Longtime American Red Cross volunteer Nancy McKenney received Disaster Services Volunteer of the Year laurels during the organization’s Celebrating the Mission event last Thursday, September 26. Read more⏵

One of the first phone numbers residents of a certain age learned – perhaps even before learning their home phone number – was the number to call in case of fire, 258-2600.For more than five d… Read more⏵

Grant Johnson was crowned Emperor and Avery Weinheimer Empress at the 50th Sully Buttes homecoming last Thursday. Read more⏵

In spite of the three days of wind that beleaguered the community during the 2019 Blunt Fest celebration, turnout for the festivities was strong. Read more⏵

Sully Buttes High School will celebrate its 50th homecoming in 2019. Read more⏵

Judges of the Youth Talent Contest had their work cut out for them as area youth presented acts with flair Saturday afternoon 2019 Sully County Fair. Read more⏵

The Sully County Fair Board sponsored a salad supper last Wednesday to raise funds for the annual fair. Board members and friends decorated 16 tables and provided salads and “fair foods” for a… Read more⏵

Clover Buds leader Jackie Yackley relates that the week leading up to the Sully County Fair is very busy for 4-H club members Read more⏵

A salad supper to raise funds for the Sully County Fair will be held Wednesday, July 31, at 6:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Center. Read more⏵

Seventeen youth and four chaperones from the Youth for Christ fellowship traveled to Denver in June for the Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection (DOOR) mission trip. The Onida… Read more⏵

The Sully County Fair is only four weeks away, and enclosed in this copy of the Onida Watchman, area subscribers will find the exhibit list for the fair. Read more⏵

The Sully Area Library summer reading program ‘A Universe of Stories’ concluded Thursday with a visit from the South Dakota Discovery Center’s digital planetarium. Read more⏵

The tour of Sully and Hughes cemeteries continued June 20 when the group of history enthusiasts ventured to the Mennonite and Pleasant Township cemeteries in East Sully. At both of the cemeter… Read more⏵

Forty years ago, in its June 28, 1979 edition, the Onida Watchman reported the triumphant return of the Sully Buttes Marching Band from the Red River Exhibition in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Read more⏵

American Legion Boys State and American Legion Auxiliary Girls State are the premier programs for teaching how government works, while developing leadership skills and an appreciation of the r… Read more⏵

The Children’s Western Wish Foundation named Onida sixth grader Mackenzie Nelson, daughter of Derek and Desiray Nelson, the CWWF Honored Princess at the PRCA Match of Champions Rodeo in Fort P… Read more⏵

Concert goers were greeted by the scent of popcorn in the air, and an opportunity to support the ABO music program through the free will donate concession stand. Decorations by the Guthmiller … Read more⏵

Sully Buttes students put a year’s worth of science learning into the projects they developed for the academic fair last Friday, May 10. Read more⏵

At the Wheat Land Lions Club’s end of year celebration and awards night Saturday, Brian Ring was awarded the Melvin Jones Fellowship, the highest honor that a club can bestow upon its members.… Read more⏵

In the American Legion Auxiliary Essay and Poem contest, Sully Buttes sophomore Justin Davey’s essay stood out among all entries at the local and regional levels, and was advanced for consider… Read more⏵

Members of the Sully Unit 79 American Legion Auxiliary were at Oahe Manor Sunday to celebrate with Alice West her 75 years of membership in the Legion Auxiliary. Surrounding Alice are Mary Sti… Read more⏵

Having grown up in Sioux City, IA, Sully County Conservation Officer Dylan Peterson says that summers spent at his grandparents’ home along the Bad River taught him appreciation for a rural se… Read more⏵

Blunt Mayor Bryce Chambers says that the berm that has been constructed along the east side of town has “saved every house in town.” Read more⏵

Artists in residence Kevin Earlywine and Jacqueline DeGraff of the Dakota Players last week conducted workshops with Blunt and Onida elementary students dedicated to the idea that drama is an … Read more⏵

The snow that blanketed South Dakota last week is forefront in everyone’s minds, but not forgotten are the icicle images readers sent in for the Watchman’s icicle contest. Read more⏵

More than 70 elementary singers representing six area schools were in Mobridge Thursday for the 2019 South Dakota Music Education Association (SDMEA) Festival Choir. The tenth annual event ful… Read more⏵

Sully Buttes High School junior Avery Weinheimer served as a page during the current legislative session in Pierre. She was sponsored by Sen. Jeff Monroe, R-Pierre. Avery plans to earn a degre… Read more⏵

As the December 14, 1911 edition of the Onida Watchman was going to press, a report of an extortion plot was received: Read more⏵

The cast and crew of the Sully Buttes One Act Play traveled to Timber Lake last Wednesday, January 16 for regional competition. Read more⏵

The cast and crew of the Sully Buttes One Act Play will travel to Mobridge Wednesday, January 16 for Regional One Act competition. Read more⏵

Three young women with local ties competed in the South Dakota Junior Snow Queen competition of the South Dakota Snow Queen Festival in Aberdeen last weekend. Read more⏵

Following his graduation from Sully Buttes High School in 1994, Terry Mattke enlisted in the Marines. After four years in the infantry, Terry began working as an active duty recruiter, talking… Read more⏵

The Region II Meeting of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America was held in Pierre at the Ramkota Hotel and Convention Center on December 12, 2018. Students from the Bowdle, Eurek… Read more⏵

Of the many events that mark the holiday season, the elementary Christmas concert is one of the most celebrated and appreciated. The performers enveloped the audience in the warmth of ‘A Hat f… Read more⏵

Sully County native Lane Warner followed up his Sunshine Bible Academy high school graduation with four years at Black Hills State University. From there, inspired by visits to the area, he lo… Read more⏵

The Sully Buttes Oral Interp team advanced three members from Districts to compete in the Regional oral interp contest in Pierre last Monday, November 19. Read more⏵

Marking its 10th Christmas of remembering loved ones who have passed away, the Sully Area Memory Christmas Tree has been placed in the main lobby of the Sully County Courthouse through December 28. Read more⏵

Members of Sully County’s 4-H clubs who earned Best of Show in static exhibits and livestock were recognized for their achievements at the Sully County Fair during the 4-H recognition night he… Read more⏵

Pageant goers were greeted by vibrant contestants last Saturday during ‘BElieve THEre is GOOD in the World: BE THE GOOD’ – the theme of the 2019 Sully County Snow Queen Pageant. Read more⏵

BECOMING THE HANDS AND FEET OF JESUS. In service to the community, members of Youth for Christ raked leaves at more than a half dozen area homes Sunday afternoon. Read more⏵

Blunt kindergarten, first, and second graders have been studying pumpkins in a ‘pumpkin investigations’ science unit, and marked October 26, the unofficial holiday National Pumpkin Day, with p… Read more⏵

Thirty-one businesses, including The Corner, Oahe Grain, and CHS Midwest Co-op, businesses near Onida’s city limits, are taking part in the ‘spooky’ fun when merchants open their doors to tric… Read more⏵

The Spirit of Dakota Award is bestowed each fall on an outstanding South Dakota woman who has demonstrated leadership qualities and has been successful and admired in her community or state. Read more⏵

The Helmsley Center in Pierre opened with chairs of the community-based Helmsley Center Dollar for Dollar Match Challenge announcing that this campaign has been successful in raising $2.5 million. Read more⏵

The first day of the Blunt Fest community celebration closed with fireworks, the second was interrupted by a grass fire. The hours in between were spent in the camaraderie of games, food, fell… Read more⏵

The Catfish Stampede Rodeo garners its name from the catfish fry held for the rodeo contestants before the start of each night’s performance. From its earliest days, Lyle Sutton has been part … Read more⏵

Enroute to earning the most points in the open class and receiving the High Point Exhibitor award, Barbara Winkler took second place in three categories. Read more⏵

The construction activity at the Ringneck Energy ethanol plant site this past year has gone from dirt work to a nearly completed facility, with observable change to the site after the recent f… Read more⏵

Twenty-five years of writings in the guest book at the Okobojo Cemetery were nearly lost when the book was blown from its mailbox housing and pummeled by hail during the storms that battered S… Read more⏵