TRUE DAKOTAN

Kali Krohmer, Jerrod Niemann, Kaycee Bergeleen and Dacia Bergeleen enjoy a laugh following a May-2010 show at the Wessington Springs 1905 Opera House. Niemann’s single, “Lover, Lover” has since climbed to the top of America’s country music charts as well as the newly-released album.

A singer/songwriter who performed at the Wessington Springs 1905 Opera House in May has catapulted all the way to the top of the country music charts in a meteoric ride that includes both the top single and album in the nation.

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• Farmers’ Market kicked off last Thursday
• Gann Valley celebration pictures July 31, 2010
• Harvest underway
• Emerald green hills around Wessington Springs this summer
• Lookin’ back…
• Calling all (potential) EMTs… we need you
• 27th Annual Prairie Hills Art Show held
• Children’s Theater to present Grade School Musical
• Best Buy Auto of Alpena –newest business in town
• Jerauld County wildflowers in bloom
• Storm on the horizon
• Old Wessington Springs swimming pool was a “pretty cool” place to be on a hot summer afternoon
• A look at the 2010 Wessington Springs Fourth of July celebration
• You’ve never seen the “Star Spangled Banner” done this way!
• How to Give a Cat a Pill
• Flooding hits Wessington Springs
• United Methodist Church 100 years
• Anne Hathaway Cottage and Shakespeare Gardens
• A South Dakota sunset
• Looking back…
• Looking back…
• Bomber crash fragments
• Fallie Beers still volunteers with her musical talents
• Senior pictures
• Jim and Belle Hinrichs married in ‘39 – Love story goes back 82 years
• Prom 2010 Wessington Springs High School
• Babies against breast cancer
• The worst day of the “Dirty Thirties”
• “Well, we made it through another one”
• Easter activities for young and old
• Things are buzzing at Busy Bee Day Care
• 100-year old glass negatives offer a sneek peak into the past
• Jean Fergeson is Chamber’s Employee of the Year
• “Slim” Nesselroad was popular businessman; seen in 100 year old glass plate negative
• Deer me!
• Teacher’s pet…
• Did Wessington Springs have an electric trolley?
• Horses grazing
• What is it?
• Fun is where you find it! Maybe right outside your front door.
• Frosty sunrise, or frosty sunset?
• There’s still a little smoke left in the South Gulch Band
• Vote for 2009’s Top Wessington Springs Area Stories
• Shoveling the driveway
• Christmas Blizzard photographs by Duke Wenzel
• A courthouse Christmas
• Storm will likely disrupt holiday travel
• Santa’s annual visit gives kids a chance to make last-minute requests
• Horse-drawn school buses
• Residential Christmas lights
• Shakespeare Garden Society hosts 20th annual Christmas open house
• Cedar waxwings feed on juniper berries in the park
• The way things once were
• Shop at home this Christmas
• Wind tower sunset
• Fall cleanup at Shakespeare Garden
• Little red school house
• Marvin Powell visits WWII war memorial in D.C.
• WWII veterans honored at program
• Shine on, Harvest moon!
• William Henry Schultz gets grave marker 100 years after burial
• Hungry boy
• Are you a dog lover? Check out the cute pictures!
• True Dakotan finishes 34th year; 4,000 visitors to website
• Homecoming pictures
• Tractor drive held on Saturday; drivers enjoy wind farm view
• Homecoming week royalty
• Clair Tiede
• Company Cowboys observe 40th
• 24 kindergarten students begin journey through Springs schools
• The Jerauld County storm of 1924
• Flowers in the park
• Dustin will return for show that honors “Company Cowboys” 40th anniversary
• Deer me!
• “Lookin’ back”
• Foothills classic car and tractor show trophies
• Federal stimulus money pays for new Springs bus
• How cute is this?
• Tuesday Sues Club continues work on park’s Field House
• Law enforcement watches from “The Hill” when weather gets ugly
• “Open wide”
• When “cool was cool”
• Donations needed for Sr. citizens center
• Firemen set off the fireworks from “the Hill”
• Springs fishing derby held at Missouri River
• Fourth of July events
• “Photo by Duke” takes an unusual spot in front of the camera
• Fourth of July weathers a rain storm but everything was great!
• “Crop Dusters” keep the Springs airport buzzing during June
• Art show results
• Wolter family benefit held
• Dr. Diane sees final patient
• Storm sends locals scurrying for cover
• Strangers met, married after exchanging war-time letters
• WSHS Class of ’59 holds reunion
• Tebays graduate from Jerauld County high schools… 70 years apart!
• Wanna donate to a really good cause?
• Governor proclaims June 11 “Tom Dean Day in SD”
• Valverndale from the top
• Shakespeare Garden in full bloom
• March storm reminds us how much we like summer
• Photographs from the Springs wind farm
• FFA team wins second place finish in national event
• Memorial Day: Veterans honored on Memorial Day
• Seniors to graduate Sunday
• Springs Auto’s GM line is among those scheduled to close
• Helmuth Neuharth turns 100
• South Dakota Magazine is coming to the pages of the True Dakotan
• Vintage wedding gowns on display at Heritage Center
• It was a day about Mothers… of all kinds
• A Mother’s Day to remember
• Horse drawn equipment still around
• Delivering grain in the 1800s
• An old claim shanty
• Spring is here — it’s golf season!
• “A Ham Family”
• Mother’s Day events will recall 100th anniversary of Gov. Vessey’s proclamation
• Tom Dean to receive National Award
• South Dakota Magazine Features Wessington Springs’ Anne Hathaway Cottage
• May 10 Mother’s Day will observe 100th anniversary of proclamation that was signed by Gov. Vessey
• Black bird, black bird
• Spring colors at Anne Hathaway Cottage and Shakespeare Garden
• New apple tree and grazing muledeer won’t mix
• A Night to Remember
• Hey, buddy… do you mind?
• Farm ground ready for spring planting
• WSHS musical, “Ducktails and Bobby Socks” held at the 1905 Opera House
• Next week’s True Dakotan
• Kids (of all ages) come for Easter egg hunt
• Snow picture
• Summer’s almost here in South Dakota!!!
• Penny and Craig’s new grand daughter
• Girls sing at State B basketball tourney
• Storm of March 31, 2009
• Craig and Penny Wenzel will observe 35 years
• Local resident worked on famed “Memphis Belle” during WWII
• Business is picking up
• March: “Out like a lion”!
• Dawn at the Dinger
• We’re talkin’ turkey here!
• Deer in the garden
• Main Street at dusk
• May Hunt and her students weathered the Blizzard of 1888 in a straw stack
• Is she a buffalo? Is she a Longhorn cow? Yes!
• Cookin’ up somethin’ good at the school
• SACC Donates to Heritage Center
• Conservation essay awards
• Dotting the i’s, crossing the t’s Second grader wins state handwriting contest
• Studying China at school
• Outreach clinics reach patients at AWMMC
• Cattle feed near Turtle Peak
• Early birds…
• Calving seasons reminds us of spring
• Rabbit hunting was popular, lucrative in the 50’s and 60’s
• Courthouse windows are being replaced
• Duncan rural Catholic Church is on the chopping block… but it shouldn’t be
• Deputy finds “Eagle tree” near Alpena
• Proud first-time father made cradle for newborn son in 1899
• Florence Loveless Anderson recalls the old Springs swimming pool/ice rink
• Amy Schimke featured on RFD channel’s “Women’s Pro Rodeo Today”
• Sargents observe 70th anniversary at their farm home
• Unusual weather makes the creeks run
• Wind tower donates to ambulance, fire department
• Farm and Home Show 4-Hers
• Farm and Home Show pictures
• Elementary kids playing in the snow
• Wind may be a pain to some folks, but it can still get some work done
• Great Pyrenees sheep dog watches over his flock
• Snow on the cottage
• Spring goose migration
• A snowy country lane
• Shultz longhorns at the foot of Turtle Peak
• Shakespeare Garden
• Old farmstead
• Dr. Dean at the Old Settler’s Picnic
• 2002 pictures
• George Pflaum’s place
• 2001 photographs
• 2001
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• Manor ladies plant flowers – 2001
• Keith Robbins installing Christmas lights- 2001
• Dr. Dean, Jerry and Betty Higgins – 2001
• Legion Hill’s “cannon with a view”
• Looking back…. explained
• Looking back…