TERRY WOSTER
WOSTER: Less channels years ago, but shows were memorable 
We took in a Riders in the Sky concert the other day and, quite naturally, I got to thinking about cable television.
By Terry Woster , April 03, 2012
WOSTER: In praise of modern medicine after shoulder surgery
I don’t usually like hearing stories about medical procedures, but when they’re my stories, they become fascinating, kind of like the way the only home movies anyone cares to see are their own.
By Terry Woster , March 31, 2012
WOSTER: Beware of the ambient social networking apps
What it seems to do is dig through your Facebook account to, the article says, “See whom you know and what topics you like.” Using that information and your smart phone’s Global Positioning System, this app thing alerts you when someone who likes the stuff you like or knows the people you know is in the general vicinity of you.
By Terry Woster , March 27, 2012
WOSTER: Spirit of competition shines through in track and field
All right, the basketball tournaments are over, the champions have been crowned, and we can turn to what’s really important in high school activities.
By Terry Woster , March 24, 2012
WOSTER: ‘The City of New Orleans’ comes to life in dad’s tales
Father’s talk of World’s Fair trip sparks wonder.
By Terry Woster , March 21, 2012
WOSTER: SD’s short history worth re-reporting
Never before in history has man stood with one foot in his primitive origins and the other poised on the moon.
By Terry Woster , March 16, 2012
WOSTER: Mom knew mountain lions were on the loose
If my mother had lived to read a news story that said 70 mountain lions — 70 snarling, clawing, blood-thirsty, man-eating mountain lions — were killed by hunters in the Black Hills, she’d have gone plumb bonkers with worry.
By Terry Woster , March 14, 2012
WOSTER: Arthritis turns street crown into base of Mt. Everest
A little more than three years ago, just after I retired from a reporting job with the Sioux Falls newspaper, I got such stiffness and pain in most of the joints in my body that I thought I might end up unable to walk.
By Terry Woster , March 10, 2012
WOSTER: In my day, we walked - even to college
In a forum elsewhere, I mentioned the possibility of South Dakota university campuses allowing alcohol in the dormitories. My take on it: Booze? They wouldn’t even let us stay up late when I was in school.
By Terry Woster , March 07, 2012
WOSTER: Rare Leap Day birthdays a fascinating occurrence
When I was a kid, I had a classmate who was born on Feb. 29. That made him a Leap Year baby.
By Terry Woster , February 29, 2012
WOSTER: Future looks bright for scrappy point guard
If you had seen my granddaughter Frankie play her first varsity basketball game four years ago, you wouldn’t have thought she’d stick around long enough to walk off the floor of the gym in Stephan last Tuesday after the final game of her senior season.
By Terry Woster , February 25, 2012
WOSTER: When a ‘moo’ came with the rock ’n’ roll
Some years back, I spent quite a bit of time talking with Myron Lee about his years as the leader of a much-traveled rock ’n’ roll band.
By Terry Woster , February 18, 2012
WOSTER: 1970s brought equality to SD politics
The other day, when I wrote a piece about the late Republican Rep. Joe Barnett, of Aberdeen, I left out a rather startling historical fact about the man’s service.
By Terry Woster , February 15, 2012
WOSTER: Valentine’s: Time to procrastinate again
Nancy and I had our first actual date — the kind where a guy calls a girl’s house, talks his way past her mother and then stammers out an invitation to a movie while the girl waits patiently for a pause in the halting monologue so she can say “sure” — on March 12, 1961.
By Terry Woster , February 11, 2012
WOSTER: Knowledge was power in Barnett-led House
The most complete legislator I knew in four decades of covering state government was Republican Rep. Joe Barnett, of Aberdeen.
By Terry Woster , February 08, 2012
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