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UNDATED – Several area towns held municipal and school board elections Tuesday. In Faith, there was a school board election, where three candidates were vying for two spots and a 3-year-term. Unofficial results indicate Scott Vance and Kris Stocklin-Johnson the winners for the two seats and Kyle Kennedy, who was the only candidate on the […]
STURGIS, SD – It was a night to remember for those attending the Sturgis Brown High School Art Club and American Legion Post 33 fundraiser, held at the Sturgis Vets Club. Stacey Nicholson is the manager there. “The quality of people was amazing,” she says. “Everybody came to buy. They were here to support the […]
UNDATED – Here are the winners for the 2020-2021 Region Basketball Coach of the Year Awards: Region 1 Name School Head Boys COTY : David Rohrbach Aberdeen Christian HS Head Girls COTY: Derek Larson Aberdeen Roncalli HS Assistant Boys COTY: Josh Mach Aberdeen Central HS Assistant Girls COTY: JJ Burke […]
PIERRE, S.D. – The State Department of Health reported 262 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday with 69 of them considered as probable. The number of active cases was up by 14 Tuesday to 2,439 and the number of people hospitalized increased by 10 to 106. No new deaths were reported, keeping the state’s death toll […]
HARLOWTON, Mont. (AP) — Work is set to begin next week on the cleanup of a historic railyard in central Montana that’s contaminated with asbestos and petroleum. The cleanup of the Harlowton railyard is part of an attempt to revitalize a 180-acre site in the central Montana town that lost its largest employer after the […]
PINE RIDGE, S.D. – The Wanblee Mart has been sold to RF Buche, who owns a small chain of Buche Foods and Gus Stop Convenience Stores. Buche will take over on April 28th, 2021. “The store will be closed on the 28th for inventory, team member orientations and other misc. tasks so our customers are […]
WASHINGTON, DC – February exports of U.S. beef remained below the rapid pace established in early 2020, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). However, exports were consistent with USMEF’s February projections and the federation still expects 2021 beef exports to increase substantially year-over-year. Beef exports totaled […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Sheep Industry Association joined half a dozen other livestock groups in calling on Congress to reject any attempts to fund the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Packers and Stockyards Program through user fees. “Moving PSD to fee funding would be an inequitable shifting of the burden of the program onto the […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The Federal Emergency Management Agency began accepting applications on Monday for its program to assist families with the financial expenses of funerals for COVID-19 related deaths. FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance program will reimburse individuals and households for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred between Jan. 20, 2020 and December 2020 to help ease […]
PIERRE, S.D. – With drought conditions a real possibility this summer in the Black Hills, Governor Kristi Noem is still trying to convince President Joe Biden to allow fireworks at Mount Rushmore. The National Parks Service last month rejected a permit to have a fireworks show from the top of the memorial this year. Noem […]
Sharon was born on April 17, 1948, in Sturgis, South Dakota, as the oldest child of Hazel and […]
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