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Fine arts will take over Main Street

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:32am

This year the Fine Arts in the Hills show and sale, formerly known as  Sculpture in the Hillse, will bring two children’s events to the tents on Main Street. The free events allow children to try their hand at sculpting and leathermaking.
Artist Tyrel Johnson  will supply clay, a board and a sculpting tool to assist children as they create masterpieces. Johnson is no stranger to sharing his passion with children. He has gone into his daughters’ schools to share his professional expertise and artistry and explain what it means to be a sculptor.

Householder returns to city council seat

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:32am

The votes are in from Tuesday evening’s primary election, and the residents of the City of Hill City have reelected the city council’s current council president, Dale Householder, to another term on the council. Householder won the race in Ward II by defeating challenger John Johnson by a 67-58 count. Householder will serve another two-year term.
In the race for the Pennington County Commission, incumbent Ron Rossknecht of Hill City defeated challenger Mike Mueller of Rapid City by a 2,366 to 1,960 vote. The vote was for a four-year term on the commission.

More money pours in for foundation

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:29am

Members of the business and local community raised $11,000 for the Hill City Area Community Foundation.
Pat Wiederhold and Melissa Rupert of the Hill City Area Community Foundation called numbers for Bingo to a boisterous and generous crowd at The Miner Brewing Company May 22.   According to Rupert, “Miner donated hundreds of dollars in prizes such as sweatshirts, hats and growlers of beer while a large crowd made bids and donations ending up with over $1,300 by the end of the games.”
The generosity  of the community didn’t stop there.

Buck smashes through Keystone truck

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:26am

Two Keystone public works employees were in an accident with a deer. According to Public Works Superintendent Jerry Przybylski at the June 1 meeting, the accident occurred with a town work truck on Madill and Cole street.
The men slowed down for a doe in the road when a buck on the side attempted jump over the truck.

Emotions run high over vacation rental vote

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 9:59am

By a 3-2 vote at Monday evening’s meeting, the Custer City Council approved the second reading of an amendment to its ordinance that deals with permitted conditional uses and prohibited uses and structures within a residential district by making boarding houses and short term rentals a prohibited use in said residential areas. The ordinance change does not affect areas zoned commercial, nor does it eliminate already-established short-term rentals. Those that already exist will be grandfathered in with the existing conditional use permit.

Lintz, Linde, Hindle retain county seats

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 9:50am

All three incumbents will advance to this fall’s General Election for a four-year term on the Custer County Commission after receiving the most votes in last night’s primary election.
Jim Lintz received the most votes of the seven Republican primary candidates, with 1,013. He was followed by Mike Linde at 989 and Craig Hindle at 854.
Others who ran included former commissioner Jesse Sorenson, who tied with Jeff Johnson for fourth with 687 votes, followed by Uly Johnson at 572 votes and Nicholaus Benton 297 votes.

Haul route remains the same for CSP work

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 9:49am

While potential alternative routes were discussed, it appears the haul route already set forth for the reconstruction of Playhouse Road in Custer State Park will remain intact after the Custer County Commission declined to pursue an alternative haul route following discussion on the issue at a special June 1 meeting of the commission.

Recalling a soggy shopping adventure

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 9:45am

One certainly didn’t have to be living in or around Rapid City to have vivid memories of the devastating flood 50 years ago that changed the face of the city forever. Five decades later lifetime Custer resident Margie Lipp Hutton remembers events of that evening with near photographic recall even though she was only in town to shop that night.

Flood sent Culberson on path to service

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 9:44am

By Jason Ferguson

Remembering the Flood of 1972

Published by admin on Thu, 06/02/2022 - 10:16am

Although the deadly Rapid City flash flood of June 9, 1972 had little physical effect on Custer County itself, many county residents have vivid memories of the event and some, who were either directly impacted by the deluge or helped with the cleanup, remember it well.