Wagner News

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Genevieve G. Fish-Potter passed away on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at Madonna Towers, Rochester.

By Monica Wepking, Editor The Common Council of the City of Wagner held a general discussion on extending its zoning powers to three-miles beyond the city limits at its November 16, 2009 meeting.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Ryan Cooney and Dale Svatos, football players at Andes Central, were recognized by the South Dakota Football Coaches Association as Academic All-State Football Players.

Head Coach Mark Manning and the Husker wrestling program have announced the signing of nine high school seniors who plan to enroll and compete at Nebraska beginning with the 2010-11 season.

By: Theresa Koupal, Reporter FFA Advisor David Koupal recently announced that Wagner FFA members would soon begin their annual fall fruit sales.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Wagner Chamber of Commerce will be started their "Holiday Shopping Rewards Program" on Monday, November 16, 2009.

Farmers across much of eastern and central South Dakota took advantage of days of mostly dry weather last week to make some serious gains on bringing in their crops.

The Vermillion Rotary Club held its weekly luncheon meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Neuharth Media Center on the campus of USD.

It's a day to thank veterans for all their service to our country and schools across KELOLAND took part Wednesday.

In the galloping evolution of Wagner Ring cycle stagings, the point has arrived where we count on being shocked as much as delighted.

By Monica Wepking, Editor An effort to practice for a pandemic through dispensing flu shots to kids at Wagner Community School and Andes Central School has been cancelled due to the lack of vaccine.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Richard John Nyman, 65, of Wagner was indicted in Charles Mix County Circuit Court Tuesday, October 27, 2009 on four felony drug counts after a search warrant assisted law enforcement in finding drugs and firearms at 400 N. Main NW in Wagner according to court records.

By: Superintendent Darrell Mueller In order to be better prepared in the event of a pandemic crisis such as the Bird Flu, the state of South Dakota established Points of Dispensing of medicine known as PODs.

Law firm Lewis, Rice & Fingersh signed a 12-year lease Oct. 21 to occupy the top six floors of the One City Centre building, with two five-year renewal options.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Ten single family dwellings for Indian Health Service staff that were scheduled to be built five miles east of Wagner will now be built in the Wagner Heights area, if the land is changed to trust status according to Richard Leasure, Yankton Sioux Tribe Project Manager.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Attorney Tom Tobin, representing Charles Mix County , and Attorney Tim Whalen, representing post 1948 landowners, both confirmed that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted them a month's extension to file a petition to ask the full court to review the panel's August 25, 2009 Yankton Sioux Tribe Reservation ...

STOCKHOLM - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo today received the first ever $1 million dollar Birgit Nilsson award at a formal award ceremony in Stockholm.

I clicked off the idiot box and clicked on my brain. It took me back to the early 1960a s when I entered teen hood.

So it gave us something of a start to read such badmouthing coming from one whose blog posts suggest he's none of the above, but is, rather, a fairly knowledgeable operagoer and a man of some considerable intelligence.

Well, BBSes have long gone the way of the dodo, and so-called eMail "lists" and Usenet a ' a kind of internationally organized and distributed BBS which actually predates the BBS format and was the first of its kind a ' are fast going the same way as they're relatively clumsy to use, and limited to posts employing text only, and plaintext at that.