LEFT: Part of the former Dewey County Jail building at the corner of 9th and E streets in Timber Lake, now owned by John Linderman, is being demolished.
When Kathy Nelson asked for stories about the old jail because we were the last family to live there while it was still a jail, and it was coming down, my first thought was of a trip back to Timber Lake in 2002. We had come home for Mom’s celebration of life, and all the surviving family was in Timber Lake. The old jail was a gift shop by then, and the owner, Sharon (Dikoff) Lind, let us go throug…
