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Birds suffer series sweep at Sioux City
Sioux City, IA (Canaries) – The Sioux Falls Canaries suffered their sixth consecutive loss on Sunday, falling to Sioux City 9-6 at Lewis and Clark Park. Mike Hart opened the scoring with an RBI double in the first inning but the Explorers tied things up in the bottom half with an unearned run. A run-scoring […]
Arina Haugen caps freshman season with All-Around Rookie Cowgirl title at National High School Finals Rodeo
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — Arina Haugen joined a rare South Dakota company on July 20. The Sturgis High School sophomore-to-be claimed the All-Around Rookie Cowgirl title at the National High School Finals Rodeo. She’s just the third South Dakotan to earn the honor, joining Buffalo’s Kayla Nelson (1999) and Faith’s Dusti Varland (2004).
Krohn, Barger, Tesch, Chaney and Erickson win at I-90
HARTFORD, S.D. (KELO) — The I-90 Speedway season continued Saturday in Hartford. In the Hobby Stocks, Landon Krohn claimed the win. Lee Goos Jr and Nick Barger faced off in a King of the Hill battle, and Barger came away as the winner. Tyler Tesch picked up his third win on the year in the […]
Spearfish girl wins scholarship with Duck tape prom dress
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - The end of the school year is the time many high schoolers use to find scholarships. Victoria Schoenherr was no different, searching the internet for fashion and design scholarships to help her pay tuition at the University of Northern Colorado. She stumbled upon Duck Tape’s Stuck at Prom Scholarship contest, sent the information to her dad, and the next day had rolls of Duck tape waiting to be made into an award-worthy dress.
Countdown to 84th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: Town and vendors prep
STURGIS, S.D. - The 84th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is less than two weeks away. While people in the area are readying themselves for the increased number of visitors on two wheels, the preparation process for the town of Sturgis is well underway. "It's like preparing for every motorcycle rally...
State University Student Seth Martens Awarded Schaefer Scholarship
ABERDEEN, S.D. – Northern State University is proud to announce that Seth Martens, a physical education major in the teacher education program, has been awarded the Schaefer Scholarship for the 2024 academic year. This $1,000 scholarship, named in honor of the late educator Gloria Schaefer, is awarded annually to one junior or senior attending a South Dakota college.
Cornbelt teams wrapped up the regular season this weekend.
Cornbelt league baseball teams wrapped up their regular season games over the weekend. The Madison Broncos closed out their league schedule with a 17-2 win in 5 innings over the Flandreau Blue Teal on Saturday. Aspen Dahl drove in 5 runs. Peyton Wolf, Dawson Bakker, Mitch McNary, and Jared Kennington each had 2 RBI.
Preparing for emerald ash borer
In early July, the emerald ash borer was confirmed in Brookings County. Officials at South Dakota State University, however, have been preparing for its arrival for around a decade. Emerald ash borer is a boring beetle that feeds on all species of North American ash. It was first detected in...
City Of Pierre Marks End Of Griffin Park Tennis Court Rehab
The City of Pierre has formally closed out a project to resurface the tennis courts in Griffin Park. Parks and Recreation Director Bryan Tipton says a grant from the United States Tennis Association help make the project possible…. Tipton says the courts have seen a lot of play since the...
Queensrÿche Coming to Sioux Falls
Queensrÿche is bringing The Origins Tour to The Alliance in Sioux Falls on Saturday, October 26 with special guest Jared James Nichols. Tickets start at $32.50 plus applicable fees and go on sale Friday, July 26, at 10 a.m. “We are thrilled to bring to you ‘The Origins Tour!’...
Sioux Falls area nonprofits receive $600k from Beyond Idea Grant
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Seven nonprofits in the Sioux Falls area received a share of $600,000 in grants on Monday for community-based problem-solving efforts. In partnership with the Bush Foundation, the South Dakota Community Foundation awarded the grants through their Beyond Idea Grant program. SDCF has awarded nearly $3.6 million dollars from the Beyond Idea Grant program since 2022.
How does Terry Redlin Elementary rank according to the South Dakota state report card?
RAPID CITY, S.D. — South Dakota maintains a state Report Card system that grades each public school on a variety of metrics. We are sharing the results of the report card for every school to see how each school measures up. It is worth noting that these statistics only...
Gannett has few journalists, but plenty of lawyers
It was just a year ago that this space was used to question Gannett’s business plan for its newspapers in South Dakota. A declining amount of local news in the Gannett papers — the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the Watertown Public Opinion and the Aberdeen American News — fostered an effort to change the laws […] The post Gannett has few journalists, but plenty of lawyers appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.
Fall Pickleball League Coming to Madison in August
The sport of pickleball has been around since 1965, but the game’s popularity has exploded in recent years. In 2003 there were estimated to be just 150 courts in 39 locations. Now, America’s fastest growing sport is played by nearly 10 million people on 44-thousand courts across the country.
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