The Custer Veterans Honor Guard presents the colors during the playing of TAPS near the conclusion of the 26th annual Custer School District Veterans Day program last Wednesday. The event was moved from the Armory to Veterans Memorial Park this year because of COVID-19. See more photos of the event on page 6A.
Thu, 11/19/2020 - 9:04am
It was a sunny, but brisk and breezy day for Custer School District’s unique outdoor Veterans Day Program last Wednesday at Veterans Memorial Park. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s and the park’s...
Thu, 11/19/2020 - 9:01am
Thursday, Nov. 19
Hermosa/Fairburn Community Food Bank Open, Heartland Hair, 300 E. Main St., Hermosa
Soup & Pie and Bake Sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Custer Senior Center
Civil Air Patrol, 7 p.m...
Thu, 11/19/2020 - 8:58am
After being resuscitated 10 years ago, the Wildcat Booster Club appears to be on life support once again as 2020 draws to a close. Jennifer Ham-Kainz, president of the organization, announced...
Thu, 11/19/2020 - 8:52am
Over the weekend, we were all privy to more unbelievably bad journalism. “The Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for Covid-19” Joel Shannon of USA Today wrote. The facts tell a...
Terryl Cadwell of Sioux Falls visited with her father, Jim Rumbolz, at a Sioux Falls long-term care facility in late 2019. Rumbolz suffered a rapid decline in health during the COVID-19 pandemic and died in June; Cadwell blames his death in part on isolation he endured.
Thu, 11/19/2020 - 8:49am
As nursing homes and assisted-living facilities have restricted the movements of residents and eliminated most in-person visits by friends and families amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an unexpected...
Custer County Chronicle
The Custer Veterans Honor Guard presents the colors during the playing of TAPS near the conclusion of the 26th annual Custer School District Veterans Day program last Wednesday. The event was moved from the Armory to Veterans Memorial Park this year because of COVID-19. See more photos of the event on page 6A.
11/19/2020 - 9:04am
It was a sunny, but brisk and breezy day for Custer School District’s unique outdoor Veterans Day Program last Wednesday at Veterans Memorial Park. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s and the park’s flags were billowing under a steady breeze as an...
Hill City Prevailer
11/19/2020 - 10:52am
A “close contact” protocol for the district was approved by the Hill City School Board at its most recent meeting. There was no discussion on the matter.
The protocol allows for “students to return upon the completion of a 72 hour quarantine from...
Community
10/10/2019 - 10:49am
As the calendar marches into autumn and soon enough — winter — the snow will fall. When it does, Mark Naugle will have his eyes on it. And the forecast. And the TV. He’ll use his ears to listen to what others are saying, as well.
While it may...
Obituaries
11/12/2020 - 9:32am
Wayne Thomas Nighbert, Sr., was born in Madison, S.D., the son of the late Wayne and Lillian Waugh Nighbert.
Mr. Nighbert was a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Piedmont Wood Carvers and Sons...
