Vermillion News

Area high school and college students will showcase their vocal skills at the inaugural South Dakota Vocal Arts Festival July 22 through Aug.

The Skyforce have compensated for hiring a head coach with no head coaching experience by landing an assistant who has gobs of it.

Oscar Howe, a renowned South Dakota artist and former professor of art at The University of South Dakota in Vermillion, was honored recently with the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Allan Houser Legacy Award.

Dennis Thurman recently was recognized by his brokerage firm, First Allied Securities, as one of its premier advisers.

A new campaign tries to stop the spread of teen violence by targeting parents and their children through advertisements around Sioux City.

Alvin Scherschligt of Sioux Falls celebrated his 90th birthday Tuesday, June 16.

Carrie Buthe of Sioux Falls didn't realize the magnitude of the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System until she started working on the project as a civil engineer.

Three Tea Area students learned about politics and government first-hand at Boys and Girls State June 1-6. Juniors Tanner Herr, Marissa Fischer and Pearl Nielsen attended the weeklong sessions in Aberdeen and Vermillion.

In April, a copious number of letter writers began arguing that America is heading down a path toward socialism.

The National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization is funding four teams with grants of $15,000 each to spend eight weeks in incubators in Sioux Falls and Vermillion to refine their businesses and get ready to launch by July.

Riding a bike across South Dakota is hard enough, but add a big POW/MIA and American flag and you've created something of a monster sail effect.

A former University of South Dakota Foundation chair returned this week as major gifts officer for USD's Law School and Beacom School of Business.

Nick Mayer is moving from assistant coach to head coach of girls' basketball at Vermillion High School.

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Rhubarb has a curious reputation. Mention the word and you'll likely get a strong reaction.

Parts of South Dakota are starting to reappear on the U.S. Drought Monitor map. State Climatologist Dennis Todey said a band of counties from the Pierre area extending southeast through Chamberlain to the Yankton and Vermillion areas is now considered abnormally dry, the least severe of five drought categories.

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Rhubarb Day will be celebrated Saturday at Vermillion's W.H. Over Museum. Festivities begin at 1 p.m. at the museum at 414 E. Clark St.

A former Iowa utility company manager who saved his company millions of dollars in power costs with an energy makeover will be in South Dakota today to talk about energy efficiency.

Nebraska lawmakers are celebrating their accomplishments after moving through a relatively light agenda, and then the Legislature adjourned three days early.