Southern Plains Behavioral Health Services (“SPBHS”) is a community, non-profit agency designed to meet the behavioral health needs of individuals in its catchment area. On August 25, 2026, our electronic medical records (EMR) vendor notified us of a cyber incident that affected its systems and caused a disruption in EMR services provided to SPBHS. After an extensive investigation, on August 7, 2026, the vendor determined that personal information of individuals was affected. Presently, SPBHS is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information involved in this incident.

hoden In 1919, the first South Dakota pheasant season began as a oneday hunt in Spink County. Since then, pheasant hunting has taken South Dakota by storm.

Molly Wetsch Reporter/Report for America Corps Member South Dakota News Watch An official report from the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Postal Service has brought further clarity to ongoing questions of the organization’s performance in South Dakota, nearly a year after one of the state’s congressional members called it into question.

Plans which provided for the election in 1859 were widely published across the country: “ELECTION NOTICE – Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 12th day of September, 1859, at the several Election Precincts in the County of Big Sioux, an Election will be held for the following named officers, to wit: A Governor; Secretary of the Territory; A delegate to Congress; four Members of the House of Representatives; two Members of the Territorial Council; Judge of Probate, a District Attorney, three county Commissioners, a Sheriff, a Register of Deeds, a County Treasurer, a Coroner, two Justices of the Peace, two County Assessors, and two Constables. Election is to be held in the First Precinct at the Dakota House; Second Precinct at the house of Henry Mathers; Third Precinct at the House of Charles Philbrick. Dated this 6th day of August, A. D. 1859. Clerk Board County Commissioners.”

Senior Citizens Center to hold monthly pitch party The Senior Citizens Center will hold their monthly pitch party on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. Feel free to bring a friend..

Danica Zomer, CSW-PIP There’s a popular children’s book entitled, “Are You My Mother?” by P.D. Eastman, where a mother bird leaves her nest in search of food and while she is gone the egg hatches.