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It was a very touching and unique start to the game as various branches of military were represented for the National Anthem and Presentation of the Colors at Armour Friday evening as the TDA/AC/DC Thunderhawks hosted the Burke Cougars.

The Wagner Community Memorial Hospital-Avera was a recipient of a memorial gift. The Don Novak family graciously presented the staff with a baby scale, which will be used to obtain an accurate weight and length. Accurate weights are needed when calculating medication doses to babies and toddlers.

In 1879, a 16-year-old boy told his parents he wanted to learn how to build machinery. He moved nine miles away from his parents’ farm to take an apprenticeship as a machinist at a shipbuilding firm in Detroit.

Governor Kristi Noem rolled up her sleeves to try her hand at 3-D printing in Rapid City and completing circuits in Sioux Falls. These are a couple of the potential jobs that high schoolers could participate in next spring during the upcoming South Dakota Week of Work.

South Dakota State University researchers were busy the past year, increasing the university’s research expenditures by more than $4 million. Expenditures increased from $63.5 million in fiscal year 2018 to $67.6 million this past year, a rise of 6.5%.

Last Saturday, four boys from Woonsocket were going to drive onto Highway 37 but were struck by an SUV. Three died. Only one survived. When tragedies like this happen, communities grieve and hold onto what is dear.

PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Department of Transportation reminds land owners hay remaining in highway ditches after Oct. 1 is deemed illegal. After Oct. 1, the department will remove or authorize the removal of any illegal hay bales remaining in the public right of way.

It seems as though many producers I talk to can’t wait for 2019 to be over. With the cold, snow, rains, mud, roads damaged, delayed or no planting, continued mud, hay and small grain harvest delays, etc. it has been quite a struggle thus far.

The Senate is back in session, which means we are traveling back to Washington for votes, committee hearings and meetings with constituents who visit the Capitol to advocate for their issues.

THINKING ABOUT HEALTH Are e-cigarettes becoming the next public health hazard?