Pickstown News

By Monica Wepking, Editor Randall Hills Country Club in Pickstown will be holding a two person golf tournament fund raiser for breast cancer on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

An Army Corps of Engineers official says federal economic stimulus money will help pay for deferred maintenance at Gavins Point Dam near Yankton and Fort Randall Dam at Pickstown, along with some sediment reduction efforts and other Missouri River recovery projects.

I rolled into the park here at the conclusion of the third leg of the Argus Leader Tour de Kota, and about a half-dozen young kids came racing up asking for my autograph.

The weekly crop report from the Agriculture Department shows some parts of South Dakota could use rain.

Rainbow trout will be stocked in two areas of the Missouri River near Pierre throughout April.

Blizzard conditions were forecast to spread west to east across much of South Dakota through Tuesday.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is beginning work to revise the Fort Randall/Lake Francis Case Master Plan.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Two people died, and a third person was seriously injured in a head-on crash Wed., January 21, 2009 near Pickstown.

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