— submitted by Joseph Plucker Parker didn’t have enough 14-16 baseball players to field a team this season, so two Parker players opted to play at their age level for the Lennox Jr. Legion baseball team. After a successful season, the team headed to Winner for the...
Orville Langerock 83 Saturday, Aug. 4 Marion Orville Wayne Langerock was born to Francis and Minnie (Dykstra) Langerock on July 2, 1935, on a farm near Canistota. He attended country schools near Marion and graduated from Monroe High School in 1953, and then briefly...
Lorraine “Snooks” Bauerle 69 Tuesday, Aug. 7 Lennox Lorraine Madeline Konda was born on Oct. 2, 1948, at Sioux Falls. She’s the daughter of Henry and Madeline (Miller) Konda. She grew up and attended school in Parker and graduated from Parker High School in 1966. On...
The annual Ranch Rodeo kicked off the Turner County Fair on Sunday, Aug. 12 with cowboys and cowgirls from all over coming to town to participate in the event. Eleven adult teams and five kids teams took part in the event. Winning first was the team of Jo Syrovatka,...
The Vermillion Basin Water Development District (VBWDD) recently awarded the Turner County Conservation District (TCCD) $5,000.00 for tree planting cost-share assistance in 2019. The grant has been a continuing show of support to the TCCD and their tree-planting...
Dawn Rye| Writer drye@ncppub.com During last week’s commissioner’s meeting, the ICAP office was approved to receive a new three-prong outlet for the office storage. Julie Andersen said she works at Inter Lake Community Action in the basement of the courthouse. And for...
Dawn Rye| Writer drye@ncppub.com Summer isn’t officially over but students will be making their way back to the classrooms in just a few short days. The school calendar is packed full of activities and sporting events everyone can enjoy. Back to school events begin...
Beresford Legion drops Parker Legion again Parker Legion lost for the second time in a week to Beresford on Wednesday, July 18, this time in the first game in the region 3B tournament. Last week, Beresford won 14-4 and this week, 8-0. Not much to report on this...
Parker boys’ basketball spent time this summer preparing for the 2018-19 season by taking a varsity and junior varsity team to three summer events. The varsity consisted mainly of the seniors and JV mostly of the underclassman, including incoming freshman. The team...
The Parker football team headed to Madison on Monday and Tuesday, July 23 and 24 to participate in the Dakota State University two-day team camp. The team was guided by first-year head coach Scott Hybertson. Hybertson takes over as the head coach from Derrick...
Sarah Ebeling | Editor sebeling@ncppub.com State workers spent part of last week in Parker installing new street signs throughout the town. According to Parker Street Superintendent Mike Jorgensen, Parker received about 600 news signs and about 400 break-a-way posts....
Dawn Rye | Writer drye@ncppub.com A motion was made during last week’s commissioner’s meeting for the Salem Township work agreement to be approved to replace a box culvert. Highway Superintendent Kent Austin explained as of Sunday, July 1, the codified law changed...
Sarah Ebeling | Editor sebeling@ncppub.com Many people dream of owning their own business. Even if it is just a part-time gig. Fred Gullikson is one of those people. Gullikson owns and operates Apocalypse Firearms out of his home in Parker in the evenings and on the...
Shane Merrill | Writer The Parker golf team continued to tear up the local golf courses last week, punching several tickets to the class ‘B’ state meet during the region 3B meet. The boys qualifed the whole team for the second year in a row behind individual champion...
Phil Bjorneberg | Coach Over two very warm days in the Black Hills, the Parker track and field teams completed what I considered a perfect meet. In every single event we competed at, or above, expectations and I’m not sure I’ve ever been more proud of a group of kids...
Sarah Ebeling | Editor Almost 100 years ago, Parker hosted its first ever American Legion meeting. And since that inaugural meeting in 1919, members of Parker’s chapter have worked to promote themselves. And, the current chapter is no different. Commander Angela Cuka...
Dawn Rye | Writer A motion was made during last week’s commissioner’s meeting for Highway Superintendent Kent Austin to hire three part-time flaggers for the summer season. Austin said he would be hiring Troy Melloon who has a CDL license at $13.40 an hour. Both Pam...
Heading into Saturdays Pentagon volleyball tournament, the Parker Pheasants were riding high on a nine game winning streak, after knocking off
The Parker football team capped off their homecoming week with a big win over neighboring Viborg-Hurley.
