As I drove by the athletic field the other day, I saw someone walking on the track and immediately noticed he was doing something wrong — he was walking the wrong direction. He was going clockwise! I started to ponder why I believed clockwise was the wrong direction other than that is just my opinion.

Kelly Johnson, a specialty producer in SD, will share her and her family’s journey of growth and innovation at the SD State Fair Value-Added Agriculture Day located at the Day Sponsor Tent, September 3, from 12:00-12:30 pm. She will be discussing how her operation, Farm Mom Phenom, as well as her family’s operation, TLCK Farm, has benefited from multiple conservation contracts through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), helping them expand both specialty and grain production.

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Belva Serr, formally of rural Dallas, SD, and Kelly Kreinbuhl, formally of rural Iona, SD, were two of the residents at the Avera Rosebud Country Care Center, who helped celebrate national puppy day last Wednesday afternoon.

On August 11, Governor Larry Rhoden advanced national security as South Dakota’s next big industry by granting a $500,000 Future Fund award to the South Dakota Department of the Military (DOM) to support the work of the Governor’s Resilience and Infrastructure Task Force (GRIT).

The Gregory Spikers got off to a quick start this season with 3 games in their first week. On Tuesday, August 25th they traveled to White Lake to take part in the Kimball-White Lake triangular against KWL and Miller. Then Thursday, August 27th they traveled to Armour to take on the TDA Nighthawks.