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The Wagner Rotary Club met at the clubhouse on Main Street last Wednesday at Noon. Members were surprised to find the meeting room in disarray. The “Rotary Building” originally was the Barkl Building and consisted of three levels. The top level was home to the Duggan Hospital at one time and later was turned into apartments. The second or main level has hosted many business enterprises over the years, but The First State Bank was the first business to begin in the Barkl Building. There was an artesian well flowing on Main Street in front of this building and a watering trough was placed there for watering horses. The last occupants of the portion of the building which now houses the Rotary was Don Piroutek and his father Emil who conducted an insurance business there for many years. Don was a Rotarian, and he deeded the building to the Wagner Rotary.
Read moreLifeServe Blood Center, the sole supplier of blood products to more than 120 hospitals in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, is asking for donors to help with the blood supply. It doesn’t take a tragedy for hospital patients in the area to need blood donations to survive. Every day, local hospital patients need blood transfusions to survive. The only way cancer patients, premature babies, transplant recipients, and other patients can receive blood is when a generous donor rolls up their sleeve!
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Hoegemeyer Hybrids Announced 63 Dealers As Big Hitter Saks Award Recipients. Among them were: Chuck and Chet Eitemiller and Eugene Soukup.
Read moreBROOKINGS, S.D. - The following students have been named to the Dean's List for academic excellence after the fall 2020 semester at South Dakota State University. To earn dean's list distinctions in SDSU's colleges, students must have completed a minimum of 12 credits and must have earned at least a 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Students with an asterisk received a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Read moreAre you a traditional student, a parent of a traditional student or maybe a non-traditional student that is thinking and maybe even concerned about the cost of going on to technical school next fall? Maybe you are not sure where all of the money will come from to pay for that technical school education as nothing is truly free in this world.
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