fairburn, S.D., resident, longtime rancher and member of a homestead family, died Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Services were hel...
Ronald Huston
November 12th, 2008
Ronald E. Huston was born Nov. 28, 1940, in Rapid City, S.D., to Ray and Alice Huston. His family moved to Custer, S.D., in 1947 and he graduated from Custer High School. He married Dianne K...
Betty Lou Ellison
November 12th, 2008
Betty Lou (Blubaugh) Ellison was born in Ft. Morgan, Colo., Nov. 18, 1929, to Earl and Sylvia (Hanneman) Blubaugh and grew up in Boulder, Colo. She attended Boulder High School and a busines...
Elizabeth Ann (Summers) Bonk
November 12th, 2008
Elizabeth Ann (Summers) Bonk was born Sept. 4, 1933, in Hubbard County, Minn., to Glen and Elva Summers. She grew up in Park Rapids and went to Park Rapids High School, from which she graduated in 1...
Ole Williams Swede Pond
November 12th, 2008
Ole William ‘Swede’ Pond was born to Joe and Ella (Soholt) Pond on Parker’s Peak near Hot Springs, S.D., on June 6, 1929. He attended rural schools in Fall River County. After his school...
Volleyball team can t corral Bison
November 12th, 2008
Although they were playing some of their best volleyball headed into the game, the Custer High School volleyball team couldn’t spring an upset on the Hot Springs Bison last Friday ni...
Jordan Konkol named Student of the Week
November 12th, 2008
Jordan Konkol has been selected as the Wildcat Booster Club’s Football Student of the Week.
Konkol, a junior, was a starting receiver and cornerback for the Wildcats before partially tearin...
Jordan Konkol named Student of the Week
November 12th, 2008
Jordan Konkol has been selected as the Wildcat Booster Club’s Football Student of the Week.
Konkol, a junior, was a starting receiver and cornerback for the Wildcats before partially tearing his AC...
Few surprises in Nov. 4 election
November 12th, 2008
South Dakotans unanimously voted to return their U.S. Senator and House of Representatives member to Congress for another term on Nov. 4.
There wasn’t much of a doubt that Democrats Sen. Tim John...
Our long national nightmare is over
November 12th, 2008
Has it been two years already?
Two of the most acrimonious years I can remember, and probably in political history, came to an end the night of Nov. 4, when Barack Obama was elected the 44th Pres...
Hermosa to receive funds for flood recovery
November 12th, 2008
The Black Hills Recovery Network has announced the establishment of the Hermosa Improve-ment, Prevention and Education Fund.
On Thursday, Nov. 6, representatives from the Black Hills Area Communi...
Museum seeks Christmas trees
November 12th, 2008
The fifth annual “Festival of Trees” is back this holiday season at the 1881 Courthouse Museum.
Any business, service organization or community group that would like to sponsor a Christmas...
Winter storm wallops county
November 12th, 2008
Winter arrived early in Custer County late last Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, bringing severe wind and around a foot of snow throughout the county.
The storm started with light snowfal...
Kelly Jo Avery
November 5th, 2008
Kelly Jo Avery was born Aug. 22, 1969, to George P. and Janelle (Karpiak) Avery in Newcastle, Wyo. She graduated from Upton (Wyo.) High School in 1987 and later from Gillette School of Cosmetology in...
Konkol, Herman named Students of the Week
November 5th, 2008
Karley Konkol and Cody Herman have been selected as the Custer High School cross country team Students of the Week.
Konkol, a freshman, and Herman, an eighth grader, were among the top place finish...
Upset bid falls short as season ends in Belle Fourche
November 5th, 2008
Sometimes the scoreboard is not indicative of how a football game really went. Such was the case Oct. 28 in Belle Fourche.
The Custer Wildcat football team punched, clawed and scr...
Upset bid falls short as season ends in Belle Fourche
November 5th, 2008
Sometimes the scoreboard is not indicative of how a football game really went. Such was the case Oct. 28 in Belle Fourche.
The Custer Wildcat football team punched, clawed and scratched in a valiant...
Election is over in nation divided
November 5th, 2008
Now that the Presidential election is history, it’s time to start making good on many of those campaign promises. Let’s see. Where do we begin?
Both candidates for President said they would l...
Election year just around the corner!
November 5th, 2008
Here's a positive thought to get you started: If you are reading this on Wednesday, Nov. 5, it is only 421 days until Jan. 1, 2010, which will be the first day of a brand new election year!
If th...
An exchange rate that benefits all
November 5th, 2008
From Japan to Germany, Italy to Finland, Dean and Sharon Kurtz have learned about the language, culture and religions of several countries in the last four years. All without leaving t...
Spending a year in the States
November 5th, 2008
When Martin Nordqvist arrived in the United States, he was pleasantly surprised. Having never been to the United States, he had some pre-conceived notions about what to expect when he...