Timber Lake Post Office employee Amy Bridges paints the front window of the Post Office with a welcome back to school for students. The 2025-26 school year got underway Monday, Aug. 18. Photo by Jon Flatland
Members of Marcella LeBeau’s family gather for a photo under the front entrance to Marcellaa LeBeau Elementary School in Sioux Falls after a dedication and naming ceremony for the new school last week. LeBeau wss a respected elder and matriarch of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Submitted photo
Before Timber Lake had a post office, mail was distributed at the First State Bank and Waterbury Hardware. A young Wenzel Leff is pictured (left of center), reading a letter.
A volunteer optometrist gives an eye exam during a free vision clinic held in Eagle Butte last week. A total of 987 people were served. The event was sponsored by the Cheyenne River Youth Project. Photo by CRYP
Sunflowers face East to catch the early morning rays of sun on a hillside west of Timber Lake on Monday. Reports from area ag producers indicate this year’s sunflower and corn crops are above average, however, wheat fields across the region are not producing as well as it was hoped they would. Photo by Jon Flatland