My friend, Spearfish debate coach, avid outdoorsman, and known Republican Bob Speirs writes the case for saving the historic D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery from the mindless Washington budget axe: For a budding ornithologist, there are few places in the Black…
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Publisher and legislator Bernie Hunhoff takes his swing at the threatened closure of the D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery in Spearfish. He connects the dots and shows how a dysfunctional culture of sloganeering naysayers in elected office leads to bad decisions…
Spearfish developer Rand Williams has yet to start pouring footings for his giant statue of Jesus on top of the Thoen Stone monument or Lookout Mountain or anywhere else around Spearfish. City administrator Joe Neeb is wisely keeping city government…
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…
Holy cow... er, trout! Contrary to my usual experiences in Spearfish, I stop in the Queen City of the Black Hills, and the first thing I hear about is a really stupid idea. It comes not from Spearfishers, but from…
Sunday before last, I wrote about the discussion in Spearfish over the proper use and care of Lookout Mountain. Among the points that came out in the discussion before the Spearfish City Council between advocates and opponents of a plan…
Former Spearfish mayor Jerry Krambeck worries that we're going to love Lookout Mountain to death. With views like this, how couldn't we? Great galloping trail runners! Slap this photo on the Dakota Roots kiosk at the Mall of America, and…
I read in Saturday's Black Hills Pioneer (print edition only, alas!) that the Spearfish Regional Hospital got an A in the Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Score. That's the only A in Leapfrog's roster of South Dakota hospitals surveyed. I am…