8:57 a.m.: An alarm came from a Hermosa gas station. It was false, caused by a power outage.
11:14 a.m.: Deputies were asked to detain a person for a mental evaluation in the Custer area. Deputies detained the person later in the evening and, after much wrangling and phone-calling, a mental health facility agreed to accept the person. However, deputies had to sit with the person all night, due to the facility not accepting people “after hours.” How convenient. ..for the facility.
In spite of the threat of bad weather, the Hill City Olde Tyme Christmas celebration went off without a hitch Friday, Nov. 29.
Even before the celebration began, though, Hill City was already in the Christmas season.
Victor Alexander, Jason Alexander, Dallas Alexander, Dave Burleson, Jason Peters and Jaelyn Peters delivered Hill City’s Christmas tree to its location beside the Alpine Inn. Vic Alexander said they have been doing this for over 20 years.
It’s a good thing Santa’s reindeer and sleigh can fly, because when he gets to Giovanna Day’s house in Sao Paulo, Brazil, there’s no snow to glide on. That’s one of the things Day finds exciting about experiencing her first Christmas in the United States: the possibility of a white Christmas.
Day came to the Black Hills in January as a foreign exchange student at Custer High School and will graduate at the end of the semester and return home to South America, but not before celebrating an American Christmas.
The 911 Misdial of the Day: The owner of a phone that called the emergency line claimed it happened due to his “Siri [phone application] listening in when she shouldn’t have been.” Bad Siri!
12:14 a.m.: Deputies checked on two people walking by the side of Hwy. 385 just south of Custer. The deputies eventually gave the pair a ride to a nearby gas station to fill up fuel cans and then back to their residence on Aviation Way.
New efforts to better align school curricula and classroom teaching with the unique needs of Native American students are among the reasons for new hope that South Dakota may be turning a corner toward improving educational achievement for the state’s largest minority group.
After 40 years of working for the U.S. Postal Service, Larry Stalder is looking forward to spending more time with his family this Christmas. Stalder, who has been Custer’s postmaster since 1988, is retiring at the beginning of December.
“I’ve been so busy for 40 years,” said Stalder on Friday as he sat in his office adjoining the post office lobby. “I haven’t spent a real Christmas with my family for 40 years, so this year I will get a chance to do that.”
The Hill City School District’s Angel Fund helps students with negative account balances in the cafeteria and provides meals to students regardless of their food service balance.
The program began in 2013 when Roxann Du Bois started at the school and she was instructed if a student has a negative balance on their lunch the student’s lunch would be discarded.
