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Keenan Youngman, a senior at the Oelrichs School, is a member of the winning team at the 2024 All West Native American Basketball Classic - Boys Silver Division held in Colorado last weekend. Photo by Dale Pine Jr.

Keenan Youngman, a senior at the Oelrichs School, is a member of the winning team at the 2024 All West Native American Basketball Classic - Boys Silver Division held in Colorado last weekend. Photo by Dale Pine Jr.

Oelrichs’ Youngman wins at All West Basketball Classic

Katie Merdanian
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body OELRICHS - Kennan Youngman participated in the 2024 All West Native American Basketball Classic in Lakewood, CO, from March 22-24. His team, the Sioux City Dogs, won the championship in the Boys Silver Division.
Sisters Anabelle Mauck, 12, and Charlotte Mauck, 10, show their handspun yarn from raw fleece. Photo by Charity Maness/Fall River County Herald Star

Sisters Anabelle Mauck, 12, and Charlotte Mauck, 10, show their handspun yarn from raw fleece. Photo by Charity Maness/Fall River County Herald Star

Spinning a lost art

Charity Maness
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body HOT SPRINGS –Local 4H youth recently learned the art of spinning through a 4H program taught by fiber artists Bobbi White and Erika Mathewson. “It’s really fun to learn,” said Anabelle Mauck, 12, “but it’s kinda tricky.
FalconGuides author Marcus Heerdt holds a copy of his new book Hiking South Dakota: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures while standing at Wind Cave National Park, just one of the many places featured in the guidebook. Submitted photo

FalconGuides author Marcus Heerdt holds a copy of his new book Hiking South Dakota: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures while standing at Wind Cave National Park, just one of the many places featured in the guidebook. Submitted photo

New ‘Hiking South Dakota’ guidebook available now

News Staff
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body ESSEX, CONN. – FalconGuides is proud to announce the release of Hiking South Dakota: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures by Hot Springs-based author and Fall River County Herald-Star correspondent Marcus Heerdt. The book was released on March 5, 2024.
Once completed, hopefully by the end of this summer, the new suspended sidewalk along North River Street will look like this architectural rendering by ISG Engineering.

Once completed, hopefully by the end of this summer, the new suspended sidewalk along North River Street will look like this architectural rendering by ISG Engineering.

New suspended sidewalk taking shape

Brett Nachtigall
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body HOT SPRINGS – Visual progress on the suspended sidewalk became a reality last week when the first four support towers were erected on the south end of the project, which is being done in conjunction with the SD-DOT’s Hot Springs Urban Reconstruction of Hwy. 385 through town.

Councilman pumps brakes on License Plate Reader camera

Brett Nachtigall
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body HOT SPRINGS – In his Public Safety Committee update during last Monday night’s March 18 council meeting, Hot Springs Ward 2 Alderman Bill Lukens informedthecouncilthatthecommittee had decided to move forward in a partnership with the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation...
In this photo taken at 7:19 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, crews are still knocking down the flames of a house fire located north of Hot Springs at 27097 Ridgeview Springs Road. Despite the fire believed to have been fully extinguished later that evening, the home reignited overnight and was completed burned to the ground by the morning of March 22. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star

In this photo taken at 7:19 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, crews are still knocking down the flames of a house fire located north of Hot Springs at 27097 Ridgeview Springs Road. Despite the fire believed to have been fully extinguished later that evening, the home reignited overnight and was completed burned to the ground by the morning of March 22. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star

Rural house fire extinguished but later reignites and burns to ground

News Staff
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body CUSTER COUNTY – Firefighters from Hot Springs, Minnekahta, Pringle, Argyle as well as South Dakota Wildland Fire assisted in the fire suppression of a structure fire last Thursday, March 21, north of Hot Springs near Hwy. 385, just across the county line in Custer County.
Retired Law Enforcement Officer Ed Moses gives a presentation on the negative side effects of marijuana, medical or recreational. Photo by Charity Maness/Fall River County Herald Star

Retired Law Enforcement Officer Ed Moses gives a presentation on the negative side effects of marijuana, medical or recreational. Photo by Charity Maness/Fall River County Herald Star

Movement to repeal Medical Marijuana growing like a weed

Charity Maness
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Body HOT SPRINGS – A Concerned Citizens of South Dakota program held at the Mueller Center last Tuesday evening, March 18, presented about a dozen community members with an informational power point on the negative aspects of marijuana use; both legal/medical and recreational.
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