By John Andrews
Like many South Dakotans, John Meyer is a Minnesota Twins fan. He’s been down in the dumps since the baseball season ended earlier this month and is looking for something to fill the sporting void.
That’s where you come in. Meyer wants the masses to help pick his new favorite hockey team. Meyer is [...]
Knowing that our readers split into two camps — those who LOVE lutefisk and those who would walk a mile to avoid the scent — we take on the responsibility of alerting you to upcoming lutefisk feeds.
The next that we know about is Alice’s Restaurant’s Lutefisk & Ham Feed in Stockholm, to be served at [...]
Longtime Yankton printer Don Modereger recently loaned me a history of the 147th Field Artillery Regiment that was assembled in 1990 by Robert G. Webb. It mostly focuses on the unit’s WWII adventures.
One of the early anecdotes is about Capt. Theodore A. Arndt, adjutant of the 2nd Battalian (and later the Adjutant General of South [...]
South Dakota’s senior journalist is Phyllis Justice, longtime editor of Milbank’s Grant County Review.
In her recent column, Phyllis reported on a the fascinating rescue of a big whitetail buck from the pond at Big Stone Power Plant east of town.
She reports that the call for help came at 8 a.m. to two local conservation officers, [...]
Corn is getting some bad PR, according to the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council’s November newsletter which just arrived at our publishing office.
“The corn industry is under attack right now in the media from all corners including television shows liek CSI Miami and Martha Stewart, movies King Corn and Food, Inc., various newspapers including the [...]
Yankton author Bob Karolevitz, in his “Writer at Large” humor column for South Dakota weeklies, notes that “If you eat an apple every day for a hundred years you’re sure to live a long, long time.”
By Bernie Hunhoff
Col. Oliver North of Iran-Contra fame came to Sioux Falls last night to speak at Gene Abdallah’s amazing Wild Game Feed, which benefits children’s charities.
The crowd of 1,200-plus enjoyed pheasant, antelope, tilapia and prime rib (supposedly from a wild Angus steer) — all seasoned with Ollie’s enthusiastic patriotism. It was a fine evening [...]
By John Andrews
The Rapid City Journal reports that 23 bison from Wind Cave National Park have been relocated to northern Mexico. It’s part of a joint U.S.-Mexican project to reintroduce bison to their native range in northern Mexico.
We can only hope no one is planning another showdown between an ornery Mexican fighting bull and a [...]
Canistota’s popular Goosemobile is readying for its 2009 holiday route across South Dakota. Unforunately, farmers Tom and Ruth Neuberger are trimming the 2009 schedule somewhat. They will be in Sioux Falls every Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. at the East Dakotah Food Coop at 2504 So. Duluth. The rest of the schedule is as [...]
By John Andrews
With a history as wild and crazy as Deadwood’s it’s hard to separate the tall tales from the true. We had that in mind as we read Michael Trump’s new book about the history of vice in Deadwood called Raiding Deadwood’s Bad Lands.
He related a story of a murder in the Bella Union, [...]
By John Andrews
We had never heard of Slamball until last week. We’re working on our 2010 College Guide and posted an inquiry on our Facebook page for any interesting facts about our colleges and college towns. A commenter from Madison, home of Dakota State University, noted that Noah Sanderson, an Aurora native and 2008 DSU [...]
South Dakota has a lot of great museums, large and small. Admittedly, some of the farm country museums do become a bit repetitive — most have threshing pictures, a butter churn, barber’s chair and a stage coach. Nothing wrong with any of that.
The Adams Museum of Deadwood is different. Let’s face facts: there probably isn’t [...]
By John Andrews
The Madison Daily Leader carries a story online today about a Lake County farmer who shot a wild pig on his land this week. Chad Aker found the animal after his dogs alerted him to it on his farm about 14 miles northwest of Madison. Farmers in western Lake County have reported seeing [...]
Ruth Moller of the Miller Press wrote a fine article this week on WWII veteran Alvin Nissen that’s worth reading. It’s especially interesting to get the South Dakota farm kid’s perspective on surviving in the trenches and encountering Gen. Patton.
We salute all our country’s veterans today, living or deceased. As Alvin noted, our country [...]
By John Andrews
It’s November, so culinarily speaking we should be thinking about turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. Instead our thoughts have turned to Freeman’s Schmeckfest. We received in the mail Tuesday morning the annual brochure telling us the 2010 edition will be March 19-20, and 26-27 at Freeman Academy.
For lovers of all things [...]