Custer County Chronicle

Pringle church celebrates 100th

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:29am
According to the calendar, the Pringle United Methodist Church at the corner of Antelope and Buffalo streets should be observing its 121st anniversary this year. But in a small church in a small community, things often don’t happen exactly  according to the calendar, so over the weekend the congregation celebrated the church’s centennial with a special worship service and open house. Along with the anniversary, the church is also celebrating a season of new growth in recent days. 

My’s Thai Christmas is a study in contrasts

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:28am
In America where Christmas is the major national holiday celebrated by Christians and non-Christians alike, we tend to think everyone around the world celebrates the birth of Christ as we do. However, for a 17-year old Thai foreign exchange student at Custer High School, her first American celebration of Christmas could cause a bit of a culture shock. 
Her full name is Kanlayaporn Udomwoothiwong (Yes, her full name contains fully 25 letters: one less than the entire English alphabet), but in school she is known simply as My. 

Down Memory Lane

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:25am

Eight Days in Custer County

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:22am
Thursday, Dec. 12
Lions Club, noon, Pizza Works
Hermosa Elementary Concert, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Hermosa School
Elk Mountain Community Potluck and Christmas Party, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Elk Mountain School.
ADD/ADHD Support Group, 6:30 p.m., Regional Health Custer Hospital
Civil Air Patrol, 7 p.m., Custer County Airport
 
Friday, Dec. 13
Cookie Candy Walk, 8 a.m. to noon, Custer Senior Center
Storytime, 10 a.m., Custer County Library

Sheriff's Log Dec. 1-6

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:13am
Sunday, Dec. 1
8:57 a.m.: An alarm came from a Hermosa gas station. It was false, caused by a power outage. 
11:14 a.m.: Deputies were asked to detain a person for a mental evaluation in the Custer area. Deputies detained the person later in the evening and, after much wrangling and phone-calling, a mental health facility agreed to accept the person. However, deputies had to sit with the person all night, due to the facility not accepting people “after hours.” How convenient. ..for the facility. 

Looking for a white Christmas

Published by admin on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 9:33am
It’s a good thing Santa’s reindeer and sleigh can fly, because when he gets to Giovanna Day’s house in Sao Paulo, Brazil, there’s no snow to glide on. That’s one of the things Day finds exciting about experiencing her first Christmas in the United States: the possibility of a white Christmas.
Day came to the Black Hills in January as a foreign exchange student at Custer High School and will graduate at the end of the semester and return home to South America, but not before celebrating an American Christmas.

Eight Days in Custer County

Published by admin on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 9:26am
Thursday, Dec. 5
Blood Drive, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Custer Masonic Lodge
Christmas Tea, 2 p.m., Custer Community Church
Custer School District Board of Education, 5 p.m., Hermosa School
First and Third Grade Winter Concert, 7 p.m., Custer Jr./Sr. High School Theatre
Civil Air Patrol, 7 p.m., Custer County Airport
 
Friday, Dec. 6
Storytime, 10 a.m., Custer County Library
 
Saturday, Dec. 7

Down Memory Lane

Published by admin on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 9:23am

Sheriff's Log Nov. 24-30

Published by admin on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 9:16am
Sunday, Nov. 24 
The 911 Misdial of the Day: The owner of a phone that called the emergency line claimed it happened due to his “Siri [phone application] listening in when she shouldn’t  have been.” Bad Siri! 
12:14 a.m.: Deputies checked on two people walking by the side of Hwy. 385 just south of Custer. The deputies eventually gave the pair a ride to a nearby gas station to fill up fuel cans and then back to their residence on Aviation Way. 

Reforms give hope for improvement in Native education

Published by admin on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 8:50am
New efforts to better align school curricula and classroom teaching with the unique needs of Native American students are among the reasons for new hope that South Dakota may be turning a corner toward improving educational achievement for the state’s largest minority group.