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South Dakota Farmers Union celebrates Brule County farm family

By Lura Roti for South Dakota Farmers Union Calving is underway on the Holan family farm near Pukwana. And like most South Dakota family farms, calving marks the first of many seasons. Once the calves are on the ground, it will be planting season, and then harvest....

Brooklyn Flannery

Montrose Senior ***We would like to apologize to Brooklyn as a few of the answers were not hers. We wanted to make sure her Senior Spotlight was reprinted with her responses. - Montrose Journalistic Design Brooklyn Michelle Flannery is the daughter of Mike and April...

Matthew Casilli

Montrose Senior By: Zaidee Huls Matthew Casilli is the son of Lizette and Todd Casilli, and brother to Dominic and Mason Casilli.If he could live anywhere, he would probably live mainland/rural Portugal. A pet peeve of Matthew’s is weird idioms. The coolest place he...

Connor McGuire

Montrose Senior By: Cami McGuire Connor McGuire is the son of Cheri and Jay McGuire. He is a brother to Cami and Carson McGuire.During high school, Connor was involved in Football, Baseball, Basketball, Track, and Student Council. Connor plans to attend Mitchell Tech...

Carter Jandl

Montrose Senior By: Addi Gordon Carter Jandl is the son of Rebecca Jandl.During high school Carter was involved in football, basketball, track, FFA, NHS, and student council. His favorite class in high school was anatomy because he thought it was very interesting to...

Kellen Kueter

Montrose Senior By: Kasen McIlravy Kellen Kueter is the son of Dean and Tracy Kueter and has one older sister, Hallie.When asked where he would live and why, his response was Montrose because everybody helps each other out and gets along. The song he would sing at...

Stiefvater family receives “FFA Family of the Year” award

“FFA FAMILY OF THE YEAR” AWARDED TO STIEFVATER FAMILY The Elizabeth and late John Stiefvater family, of Salem, received the South Dakota FFA Foundation’s 2024 “Family of the Year” award last week at the State FFA Convention in Brookings, SD, honoring the family’s...

Prescription Take-Back Day is Saturday

Since South Dakota began participating in the National Prescription Take-Back Day in 2017, nearly 53,000 pounds of medication has been collected for destruction through participating law enforcement locations. South Dakotans again have an opportunity to add to that...

Grant awarded to Canova Volunteer Fire Department

OPERATION ROUND-UP GRANT CHECK PRESENTATION Central Electric Cooperative presented a $2,000 Operation Round-Up grant to the Canova Volunteer Fire Department for equipment and supplies. Pictured from left are: Central Electric Manager of Communications Tara Miller,...

Property taxes due on Tuesday

Troy Schwans | Editor By law, South Dakota property owners have until April 30 each year to pay the first half of their real estate and mobile home taxes. If you have not paid your property taxes by now, your time is expiring fast.You may pay your taxes by mail. But,...