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Controversial Landowner Bill of Rights signed into law
Local state legislators will return this week to civilian life after wrapping up another year of business in Pierre. The South Dakota State Legislature ended its 2024 session this past Thursday.Legislators passed a $7.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2025. That budget includes 4% increases for K-12 education, health care…
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New Postmaster for Flandreau Office
He may be a new name and face behind the Postmaster desk at the United States Postal Service office in Flandreau, but Emmanuel Bamba is no stranger to the community, or to local mail service.Emman, as many who know him call him, or Bamba, has lived in Flandreau since 2008.…
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Wheelchairs donated to local nonprofit
Riverview Healthcare Center recently donated a dozen wheelchairs to the local nonprofit Helping Kids Round First. The Flandreau-based organization has a global reach, working with the most impoverished communities in Nicaragua as well as war-torn Sudan now, and Chad. Riverviews Executive Director Tim Yeaton said Riverview was ordering new chairs…
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Take Consolation at State A
It may not have been the ending to the season the Fliers were hoping for on the hardwoods, but many fans rallied around the girls team at a Welcome Home ceremony on Sunday as the team returned from a repeat trip to the State A Girls Basketball State Tournament.The team…
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Hawks hit a wall with Eagles to end season in SoDak 16
FORT PIERRE The Wall Eagles denied the Colman-Egan Hawks the chance to play in the SDHSAA Class B Girls State Tournament with a 75-44 win over the local girls.Kaylee Voelker scored 16 points and Brynlee Landis, 10. Lanie Mousel had five rebounds.The score was tied at 14 after one quarter…
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Find no troubles against Hill City in SoDak 16
CHAMBERLAIN The Flandreau Fliers smothered Hill City as they used a 58-30 win in the SoDak 16 to return to the Class A state tournament in Brookings next weekend.We had an awesome crowd in Chamberlain, Flandreau head coach Megan Severtson said. It felt like a home game. We are so…
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Old house removal begins
The Weigel family, Rudys Welding and Machine Shop, the Estate of Curtis Weigel and Jeffrey Weigel in particular, have been at odds with the City of Flandreau for years over properties near the downtown Flandreau area.The City has given notice of ordinance violations at each of the properties for years,…
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Possibility of bridge replacement stirs nostalgia, vows to fight for it
The last time the historic Egan bridge was inspected, the report came back that the century-old structure was in fair to satisfactory condition.Improvements have been made and paid for by the city in recent years, but otherwise, there have been no sincere major concerns with the integrity of the beloved…
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Bike path grant awarded
The Department of Transportation has delivered a long-awaited decision on the expanded bike path project for the City of Flandreau and Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe.The project, after years of planning and collaborative talks, will become a reality after the Transportation Alternative Program approved the $800,000 price tag for Phase 1…
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Boys and Girls Club grant request for new early childcare center
Jody Hernandez, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Plains, is excited.After months of meetings with every possible level of stakeholder in regard to childcare needs across the Flandreau area community, she, along with a determined group of partners, turned in the final proposal this past week…
