Home ยป Archives for April 6, 2020
STURGIS, S.D. – Meade County Auditor Lisa Schieffer says they are encouraging residents to vote absentee by mail for the upcoming June 2 primary. Schieffer says the Auditor’s Office wants to support the health and safety of all voters, poll workers and other election staff by offering an alternative to in-person voting. This is in […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Supplies of face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) are dwindling as health care systems confront the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Monument Health in South Dakota has devised an innovative way to sterilize and reuse N95 respirators. Using ultraviolet UVC light towers that traditionally are used at Rapid City Hospital to […]
STURGIS, S.D. – Meade County Commissioners met in special session on Friday to discuss continuing operations at the county offices in response to the COVID-19 situation. Some county’s have closed their offices to the walk-in public and are conducting business via mail, email and telephone. Meade County Commissioners took no action on doing the same, […]
OMAHA, Neb – Economists are debating the letters V, U, W and L these days, but Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss, PhD, says the only letters that really matter are MD. Goss is a professor of economics at Creighton’s Heider College of Business where he holds the Jack A. MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics. […]
UNDATED – South Dakota gas prices have fallen 6.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.82/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 628 stations. Gas prices in South Dakota are 43.6 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 81.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. According to […]
Percy Leroy Hansen, 92, of Piedmont, SD, passed peacefully on May 2, 2024, at Aspen Grove Assisted Living […]