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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.

Betty Lou Brash-Allshouse was born on September 15, 1940 to Percy and Mabel (Mundt) Smart in Kidder, South Dakota. She grew up in the Britton/Kidder area. Betty went to school in Kidder but spent her final year in Britton.

Picks Up Six Victories In Past Week In Dominant Fashion

Britton Swimmers Host Meet Saturday

After a near record-breaking snowfall this past winter, the spring looked a little uncertain for planting. Follow that up with some very dry and hot conditions in the next couple of months, and it seems like the extreme swings would lead to headaches and worry for producers in northeast South Dakota and beyond. Luckily, Mother Nature pulled through again with recent rains and local experts agree that crops are looking pretty promising as we pass the Fourth of July.

Editor’s Note: Even as we celebrate our independence this week, the country also recently marked another significant anniversary in American history: the 160th anniversary of the famous Battle of Gettysburg. It was also the ten-year anniversary of a special trip to the battle site by David Christenson of Britton. Below, Christenson shares what led him to that fateful site and the journal entries he wrote during his emotional trip.

Langford Area Students Travel to D.C.