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SB7 passed the House Commerce and Energy Committee unanimously. It removes the Gregory Pump Storage Project from the state water resources management system.
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We are off to the races and bills are flying through committee hearings in both chambers. Every bill gets a hearing in the state of SD, and it is estimated that we will have at least 500 bills this session. I am going to talk about many health bills this week, although I sit on the Senate Ag and Senate State Affairs committees as well. I will try to rotate the bill discussion to other topics within those committees in the following weeks and please reach out to me on specific bill questions as well, of course.
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There aren’t many hills in Lake Norden, so when snowbegantopileupduring winter our sledding opportunities were limited. Usually, we waited until the city maintenance crew finished plowing the streets because they always deposited the snow in two huge piles: one across from the fire hall and another next to the auditorium. That’s where kids gathered to play King on the Mountain or create an elaborate network of snow tunnels or just have an old-fashioned snowball fight.
Read moreAvon Public Library January 10, 2024
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Anyone who has been to the Wagner Post Office recently may have seen a new face behind the counter and in the office. As of December 2nd, Wagner has a new postmaster, Callie Strand. This is Callie’s first position as a postmaster, but she comes to the position with a breadth of knowledge and experience. In her most recent position with the post office, she worked as a clerk and did a lot of traveling. With this position, she traveled all over northern Minnesota helping in different offices where needed. This was a great opportunity for her to learn from different postmasters and different sized post offices and distribution centers. Callie saw and was exposed to many different aspects of the postal service, making her a great candidate to move up to the postmaster level.
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Charles Mix Electric Association (CME) of Lake Andes, SD is proud to announce that employee Mike Dangel has recently completed the prestigious “Robert I. Kabat Management Internship Program”, otherwise known as MIP. The MIP is a comprehensive six-week program sponsored by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and required Mike to attend three two-week sessions held on-campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to the on-site classes, Mike completed, on his own time, several online courses and an in-depth individual project designed to apply what he had learned in the classroom to a practical, real-life situation. The project was required to correspond to a real-life situation or opportunity that could arise at a rural electric cooperative.
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Avon’s police force has a new enlistee. Officer Theodore Smith took the Officer/Chief position October 30th of 2023. Officer Smith has ten years of experience in law enforcement. Prior to taking the position in Avon, he was working for the Winner City Jail as a transport officer. His experience and education in law enforcement is quite extensive. He has worked as the Deputy Sheriff for McPhersonCountyandas a Reserve Police Officer for Sturgis. Smith also has a bachelor’s degree in history from Black Hills State University and an associate’s degree in Law Enforcement from Western Dakota Tech.
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