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Maria Koenen likes to be busy.
She doesn’t have trouble staying that way, as a senior at Dakota Wesleyan University double majoring in athletic training and biochemistry, applying to medical school, working part-time as an EMT and firefighter and picking up the occasional shift at a hospital in her hometown.
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Dennis Rucker and Steve Parsons served in Vietnam. But after that service, the veterans’ differing perspectives took them on two paths with little similarity.
Rucker went on to join the Army Reserves and later the National Guard, and he currently works as the veterans services officer for the Yankton Sioux Tribe. Parsons, meanwhile, came home with PTSD and has opted to close the military chapter of his life, for the most part.
What the two have in common is how they’re grateful to see the way public opinion and treatment of Vietnam veterans have transitioned over the years.
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HOWARD – For the past 18 years, Lanny Klinkhammer has been the sheriff in Miner County, and no one has ever challenged him in an election.
But on Tuesday, Miner County voters will have three options for the position, as Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Eggert and retired truck driver James Stainbrook are also running for sheriff.
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Six candidates will appear on the ballot Tuesday to represent South Dakota’s 19th district in the state legislature.
District 19 consists of Bon Homme, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson and McCook counties, and it is currently served by three Republicans, all of whom are running for re-election.
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“Everything’s fine.”
That’s what Mike Williams, president of the Dakota Southern Railway Company, said about the condition of the track between Mitchell and Kennebec that his company operates.
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FORT PIERRE-Opening statements were given Wednesday morning at the Stanley County Courthouse in the jury trial of a Hamill man charged with murdering a woman in June 2017.
For the rest of the week, the state will try to prove that Chance Harruff is guilty of the first- or second-degree murder or manslaughter of Kristi Olson. Next week, the defense will make the case that Harruff did not kill Olson, and that no one else did, either.
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The percentage of Mitchell’s population that identifies as Hispanic or Latino may not be large, but it is a group that, for local manufacturers, is significant enough to revamp hiring practices.
Especially in recent years, manufacturing companies in Mitchell have started utilizing bilingual employees to get through the language barrier that often keeps non-native English speakers looking for work from the jobs that manufacturers are almost always seeking to fill.
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Following a hearing Wednesday afternoon, the case of a Mitchell man accused of murder will continue to include the statements he made to law enforcement after he was arrested.
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ARMOUR-One of the men accused of backdating contracts between the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative and the American Indian Institute for Innovation accepted a plea bargain Friday morning.
Dan Guericke, Mid-Central’s former executive director, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of one count of falsifying evidence, a Class 6 felony, at the Douglas County Courthouse. In exchange, the state dropped five additional felony charges against Guericke.
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The road at the corner of Third Avenue and Main Street has been closed for more than a year, and it’s not likely to open any time soon.
Last week, the judge originally assigned to the case concerning the now-110-year-old, crumbling building on the corner recused himself, and a hearing originally scheduled to take place Tuesday was pushed back to Nov. 1.
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