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ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- On Monday night’s city council meeting, City Manager Joseph Gaa preview the upcoming 2022 budget year for the city of Aberdeen. Gaa compares the general fund for the 2021 budget year compare to what is estimated for the 2022 budget year. Gaa talks the revenue estimates for the 2022 budget year. Gaa explains… Read more »
RAPID CITY, S.D.(KOTA)- The Sturgis Rally is just about here, but the associated issues with the Rally aren’t restricted to that community. Rapid City Fire Department public information officer Tessa Jaeger says the prep is on in Rapid City. Jaeger says local firefighters are geared up for a hectic few days. While Jaeger said there… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- The “Mental Health of First Responders” Task Force of the South Dakota legislature meets Tuesday in Pierre. Task Force Co-Chair, Representative Ryan Cwach of Yankton, says they set up a program to help pay for counseling services. Cwach says they want to find out how that grant is being used. Cwach says they… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- The State of South Dakota saw sales tax returns jump 14% at the end of the fiscal year in June. Not all of that increase was spread evenly across all businesses. Nathan Sanderson, Executive Director of the South Dakota Retailers Association, says the past eighteen months have been difficult at best. There were… Read more »
OMAHA, N.E.(WNAX)- Since declining to a record low in April of last year, the Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index, a leading economic indicator for the nine-state region stretching from Minnesota and the Dakotas to Arkansas, has been above growth neutral for 14 of the last 15 months. Ernie Goss, director of Creighton University’s Economic… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release)- Leadercast is the world’s largest one-day leadership conference, broadcast LIVE from Cincinnati and simulcast to hundreds of locations around the world, including Aberdeen. We will be hosting the event on Wednesday, August 11th at the Dakota Event Center. Change is constant. Nothing ever goes quite as we planned. If we didn’t believe this before… Read more »
HOVEN, S.D.(Press Release)- One person died Sunday morning in a two-vehicle crash that occurred east of Hoven. Names of the two people involved are not being released pending notification of family members. Preliminary crash information indicates that both vehicles were eastbound on South Dakota Highway 20. A 2020 Ford Explorer struck the rear of a… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release)- The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce’s August Business After Hours mixer will be held on Thursday, August 12 from 5:15 to 7:00 pm at Pierson Ford-Lincoln, 701 Auto Plaza Drive. The annual Chamber Committee Chicken Wing Challenge will be held during this time and attendees will be able to vote for their favorite… Read more »
ABERDEEN, SD – Scott Meints Director of Emergency Management for Brown County spoke with Hub City Radio to advise of computer troubles for county offices on the morning of Monday, August 2, 2021. They are asking people refrain from going to county offices such as the Brown County Treasurer’s office, Register of Deeds office, Landfill,… Read more »
INDIANAPOLIS, I.N.(WNAX)- 44 FFA members from across the country were in Indianapolis last week attending the weeklong +-New Century Farmer Conference. The conference is for FFA members who plan to remain in production agriculture. South Dakota’s lone representative is Isaac (kuh-low-zick) Kolousek of Wessington Springs who’s currently studying at the South Dakota School of Mines… Read more »
