MARTY
Marty back after flood
MARTY — The students and staff at the Marty Indian School received an extra week of summer vacation this year, but they would gladly have given up the reason in order to start classes on time.In June, the Marty area was flooded with an estimated 8 inches of rain in a matter of hours. Other parts of southern Charles Mix County received 4 to 7 inches of rain. The region received an estimated 13 inches of rain during an 80-hour period.
By Staff reports , August 30, 2010
Cheryl Archambeau, Marty 
Cheryl Archambeau, 54, Marty, died Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at home.Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Marty. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Wake services will begin at 8 p.m. today in the church basement.
August 04, 2010
Julia Bruguier, Marty
Julia Ann Bruguier, 59, Marty, died Friday, July 2, 2010, at Community Memorial Hospital in Wagner.
July 05, 2010
Hanson, Avon clash in Week 2 of 2010 football schedule
The Avon football team will get its chance at redemption when it plays Hanson at the Beavers’ new stadium in the second week of the regular season this fall.
That is one of the highlighted area matchups on the high school football schedule for the year. The football schedules were recently posted on the South Dakota High School Association’s website.
By Luke Hagen , June 30, 2010
Flood fight tough for towns
Ron Gall took a look at the water and shook his head.
The Charles Mix County emergency management director was supervising an effort to move flood water away from homes in the hamlet of Ravinia on Tuesday. It was slow, frustrating work, as Platte Fire Department trucks tried to coax the standing water from the southeast corner of town into nearby Red Lake.
By Tom Lawrence , June 19, 2010
Marty cleans up following flash-flood devastation
MARTY — It looks like this small community was attacked. In a way, it was.A wall of floodwater rushed through Marty on Saturday morning. It washed an SUV off a road and plunged its driver into 9 feet of water, ripped through homes and offices and left a devastating path of damage in its wake.
On Tuesday, the devastation was evident across this small, unincorporated town in Charles Mix County. Efforts were under way to pump murky, chocolatebrown water away from St. Paul Parish, a historic white church with an imposing steeple visible far from town.
By Tom Lawrence , June 16, 2010
Opinion: Talk of Black Hills claim resumes
The riches that have fallen upon those Indian nations blessed to be located next to urban centers with huge populations have bypassed the very poor tribes of the Northern Plains.
By Tim Giago , April 19, 2010
SMVHE beats Andes Central/Marty
LAKE ANDES — Wessington Springs/Mount Vernon/Hanson/Ethan beat Andes Central/Marty 14-3 in five innings Monday in a high school baseball game in Lake Andes.
By Sports staff , April 13, 2010
Edward Zephier, Marty
Edward Zephier Jr., 76, Marty, died Thursday, March 11, 2010, at his home in Marty.
March 13, 2010
Victor Markley, Wagner
Victor Marion Markley, 90, Wagner, died Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at Avera Bormann Manor, Parkston.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John Catholic Church, Wagner.
March 12, 2010
Russell Redlightning, Marty
Russell Redlightning, 56, Marty died Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 at the Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls
March 01, 2010
Area basketball: Parkston edges Freeman, 56-52
FREEMAN — Parkston held off Freeman 17-13 in the final quarter to net a 56-52 win in a high school girls’ basketball game Friday in Freeman.
Marie Malloy led Parkston with 19 points and five steals. Emma Murtha grabbed nine of the team’s 35 rebounds and Alison Fergen had five assists. Erica Herrold and McKenzie Weidenbach added nine and eight points respectively. The Trojans were 32 percent from the field and 50 percent from the line.
By Sports staff , February 20, 2010
Expert encourages tribes to tackle suicide, gangs
OACOMA — Gang activity and teen suicide on American Indian reservations need to be addressed together, according to a national gang expert who says there’s a strong connection between the two problems.
By Dirk Lammers , February 05, 2010
U.S. attorney pledges action plan to help tribes
OACOMA — The Tribal Listening Conference at Cedar Shore Resort certainly wasn’t the first time people gathered to ponder the myriad problems afflicting South Dakota’s American Indian tribes.Through the decades, ideas and leaders have come and gone, and the crime and poverty on many reservations has persisted. Still, a mix of about 150 state, federal and tribal officials gathered Thursday to plan and hope for a better future.
By Seth Tupper , February 05, 2010
Area basketball: Glanzer leads MCHS in 55-38 win over Plankinton
PLANKINTON — Becca Glanzer went 15-of-18 from the free-throw line to help the Mitchell Christian girls’ basketball team to a 55-38 Custer Battlefield Highway Conference win Thursday night.
Glanzer hit one basket and finished with 17 points. Mackenzie Van Laecken added 15 points for the Golden Eagles and Alexa Van Laecken had 14 points and eight rebounds. The Golden Eagles shot 20-of-30 from the line while Plankinton went 5-of-16.
By Sports staff , February 05, 2010
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