RASDak 2024 Glacial Lakes of the Prairie South Dakota’s bicycle tour RASDak (Ride Across South Dakota) is celebrating its 11th tour by giving bicyclists the opportunity to ride the scenic Coteau des Prairies region with its numerous glacial lakes.More than 220...
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U.S. Olympic team trials for men’s, women’s, and wheelchair curling headed to Sioux Falls
Two sweepers guide a curling stone during the US Curling Olympic trials. (Photo by Bob Weder, courtesy of US Curling) Eden Prarie, MN — USA Curling announced on May 13 that the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Men’s and Women’s Curling, and the U.S. Paralympic Team Trials...
State FCCLA Leadership Conference
Submitted by Beverly Rieck Over 1350 members of the South Dakota Association of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (SD FCCLA) Chapters gathered at the Ramkota Hotel & Convention Center in Sioux Falls for the 2024 SD FCCLA Leadership Conference held...
Pastor’s Corner
I will instruct you and teach you about the direction you should go. I’ll advise you and keep my eye on you.Psalm 32: 8During the month of May, the two schools here in Dell Rapids are going to be recognizing that a number of students have successfully completed the...
US Postal Service pauses downgrade of South Dakota mail operations
By Stu Whitney SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to “pause” until at least next year a controversial plan to downgrade post office operations in Sioux Falls and Huron to local processing centers, joining similar implementation delays in other...
An endorsement of Dean Karsky for re-election to Minnehaha County Commissioner
Dave Baumeister | Writer We are going to give you four numbers: 54, 36, 26 and 18.As you will probably ask, “What do these mean?” We’ll tell you.54 was the number of years of experience there was at the end of 2022. However, that year, Commissioners Jeff Barth and...
Smoke season is upon us
A small editorial by Asa Thomas Metcalfe I’m lucky enough to know a cohort of Canadian journalists in Edmonton and Calgary. I get a forest-fire warning from our friends to the North just a tad bit quicker than many Americans. It works much like Groundhog Day but in...
St. Mary’s High School proudly presented Annie Jr. as this year’s Spring Play
St Mary’s Spring play cast and crew group photo from their production of Annie Jr. (Photo submitted) Amanda Geraets, St. Mary’s play director estimates around 130 people attended each showing on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11.“The chairs were full both nights and...
Open Primaries make a toward November election
Submitted by South Dakota Open Primaries Pierre, SD – On May 6, South Dakota Open Primaries filed petitions containing 47,000 signatures with the Secretary of State’s office today to put its proposed top two open primary election initiative on the November 2024...
Celebrating Mothers
Gov. Kristi Noem Being a mom and a grandma has been the biggest blessing of my life. My kids and my grandkids are motivation to get up every single day and fight for a better future for all South Dakotans.My number one goal as Governor has always been to be able to...