Making Christmas Bright

Collin Grage of the Moreau-Grand Electric Co-op strings Christmas lights on the large evergreen outside the Timber Lake Community Center last Friday, Nov. 22.

Martin resigns from TL School supt. post, board begins search process

The Timber Lake School Board has hired a Sioux Falls-based recruiting company to aid in its search for a new superintendent after current superintendent Dan Martin tendered his resignation last Wednesday, Nov.13, effective at the end of June 2025.

SHERIFFS’ REPORTS

Corson County Sheriff Alan DaleNovember 610:17 a.m. assisted Standing Rock Child Protection Services with removing a juvenile from a home in McLaughlin.November 82:24 a.m. responded to a residence in McLaughlin for a domestic assault. Investigation was turned over to BIA Police.3:05 a.m.

Sobriety checkpoints planned across 17 counties in November

South Dakota law enforcement agencies are conducting sobriety checkpoints in 17 different counties during November.The counties with checkpoints are Brule, Jones, Walworth, Bennett, Codington, Davison, Hanson, Lake, Lawrence, Lincoln, Meade, Moody, Pennington, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink and Yankton.

Jury acquits Colorado man charged in death of Standing Rock member

A jury last week acquitted a man charged with murder and assault following a deadly stabbing at a Fort Collins, CO, gas station in July of last year.Saman Zare was arrested in connection with the July 21, 2023 killing of Duane Brown, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in South Dakota.

Mitchell man sentenced for assaulting federal officer in Eagle Butte incident

A 38-year-old Mitchell man convicted of assaulting, resisting, and impeding a federal officer on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation was sentenced last Tuesday, Nov. 12, to serve time in federal prison.

Dewey Co. Deputy Tristan Sippert among graduates of training program

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley honored 48 recruits who graduated from the Basic Law Enforcement training program in Pierre on Friday, Nov.15, including a deputy from the Dewey County Sheriff ’s Office.