Murdo Coyote
So, maybe I didn’t play fair when I interviewed the new pastor of the United Methodist Church of Murdo and Draper. I found out Pastor Mark Phillips has a wife named Ginger and she’s on Facebook. Since it was too hot to drive to Murdo and take some photos, I started looking at Ginger’s facebook...
If there is any one thing a man can do that will quickly win the respect of other men in Jones County, it is the getting down and dirty while wrestling calves during brandings. I actually had to ask my son Marty who the new cowboy was. Bearded, red headed and blue jeaned: now this was someone I’m...
Jones County local Melaynee Geigle was diagnosed with Low Grade Neuroblastoma at 10 months old. The Make a Wish foundation requires children to be at least two and half years old before being eligible for a wish. Since Melaynee was seeing a doctor every three months at that young age her doctor...
It was time to go back home. Following rainbows to the once familiar towns of Kankakee and Bradley, Illinois wasn’t the same. The old days remembered were gone. Perhaps that old saying’s true after all – “You can’t go home again.”
So Michael, the perennial hippie, and his 17-year-old son,...
Please join me in welcoming Krisanna Thomas as the newest face of Ravellette Publications! Thomas has taken over Lonna Jackson’s position as typesetter and office manager of the Murdo Coyote newspaper.
Thomas was born and raised in Jones County and graduated from Jones County High School in the...
First Fidelity Bank, Murdo, S.D., is proud to announce the construction of a new bank building. The construction will begin the end of June, and the new bank will be located on the vacant lots north of its current location on Main Street. First Fidelity is proud to be a community-oriented business...
(Submitted by Walt Anderson) Luke and Logan Hansen are sons of Barb (Kinsley) Hansen, Murdo High School Class of 1988. Logan’s coach at Viborg-Hurley is his dad, Bill. Luke and Logan are grandsons of Jean and Kip Kinsley of Murdo who are 1962 graduates of Murdo High School.
There was about a...
Meet Russ and Missy Wilbur, the faces and inspiration behind the newly opened “Covered Wagon Cafe” in Murdo.
The Wilburs are originally from Bloomington, Minn., where they grew up across the street from each other, became high school sweethearts and were married on September 1, 1979. Russ...
Dr. Paul H Fuoss has been named “Head of Experimental Design” for the Linear Coherent Light Source at Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory in Stanford, California. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is the first x-ray laser and has revolutionized x-ray science over the last seven years. SLAC...
The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced today that the WR/LJ – Creighton Project public water system and the system’s operation specialists have been awarded a Secretary’s Award for Drinking Water Excellence.
“We cannot live without water; it is just...
