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Friday, August 27th, 2010

For The Record
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

August 6-12, 2010 Joseph Brewer, 604 W. Broadway, Vermillion: Municipal speeding, $36 plus costs. Aaron A. Vonrentzell, 55166 864th Rd., Osmond, NE: Speeding other...

Clubs & Organizations
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

The Vermillion Rotary Club held its weekly luncheon meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at the Neuharth Media Center on the campus of USD. President John Prescott opened the meeting and led us in the i...

2010 Clay County Fair Results
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Open Class ResultsCULINARY DIVISIONBEST OF SHOW – BEVERLY KENNEDYSECOND PLACE – MARLYS LARSONTHIRD PLACE – BUCK FICKBOHMCLASS 24 – YEAST BREADLot 302 – Dinner RollsBeverl...

Chamber Chat
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce& Development Company116 Market Street, Suite 103Vermillion, SD 57069605-624-5571vcdc@vermillionchamber.comwww.vermillionchamber.comChamber Business:Attention Ch...

New USD classes at Crazy Horse graduate first students
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Mostly strangers, the would-be college students began the first Summer University Program at Crazy Horse Memorial in June with simple hopes of earning course credits and paychecks from seasonal jobs.I...

Pulpit Reflections
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

We are all squatters, living in God’s world, a world that does not belong to us in any permanent way. I use the word “squatter,” because God made and therefore owns the world a...

MyStoryYourStory
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Every once in awhile, I wonder what our jobs would be like if we just whistled while we worked.Or better yet, what if we sang. You never hear workers whistling or let alone singing on the job. I think...

Between The Lines
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

My Don Quixote-like theme of dreaming the impossible dream – of asking political candidates vying for office in the upcoming general election to be honest with us – continues.I’m sor...

Sue Job selected ‘Employee of the Month’ at Sanford
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Sue Job, HIM clerk, Sanford Care Center Vermillion, was selected as the Sanford Vermillion August 2010 PRIDE Employee of the Month. She has been employed at Sanford since June 2007.Sue is great to wor...

Honoring & Remembering: Clay County Veterans' Stories
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Staff Sergeant Harriet Johnson Randall was a member of the WAC, Womens Army Corp. #2.She was born Jan. 21, 1922 in Vermillion. Her family moved to Meckling when she was in the second grade...

Sesquicentennial Highlights
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

From the Plain Talk 1943 continued The Assessor’s books for the City of Vermillion reveal some interesting data. City Assessor E. T. Michels said that nearly every home...

U. Convo set for Aug. 28
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

The University of South Dakota will welcome the Class of 2014 with a Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 28. Mitch Stewart, a USD graduate who worked as a member of President Barack Obama’s c...

Two to be honored with Neuharth Award
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Nationally distinguished media executives Cathie Black, chairman of Hearst Magazines, and Frank Vega, chairman and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, will be honored as recipients of the Al Neu...

Great Dakota Wine Fest set for Vermillion this weekend
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Six wineries are again combining their offerings and energies to provide different wine from across South Dakota this weekend at the Great Dakota Wine Fest at Valiant Vineyards in Vermillion.But it wo...

Vermillion school district helps USD students learn how to teach
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

While providing an education to young people in the community beginning this week, the Vermillion School District is also playing a unique role in the teaching of would-be teachers majoring in educati...

Coyote Village not your average dorm
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

University students moving into a dormitory seldom find all of the comforts of home.In fact, Pinky Miller, assistant dean of students at USD, says the best way to describe a dorm is to turn the word i...

Vermillion Unit Helps Out In Haiti
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010

VERMILLION — Staff Sgt. Penny Dickes and Spc. Jared Eslick-Coats had served in overseas combat, but they weren’t ready for what they found just off the United States’ shores.They wer...