Three towns. Two Teams. One fight. Pictured are the Girls and Boys teams from Centerville and Viborg- Hurley. (photo/Tricia Eide) Tricia Eide | Centerville Sports The caring continues, as does the fight, and no one fights alone. In between the games, between...
Liam Ortman goes up for a shot against Menno. (photo/Alan Astleford) Alan Astleford | Writer Freeman Acadeny/Marion defeated the Irene-Wakonda Eagles in Irene January 25 with a final score of 60-45. Jackson Donlan and Karter Weber tied for scoring honors with 20...
Jenna Graves goes airborne trying to make a basket. (photo/Faydra Christensen) Faydra Christensen | Viborg-Hurley Sports The Lady Cougars (4-8) had a tough week dropping two games this week, which put a bit of a damper on the earlier week’s success. They might have...
Rafe Goettertz guards an Alcester-Hudson player trying to keep him away from the basket. (picture/ Faydra Christensen) Faydra Christensen | Viborg-Hurley Sports Well, all it took was beating the former #1 team in Class B, Castlewood, but one point to propel the...
Thank you to the VH/IW seniors who contributed to the team this year. Pictured are the seniors with their coaches Dylan Thomas and Cory Jensen. Left to right- Trevor Ryan (IW), Coach Dylan Thomas, Ella Kessler, Gia Miller, Raegan Smith, and Coach Cory Jensen....
By Shane Merrill | Sports Just days after their home quad that saw exciting action, the Parker wrestlers hosted their annual home invitational and came away with four first place winners on their way to a team finish of second place.“We had 13 teams total and earned a...
Jevin Erickson makes a move to the basket (photo by Shane Merrill) By Shane Merrill | Sports The Parker Pheasants were upended twice last week having back to back games due to previous postponements. Parker first took on Freeman in Freeman, and after a competitive...
Kyla Fosheim drives baseline in a recent game in Beresford (photo/Shane Merrill) By Shane Merrill | Sports The Parker girls struggled on offense in their opening games of a five game stretch last week, as they met Freeman Monday night and West Central Tuesday...
By Rich Winter | 605 Sports Parker senior Levi Wieman looks like a man on a missionAt the 2023 South Dakota state wrestling tournament, Wieman entered the Class B 220-pound field as the top seed and the favorite to win a state title. In the semifinals of that...
Riva Sharples | Writer The Irene-Wakonda boys and girls basketball teams continue to fight this season. The boys record is currently 1-10 for the season, while the girls have a 2-11 record currently. This past week, both teams were very active with regularly scheduled...
Monique R. Hurtado | Writer Last Tuesday, residents of Marion went to the polls to vote on the Marion School’s $6.5 million bond. A sixty percent majority was needed for the bond to pass; unfortunately, the yes votes barely tipped the scales at fifty-one percent....
Monique R. Hurtado | Writer Last month, the Turner County Courthouse underwent emergency shoring to stabilize the east side of the building due to an issue with trusses. The trusses in question are directly above the courtroom. The courtroom now has stabilizing towers...
CommissionerJared Hybertson(photo/submitted) Monique R. Hurtado | Staff writer The Turner County commissioners play a vital role in our local government. They are “empowered to ‘super-intend the fiscal concerns of the County’ and ‘to make orders respecting the care...
Kristen Wilke demonstrates how equine massage is done (photo/submitted) Monique R. Hurtado | Writer As soon as, Kristen Wilke starts talking about horses, her face immediately lights up and she has a smile from ear to ear. Horses are her passion and it shows all over...
Riva Sharples | Writer The public performance of “Web of Deception,” this year’s one-act play at Irene-Wakonda, has been postponed from January 22 to January 29. The performance was bumped from its original January 22 slot to the 29th due to weather cancellations,...
Riva Sharples | Writer Centerville High School’s one-act play, “A Bowl of Soup: A Scould-Warming Monologue Play” by Kendra Thomas, will compete this week at the Region one-act play competition in Sioux Falls.The dramatic production stars five Centerville High School...
Riva Sharples | Writer Code enforcement and the pool were major topics of discussion at the January Town of Wakonda board meeting held last week.Code enforcement has been a topic in Wakonda for years. Last June, a dozen Wakonda citizens complained about the state of...
Donna Rumbaugh | Managing Editor Valentines Day is right around the corner. The Marion FCCLA is on board make sure your sweetheart doesn’t get left out.Whether you are looking for something simple like a carnation, or want to go with balloons and sweets, they have...
Monique R. Hurtado | Writer The meeting began with Highway Superintendent Kent Austin providing diesel quotes to the commissioners.Commissioner Mick Miller opened the floor for the reading of Ordinance #90-24 to rezone Christian Sanchez from AG to RR. Christian...
