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Best grocery bagger competition returns to South Dakota State Fair

News Staff
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Huron – South Dakota Retailers Association is once again partnering with the State Fair to bring the Best Bagger Competition to the Freedom Stage Aug. 30 at 11:30 a.m. Best Bagger Competition features some of the quickest hands in the grocery business.
J. Garret Renville, chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, speaks to visitors from the State-Tribal Relations Committee about the tribe’s artifacts on July 31, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) Reporter & Farmer | John Hult, SD Searchlight

J. Garret Renville, chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, speaks to visitors from the State-Tribal Relations Committee about the tribe’s artifacts on July 31, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) Reporter & Farmer | John Hult, SD Searchlight

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Sisseton-Wahpeton leader calls nowdeleted social media post ‘inflammatory’

John Hult
Saturday, August 2, 2025
AGENCY VILLAGE – The chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate said July 31 during a meeting of South Dakota’s State-Tribal Relations Committee that an earlier social media post from one of his district’s state representatives was “inflammatory” and “racially charged.”Chairman J.
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Permit hearings are set for Planning and Zoning

News Staff
Saturday, August 2, 2025
DAY COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONThe Day County Planning and Zoning Commission has been presented with the following application for Shoreline Modification Permit Requests as related to the Day County Planning and Zoning Ordinances duly approved and adopted on March 22, 2010.
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COURT RECORDS

News Staff
Saturday, August 2, 2025
South Dakota Unified judicial system cases disposed June 1-30. Dollar amounts are fine, court costs plus surcharges (if any) respectively: Chancellor Eagle, Rapid City, disorderly conduct, 100.00, 78.
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Officers assist ambulance service multiple times

News Staff
Saturday, August 2, 2025
July 24Assisted ambulance with medical call; 700 blk. E. 5th St.Eight traffic stops.July 25Called dogcatcher for yellow lab at large.Non-injury accident.Performed wellness check on individuals in town.Took complaint of barking dog.Seven traffic stops.
Will Marchuk and his three-year-old son Mark pose for a picture in one of Marchuk’s bee yards near Andover July 22. Marchuk is a commercial beekeeper who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine in 2009 and now operates over 4,200 hives. Reporter & Farmer | Leyton Beardslee

Will Marchuk and his three-year-old son Mark pose for a picture in one of Marchuk’s bee yards near Andover July 22. Marchuk is a commercial beekeeper who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine in 2009 and now operates over 4,200 hives. Reporter & Farmer | Leyton Beardslee

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Ukrainian beekeeper shares his experience of Andover

Leyton Beardslee
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final installment in a series about bees in Northeastern South Dakota.In 2009 Will Marchuk moved from his home in Zhmerynka, Ukraine to the U.S. after being hired by a beekeeper to help on his farm.
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Upcoming 4-H swine show entries reach record numbers

Leyton Beardslee
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Full Day County Fair schedule of events may be found elsewhere in this issue.With the Day County Fair this week there will be a change in the schedule from past years. This year’s event is scheduled for Aug. 6-10 in Webster.
Volga native Jerry Nelson, writer of Dear County Agent Guy column and auther of a book by the same title, will present at a fundraiser Aug. 7 for St. Pauli Foundation at the St. Pauli Center in Webster. Nelson has been writing a weekly column since 1998 and published a collection of his work in book form in 2016. Reporter & Farmer | subscriber snapshot

Volga native Jerry Nelson, writer of Dear County Agent Guy column and auther of a book by the same title, will present at a fundraiser Aug. 7 for St. Pauli Foundation at the St. Pauli Center in Webster. Nelson has been writing a weekly column since 1998 and published a collection of his work in book form in 2016. Reporter & Farmer | subscriber snapshot

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Jerry Nelson to entertain at Webster fundraiser

Leyton Beardslee
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Columnist, author and “recovering dairy farmer” Jerry Nelson will be giving a talk at the St. Pauli Center in Webster across from the Day County Fair Grounds Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. for a fundraiser with the St. Pauli Foundation.
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