10 years ago, 2015 — Six former Custer High School athletes and coaches made up the first class of the Custer Athletic Hall of Fame. The six were inducted during a ceremony during halftime of the Custer High School boys basketball game against Hill City.
Custer County Sheriff’s Log
Call of the Week
Thursday, Jan. 2
5:07 p.m.: A person called 911 to report a car driving at a high rate of speed on Custer’s north 5th Street with a “butcher knife hanging out of the trunk.” A deputy found the car and determined the “knife” was a fabric strap that got slammed in the trunk.
10 years ago, 2015 — Donna Talley was named the Custer County Chronicle Citizen of the Year for 2014. Talley was and remains the executive director of Women Escaping A Violent Environment (WEAVE), having first become involved with WEAVE in 1988 as a volunteer...Just over two months into the job, Custer’s latest planning department head had resigned. Erik Karlson began his duties Oct.
When Carson Weller spent his first Christmas as postmaster at the Custer Post Office this past December, he wasn’t panicked.
No, he had been there before.
Weller, Custer’s newest postmaster, had been in and out of the Custer Post Office as he worked his way up the ranks with the United States Postal Service. He knew what he was getting into.
“It was all good. I knew what to expect,” he said. “It wasn’t like a deer in headlights.”
Custer County Sheriff’s Log
Call of the Week
Tuesday, Dec. 31
1:36 a.m.: A strange phone call from a Hayloft Court residence turned out to have been caused by a cat knocking a phone off its perch. The cat did not require any police assistance.
5 YEARS AGO, 2020
— Because of his commitment to the community as chairman of the Hill City Planning and Zoning Commission, president of the Hill City Senior Center and serving of the Pennington County Council on Aging, Dale Householder was named Citizen of the Year by the Hill City Prevailer News for 2019. “He is very active,” said his wife, Susan Householder. “And driven. He seeks good when he sees an injustice, and he tries to straighten it out. He definitely cares about others.”
10 YEARS AGO, 2014
