Fall River County Herald-Star

08/01/2025

Tonight is the DEMOLITION DERBY followed by a big day tomorrow with the DOWNTOWN PARADE, HOG WRESTLING and RODEO at the Fall River County Fairgrounds in Edgemont!

07/31/2025

Be sure to attend tonight's FREE CHUCKWAGON FEED and RUBBER CHECK RACE at the Fall River County Fairgrounds in Edgemont!

07/31/2025

Taylor is the son or our newspaper owners Bob and Mandy Scherer of Martin. Please help spread the word about their family's medical need. Thank you.

06/04/2025

UPDATED:

Results of the Hot Springs Ward 1 city election:

Craig Romey: 43 votes
Randy Graham: 42 votes
Hal Glanville: 24 votes

Hot Springs School Board election results (top 2 each earn seat):

Shannon McClure: 162 votes
Kelly Bilbrey: 119 votes
Sharon Romey: 114 votes

05/23/2025

There's "So Much To Soak In" this weekend in Hot Springs for the Salute to Valor Memorial Day weekend, beginning with the Wine Walk & Play today, starting at 4:30pm, followed by a parade tomorrow afternoon and many more activities...

Check out all of these events throughout the weekend!

05/22/2025

Be sure to pick up a copy of this week’s paper, complete with our 24-page graduation section!

Also inside this week is a complete schedule of all the Salute to Valor events in Hot Springs this weekend, as well as coverage of the school’s plan to add 11 more days of classroom time, featuring a comparison of days to many other schools in the Black Hills area. We also profile the three new candidates running for school board.

05/03/2025

During last night’s Fine Arts event at Case Auditorium, the Hot Springs middle and high school bands and choirs joined forces to perform a combined rendition of “When You Believe” from the Disney movie The Prince of Egypt, led by choir director Hayes Chohon.

05/01/2025

Prescribed Burn at Angostura State Park set for Friday, May 2

HOT SPRINGS – South Dakota Wildland Fire is planning a prescribed burn on the north end of Angostura Reservoir in coordination with Angostura State Park on Friday, May 2, 2025. The burn will be in the vicinity of the park’s Visitor Center, Cheyenne Campground, and Summer Sun Trailer Park.

Portions of North Angostura Road may be intermittently closed due to smoke. Mop-up and monitoring will continue in the following days. If weather conditions are not favorable for any reason, the prescribed burn will be rescheduled.

Firefighters are planning to burn approximately 130 acres. Objectives include reducing the amount of invasive grass, increasing the quantity of native grasses, and decreasing the risk of potential future wildfires by reducing fire fuels including thatch and other dead vegetation.

Smoke may be visible in the surrounding areas and can linger for several days after ignition. Fire crews will secure, patrol, and monitor fire lines as appropriate for public and firefighter safety.

Angostura State Park will be open as usual, but visitors may experience delays near the prescribed burn area. For more information about park accessibility contact Andrew Kathman, 605.745.6996, Angostura Recreation Area, District Park Supervisor.

South Dakota Wildland Fire is an agency of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.

04/10/2025

UPDATE: Wind Cave National Park postpones prescribed fire

The fire management staff at Wind Cave National Park has postponed the planned Lookout Flats Prescribed Fire Thursday, April 10, due to weather conditions being outside of prescription. Depending on weather and fuel conditions, another attempt might be made next week.
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ORIGINAL POST:

Wind Cave National Park is planning a prescribed fire for tomorrow, Thursday, April 10

Depending on weather and fuel conditions, the fire management staff at Wind Cave National Park plan to ignite a 1,094-acre prescribed fire east of the park’s headquarters Thursday morning, April 10.

The primary objectives of the Lookout Flats Prescribed Fire are to reduce fuel loading, decrease encroachment of young ponderosa pine onto the prairie, and increase cover of native forbs. Prescribed fires help decrease the intensities of future wildfires and mimic the natural fire regimes of a mixed-grass prairie ecosystem.

During the day of the burn, smoke may be heavy at times along Highways 385 and 87 and visible from the surrounding region. Highway 385 between the north and south access roads into park headquarters will be closed with traffic routed through the visitor center parking lot.

The park's backcountry will be closed to camping and day hiking Thursday and Friday, April 10 and Apil 11. Other impacts to Park operations are expected but efforts will be made to minimize visitor impacts.

03/11/2025

Watch for more information on this incident in next week's newspaper, but the potential threat was discovered by the FBI when they were alerted to certain key words being used by a local student when having a social media conversation with friends at a former school.

RE: School Threat

03/07/2025

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HOT SPRINGS – When rural Hot Springs residents Mike and Ann Re*****on found out there was a wildfire burning next to their property along Cascade Road this past weekend, they were across the state at their family’s farm near Willow Lake.