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This is a legislative resolution from the 2023 session that proposes to change outdated male-only references to South Dakota’s governor and other officials in the state constitution and statutes.The Attorney General's explanation offers the following example: When referencing the Governor, instead...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Referred Law 21: Carbon pipeline regulations
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A group called the South Dakota Property Rights and Local Control Alliance gathered enough valid signatures to place Referred Law 21 on the ballot.That means voters can choose to keep or kill Senate Bill 201, passed during the 2024 session as part of a legislative package known as the “Landowner...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Gonzalez leads C-EB to top honors at Todd County Invite
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Sophomore Xavier Sanchez-Gonzalez won the individual title and the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte boys won the varsity team title at the Todd County Cross Country Invitational held at the Prairie Hills Golf Course near Mission on Tuesday, Oct. 1.The Braves ran at the Wall XC Invitational on Tuesday, Oct. 8,...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tiger gridders fall to 3-3 with loss to Harding County-Bison
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Harding County-Bison switched up strategies last week and instead of attacking the Dupree Tigers with their potent ground game, the Ranchers did it from the air.Quarterback Hayden Pihl threw for 178 yards and three touchdowns to lift No.5-ranked HC-Bison past the Tigers 26-14 last Friday, Oct.4.The...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Multiple departments respond to grass fire north of Glad Valley
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Fire departments from nearly a dozen area communities turned out to fight a grass fire north of Glad Valley on Saturday evening, Oct. 5, that was fueled by high winds.Crews from Glad Valley, Lemmon, Bison, Grand River, Keldron, Morristown, Isabel, Timber Lake, Dupree, Eagle Butte, and the BIA...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Fall Festival
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
There’s not a crazy man with a knife loose in Timber Lake ... that’s just a cardboard cutout of Jason from the Halloween horror movie series hanging out in the front yard of Bruce Schweitzer along with some scary pumpkins, a toxic waste barrel and more. Photo by Jon Flatland
Meals on Wheels offers alternative for seniors affected by site closures
Jon Flatland
After being reminded by the state that it remains under contract to provide services through September 2025, Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc. this week unveiled an alternative delivery method for Meals on Wheels clients affected by the closure of area senior nutrition sites.Western SD...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Dewey County begins planning to replace Bear Creek Bridge on Co. 22 north of Lantry
Kathy Nelson
After hearing a bridge inspection report from engineer Steven Myer of IMEG Engineering of Aberdeen on October 3, the Dewey County Commissioners agreed that planning should begin for replacing the Bear Creek bridge on County Road 22 north of Lantry.Myer said that all the other five county bridges...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
With Halloween and hoops season just around the corner, a skeleton hangs around the Brent and Kaleigh Biegler residence in Timber Lake looking for a game of “horse.” Photo by Jon Flatland
Boney Baller ...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tribe prepared to impose fines over former BIA/Tribal building
Jon Flatland
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council last week approved a pair of resolutions calling for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to allow the former BIA/tribal headquarters land in Eagle Butte to be reverted back to tribal ownership and calling upon the federal government to demolish the building by the...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024