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- Christmas light shows held around Hills
Lil and Joe Caropino of Lead are crazy about Christmas, with Joe decking out not only the house, but the entire quarter-acre yard that adjoins his home, creating a car-stopping holiday showcase.
- Butte county hires new director of equalization
Butte County Commissioners hired a new director of equalization last Wednesday. Deborah Smoot was hired on a 4-2 vote that included the five commissioners and Belle Fourche Mayor Dave Schneider.
- Educators To Get Incentive Pay
A federal grant that rewards teachers and other school employees for student progress will pay more than $1 million in incentives to 800 educators in 10 South Dakota districts.
- SD teachers to get grants
A federal grant that rewards teachers and other school employees for student progress will pay more than $1 million in incentives to 800 educators in 10 South Dakota districts.
- Free Thanksgiving Dinner Tuesday at Belle Fourche
Belle Fourche will have its third annual free Thanksgiving Dinner today, according to the Rev.
- BHSU faculty awarded Chiesman grant to study blogging
Black Hills State University student researchers have received a grant to study the effects of online conversations on the democratic process and civic learning during a presidential election year.
- Authorities: Death of woman outside her home being investigated as homicide
Autopsy evidence indicates what her family has been thinking -- someone killed 50-year-old Laura Moore, who was found outside her home the day after Halloween.
- Mountain lion shot in Vale
Sheriff Fred Lamphere says the young male lion was in a tree, inside a dog kennel that was occupied by two Rottweilers.
- 4 years later, Tory Teigen charged with murder
After more than four years of speculation and searching for a body, murder charges are filed against the man who kidnapped and tortured Troy Klug.
- Mountain lion shot in Vale
A young male mountain lion killed Monday inside Vale city limits appeared to be the victim of a string of bad luck, said Belle Fourche-based state game warden Bill Eastman.
- Mountain lion is shot West River
A game warden has shot and killed a mountain lion in the Butte County community of Vale.
- Mountain lion shot in Vale
A mountain lion inside the Vale city limits Monday was put down by state Game, Fish & Parks officials.
- Assisted living resident who went missing during snow storm shows up at Fort Meade
With blizzard-like conditions whipping cold wind and snowflakes across the Northern Hills on Friday morning, Belle Fourche police searched for a 58-year-old man who had walked away from a local assisted living ...
- I-90 conditions improve, but travel slow going
High winds, blowing snow and near zero visibility temporarily created dangerous road conditions throughout the region Friday morning, sending motorists into the ditch and sparking no-travel advisories along ...
- Jazz night coming to Belle Fourche
The Belle Fourche Arts Council will bring a oeJazz Nighta to area residents at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.
- Emergency dispatcher have busy day during storm
They sounded cool on the phone, but Butte County dispatchers worried whether a caller asking about road conditions could block the line for frighteningly real emergencies.
- Sheriff recalls how dozens were rescued from stranded vehicles on West River highway
BELLE FOURCHE -- About 40 people were rescued late Friday from about 30 cars and trucks that had been marooned amid giant snowdrifts on U.S. Highway 212 between Newell and Faith, the Rapid City Journal is ...
- Dozens rescued in stranded vehicles along Highway 212
About 40 people were rescued late Friday from about 30 cars and trucks stranded by high, hard snowdrifts on U.S. Highway 212 inside Butte County between Newell and Faith.
- Crews restoring power, services after winter storm
Pioneer staff reports NORTHERN HILLS a " The area-wide epic blizzard knocked power, phone and cable service out to thousands of area residents Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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City DescriptionBelle Fourche is a city in and the county seat of Butte County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 4,565 at the 2000 census. Belle Fourche is the site of the geographic center of the United States.
This information taken from the Belle Fourche America's Hometown Booklet (1998)
Belle Fourche (French for "beautiful fork") was named by French explorers when this area was owned by France, for the confluence of what is now known as the Belle Fourche and Redwater Rivers and the Hay Creek. Beaver trappers worked these rivers until the mid 1800s, and Belle Fourche became a well known fur trading rendezvous point. During and after the great gold rush of 1876, farmers and ranchers alike settled in the fertile valleys, growing food for the miners and their work animals. At the same time the open plains for hundred of miles in all directions were being filled by huge herds of Texas and Kansas cattle. Towns sprang up to serve the ever changing needs of the farmers and ranchers. In 1884, the Marquis de Mores, a French nobleman and contemporary of Theodore Roosevelt, established a stage line between Medora, North Dakota and Deadwood, South Dakota. The Belle Fourche way station ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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