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Lincoln and Trevor Aberle and their mom, Melissa, were at Dakota Silk Screen on Monday scouting out the Christmas merchandise. The boys were giving Mom some hints about what to put on their wish lists. They also visited the museum, where they saw lots of dinosaur bones and the T-Rex skull that their great-grandpa Bill Alley discovered.

Lincoln and Trevor Aberle and their mom, Melissa, were at Dakota Silk Screen on Monday scouting out the Christmas merchandise. The boys were giving Mom some hints about what to put on their wish lists. They also visited the museum, where they saw lots of dinosaur bones and the T-Rex skull that their great-grandpa Bill Alley discovered.

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TLAD, Student Councils partner for Community Christmas Extravaganza

News Staff
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
What started with some ideas from the Timber Lake High School and Middle School Student Councils has grown into a plan for a Timber Lake Community Christmas Extravaganza on Friday afternoon and evening, December 4.
A ‘shop at home’ story

A ‘shop at home’ story

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A ‘shop at home’ story

News Staff
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
My coffee pot broke. My first instinct was to get on Amazon and see how long a new one would take to get here because I sure as heck was not traveling anywhere anytime soon and as if anywhere in TL sells them...then I thought of Bart’s. Of course he had one!

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Tell them, before it’s too late

News Staff
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

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Coming out the other side

Mark Peacock
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
For months now, we all lived in fear that one way or another, we’d somehow get exposed to this new virus. I’ve lost several friends to this scourge…strong people who fought with all they had, but who ultimately lost the battle.

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Gratitude for grandparents

Joanie Holm, R.n., C.n.p.
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
A three-pound baby entered the world in recent days. This precious child was born after his Mom spent seven weeks in the hospital on bed rest. At home, Dad and two siblings were working, going to school, and worrying.

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Community of Eagle Butte begins COVID ‘lockdown’

Jon Flatland
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier’s executive order locking down the community of Eagle Butte for 10 days went into effect shortly after midnight on Monday, Nov. 23 and will remain in place until Wednesday, Dec. 3.

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A Thanksgiving Concert

Daris Howard
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
It was the evening before Thanksgiving, and David stood in the stage wing ready to make his entrance. It was to be his debut performance at one of the biggest, most famous concert halls in the world.

Dementia affects the family

Debra Johnston, M.d.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
I was very young when my grandfather suffered his first stroke and began his battle with vascular dementia. I grew up understanding that he was not like the other adults in my life. He would take me on long walks around the neighborhood, but it was never entirely clear who was supervising who.
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