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Praising free speech while trampling on it
It was Newspaper Day 2020 at the South Dakota Legislature. The morning was filled with press conferences featuring the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties. Then newspaper editors and publishers hosted a lunch at the Ramkota for their legislators, using the time to explain why House Bill 1241, which sought to change the definition of a legal newspaper, was such a bad idea.
From small-town SD to Nashville
LESTERVILLE, S.D. (KELO) – Tennessee might be the birthplace of country music, but out on a South Dakota farmhouse’s front porch, you can feel the soul of the music. “This is where country music is,” singer/songwriter Elizabeth Jo said. “We live the life of country music. I think it’s a lifestyle. I think it’s a way of life and family and friends and love stories, sad stories.”
Court ruling will keep abortion question on ballot in South Dakota
A state court judge's ruling Monday keeps an abortion-rights question on the November ballot in South Dakota.Judge John Pekas dismissed a lawsuit filed by an anti-abortion group, Life Defense Fund, that sought to have the question removed even though supporters turned in more than enough valid signatures to put it on the ballot."They have thrown everything they could dream up to stop the people of South Dakota from voting on this matter," Adam Weiland, co-founder of Dakotans for Health, said in a statement after the ruling. "This is another failed effort by a small group opposed to giving women the...
Cows at the State Fair Must be Tested for Bird Flu
HURON, S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) There will be a new requirement specifically for dairy cows during the South Dakota State Fair that starts next month. Exhibitors must test all lactating cows for avian flu within seven days before they’re brought onto the State Fairgrounds in Huron. Cows in five dairy herds in South Dakota have tested positive for the highly contagious virus in recent months.
South Dakota's mosquito war
A South Dakota county with the second-highest national rate of lethal West Nile virus in humans shares a border with a county that has never reported a single case. Between 1999 and 2023, Dewey County recorded 13.74 neuroinvasive cases per 100,000 people, just behind King County in Texas, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Neuroinvasive refers to those more serious cases that can affect the brain and can be deadly.
S.D. Education Equity Coalition denounces exclusion of Indigenous perspectives at Civics and History Summit
The South Dakota Education Equity Coalition (SDEEC) is raising serious concerns about the recent South Dakota Department of Education’s (SDDOE) 2024 Civics and History Summit held in Sioux Falls. The summit, despite its expansive agenda, glaringly omitted substantial Indigenous representation, effectively marginalizing the largest minority group in the state’s public school system.
Century Club’s current oldest living South Dakotan has Gettysburg connections
Hazel Baumberger has been honored as the 2024 South Dakota Centenarian of the Year by the South Dakota Health Care Association’s Century Club, along with KELOLAND Media Group. Born in January of 1916, Baumberger is 108 years old, and is the current oldest member of the Century Club. Baumberger...
Area youth represent South Dakota in national Junior High, Little Britches rodeos
Ten area cowboys and cowgirls competed recently in national rodeo competitions in Iowa and Oklahoma. Ace Lammers of Henry competed in the Junior High National Finals Rodeo June 23-29 at Des Moines and joined Brylee and Beau Redlin of South Shore, Kinley Rymerson of Watertown, Isabella and Addy VanLith of Big Stone City, Addyson and Haydyn Wiesner of Clear Lake, Carter Stemwedel of Watertown and Reo Lammers of Henry in qualifying for the National Little Britches Finals Rodeo June 30-July 6 at Guthrie, Okla.
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