Opinion

Check out our wrestling team

Published by admin on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 1:11pm

Hey you, the Custer High School basketball fan who is reading this editorial: We have another CHS team that is well worth your attention. That team is the Custer Wildcat wrestling team.

Happy to be home in Custer

Published by admin on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 1:10pm

A little over a month ago,  I knew I was going to be graduating from the University of Wyoming, but anything else the future had in store was anyone’s guess. In my usual fashion, I decided to plan on not planning, and that plan brought me back here to Custer when I got a job at the Chronicle. Within the first couple of weeks of my being back, I realized my lack of plans had worked out well.

My mourning ritual

Published by admin on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 8:52am
It’s not easy to say goodbye to our loved ones. And those loved ones can include furry friends, not just humans. 

Things have gotten underway in Pierre

Published by admin on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 8:50am
The following information was from week one of the legislative session.
 
The first week of the 98th session of the South Dakota Legislature in Pierre is over.   I want to give you, my constituents, an update of what transpired. 

Finding healing and hope in the Hills

Published by admin on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 4:31pm
Last week during a conversation with a few Hill City community members, I was asked what brought me to the Hills. I gave my standard answer: My family has always loved the Black Hills, and in 2021 God opened all the doors necessary for us to move. We moved in October of that year and really enjoy living here.
But then they asked a question I wasn’t expecting: Why were the Black Hills so special to you?

Helping out our farmers and ranchers

Published by admin on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 10:17am

South Dakota farmers and ranchers work hard every day to feed America and the world. When severe weather is added to the mix, they work even harder. In the last few weeks alone, snowstorms and severe cold weather have affected communities across the state. While schools have closed and many South Dakotans have worked from home during winter storms, there are no snow days for producers who must feed and care for their livestock day in and day out regardless of the weather.

Lumpy scoffs at an AI-run world

Published by admin on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 10:15am

“Hey, hit me up on the Book Face Messenger. No wait, it’s the Googles thing. No, what? You sent me a text? I didn’t see it. Was it SMS or I-messages?”
Holy moley, I thought as the squeezy-glassed, skinny-jeans and unearned-beard-wearing male shambled by my table in the little local cafe, fumbling with his Pop-Tart-sized electronic phone gadget, banging into random chairs and tables along the way.

CSP should pay county more money

Published by admin on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 9:56am

Let’s get this out of the way up front: We love Custer State Park.
It isn’t called the crown jewel of the Black Hills for nothing. It’s a 70,000 acre playland of beauty that brings people from far and wide to the area, and is wonderful for us to have right here in our back yard. It’s a boon for the bottom line of many in terms of sales and sales tax dollars.

Embarrassed? Not on your life

Published by admin on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 9:52am

Led by President Joe Biden, many critics on the left characterized last week’s chaotic congressional cage match to elect a new Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives as an embarrassment. When 20 conservative GOP rebels (I’m going to refer to them henceforth as the “Heroic 20”) refused to vote in favor of Trump-anointed Kevin McCarthy of California as speaker, the usually speedy, rubber-stamp process of selecting a speaker from the majority party ground to a halt and eventually took four days and 15 separate votes.

Setting achievable goals for the new year

Published by admin on Thu, 01/05/2023 - 10:05am
 Generally speaking, I am a very reflective person. I think back on every day’s events, replay conversations in my head, share fun stories about things that happened and ponder how things could have gone differently. It’s not something I do intentionally, but rather the path my brain follows naturally. 
Thus, the coming of a new year always brings my reflectivity to a whole new level as I ponder the year gone by and the one just beginning.