The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more Native Americans living on reservations in South Dakota to seek homeownership, a potential step toward greater family financial security and community stability in some of the state’s most impoverished regions. But long-standing institutional, economic and geographic barriers continue to block some reservation residents from buying a home. During the first six months of 2020, […]
Walworth County adds six positive COVID-19 cases
The South Dakota Department of Health report for Thursday, Jan. 7 shows there were there were 448 new positive COVID-19 cases in the state. There were 291 confirmed cases and cases and 157 probable cases. South Dakotans hospitalized with the virus fell to 264. The number of South Dakotans ever hospitalized with the virus is at 5,805. There are 94,513 […]
Art Siervert was a 1949 graduate of NWLA, Chrysler executive
Art Sievert, 90, of Bismarck, North Dakota, passed away on Dec. 24, 2020. Funeral services were held. Art was born on Oct. 20, 1930, to Karl and Bertha (Gehrke) Sievert. He was raised in Mobridge. In 1949, Art graduated from Northwestern Lutheran Academy in Mobridge. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on Jan. 12, 1951, and served until Dec. […]
Three Tigers place second at Webster
Three Tigers earned second place at the Webster Area Invitational Wrestling Tournament in Webster on Saturday. Taking second were Aiden Schoenhard, Jesse Bearsheart and Kamron Pearman. Remmington Ford joined them on the medal stand with a third-place finish. Two other wrestlers, Mark Sandquist and Wyatt Wientjes, were denied the chance to wrestle in the medal rounds because they had reached […]
Myren sworn in as justice on S.D. Supreme Court
Mobridge High School graduate and former Mobridge resident, the Honorable Scott P. Myren took his oath of office Monday, Jan. 4, as a Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court. Justice Myren obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Dakota and his law degree from Rutgers University. Following law school, Judge Myren practiced law at a […]