Enrollment numbers at HSSD lower than anticipated
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HOT SPRINGS – Last week’s Hot Springs School Board meeting on Monday, Oct.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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City Council denies request to block Hwy. 385 for march
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HOT SPRINGS – Following a lengthy discussion that took up more than an hour of last week’s Hot Springs City Council meeting on Monday, Oct. 6, a proposed peaceful march on race relations this Friday, Oct.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
A large crowd enjoyed the 2025 Fall River Ag Appreciation Banquet on Saturday night at the Red Rock River Resort. Photos by Katie Merdanian/Fall River County Herald-Star
Hot Springs Chamber hosts Ag Appreciation Banquet
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HOT SPRINGS – Red Rock River Resort was filled with local ag producers and their supporters this past Saturday night for the annual Fall River County Ag Appreciation Banquet on Oct. 11.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Local family awaiting identification of remains found near Gering, Neb.
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GERING, Neb. According to several published reports over the weekend, law enforcement officials in Nebraska are currently investigating the discovery of human skeletal remains which were found last Friday, Oct.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Meals on Wheels Program will not be reinstated locally
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All frozen bulk meals will be delivered from Inter Lakes Community Action Partnership via USPS HOT SPRINGS – According to George Larson, Executive Director Western South Dakota Senior Services, Inc.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Friends Christa Achtenberg, Sharon Kearns and Carla Kreuger take home a win as German Beer Girls while other contestants Heather and Bob Pruess, Vanessa Soulek, and Jennifer and Brian Bengs applaud. (Photo by Charity Maness / Fall River County Herald Star)
Hot Springs Octoberfest brings dancing, beer and laughter
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HOT SPRINGS – A little rain did not dampen the spirits of those who attended the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Octoberfest, held earlier this month on Sunday, Oct. 5, in Centennial Park.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Participants at the 2025 Soil Health Workshop in Oelrichs watch as a large drone, carrying a spray tank, lifts off during a demonstration by AerSol, a Black Hills company specializing in the sale, service, and repair of drones.
Annual Soil Health Workshop held in Oelrichs
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OELRICHS – Landowners and gardeners gathered at the Oelrichs Community Center on Friday, October 3, to learn how to create and maintain healthy soils.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
GFP’s Loren Vande Stroet works with Hot Springs 5th grade students Anika Kindred and Nikki Cummings during an archery exercise as part of the recent JAKES event at Cold Brook Photos by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
NWTF hosts another JAKES Day event
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COLD BROOK – The Fall River Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) once again held its annual JAKES Day event at Cold Brook dam for area fifth grade students on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The event was originally set to take place on Wednesday, Sept.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Edgemont Senior Citizens Club President Lyle Rudloff tells the Fall River County Commissioners how the Meals on Wheels volunteer drivers deliver more than food, but provide vital “welfare checks.” Edgemont Mayor Rheta Reagan and Meals on Wheels area CEO George Larson also came to the Commission meeting October 2. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star
Commission hears from meals program volunteers
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HOT SPRINGS — In a dramatic turnaround during the October 2 Fall River County Commission meeting, as volunteers from the Meals on Wheels program were explaining the problems with the State’s substitution of weekly mailed frozen meal packs in place of daily delivered hot meals,...
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Edgemont Community Garden members and volunteers Larry and Rose Mason, Mike Konopnicki (President), James Garmany and Tracy Petersen show off the brilliant selection of pumpkins they grew for the community pumpkin patch. Photo by Charity Maness / FRCHerald Star
Edgemont Community Garden welcomes visitors to their first Pumpkin Patch
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EDGEMONT – Members of the Edgemont Community Garden welcomed visitors of all ages Monday afternoon to their first pumpkin patch. Though the garden has been in existence for 5 years, located on C Street behind the fairgrounds, it is still a little unknown town gem.
Thursday, October 9, 2025