Have you ever wondered how to manage your property, protect your home from wildfires, care for the trees on your property and detect beetle damage?
The Custer County Conversation District (CCCD) partnered with the South Dakota Family Forests Association to teach just that through a landowner workshop titled Forestry Management in Action. The workshop was hosted at the Argyle Volunteer Fire Department at the fire hall March 28.
For those unaware, Buffalo Gap Post Office is temporarily closed while the building is redone to correct the occurrence of black mold.
Buffalo Gap post master Stacie Harter said the original building was built in the late 1880s and had no foundation.
“We had a water leak underneath it last February 2024, and we got like 36,000 gallons underneath the building,” said Harter.
At first, it just smelled like potting soil in the post office, but then Harter said she started to smell the mold.
“It was bad,” said Harter.
The Custer Area Chamber of Commerce annual spring fling will be tomorrow, Thursday, April 10. The highlight of the event will be the announcement of the Gold Discovery Days Parade Marshals. The royalty candidates will also be announced.
The event will take place at Laughing Water Restaurant at Crazy Horse Memorial with a social hour beginning at 5 p.m. and heavy hors d’oeuvres served at 6 p.m.
A Hermosa man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for possession of child pornography and indecent exposure.
Dustin Evan Harrison, 46, was sentenced in Seventh Judicial Circuit Court April 2 by judge Heidi Linngren to eight years, respectively, on two counts of possession of child pornography to which he pleaded guilty. The sentences are to be served consecutively.
The window for the circulation of nominating petitions for the upcoming city and school board elections around Custer County closed March 25, but any petitions recieved through the mail that are postmarked by March 25 could change the results.
In the City of Custer, there are three seats up for election on the city council, including the Ward I seat belonging to Jeannie Fischer, the Ward II seat belonging to Nina Nielsen and the Ward III seat belonging to Peg Ryan. Each position is for a two-year term.
Mayor Bob Brown’s seat is also up for election with a two-year term.
On March 14, the Custer School District (CSD) Board of Education offered Dr. Tim Frederick the superintendent of schools position.
Frederick has been the superintendent in the Mobridge-Pollock School District since 2010. Before that, he served as the district’s high school/middle school principal.
Frederick’s journey in education started at the University of Mary, where he got a bachelor’s degree and played college basketball. As it turned out, one of his coaches encouraged him to go into education.
The Hermosa Board of Trustees meeting March 18 covered a lot of ground, with updates on the new well project, progress made on the Preston development north of town and some news regarding Roy’s Drive-In, which has been closed for the last two years.
Board member Aaron Serviss got in touch with the owner of Roy’s Drive-In and reported that there are plans to reopen the popular spot this summer.
“He is authorized to open,” Serviss reported, “as long as he is storing and pumping for his septic.”
In 2024, the Custer County Airport cost county taxpayers only $15,887, nearly $35,000 less than the previous year.
That report was part of several highlights by airport manager Brenden Hendricksen during his annual report on the airport to the Custer County Commission at the commission’s March 19 meeting.
A resolution passed by the Custer City Council at a special March 24 meeting will allow for rural subdivisions of one acre within the city’s extraterritorial platting jurisdiction.
