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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion organizations in Wagner have decided to cancel the annual Memorial Day Program. In light of the fact that the majority of those who attend the program are in the high risk for infection category, it was determined that it isn’t worth the risk of infecting those veterans and their families.
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Brenda (Bucholz) Jennings, 59, died Saturday, May 9, 2020 at her home in Bancroft. A private family service was held May 16 at Osthus Funeral Home in De Smet. Burial followed at Le- Sueur Cemetery, rural Bancroft.
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Due to current health concerns, private funeral services for Dale A. Petrik, 55, of Wagner were held Friday, May 1 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Wagner. The service was streamed and may be viewed at the St. John Lutheran Church youtube channel. Burial was in the ZCBJ Cemetery, rural Wagner.
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Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives in eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota honor some of the area’s most impressive high school seniors each year through the Scholar of the Week program. Every week throughout the school year, the region's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, in partnership with Dakota News Now, select a Scholar of the Week who sets an example of hard work and high academic standards. The weekly winners are featured on Dakota News Now and each student receives a $250 award from their local electric co-op.
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The weather may not have cooperated with those wanting to come out and enjoy the free fishing this past weekend, but it didn't seem to stop them as the shores were lined with anxious anglers hoping to reel in the big one . Photo by Barb Pechous
Read moreThe headlines have been grim. Seventeen bodies piled up in the morgue at a New Jersey nursing home. Fifty-five residents dead in Brooklyn, N.Y. In one week, 104 residents dead in a facility in western Pennsylvania and 102 dead at a home in San Antonio. In Detroit 26 percent of nursing home residents and staff test positive for the coronavirus.
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