27% of registered voters in Spearfish and Spearfish Valley showed up at the polls yesterday to reject the city's proposed annexation of some of the nicest not-quite urban, not-quite rural agricultural land in South Dakota. On a 54.6%-to-45.4% split, referendum…
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Tim Johnson gets stuff done! South Dakota's senior Senator questioned Deputy Secretary of the Interior nominee Mike Connor Tuesday on the D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has short-sightedly threatened to close. Evidently a little…
Spearfish Mayor Dana Boke understands that we need to save the D.C Booth Fish Hatchery: “This is part of our culture,” Boke said. “My 10-year-old daughter read about it in the paper, and it brought her to tears. That’s how…
That final push worked! Dana Boke unseats 13-year incumbent Jerry Krambeck as Spearfish mayor. Here are results from the Black Hills Pioneeer Facebook feed: City of Spearfish - Mayor Dana Boke wins with 899 votes [53%] Jerry Krambeck received 790…
I've given Spearfish mayoral candidate Dana Boke heck for not naming names (or any other specifics that would justify her contention that she could run Spearfish better than the oligarchy she sees in charge). I must thus criticize some supporters…
The snow has me trading the classroom for the blog and the shovel today. The snow also has postponed the Spearfish, Lead, and Deadwood elections for one week. Spearfish mayoral candidate Dana Boke thus has one more week to work…
Spearfish holds its city election Tuesday. My neighbors have two choices for mayor: three more years of Mayor Jerry Krambeck, who has held the position since 2000, or political newcomer Dana Boke, who says Krambeck runs an oligarchy that she…
I can't tell if the Black Hills Pioneer is in the tank for mayoral candidate Dana Boke or current mayor Jerry Krambeck. In the Spearfish paper's Saturday coverage of Wednesday's public forum, reporter Heather Murschel catalogs many of Boke's implied…