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Hearing set for project

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Friday, April 25, 2025

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING for the City of Webster Webster Industrial Park Wastewater Improvements ProjectThe City of Webster is seeking $1,000,000.00 of funding from the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources for lining pipes in their industrial park wastewater distribution system.

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Variance hearing set

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Friday, April 25, 2025

NOTICE OF HEARING FOR A VARIANCEMonty Bloom, 610 E. 1st St., requests a variance to build a shed larger than the City ordinance allows in a residential area. The garage will be 52 ft. x 60 ft. in size.

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Two state officials follow Noem to Homeland Security

Makenzie Huber

Friday, April 25, 2025

Rhoden names new tribal relations headTwo high-ranking state government officials are leaving to serve in the federal Department of Homeland Security under former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, and Noem’s successor has chosen a replacement for one of them.State Department of Tribal Relations...

Members of the South Dakota Highway Patrol were at Webster Area High School April 23 to answer questions and hold a demonstration of the drug sniffing dog named Murph, a six-year-old Belgian Malinois. Here, handler Trooper Brandon Miller stands before the assembly of youth answering questions related to his line of work. Both Miller and Murph are from Webster. Reporter & Farmer | Amanda Dulitz

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Drug sniffing dog part of school assembly

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Friday, April 25, 2025

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Crop condition report for South Dakota ending April 20

Amanda Dulitz

Friday, April 25, 2025

Farmers across the region are starting to get into the fields as the latest crop progress and condition report drops from the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service for the Northern Plains Region.The report for the week ending April 20 showed there were...

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Court Records

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Friday, April 25, 2025

r eCords South Dakota Unified judicial system cases disposed March 1-31. Dollar amounts are fine, court costs plus surcharges (if any) respectively: Preston Deck, Aberdeen, manuf./distr./ poss. drugs Sched.

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Day County residents can sign up for instant emergency alerts

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Friday, April 25, 2025

by Leyton Beardsleesports@reporterandfarmer.com“Not everybody hassocial media, not everybodyreads the newspaper,not everybodywatches TV” said administrativeassistant, to theDay County Sheriff’s OfficeMandy Bartelt.

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City of Webster decides on purchase of new skid steer

Leyton Beardslee

Friday, April 25, 2025

Webster City Council met April 22 in special session to approve a bid for a tracked compacted loader.According to Hayley Dale, Webster city finance officer the skid steer is being purchased for the water and sewer department, though if needed other departments would have access to it.According to...

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Grenville holds apparent improper executive session

Amanda Dulitz

Friday, April 25, 2025

Minutes of the Grenville Town Board from their regular April 21 meeting show an apparent misuse of executive session.In the minutes of that meeting by Grenville Finance Officer Donna Herrick, published inside this issue, it states, “The board went into executive session to discuss water issues with...

In honor of Earth Day, Webster Area Elementary students hit the streets of Webster to clean up any trash they found. Here third graders Odin Brockhaus, Hunter Ruff and Beckett Matthews assist in the endeavor April 23. Reporter & Farmer | Leyton Beardslee

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Cleaning up the town

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Friday, April 25, 2025

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