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The Bon Homme Community Choir is making final preparations for the 2026 Easter Cantata. 'Savior, Jesus Messiah' is the title for this years Easter Cantata. The choir once again is directed by Autumn Schultz the Avon High School music teacher.

JOHNSTON, IOWA (February 17, 2025) – When communities come together, lives are saved. Blood donation is one of the most direct ways to support your community, local hospitals, and families in need. It takes just one hour to donate blood, but the impact lasts far longer.

10 Years Ago - 2016 The Avon Museum will hold an open house on April 13th. Herb Yost was honored for his 50 years of service in the Avon American Legion. Senior Spotlights in the Jolly Roger were Courtney Steward and Jacob Wages.

PIERRE, SD – Resilience. It’s one of the prizes that keeps conservation-minded land managers striving for improved soil health. Operational resilience in the face of floods, market fluctuations, rising input costs,extremetemperatures,andofcourse,drought.

Week 9 is over, and the 2026 legislative session is in the books. With our first calves already on the ground, I’m ready to trade long floor sessions for calving night checks, feeding chores and more time back home with Lauren, Michael, and Catherine.

We have completed the 9 week legislative session and what a journey it has been. The legislature has acted on over 600 bills, resolutions and commemorations. The largest amount since the 90s.

Every year I ask my students, “How old is old?” The answers vary, but the most honest response I’ve ever received came from a patient who said, “Old is 10 years older than my age.” We all tend to push aging just out of reach, as though it belongs to someone else.

The Lady Raiders opened up the late night session on day 1 by taking on the defending state Champs the Sioux Falls ChristianChargers. Itwasa very physical game from the go as SFC would take a 15-12 lead after the first quarter. Wagner would battle back to knot the game up at 23-23 at half.

The opioid crisis isn’t something happening “somewhere else.” It’s affecting families, friends, and neighbors in communities all across South Dakota. That’s why having simple, life-saving tools readily available matters so much.

Just a few months ago, Wagner Communities That Care (CTC) coalition partnered with Buche Foods-Wagner and Emily’s Hope to celebrate an important step forward in community health with the installation of a public naloxone distribution box-making the life-saving medication more accessible to anyone...