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Amazing things happen in our schools every day — if you know where to look! Do you know some school news others would love? Let us know at [email protected]. Thanks to the winning bid at a fundraiser, this St. Michael Elementary student rode to school in style. That’s Jackson Stevens, who got a ride to […]
It will be a couple of years until this is back-to-school season for Travis and Megan Miller – but a walk through the neighborhood is all it takes for a preview of what’s ahead. “The other night, I think it was a Friday night, and me and the girls were out for a walk, and
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The city of Sioux Falls is looking for high school juniors and seniors to join the first Mayor’s Youth Council. The group is open to private, public and homeschooled students, and the hope is to connect young people to city government and build a network of youth leaders citywide. The Mayor’s Youth Council will provide
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Sept. 1, 2021 Sioux Falls is three to four weeks away from another peak of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, health officials predicted today. Leaders from Avera and Sanford Health and the city of Sioux Falls provided an update to the community, encouraging vaccinations, masking and other mitigation efforts. “The time to take action is now.
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Talk about a Sunday morning he’ll never forget. Meet Ed Harp, who spent 20 minute flying above Sioux Falls in a open-cockpit, fully restored, WWII-era Stearman biplane. “My favorite part was trying to keep the wind out of my eyes. It was so windy up there,” he joked with pilots afterward. “I feel so big.”
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This is what we call “rocking” the Inn. The Children’s Inn has started construction on its new building at 113 N. St. Paul Ave. — but there are some missing pieces. Rocks, to be specific. The design for the new building, which will support victims of domestic violence and children who have been neglected or
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It was the one time Gia Elumbaring didn’t get picked up by her family after work. Elumbaring, who lives half a mile from her job at the Dawley Farms Buffalo Wild Wings, was getting a ride home from coworkers in the early hours of May 8, when a car traveling more than 100 miles per
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Want a sense of how many kids are sick right now? Dr. Jennifer Haggar, a Sanford pediatrician, did an interview for this story at home with her sick five-year-old on her lap. “It feels, in the clinic, like February in August,” said Haggar, who works out of Sanford’s clinic at 26th Street and Sycamore Avenue.
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You’ll have to wait at least another year for a nationally touring taco and margarita festival – and based on some feedback, you might not want to get your hopes up. The Sioux Falls Taco Festival was supposed to be held Aug. 28 at Bigs Bar, 3110 W. 12th St. The bar confirmed it’s no
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Joan Zych was sober for three years, but something was missing. Zych was a painter. In the emersion from years of alcoholism, that expression of emotion that comes from, the revelation of experience, had left her. “I couldn’t bridge the gap between making art and being sober,” she said. How do you get that back?
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