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Meeting Tuesday About Damages

Claremont’s Legion baseball team came up with four wins in six starts during the past week.

The Britton U12 baseball team knocked off the top seed in the state tournament played in Webster last weekend and ended up with a fourth place finish in the 20-team field.

Dawn Renae (Johnson) Morea, 67, of Alexis, IL, entered God’s Kingdom on July 3, 2023, in her home surrounded by loved ones. Dawn was born on May 28th, 1956, to Ray and Sharon Johnson in Britton, SD. The eldest of 6 children, she learned patience and kindness early on in life. She was active in the Girl Scouts growing up and a good friend to all who knew her. Dawn was an avid reader throughout her life, notorious for getting lost in a book. After graduating from Britton High School, she attended Augustana University in Sioux Falls, where she received her deaf educationdegree. While attending college she volunteered in the Big Sister and Big Brother program; she had plenty of experience with that!

The funeral service for Karen Joy Holt, 80, of Aberdeen, SD, was 11:00am, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, at Aldersgate Church, with Pastor Derek Baum officiating. Burial at Riversided Cemetery. Karen died July 7, 2023, at Mother Joseph Manor in Aberdeen.

William “Bill” Howard Lebus, 63, Veblen, South Dakota (Nine Mile Lake) passed away on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 after a long courageous battle with cancer that was full of hope and determination like no other.

The Mass of Christian Burial for James “Jim” Sattler will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 14, 2023 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Eden, SD. Rev. Fr. Ken Lulf will celebrate the mass. Interment will be at St. Michael Cemetery of Eden under the direction of the Price Funeral Chapel.

After a recommendation that his teaching certificate be suspended for three years by the state Professional Administrators Practices and Standards Commission, former Langford Area Superintendent Ryan Bruns later had his license permanently revoked. The decision was made April 21 upon review of the case by Dr. Joseph Graves, South Dakota’s new Secretary of Education. Documents about the case were publicly released last week.

When Donna Lindberg was five years old, she remembers her mother buying her first loom in Davenport, Iowa. Her family lived in Illinois and came across the border to buy the big contraption. Lindberg soon found herself and her siblings helping her mother make rugs out of clothing scraps. Decades later, Donna and her husband Larry are carrying on the family tradition of rug-making and sharing their handicrafts across the country.

At Monday’s Britton-Hecla School Board meeting, the board certified the votes cast in the school board election held last month as true and correct. The new board was convened and subsequently oaths of office were administered to Business Manager Kayla Hastings and to Board Members Kelli Erickson, Angela Grupe, and Heather Landreth.

James Avery Larson died June 23, 2023, at Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston, Iowa, after a brief illness. The third of eight children, Jim was born on January 1, 1936, in Britton, South Dakota. As a child, he was a regular patron at the Britton Public Library, where he cultivated a love of reading and studying word origins that stayed with him throughout his life.