Congratulations to all area graduates as you prepare to celebrate an academic ending and a new beginning. This season may feel both exciting and terrifying.

The 2026 Howard Wood Dakota Relays felt like a roller coaster of performances, according to Head Coach Kurt Stukel. “We had some great moments, along not so great moments.” Asia VanDerWerff ran a very clean set of 300m hurdles and achieved a personal best of 47.56.

Scotland The Gregory varsity boys golf team competed at Dawson’s Creek Golf Course in Scotland on May 1, battling through cool conditions while narrowly missing a team placement. Leading the Gorillas was Jacob Klein with a round of 91.

hoden Every taxpayer dollar belongs to the people. It’s our job as elected leaders to spend the people’s money as efficiently as possible to keep South Dakota strong, safe, and free.

I have attended candidate forums held in District 21 and listened to each one explain why they are best for the job. The Representatives are friendly and courteous to each other. John Harter, Jim Halverson, Wyatt De-Jong, and Marty Overweg are all gentlemen and kind individuals. Then I watch the Senator candidates. Mykala Voita is charming, respectable, and courteous. Erin Tobin, guarded and unapproachable, had several passive aggressive insults and false statements. Meanwhile through social media, she complains that “people distort the truth” or “stab her in the back.”

General Harney with his command, consisting of four companies of the Second Dragoons, five companies of the Sixth Infantry, one of the Tenth Infantry and Light Battery G, of the Fourth Artillery, arrived on the 19th of October, 1855, expecting to go into winter quarters at Pierre. The troops that had previously reached there by river were the six companies of the Second Infantry.