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STURGIS — Meade School District has been approved to serve meals to all students at no charge under a recent USDA waiver.
LEAD — A nationwide waiver will the operation of the Summer Food Service Program through Dec. 31, or for as long as federal funding is available which will allow the Lead-Deadwood School District to provide free meals.
BELLE FOURCHE — The Belle Fourche School District has been approved to serve free meals to all children 0-18 years old through December or when federal funding has expired.
NEW YORK (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — South Dakota Department of Health officials on Sunday reported 412 new cases of the coronavirus, for a total of 2,849 positive tests in seven days and 21,541 cases since the pandemic began.
STURGIS — Disbarred Sturgis lawyer Rena Hymans is facing new charges alleging that she took money from the estate of a second client.
DEADWOOD — The proposition of having a satellite learning center for Western Dakota Technical College’s (WDT) licensed practical nurse program is so popular that the institution was forced to find a larger facility in Whitewood to house the venture. Now Hale Hall, located at 1016 Meade St., …
SPEARFISH — A new Little Free Library was recently installed at the dog park between Green Acres and Mountain Shadows in Spearfish. Jan Bloom, Mountain View Elementary librarian, and Anton Peterson, ALEC Room coordinator at Spearfish Middle School, met this summer while passing out school me…
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DEADWOOD — Lead-Deadwood scored on its first four possessions and defeated Rapid City Central’s junior varsity 44-18 in the Golddiggers’ homecoming football game Friday night at Ferguson Field.
SPEARFISH — Rigel Roberdeau was on the field Oct. 8, 2016, when Spearfish defeated Tea Area 3-0 to earn the state A boys’ soccer title. He recalled the scene that day in Sioux Falls.
DEADWOOD — Lead-Deadwood scored on its first four possessions and defeated Rapid City Central's junior varsity 44-18 in the Golddiggers' homecoming football game Friday night at Ferguson Field.
MINOT, N.D. — An Australian has found a home in South Dakota, thanks to a South Dakota cowboy.
STURGIS — The Spearfish Lady Spartans volleyball team was down two sets to none, but rallied to defeat Sturgis Brown 24-26, 23-25, 25-20, 25-16, and 15-9, Tuesday night in Sturgis.
BELLE FOURCHE — Spearfish varsity girls’ and boys’ soccer teams shut out Belle Fourche, Tuesday, at the Black Hills Roundup sports complex.
LEAD — Lead-Deadwood’s football homecoming game against Chamberlain, scheduled for Friday night in Deadwood, has been canceled due to the fact that the Chamberlain School District has entered into eLearning for the rest of this week and as such, they have suspended all activities for grades…
Peggy L. Flynn, 67, of Whitewood, passed away April 22, 2020 i…
Carol Janet Taggart, 83, of Lead died Sept. 22, 2020, at Monu…
Roger George Hanson, 77, Sturgis, died Sept. 16, 2020, at the …
James Bellantino, 64, of Spearfish, died on Sept. 21, 2020, a…
Delores Mahoney, 77, of Alva Wyo., Sept. 20, 2020, in Sioux Falls.
Gale Edward “Jack” Van Sickel, 93, of Sturgis died Sept. 15, 2…
Joyce passed away at her daughters home on Sept. 17, 2020. She…
Opinion
OPINION — Curses upon Facebook. A pox upon Twitter, and Republicans and Democrats and China and Russia and MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. But, mostly curses upon Facebook.
OPINION — I received this email from a long-time retired reader. “I’ve been reading a lot of stuff that says we may not have Social Security income before too long. This concerns me, of course — if my partner loses his Social Security as well as his federal retirement and I lose my Social S…
OPINION — So where are we really with a vaccine for the coronavirus? At least five pharmaceutical companies have a vaccine in late-stage clinical trials. Yes, this is a historically fast response to the COVID pandemic, and we frequently hear about concerns in the media and from the populatio…
OPINION — What a mess. As if 2020 has not been complicated enough, the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made this year’s presidential election even more atrocious than it was before.
OPINION — By the time he was eight, my son knew he wanted to become a mechanical engineer. He also was clear that he would attend the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, one of the better value engineering schools in the nation. He never wavered on that intention, enrolling in SDSM&…
OPINION — Let’s take a look today at the status of the vaccines currently in the final stages (called phase 3) of development.
OPINION — Bob Woodward helped topple an American president. He and reporter Carl Bernstein did most of the reporting in the Washington Post about the 1972 Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up by the Richard Nixon administration, which eventually led to Nixon’s resignation and Geral…
OPINION — Ever since Stephen R. Covey published “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” in 1989, we’ve seen variations of “Seven Successful Habits” on about everything. Here is my version as applied to investing.
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