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Wagner High School Theatre Department will be performing two One-Act plays for their Spring Play. How to Kiss a Girl by Wade Bradford.

Feeding South Dakota food distribution will be held Friday, March 24 at the Scotland Community Church at 8:45 a.m.; the Tyndall Fire Hall at 10:30 a.m. and at the Avon Fire Hall at 12 noon.

The last week of session was a huge success!

The 4th grade have been working on coding this semester. Today they were putting their skills to the test using Sphero Bolts. The Bolts are a small robotic ball that the school wasable to get through a STEM grant.

Andes Central archery kids competed in a NASP (National Archery in Schools Program) competition in Colton Saturday, March 4th. The group shot in both bulleyesand 3D rounds.

After 40 years as a doctor interacting with patients, in the last two and a half years the tables turned, and I’ve become the patient.

The 98th Legislative Session is finished. It was a great session, historical, in the fact that we delivered the largest tax cut in South Dakota history and will keep $104 million dollars in the pockets of our taxpayers by cutting sales tax by 4.5% to 4.2%.

The final week of the 2023 Legislative Session was not without some challenges. It is important to review the history behind the sales tax to understand the Legislature’s tax cut. In 2016 the SD Legislature passed HB1137 which increased the state sales tax to 4.5%. The tax had been 4% since 1969.