90Parker, SDMarch 8, 2024James R. “Jim” White, 90 of Parker, passed away surrounded by his family on March 8, 2024 at Ava’s House in Sioux Falls. Funeral Service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 15, 2024 at Grace Lutheran Church, Parker. Burial will be held at the...
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Mary Frances (Gebhart) Moore
79Sioux Falls, SDMarch 9, 2024Mary Frances (Gebhart) Moore was born November 6, 1944, in Dell Rapids, SD to Leo and Matilda (Klein) Gebhart. Surrounded by her family, Mary passed away March 9, 2024 in Sioux Falls, SD at the age of 79 years. She was the oldest of their...
Game one at the Monument
This is a team sport! And this team showed up! Congratulations to the Class B Champions Centerville Tornadoes! (photo/Tricia Eide) Centerville vs Warner Monarchs Tricia Eide | Centerville Sports They did it! The CHS Girls Basketball team qualified for the State B...
Cougars dominate at SoDak 16 – Move on to State B Tournaments
Boys basketball team and cheerleaders wait to load up on the bus to SoDak 16 (photo/submitted) Faydra Christensen | Viborg-Hurley Sports Viborg-Hurley, who would be ranked 10th in the SoDak 16 rankings, would travel to Fort Pierre to battle the sixth ranked Faith...
Nelson and Gilbert make CornBelt Conference Team
Charley Nelson earned first team All Conference honors. (photo/Faydra Christensen) Faydra Christensen | Viborg-Hurley Sports Congratulations to Charley Nelson and Kendra Gilbert on making the All Cornbelt Conference team. Charley made first team selection as a junior...
Centerville Boys make history at SD16
Congratulations to the Centerville boys basketball team on earning their first SoDak 16 appearance! Back row L-R, Head Coach Bill Marquardt, Caleb Fosher, Nolan Fisher, Corbin Tople, Micah Childress, Cole Edberg, Brennan Tople, Alec Austin, Miles Eide, Covin Wattier,...
Parker basketball coaching spot open
Shane Merrill | Sports For the fifth time in seven years, the Parker boys’ basketball program is looking for its next head coach. Mike Morran, who spent one year at the helm, submitted his resignation Monday, March 11, meaning the Pheasants will open up the job for...
March 14, 2024
Lady Tornadoes head to State B Tournaments
Congratulations to your Girls State B Qualifiers Centerville Tornadoes! Team members are: Brady Childress, Head Coach Tucker Tornberg, Addison Buckneberg, McKenzie Carstensen, Althea Gust, MaKayla Heesch, Lillie Eide, Kiylee Westra, Tessa Eide, Emma Marshall,...
Turner County sends two to South Dakota 16
SoDak 16 qualifying Viborg-Hurley CougarsFront- Paisley Skonvold, Maggie Kessler, Jazmyne Robinson, Bridget Benest, Morgan Patterson, Bailey Weegar, and Zoey Christensen Middle- Zac Austin, Coach Mason Madsen, Jake Austin, Braydyn Morrison, Brenner Gerdes, Andrew...
Viborg Community rallies behind Panaia family
Jenn Panaia’s husband Joey and four children accompanied her to the University of Minnesota last year while she underwent her bone marrow transplant. The transplant failed and she will need to start the process all over again this Spring. (Photo/Submitted) Renae...
FIRE! Call before you burn
605-764-2664 Donna Rumbaugh | Managing Editor Spring is just around the corner and with it comes clean-up. This is the time of year when landowners use fire to clean up burn pits, ditches, fields, gardens, and fence lines. It is also the time of year when fires can...
I-W band students score well at contest
I-W band students who attended last week’s Solo and Ensemble contest held last week in Lennox pose for a photo (photo/submitted). Riva Sharples | Writer Irene-Wakonda band students performed well at the Instrument Solo and Ensemble contest held Wednesday, Feb. 28, in...
Car wash opens in Parker
Donna Rumbaugh | Managing Editor It has been a long wait, but the car wash in Parker has finally become a reality. It has taken six years from idea to reality, but opening day has arrived, complete with colorful changing lights and all the bells and whistles.The car...
Gayville hall kicking off its 23rd season March 17
Riva Sharples | Writer Gayville Hall, the old-time music hall run by Wakonda resident Judi Sharples, will kick off its 23rd season Sunday, March 17, with a matinee St. Patrick’s Day-themed show. The unique music venue in Gayville, SD, has just announced its spring...
Weekly Commissioners Meeting
March 5, 2024 Monique R. Hurtado | Writer The meeting began with a Turner County resident, Shawn Nielsen, saying “Thank you” to the commissioners for all they have done to rebuild the Sheriff’s Department. “If you would have told me [last summer] that Jamie Buteyn and...
Howard Plummer, Jr.
89Parker, SDFebruary 24, 2024Howard Plummer, Jr., 89 of Parker, formally of Columbia, passed away on February 24, 2024 at the Good Samaritan Village in Sioux Falls. Memorial Visitation was held Monday, March 4, 2024 at the Hofmeister-Jones Funeral Home, Parker.Howard...
Norma Jean K Rist
78February 28, 2024Manhattan, KSNorma Jean K. Rist is safely home with her Lord and Savior. She was born in Manhattan, KS, to Dr. Myron and Audrey Kromminga, on January 8, 1946, and entered into eternal life on February 24, 2024, at the age of 78, in Lynchburg, VA, at...
Tornadoes blow past Bearcats in Regions
FA/M’s Karter Weber holds the basketball preparing to make an overhead pass in the Region 4B basketball game in Freeman February 24. (photo/Alan Astleford) Alan Astleford | Writer The season for FA/M Bearcats ended February 27 in Freeman when Centerville demolished...
Cougars roar through Region 4B, eyes set on State Championships
Cute picture alert! Sweet little Lena Hintz stopped to have a conversation with the boys on the bench as the game was still going. Devin Sayler, Kobee Sherman, and Nolan Kolthoff were all ears. (photo/Faydra Christensen) Faydra Christensen | Viborg-Hurley Sports As...