Thu, 09/24/2020 - 11:04am
The Custer boys and girls cross country teams each had four runners in the top six finishers of the varsity races last Thursday to sweep the team titles in the Eldon Knudson Custer Invitational...
Hermosa kidnapping suspect Katrina Valazquez
Thu, 09/24/2020 - 10:55am
Thanks to some creative investigative methods employed by the Custer County Sheriff’s Office and the state Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the woman suspected in a July 5 kidnapping and...
Mike Cornelison, right, land agent for S.D. School and Public Lands, asks for bids during the attempted sale of the former STAR Academy last Wednesday. Don Gustin, a Rapid City realtor (in cowboy hat), placed the winning bid for the separate 40 acres being offered, bidding the minimum $320,000 for the land. He was bidding on behalf of a Nebraska couple.
Thu, 09/24/2020 - 10:50am
The vast majority of the former State Treatment and Rehabilitation (STAR) Academy campus is still in possession of the state of South Dakota after the most recent attempt to auction the sprawling...
Business has been booming in Custer for both realtors and contractors, such as PDQ Construction out of Hill City, shown here working on new home construction in Boot Hill. Realtors say low interest rates, COVID-19 and political climate are all factors in people fleeing some metropolitan areas and certain states and flocking to the Black Hills.
Thu, 09/17/2020 - 9:38am
If the COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to cause the complete collapse of the U.S. economy, somebody forgot to tell the Black Hills real estate market.
While it is true the pandemic has sent the U....
Thu, 09/17/2020 - 9:13am
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, the day Americans celebrate the signing of the Constitution which was then sent to the states for ratification, is almost here. The numerous attacks on it, its founders...
Custer County Chronicle
09/24/2020 - 11:25am
All the heavy smoke you have seen and breathed recently has caused an uptick in visits to Monument Hospital Custer Clinic.
The smoke is drifting here on prevailing westerly winds from forest and wildfires burning mainly in California, Oregon...
Hill City Prevailer
09/24/2020 - 10:48am
By Leslie Silverman
The Hill City School Board voted unanimously to deem all employees of the Hill City School District as essential at its most recent board meeting Sept. 14.
This allows for greater flexibility should an employee be exposed to...
Community
10/10/2019 - 10:49am
As the calendar marches into autumn and soon enough — winter — the snow will fall. When it does, Mark Naugle will have his eyes on it. And the forecast. And the TV. He’ll use his ears to listen to what others are saying, as well.
While it may...
Obituaries
09/24/2020 - 1:26pm
Carol (Mead) Weber/ Christensen was born May 23, 1930. at Wessington Springs, S.D., the second daughter of parents Charles “Ben” Mead and Neva L. Voorhees.
Carol married Curtis Weber in 1946 and five boys were born to this union: Gaylon, Darwin...
