Construction workers are reflected in the northern glass wall of USDs new Wellness Center Tuesday as the scaffolding they are standing on is lowered from the buildings roof. Personnel are busy putting the finishing touches on the structures exterior to prepare it for its grand opening Tuesday. (Photo by David … Read Article
Gov. Dennis Daugaard�s proposal to cut 10 percent from the Medicaid budget has left some local organizations grappling with how they will reduce expenses. One of these entities � SESDAC, Inc., which assists people with development disabilities � currently receives about 80 percent of its funding through Medicaid. In addition, 100 percent of its clients … Read Article
Vermillion School Superintendent Mark Froke has always preferred to look ahead while planning for the next school year and the challenges facing the school district in providing a high quality education to all students. At Monday night�s meeting of the Vermillion School Board, while discussing the ramifications of Gov. Dennis … Read Article
Vermillion Hy-Vee store director Steve Parker, second from left, presents a Macbook laptop computer to St. Agnes kindergarten teacher Kathy Crowley. Moments earlier, Parker and staff from the local Hy-Vee carried in a new SMART Board to present to the students during a special ceremony during a in the school … Read Article
The South Dakota Highway Patrol has sobriety checkpoints scheduled in February in the following counties: Beadle, Brown, Brule, Charles Mix, Codington, Fall River, Hyde, Lake, Lincoln, Pennington, Spink, Stanley and Yankton. For sobriety checkpoint text message alerts, visit actcivilized.com.
Sharing the Dream invites the public to join in an evening filled with entertainment, information and a newly produced video at its Winter Fiesta, scheduled Friday, Feb. 4, at Pro�s, 912 N. Dakota St., Vermillion. Sharing the Dream�s live auction items are now available online at www.sharingthedream.org on the Auction … Read Article
The Southeastern South Dakota Gospel Singing Convention will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, in the First Baptist Church in Vermillion. The church is located at 101 East Main. The singing convention is a nondenominational effort to preserve the singing of old familiar hymns and Southern Gospel type … Read Article
The South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service is offering Master Gardener training this spring in Yankton at the Yankton County Extension Office. The application deadline is April 14. The Master Gardener Program is open to anyone who has an interest in gardening or horticulture. Most people participate in the program because … Read Article
The Vermillion Rotary Club held its weekly luncheon meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at the Neuharth Media Center on the campus of USD. President John Prescott opened the meeting and led us in the invocation and recitation of the Rotary 4-Way test of the things we think, say, and do. … Read Article
History of the senior center written by Nila Fostvedt: Sept.1978 – Hazel Merrigan was a human bookmobile. To many senior citizens and shut-ins in Vermillion she was a welcome visitor whose visits were eagerly awaited. They were people who couldn't get to the library. Each week she would get books … Read Article
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