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Arthur Wissman Unit #150 recently sponsored the Americanism Essay and Poetry Contests. The essay theme was 'What America the Beautiful Means to Me' and the poetry theme was 'Honor Our Heroes.

$500 available to graduating high school seniors in four-county area Graduating seniors from four area South Dakota counties are invited to apply for the $500 Shelly Schuh Memorial scholarship.

AJ Johnson This week’s featured Andes Central senior is AJ Johnson. AJ is the son of Brian and Kathy John-son. AJ has four siblings Alex, Joey, Baylee and Claire. During his high school years, AJ has been active in National Honor Society, JAG, football, basketball and track.

TABOR - The annual District 8 Spring Meeting of the South Dakota American Legion will be held Saturday, March 29, 2025, in Tabor for Legionnaires from Turner, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson and Yankton counties. The Legion business session will begin at 1:00 p.m.

Part of the job of being a middle school and high school counselor is offering student discussions as well as teaching students the skills that are needed to be able to cope with everyday life as they navigate the current world as adolescents.

April Hollingsworth One of this week’s WCS seniors featured in this week’s senior spotlights is April Hollingsworth. April is the daughter of Melissa Ulmer.

Effective medical diagnosis depends not just on looking, but on truly perceiving. Recognizing this, many medical training programs have adopted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) discussions about art to enhance students’ skills in nuanced observation, inference, and communication.

National Newspapers in Education Week was celebrated March 2-8. We would like to recognize and applaud Avon School District’s own Jolly Roger staff for all of their creativity and hard work that they put into putting the Jolly Roger together.

Andes Central hosted an instrumental contest that was supposed to be held at Gregory on Monday February 24th. The contest began at 8:30 a.m. in the school’s library. Families were welcome to attend.

Emery Bultje This week’s featured Andes Central senior is Emery Bultje. Emery is the daughter of Brice and Darci Bultje. She has an older sister, Riata, and a younger sister, Marin.