Montrose Elementary students Mari Chlebeck Van Leur (right) and Lillian Lias represented the music department at the 2024 Elementary Festival Honor Choir in Brookings, SD on February 8th. These students were selected out of over 700 auditions to be a part of this...
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Two 100-Year-Old Women are Enjoying Life!
100 and Fabulous Lorraine Kappenman (left) and Marcella Bartmann, both who have recently turned 100, enjoy an afternoon together south of Montrose at Bartmann’s home and take a moment to pose for the camera. Two Montrose women, both who recently reached 100 years of...
District 19 Cracker Barrel to be next Saturday in Alexandria
A District 19 Cracker Barrel with legislators Sen. Kyle Schoenfish, Rep. Drew Peterson, and Rep. Jessica Bahmuller will be held on Saturday, February 24 at the Community Room of the Hanson Community Library in Alexandria beginning at 10:00 a.m.Please become involved....
Hanisch on Minnesota State Mankato Dean’s List
The Academic High Honor and Honor lists (Dean’s lists) for the past fall semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato have been announced by Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Hood.Among 3,995 students, a total of 1,227 students qualified...
Salem American Legion Auxiliary to meet
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 140 will meet Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at the Post Home for an evening of crafts.The Unit continues to make cards for our Veterans at the Sioux Falls VA and Hot Springs. If you have a craft that you would like to bring...
Why do we worry about baby teeth?
Celebrating national children’s dental health month Brought to you by McCook County Dental Babies are born with all 20 primary teeth already in their jaws. They begin to break through around 6 months, and the last molars come in between 2-3 years old. Teething pain...
John the Eyewitness
You, me & Jesus Sue Schmidt | Correspondent Jesus, His mother and His disciples attended a wedding in the village of Cana of Galilee. Mary was the first to notice the bride and groom’s supply of wine was dwindling. Mary told Jesus about their dilemma knowing she...
On the other side of the fog!
Carla Snyders | NCP Writer We have had some fog lately, a lot of fog!! It would be fair to say that in the last few weeks there has been fog cover either in the morning lasting most of the day, or it just rolls into the evening leaving very little clear skies in...
Saving money and eating healthy in the winter
Little House Living Merissa AlinkAs South Dakotans, we know that fresh and healthy food can be hard to come by in the winter, not to mention expensive!Just like we can employ money saving strategies during other times of the year and in other ways on our budget, there...
From the South Dakota House
Representative Drew Peterson The halfway point of session came and passed last week. There are no specific deadlines that come with that day, but it is a mark in time that predicts less easy votes and more difficult votes will remain.Two big bills that were voted on...
