Pastor’s Corner Pastor Tim Valentine | Quarry Rock Church Luke 15: 1-7 (NIV)Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”Then Jesus...
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Letter From the Editor
These maddening April showers may well bring Spring flowers, but before that happens they’ll cancel a lot of high school sports and clear out my pages.Neither I, your dutiful editor, nor anyone else can do much to quell the churching skies and rapid winds of South...
Dell Rapids Community Fund looks to help local community projects
Sara Stadem | Writer Do you know a local non-profit organization looking for funding assistance or are you looking to volunteer to help support those non-profit organizations? If your answer is yes to either of those questions, the Dell Rapids Community Fund might be...
Baltic 6th Grade Students Graduate D.A.R.E
Baltic sixth-grade class gathers after graduating from the D.A.R.E Program. Grace Wolff | Staff Intern Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E. as it is more commonly referred to as, is a worldwide program that was started in 1983 to help educate students from...
Libraries Across Minnehaha Celebrated National Library Week
Abby Mitchell | Staff Intern As a hub of knowledge and resources, the library is one of the most important places in any town. The first full week of April recognizes the importance of libraries by celebrating National Library Week, officially recognized as April 7-13...
New county candidates observe April 23 commission meeting
Dave Baumeister | County correspondent SIOUX FALLS – Three new county commission candidates were all on-hand Tuesday, April 23, to see how commission meetings work.While Commissioners Jean Bender and Dean Karsky both have their current terms ending at the end of this...
Historic Preservation Grant Awarded to the First National Bank of Dell Rapids
PIERRE— The First National Bank of Dell Rapids recently was awarded a matching grant from the South Dakota State Historical Society, as announced by Jenna Carlson Dietmeier, interim State Historic Preservation Officer.The grants are awarded through the State...
Business Census
APRIL 23, 2024 – Businesses have one more week to respond to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES). Data collection for the AIES began March 15. The due date for businesses to respond is April 30. Businesses that require more time to...
Pastor’s Corner
Pastor Jeff Sorenson | The Lutheran Church of Dell Rapids What was it like to gather to worship God in 1874, 150 years ago, when Dell Rapids was just a handful of homes on the River – and the congregation I serve, the Lutheran Church of Dell Rapids, was first...
Senate Democrats Can’t Sweep the Border Crisis Under the Rug
Senator John Thune For the 22nd time in American history, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached a federal official: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House put forward serious charges regarding the secretary’s actions as a...