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Koel seeks salvage business permits
A new salvage business received approval on Tuesday to conduct business, but the item has been put back on the county agenda for further discussion on June ...
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Local Memorial Day programs planned
Two programs will be held in Madison. St. Thomas Church hosts a 9 a.m. Mass at St. Thomas Cemetery. In case of inclement weather, the service will be moved to St. Thomas Church. Madison's Memorial Day program is at 10 a.m. in the Madison VFW with a flag ceremony to follow at the Lake County Courthouse. Guest speaker this year is Richard Stearns of Madison, who served in the U.S. Army. The ...
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Bulldogs drop heartbreaker to DeuelDeubrook
The season for the Madison Bulldogs club baseball team came to a crushing halt on Thursday at Baughman-Belatti Park. Deuel/Deubrook edged past the Bulldogs 3-2 in the region ...
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Landowners want acres annexed into Deadwood
DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- Four landowners along Highway 85 between Deadwood and Spearfish want about 700 acres of property annexed into the city of ...
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Mother of 3 kids killed in fire faces more charges
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls woman charged with drug possession and child neglect after a December fire that killed her three children is facing more charges for drug use and failure to ...
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Corps study addresses Missouri River sediment
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a new study indicates that high discharge, short duration reservoir releases out of Fort Randall Dam could help flush fine sediment out of the Missouri ...
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Casino petition calls for Iowa mayor to resign
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- An online petition is calling for the mayor of Sioux City to resign over his role in replacing the Argosy riverboat casino with a Hard Rock-branded ...
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Body of missing 81-year-old South Dakota man found
Eighty-one- year-old LeRoy Nye was reported missing early Sunday after he left in the middle of the night without his medication for dementia while visiting family in St. ...
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Powerball ticket sold in Rapid City worth $10000
South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win the game's third prize. The odds of doing so are one in about ...
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State to sell Platte to Napa abandoned rail line
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Railroad Board is planning to sell an abandoned railroad line from Platte to Napa Junction near Yankton next ...
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Yard waste fire at Rapid City landfill nearly out
When the blaze broke out on May 16, firefighters said they would let it burn itself out, a process that could take as long as two weeks. But City Solid Waste Superintendent Karl Merbach says officials have gained control of the fire and will extinguish it ...
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SD falls short of walleye egg collection goal
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A cold and snowy April set back fish spawning in South Dakota and complicated the efforts of state wildlife officials to collect walleye eggs from Lake Oahe and eight eastern ...
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SD governor calling special legislative session
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Wednesday he will call the South Dakota Legislature into a special session sometime in late June to deal with cost overruns in the construction of a new State Veterans Home in Hot ...
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Olson Opdahl each claim three first-place medals
Oldham-Ramona-Rutland's BreeAna Olson won three individual events and placed second in another event at the Region 2B Track and Field Meet in Chester on ...
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CRP faces challenges as next signup period looms
Enrolling the land into CRP made economic sense when he did it, in some cases as long as 20 years ago. But times have changed, and Asp now can do better, financially, farming the land than letting it sit idle in CRP. "The returns (from farming the land) today project a lot better than they did when I enrolled it," Asp says. He's not alone. Attractive crop prices since 2007 have ...
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Fire stems from controlled burn
Madison firefighters manned two fire trucks on Thursday afternoon in response to an emergency call from the Mustang Seed facility located just west of the city's Lakeview Industrial ...
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Coach teacher principal says farewell after 47 years
Madison Elementary Principal Dan Walsh sits with his granddaughter Peyton Baum and her mother, Kathy Walsh, on Wednesday during a special program recognizing his years of ...
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Memorial Day program moves to VFW Club
The annual Madison Memorial Day program has a new location this year. Due to construction under way at Madison High School, the program is planned for the VFW on Monday at 10 a.m. The flag ceremony will follow at the courthouse. Richard Stearns, U.S. Army retired, is this year's featured speaker. He was born and raised in Madison, graduated form General Beadle High School and entered the ...
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County health plan reflects changes
New fees attached to each person enrolled in a healthcare plan are set to go into effect in 2014, and the county's employee health insurance plan is no ...
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South Dakota farm income from crop sales increases
In 2012, all operating income from the crop enterprises accounted for 50.4 percent of the total farm income. This is further broken down into crop sales of 35 percent, crop insurance claims of 13.3 percent, and government payments of 2.1 percent. This is an increase of 9.3 percent over the same categories in ...
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Bulldogs place fifth in State A Tournament
The Madison Lady Bulldogs placed fifth in the State A Girls' Golf Tournament at Pine Hills Golf Course in Milbank. The second day of the tournament was washed out by the weather, so the scores from the first day were the only ones ...
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Derek Hough wants to expand career beyond Stars
NEW YORK (AP) -- Derek Hough has made it to the finals of the 16th edition of "Dancing With the Stars," which wraps Tuesday, but he almost didn't return to the ABC show this ...
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In top coal state gas could fuel next power plant
Black Hills Corp. subsidiaries Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power and Black Hills Power are building the Cheyenne Prairie Generating Station on the outskirts of Cheyenne. The companies held a groundbreaking ceremony for the power plant ...
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Recent rains lift spirits of SD farmers ranchers
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- State Climatologist Dennis Todey (TAH'dee) says recent rains across much of South Dakota have improved the outlook for farmers and ranchers hurt by a year-long ...
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Leaky Deadwood library closed indefinitely
DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- So many leaks have sprung in the roof of the Deadwood Public Library that officials say they were forced to close it ...
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South Dakota may turn ancient site into state park
Blood Run is a 1000 acre archeological site on the South Dakota-Iowa border, it is an area that was inhabited for over 8,500 years until the 1700s and became a place of primary importance to the Oneota people and later the Native American Omaha tribe, which now resides on the Omaha Reservation which straddles Nebraska and Iowa. The site is one of immense cultural, historical and symbolic important and there are plans afoot to turn it into a state park for the enjoyment of all.
The site is already a U.S National Historic Landmark and is part of the U.S National Register of Historic Places due to the fact that it contains ancient structures built by the Oneota people. Oneota is a designation used by archeologists in referring to a cultural complex that occupied the Great Lakes and eastern plains regions between AD900 and the 1700s. Read more
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