Murdo Coyote
Mom was 35 that winter. She had taught school for only one year before she got married and moved to the farm. But like any elementary teacher, she was always prepared to entertain us children when we were cooped up in the house for long hours, or even days. I particularly remember cutting out...
James E Roghair, son of the late Ed and Margaret Roghair, lived near Okaton on their farm his first 14 years (1943-57) and still has many relatives in the area. He writes from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The blizzard of 1952 is legendary in western South Dakota. Everyone who lived through it has a...
With just few hours left before Christmas, you may start to hear the sleigh bells ringing. Santa Claus is known to spread holiday cheer all around world, only two KELOLAND store managers are making it their mission to fill his heart with joy.
Taking lap photos with children at the Empire Mall is...
Ninety-six-year-old Harold Thune's basketball story finally came full circle.
From his time in Murdo to the University of Minnesota and back to South Dakota, Thune was found in the Gophers locker room again for the first time in 75 years.
The opportunity was possible when the Gophers honored...
“I’m a straight arrow, I just bend a little sometimes,” chuckled George Allen Iversen as he visited with Murdo Coyote staff Rylee Metzger and Lonna Jackson. The day before his 85th birthday came in like a flood of memories as the stories of growing up in Jones County were relived. When thinking of...
Hannah Hight, a senior at Jones County High School of White River, S.D. is a Delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Lowell, Mass., on June 25-27, 2017.
The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields....
“I think that it is very important that we are aware of the Second Amendment. It is part of who we are in this country.” Stated Mike McKernan, local HuntSafe instructor of 35 years. The passion for hunting, fishing and shooting began at an early age for McKernan. While growing up in Sisseton and...
That tug on our hearts conveying a quiet call from God is something that we all tend to pack away to the back of our closets. It’s a lonely road that is thought upon but hardly ever acted upon. For Dave and Jill Cooke of Wrexham, Wales that same quiet call turned into a testament of victory....
The sun rose on another day of adventure for the First Iowa Division of NARCOA on Monday, October 10. A group of seven railroad motorcars departed from the historical Murdo MacKenzie train station at first light and journeyed the lonely DSRC tracks to Belvidere and back. Chances are that you...
“Shopping,” the famous eight letter word made known for sending chills of excitement or terror down the backs of men and women around the world. At times the shopping carts, aisles and mile long receipts could dawn world war three, but in this day and age the dollar sign cannot be easily...
