Our Community

Tuesday, May 9

6:50 p.m.: Someone was pelting the neighbor’s house (and one of the neighbors’ heads) with golf balls at the usual trailer park FORE…er, four miles west of Custer. A deputy located the goofy golfer and asked them to stop.

Early mornings at the new Oceti Sakowin Community Academy are a joyous time for the roughly 28 kindergartners who attend and the two staff members who teach them.
Before classes begin, students join in a circle and sing the “Four Directions” song in Lakota, and students shake one another’s hands and share a positive greeting to promote kinship. Meanwhile, head of school Mary Bowman recites uplifting messages to show gratitude for the day, such as, “Remember, I am beautiful inside and out,” and “I am a sacred being.”

10 years ago, 2013 — The rain held off long enough for the Custer High School commencement ceremony during which 68 seniors graduated. Speaking at the ceremony was student body president Victoria Dahlstrom, senior class vice president Karrah Dawson and senior Logan Huntington.

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, is a cosponsor of a new bill proposing solutions to high-profile problems with the handling of classified information.
The sponsor of the bill is Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia. Four Democrats, three Republicans, including Rounds and an independent are cosponsors.
Rounds said in a news release the bill would “increase accountability and oversight of the classification system, limit over-classification and direct federal agencies to justify security clearance requirements,” all with a goal of modernizing decades-old practices.