Keystone will have a new sound system for town meetings and such.
The board voted to spend $4,853 on a professional sound system so future meetings were audible to all in attendance.
Scott Gooch from Perfect Wave Productions demonstrated the new system, which meets the requirements of “getting a system that would work for you guys for doing your video online and being heard in the room.”
A green-yellow-red school phase approach to the school year was discussed at the most recent Hill City School Board meeting.
The plan was outlined by superintendent Blake Gardner.
“Phase one is green,” Gardner said. “There are no cases in the building.”
The South Dakota Department of Health can monitor cases in Hill City directly.
“They will notify those people as far as the school they’ll let us know. …If there becomes substantial cases in the school, the department of health will take control and make decisions,” Gardner said.
On the evening of June 15, Kelly Martinez thought she was dealing with seasonal allergies.
Her chest was heavy and she had a cough. It wasn’t a dry cough, but it was enough to catch the attention of her supervisor at Carson Drug, pharmacist Colby John-son, when she returned to work June 17 after having a couple days off.
More progress was made last Thursday at a second meeting held to discuss mitigation of flooding problems on the east side of Custer along French Creek. Although there were no representatives of the city of Custer nor county commissioners at the 4 p.m. meeting at the county highway shop, a dozen residents of the Harbach Lane/Granite Heights area did turn out for the meeting which led to a sometimes heated discussion.
If a group of local mountain bike enthusiasts have their way, a new recreational use will soon come to the Big Rock Park area: biking trails.
At the July 20 meeting of the Custer City Council, Charley Neff Umbarger and Matt Fridell, flanked by members of the city’s parks and recreation committee, gave a presentation on the possibility of bringing a modern bike park to Big Rock Park/Pageant Hill, which they said could offer a myriad of positives and opportunities to Custer.
Construction on Sidney Park Road is going well and on schedule, Custer County Highway Department superintendent Jesse Doyle told the Custer County Commission at its July 15 meeting. However, Doyle said, some people are still under the impression the paved part of the road is being returned to gravel.
Debates on whether masks should be mandated and whether children should return to school in person this fall are heating up as COVID-19 flares up in parts of the county.
One person died Tuesday morning in a truck-motorcycle crash south of Custer.
Names of the two drivers are not yet being released pending notification of family members. They were the only people involved.
A 2008 Harley Davidson FLHTCU motorcycle and a 2008 Freightliner truck hauling gravel were both northbound on U.S. Highway 385. As the truck tried to pass the motorcycle, the motorcycle began a left-hand turn into an approach. The two vehicles collided.
The Hill City School District has spelled out how it plans to proceed with instruction in the fall.
The district plans to have in-person instruction as conditions permit, said Blake Gardner, Hill City School District superintendent, in a video sent to district stakeholders July 9.
The situation as of this point is fluid, Gardner said, and the district is prepared to go back to distance learning if the COVID-19 pandemic worsens and there are multiple cases within the school.
