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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Anderson retires after 22 years in the pulpit
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

After 22 years of leading his flocks, Pastor Robert Anderson retired from the pulpit last Sunday.

Anderson preached at both Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Custer and Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Hill City since 1988. He also led services at the State Treatment and Rehabilitation (STAR) Academy for juveniles for over a dec



Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Efird participates in ‘the other bike ride’
Published: Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Most people would avoid anything with the words “gut check” in the name of the event. 

Not Richard Efird, though. He seeks them out.

The 56-year-old retired from the military and moved to Custer eight years ago. Always one to take on a challenge, he signed up for the Gut Check 212 ride, a 412-mile bike ride from the Wyoming border to the Minnesota border along U.S. Highway 212.



Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Community garden sprouts in second year
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
  By Joshâ��Chilson The Custer community garden has seen a reasonable amount of success in the number of people participating its second year, but has progressed significantly in term...


Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Local couple feature Quarter Horses at open house
Published: Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

On Saturday, July 24, Clayton and Sally Chord opened their home and ranch west of Custer to the public for an open house featuring their Quarter Horses.

The Chords both grew up on ranches in western South Dakota.  For nearly 30 years, they have owned Cee Heart Quarter Horses, a foundation bred Quarter Horse program, as a continuation of Sally’s parents’ operation which began in 1958.  “My parents (Jack and Ellen Paulton) originally just loved horses. But then, as they had kids, they wanted to raise good youth horses that us kids could enjoy and be competitive on,” said Sally.  



Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Weight loss makes Walker ‘comfortable in her skin’
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Tammy Walker of Custer is officially Custer County’s biggest loser, and she couldn’t be happier about it.

The Custer County Chronicle’s Biggest Loser competition wrapped up last week. Walker lost 34-1/2 pounds, or 21.97 percent of her original total weight. 



Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Mountainview Baptist putting up new church
Published: Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

There’s a new peak on the horizon, as the Mountainview Baptist Church has begun construction of its new church. The new church will house almost three times the space of their current building, and will be adequate for its immediate ministry needs. Plans to expand yet even further are also in the works in case  more room is needed in the future.



Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

A healing touch
Published: Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Laura Burden decided to take the skills she had developed from her career occupational therapy and start Laura’s Integrated Functional Therapy on 5th Street in Custer.

Burden had worked in Hot Springs for the last 15 years as an occupational therapist for all age groups, from children to the elderly. She eventually decided she wanted to see occupational therapy beyond the standard medical setting; she wanted to see it in a store, easily accessible to the public. In addition, she had also grown weary of the commute between Custer and Hot Springs.

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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Wolves may be in county
Published: Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Reports of several sightings of two wolves in Custer County are being investigated, according to John Kanta, regional wildlife manager for the Game, Fish and Parks (GP&P) Department, Rapid City.

Kanta told members of Custer’s Rotary Club last Monday noon that he has asked state trapper Jack Alexander to verify if the wolves are here in the county. They have been reported to be seen west of Wind Cave National Park and south of Pringle.



Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Burgraff resigns as BH Playhouse director
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Michael Burgraff, director of the Black Hills Playhouse through some of its most tumultuous moments, has resigned his position.

The resignation, effective as of last Tuesday, came after Burgraff accepted the position of executive director at the Spearfish Arts Center. Burgraff had served as the executive director of the Playhouse for the past two and a half years



Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Teachers retire after 100 years of educating
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Cozy Dorton walked into Custer Elementary just as she has thousands of time before. Something was different this time, though. As she passed the board that held photos of all the teachers and staff members employed by the school, she noticed her picture was missing.

“That’s when it really hit me,” she said. “This is for real.”



Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Local nurse recognized by Regional Health
Published: Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

A Custer nurse was recently recognized by her peers and employer for her exemplary work in her field.

Jennifer Hart was recently awarded the Rapid City Regional Hospital Rising Star-Novice Award, given to individual who are new in the profession. Hart began work for Regional in 2008, and is a home care and hospice nurse.



Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Cox creates ‘Dream Time’ for Stampede
Published: Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

LoRae Cox has always been an artist, but on a small scale.

Cox, of Custer, works at Baker’s Bakery and has done some drawing for the bakery, including drawing the girl who is on the menu at the bakery. That’s really as far as she had ever taken her art, until this year.



Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Art Club does Stampede buffalo
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

The Custer High School Art Club had added its own splash of color to this year’s Custer Stampede, creating a tabletop buffalo for this year’s auction.

The club, consisting of juniors and seniors, spent the better part of two months painting the buffalo, which they have named “Max,” a take off from artist Peter Max.



Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Stampede art a challenge for Red Horse
Published: Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

 

By Jason Ferguson
Art Red Horse of Custer is in his first year of doing artwork for the annual Buffalo Stampede, and it is proving to be a challenge.
Red Horse, who has been doing art for as long as he can remember, is a realistic oil painter by trade. However, he is using acryllic paint on the life-sized buffalo he is making for the Stampede, which has proved to have a learning curve for him.
“I’m struggling with it. It dries way too quickly,”â��he said with a laugh. “It’s been a challenge. It’s going to take a little longer than I thought.”
When Red Horse began painting 25 years ago, it was with acryllic paint. However, that was for two-dimensional pieces, not the three-dimensional piece he is creating for the Stampede. Despite is early struggles, Red Horse said he is enjoying the experience.

tampede, and it is proving to be a challenge.

Red Horse, who has been doing art for as long as he can remember, is a realistic oil painter by trade. However, he is using acryllic paint on the life-sized buffalo he is making for the Stampede, which has proved to have a learning curve for him.

 



Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Taking a bite out of the Big Apple
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Call of the wild
Published: Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Antelope, deer, elk, grouse, pheasants — you name the species, you can hunt it somewhere in South Dakota.  But one animal for which there is no season in this state is the kangaroo. 

It behooves the avid hunter then to go where the 'roos are.  So that's what Custer native Zach McLain did. 



Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Former Hills residents take over Shady Rest
Published: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The Shady Rest Motel has new owners, but those owners aren’t new to the area.

The hotel, formerly owned by Joel and Kari Tucker, and Bill and Marie Tucker before them, was recently purchased by John and Ann Dvorak. The Dvorak family has spent the past 11 years in Oregon, but before that, were Black Hills residents.



Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

‘Hermosa Saturday Night’ to benefit HAHA project
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

A Hermosa get-together on Saturday should provide not only a great time, but help raise money for an important local cause as well.

“A Hermosa Saturday Night”  will begin at 6 p.m. at the Hermosa school gym. Entrance to the event is free, and there will be food, a magic show, cloggers and a silent auction. During this annual occurrence it is hoped residents will donate to the Hermosa Arts and History Association (HAHA), which will use the funds to continue renovating the original Hermosa schoolhouse into a museum.



Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

‘Buffalo Woman’ graces Stampede
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Inspired by a Native North American legend, Marlize Loucks is creating “Buffalo Woman” for this year’s Custer Stampede art auction.

The piece, which Loucks has been working on for over a month, is made from scratchboard. Scratchboard is cardboard similar to poster board that has been coated on one side with a layer of hard white chalk.



Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Cambier makes free form for this year’s Stampede
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Going on her fourth year of creating art for the Custer Stampede, Nancy Cambier is doing something different this year.



Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Keating writes novel on ’60s
Published: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Back in the days of the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the Weather Underground and dozens of causes for the socially misfit and downtrodden, the 1960s and early 1970s stand alone as a rallying point which nearly ignited a modern day total rebellion within the U. S. Slogans were “Question Authority,” “Make Love, Not War,” “Tune in and Drop Out” and “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30.” Those are the printable ones.



Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The world of ‘The Legendary Aroden Ki’
Published: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Imagine someone taking a chunk of ancient Rome, with a splash of science fiction and a coming of age story and tossing it into a bag with 124 blank pages in it. After shaking the bag to and fro the handler opens the bag up and hands you  a completed novel. In a sense, that is what Custer graduate Cody Deatherage did upon writing his first book, “Tides of Fate: The Legendary Aroden:Book 1 Vindication.” 



Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Foundation looking to bolster its funds
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
A local foundation aims to increase its treasure chest so it can start doling out grants again in the Custer community. The First Interstate Custer Area Funds board of directors is initiating a major fund drive this month in order to qualify for matching funds from First Interstate Foundation and the S.D. Community Foundation.


Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Schnoor's granddaughter makes Winter Olympics
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

One girl’s middle school dream became a reality last month when she twisted her way into the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, set for this February. Lacy Schnoor, Draper, Utah, earned her spot on the American aerial skiing team after landing a triple-twisting jump in Olympic Trials in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Schnoor said she had a 50-50 chance of landing it since she practiced the jump on the snow for the first time the day before the event.



Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

"Down Memory Lane" spawns story of shooting
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Some family research on the South Dakota State Archives website led Paula Schaeper of Dallas, Texas, to the Custer County Chronicle, and more specifically, “Down Memory Lane.”



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