Newspaper for Lane, Alpena, and Wessington Springs SD
TRUE DAKOTAN/DUKE -
Wessington Springs firemen fighting the prairie fire
Alpena fire truck swishes through the frame as Duke Wenzel shot a picture of the fire
The fire burned past the old Frank Hensley place and on over the hill to the east. Fire departments from Plankinton, Woonsocket and Alpena were also
Plankinton fire department came to help -- Duke Wenzel
A cow on a Jerauld County farm enjoys a lunch of corn stalks during perfectly gorgeous winter weather recently - DUKE WENZEL/TRUE DAKOTAN
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The home of Dr. Jack and Joyce Krueger, on College Avenue in Wessington Springs, is being remodeled to accomodate Jack’s return.
The longtime Wessington Springs dentist suffered a stroke in December, and although showing good signs of recovery, still has some work to be done.
The work shown above, according to Joyce Krueger, is being done by Total Construction,
Workers at the Jack and Joyce Krueger home in Wessington Springs, are preparing the house so Jack can come home to the basement after suffering a stroke in December-2011. He is a longtime Wessington Springs dentist.
A rare treat… an albino hummingbird. Something that is seldom seen and almost NEVER photographed. Albino hummingbird Fifteen-year-old photographer Marlin Shank was fortunate enough to capture several images of a rare albino ruby-throated hummingbird while in a park in Staunton , Va
This is a neat video of the Aberdeen SD rail road station during WW II and what took place
TRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE WENZEL --City employees, from left, Clint Jost, James Brodkorb, Joel Sorben, Larry Keeton and Roger Larson put their collective heads together to figure out the rope path through the ski lift pulley system last week. The contraption was built by local contractor, the late A.J. Gebhart in the 1950s and it has served generations of Springs area kids over the past six decades. The slope has been mowed, a new rope is installed on the lift.... bring on the snow?
TRUE DAKOTAN PHOTO/DUKE WENZEL --THIS HERD OF REINDEER can be found in front of the James and Darleen Brodkorb home in Wessington Springs. The couple give their kids a lot of the credit for putting them up, along with several other features around the yard.
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Gold-lined clouds sit on the horizon with a silhouette of the century-old Spring Valley School in a photograph taken last week. The school is about two miles north/northeast of Wessington Springs. The school was in use for many decades, beginning well over 100 years ago. The school operated under different names over the years, first Shryock, then Sheppard. It eventually was called Spring Valley, named after a valley southwest of the school which has a spring-fed creek running through it.
THIS BLUE SPRUCE tree will become the biggest Christmas tree ever in Wessington Springs when it is set up in the Humm Dinger I south lot. The tree was cut from the corner of Lawrence and Ada Caffee’s lots on Main Street. The 40-foot tree was being loaded on to a 
trailer by workers 
from Total Construction who contracted the move. According to Lawrence, the evergreen trees around their home were brought back on a back haul from Washington by his hired men, Gary Bessey and Henry Sinkie in the 1960s. “They were only about two feet tall then,” he said. The tree will go out in a blaze of glory when it gets decorated with over 1,000 feet of lights and topped with a two-foot star for this Christmas season.
