Life, light and reflections

The clock on the huge scoreboard ticked away the final minutes of the last quarter. Two small schools, dead set on winning their district tournament, had run neck and neck the entire game. Buzzers and whistles blared loudly in the Huron arena that night.

Five generations

LOOKING BACK

News from past issues of the Timber Lake and Isabel newspapersIsabel Dakotan October 19, 1934An idea of speed, a racing car recently made 240 mp/h and an airplane made 420mp/h. Both of these machines were powered with Ford V-8 engines.

TRAIL CITY NEWS

On Sunday, Mason Hollenbeck and Kyrie Lemburg attended the Trail City Fall Festival. After that, Mason went to Mobridge to visit Beth and Abby Hollenbeck and Lee Ann Skeie.Esther Hahne, Joy Voegele, and Bianca Ochsner went to Pierre for the horse races on Saturday.

Amendment H would allow open primary elections

Approval of Amendment H would establish “top-two” primaries for governor, Congress and state legislative and county races rather than having parties hold separate primary contests.

Constitutional Amendment E: References to government officials

This is a legislative resolution from the 2023 session that proposes to change outdated male-only references to South Dakota’s governor and other officials in the state constitution and statutes.

Referred Law 21: Carbon pipeline regulations

A group called the South Dakota Property Rights and Local Control Alliance gathered enough valid signatures to place Referred Law 21 on the ballot.

Gonzalez leads C-EB to top honors at Todd County Invite

Sophomore Xavier Sanchez-Gonzalez won the individual title and the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte boys won the varsity team title at the Todd County Cross Country Invitational held at the Prairie Hills Golf Course near Mission on Tuesday, Oct. 1.The Braves ran at the Wall XC Invitational on Tuesday, Oct.

Tiger gridders fall to 3-3 with loss to Harding County-Bison

Harding County-Bison switched up strategies last week and instead of attacking the Dupree Tigers with their potent ground game, the Ranchers did it from the air.Quarterback Hayden Pihl threw for 178 yards and three touchdowns to lift No.5-ranked HC-Bison past the Tigers 26-14 last Friday, Oct.4.

Multiple departments respond to grass fire north of Glad Valley

Fire departments from nearly a dozen area communities turned out to fight a grass fire north of Glad Valley on Saturday evening, Oct. 5, that was fueled by high winds.