Little House Living Merissa Alink Food is an expensive part of any budget. In our home, we utilize many ways to save money on groceries like buying in bulk, buying from a food coop, and more. Just because we have to eat doesn’t mean we need to pay a lot of money to do...
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Insights from your McCook Central School Board
Board Bulletin The 2024 - 2025 School Year calendar has been approved and can be found on the School District’s website: mccookcentral.k12.sd.us. Due to more snow days than accounted for in the original school calendar, McCook Central has added two school days for...
Where are you going for heaven’s sake
You, Me & Jesus Sue Schmidt | Correspondent Near the end of his life, John was a prisoner on the island of Patmos for approximately a year and a half because he refused to stop preaching the Gospel. The island was an isolated rocky and inhospitable prison fifty...
This or that
Carla Snyders | NCP Writer There are days in life when I literally have to ask myself, what am I going to do today, this or that?I know not everyone has that option. Many people have their days mapped out for them. Their schedule is set in stone and everything that...
Salem Community Library information
Please note that the Salem Community Library will be closed Saturday, March 30 for the Easter holiday weekend. They will be open again April 6.
St. Mary’s to host fish bake
St. Mary’s Church in Salem will be hosting a fish bake on Friday, March 15 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Hall located one block west of Highway 81 on Vermont Ave. in Salem.Also, a gluten-free meal will be offered from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.A freewill offering will be...
$18.825 million for Lewis & Clark in FY24 Approps Bill
The FY24 Energy & Water Appropriations Bill that received final congressional approval by the Senate on March 8 includes $18.825 million for the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. This total includes the $6.825 million proposed by the Administration in its...
“Shop Local Bingo” wraps up in Salem
“SHOP LOCAL BINGO” CONTRIBUTES TO FOOD PANTRY The recently concluded “Shop Local Bingo” game, sponsored by the Salem SD Chamber of Commerce and played at participating Salem businesses by their shoppers, generated these items to be donated to the McCook County Food...
How high will you go?
Paws for thought Joyce Tieszen Tegtmeier | Correspondent Around 16 months ago we adopted our cat Marble from our backyard after we realized she’d been using our basement window well for her bed. Marble is an indoor cat now. The more comfortable that Marble gets in our...
News from the Capitol
Representative Jessica Bahmuller The 99th session of the South Dakota Legislature is in the books, except for veto day on March 25 to consider any vetoes that may be made by the Governor. As with most legislative sessions, this one had its own personality.Last session...