Custer County Chronicle

They said it: The most quotable quotes of 2024 Part 2

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:14am

As is always the case, Custer County had no lack of quotable quotes in 2024. Below is a list of some of the more memorable quotes that appeared on the pages of the Custer County Chronicle in 2024. These quotes are from the second half of the year.
“If you deny us, you’re going against honesty and truth and God and the people.” - Edward Lesnick addressing the Custer County Commission. Lesnick and his mother sought to subdivide .58 of an acre off their land to sell. County ordinance doesn’t allow for subdiving below an acre.

Down Memory Lane Jan. 1

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:14am

10 years ago, 2014 — The Custer County Sheriff’s Office was looking for information related to an armed robbery that took place in Custer. At around 3 a.m. a man entered the Corner Pantry from the convenience store side and went into the casino side, where he pulled a gun and ordered the employee into the bathroom. Once the employee was in the bathroom, the man took an unknown amount of cash out of the register...The public was invited to attend the first annual Custer High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Armory.

2024 Sheriff’s Log Top 10

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:13am

The following is a list of the top entries in the Custer County  Chronicle’s Sheriff’s Log for 2024, as selected by the staff of the Chronicle, as well as this year’s guest judges, Christy Chamberlin, Linda Hasselstrom and DesiRae Dinius. There were 20 of the year’s favorite calls featured over two weeks, with numbers 10 through one this week. The Sheriff’s Log was written by former deputy Seth Thompson.

Black Hills Live Jan. 1

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:12am

Wednesday 1-1

New Year’s Day

Seniors Bridge Card Games
Hill City Center
Hill City, SD
10 AM - 3 PM

Pringle AA Group
Pringle Community Center
Pringle, SD 
7 PM

Thursday 1-2

Seniors Stretch and Flex
Hill City Center
Hill City, SD
9 AM

Seniors Mahjong
Hill City Center
Hill City, SD
10 AM - 12 PM

Seniors Hand &
Foot Card Games
Hill City Center
Hill City, SD
1 PM

Sheriff's Log Dec. 18-24

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:08am

Custer County Sheriff’s Log
Call of the Week
Tuesday, Dec. 24
11:15 a.m.: A purple bread van with Minnesota Vikings markings apparently tried to “run someone off the road” while sailing southward on Hwy. 79 in Hermosa. The “Vikings Victory Van” vanished, much to the chagrin of the reporting person who may or may not have been from Green Bay.       

Necrology 2024

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:06am

Padgett, David, 89, Custer, died Dec. 19, 2023.
Jindra, Joyce, 88, Custer, died Dec. 25, 2023.
Carson, Eiliyanah, newborn, Custer, died Dec. 26, 2023.
Linde, Robert, 87, Custer, died Dec. 26, 2023.
Bebbington, James, 70, Hot Springs, died Dec. 31, 2023.
Pepin, Aileen, 92, Sundance, Wyo., died Jan. 2.
Pond, Judy, 84, Custer, died Jan. 3.
Spooner, Sheryl, 42, Jefferson, Wis., died Jan. 9.
O’Connor, Jack, 85, Custer, died Jan. 10.
Elliott, Orval, 89, Arizona, died Jan. 11.

Trouble in 'prepper' paradise: Bunker residents raise financial, safety concerns

Published by admin on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:05am

A former military munitions site with concrete bunkers now used as residences has become the source of numerous lawsuits, several complaints to the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office, a near-fatal shooting and now an FBI inquiry, a News Watch investigation has found.
The former Black Hills Army Depot munitions storage facility was developed in 2016 into the Vivos xPoint bunker complex that is now a residential community marketed largely to so-called preppers.

They said it: The most quotable quotes of 2024

Published by admin on Tue, 12/24/2024 - 9:05am

As is always the case, Custer County had no lack of quotable quotes in 2024. Below is a list of some of the more memorable quotes that appeared on the pages of the Custer County Chronicle in 2024. These quotes are from the first half of the year.

2024 Sheriff’s Log Top 20

Published by admin on Tue, 12/24/2024 - 9:04am

The following is a list of the top entries in the Custer County  Chronicle’s Sheriff’s Log for 2024, as selected by the staff of the Chronicle, as well as this year’s guest judges, Christy Chamberlin, Linda Hasselstrom and DesiRae Dinius. There will be 20 of the year’s favorite calls featured over the next two weeks, with numbers 20 through 11 this week. The Sheriff’s Log was written by former deputy Seth Thompson.

Down Memory Lane Dec. 25

Published by admin on Tue, 12/24/2024 - 9:03am

10 years ago, 2014 — Some Hermosa area residents, as well as the Town of Hermosa board, were up in arms over what they say is a waste of taxpayer money by the Custer County Commission over the commission’s declining of a land swap for the county’s new highway shop in the eastern part of the county. The county, however, says the proposed deal wasn’t legal...Lt. Steve McMillin was named the recipient of the Custer County Sheriff’s Office’s Sheriff’s Achievement Award for the fourth quarter of 2015. McMillin started with the office in 2007.