Spring time is here! However, there are a lot of people who are hesitant to say this. We can remember too many times in the past when we claim spring weather too early to be doused in snow later. This happened in April of 2013 when the Black Hills of South Dakota received the snowiest month on record receiving a […]
Little Notes
Jackie’s Smart TV outsmarted us
Spring looks to be a little early this year. We cannot remember a time that the winter months have been so warm. For the past three years spring has been skipped all together. Temperatures had gone from mid-30 to a consistent 80 degrees or more during those times. Trees were just beginning to bloom in late May. No one can […]
Ryan’s truck was literally a stick in the mud
Well once again the artic temperatures have vacated the Black Hills region leaving us with we consider balmy temperatures for February. With all the roads dry on the reservations we forgot about one thing…mud. That is what our graphic artist Ryan Charging Cloud experienced as he tried to make his way back to Rapid City from the rez. As […]
Groundhog predicts early spring
February is the month the Groundhog comes out to determine if it will be an early spring or six more weeks of Winter. Groundhog Day is named after the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil who has been predicting this event for 130 years. This year Phil did not see his shadow meaning an early spring. That may be in line to […]
Everybody was whipping it up for the Super Bowl
It was an extraordinarily busy week at Native Sun News Today as the newspaper keeps growing in popularity. We received numerous calls last week from people that signed up for new subscriptions and compliments on the news content of the paper. Business owners were impressed as well and wanted to continue the advertising. They love its extended outreach because many […]
Massive fog turns Marnie’s trip into a nightmare
Balmy weather returned to the Black Hills temperatures continue to thaw us out from the previous Artic blast. Everyone was thrilled to be able to get out and enjoy the weather and a small relief for our homeless population. South Dakota experienced the driest January on record as it spreads into February. There has been very few complaints about the […]
Let’s hope we’ve seen the last of subarctic freezes
This year seems as though it is also following the trend of a speedy year as we approach the end of January. It is also a good month financially for a lot of people due to income tax returns. For the most part, it is one of the few times you have enough to go shopping or place a […]
Wiotehika Wi, a month to endure hardships
The month of January in Lakota is called Wiotehika Wi which translated means “The Moon that is Hard.” It could also be translated the moon that is very hard to endure as Otehika literally means to be terribly difficult, hard to endure, sad, terrible, tragic, sorrowful. Well January 2024 is definitely proving to a month this is very hard to […]
Ira is now officially an ice road trucker
As the New Year begins so does the end of an unusually long Indian Summer we had experienced here in the Black Hills of South Dakota. All good things seem like they must come to an end. We had mentioned in past issues the dangers of Winter driving in South Dakota because of the open plains. You may have watched […]
Native Sun News celebrates the New Year
2Native Sun News has completed their hard earned Christmas Break. It was needed mightily due to the heavy workloads of a newspaper throughout the year. That is a great sign of success though. Readers and advertisers have been tremendous last year. Busy phones and getting the voice of the people out to our audience has been the mainstay. For the […]