October 2024

The SCW Cross Country team had two members qualify for the State Meet in Rapid City on Oct. 26. Pictured from left to right are Coach Shelley Schlicht, seventh grader Jackson Wolter and freshman Lainey Goertz. Not pictured is their assistant coach, Spens Schlicht.

…Read the story in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

The story of the week was definitely about the fire call that came in at 3:17 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17. The fire took hold of property southeast of Woonsocket and traveled northward, burning up an estimated 1,120 acres, spanning a trail four miles long and 1.5 miles wide. Although the fire itself was kept from getting to SD Highway 34, the smoke was so thick that law enforcement had to close the highway from through traffic for a couple of hours due to lack of visibility.

With high winds and extremely dry conditions across the area, firefighters had a difficult task in front of them to contain the blaze. It didn’t take long to determine that help would be needed to fight the fire, so firefighters from the Alpena, Wessington Springs, Letcher, Artesian, Mt. Vernon and Huron Rural Fire Departments came to help the Town and Country Fire District from Woonsocket. In addition, members of the Sanborn County Ambulance, Sanborn County Sheriff’s Office, Miner County Sheriff’s Office, South Dakota Highway Patrol and Jerauld County Sheriff’s Office also responded to the emergent area. Aerial help was also received to drop water from the sky, since the area hasn’t seen any water fall naturally for quite some time.

…Read on and see pictures in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

On Friday, Sept. 27, the Sanborn County Sheriff’s Office received a report that rural residents in the Forestburg area had discovered that approximately $1,000 worth of beef had been stolen from their freezers.

Since the meat had been purchased and put in two freezers in June, the complainants estimate that about 170 lbs. of beef have been taken from them in a gradual process over a time span of around three months. The stolen goods include packages of hamburger patties, ground beef and steaks. 

The theft wasn’t discovered right away because the meat is owned by two or three people, so they thought that the other owner(s) were taking meat for themselves. However, when the owners were together, they talked about the meat and realized that they hadn’t been using as much as they thought, which is when they discovered what was happening.

Sanborn County Sheriff Tom Fridley is using this platform to make Sanborn County residents aware of this criminal activity and asking them to check their own freezers or food storage areas to see if the above-mentioned incident is or isn’t the only location of theft of this kind. He is also asking anyone who has any information about this crime or knows anyone who might have information to contact the Sheriff’s office at 605-796-4511.

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