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Redfield City Council will hold a public hearing...

Sometimes, all it takes is putting a simple idea into action, and for Turton native Norbert “Norbe” Barrie, action was needed. Norbe had moved away from Spink County, spending much of his working adult life in California and Oregon. but retirement brought him back home, to his beloved South Dakota, and Spink County. Having seen a thing or two of the world, Barrie was discouraged by what he perceived as a lack of economic development in his hometown and the county at large. “He proposed, on his own, getting people together and said let’s get and fund a city/county economic developmen...

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The development of the telegraph in the 1830s revolutionized the way the world communicated. A nomenclature of dots and dashes was created representing each letter of the alphabet so that a “telegrapher,” using a telegraph key, could tap out a brief message that could be sent over a wire connected to another station almost instantly. It was a mind-blowing innovation that immediately changed long-distance communication. The thin, taut copper lines naturally followed the railroads. By the 1870s the telegraph had reached the Territory of Dakota, connecting the eastern industrial empire with one of the last regions to be settled wes...

“Ball in the summer has always been big in Redfield for as long as I grew up,” said Brent Osborn, one of four brothers to start on the same team. “My dad played fast pitch softball, which kept us kids all you know involved, watching him play and then getting our games together. We went through the little league and then played college baseball. My mom played softball. Ball was very ingrained in everybody in the area it seemed like. Everybody played.” Former Redfield DQ pitcher Lonni Stover, taking a break from fixing a fence, agrees. “I just think i...