The Milbank Fire Department responded to two calls on Monday, December 26. The department was dispatched at 6 a.m. to power lines down in the area of Highway 15 and Milbank Avenue. “A portion of the roof from the Al’s Body Shop building was torn off by the wind... Read more

Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative now expects to begin delivering energy to some of their members by Thursday afternoon and hopes to have the majority of their members back on sometime Friday. East River Electric is nearing completion of the Summit feed into Whetstone’s service area and are continuing to rebuild... Read more

The South Dakota Rural Electric Association reports over 13,000 outages in South Dakota and Governor Dennis Daugaard has declared a state of emergency for all of South Dakota following a Christmas Day storm. Of those without power, over 7,000 are in northeast South Dakota and over 2,000 are in... Read more

Grant County Emergency Management announced an emergency shelter is open for all citizens of Grant County without power due to the recent winter storm. “Those in need of a warm place to stay while power is being restored are welcome to seek shelter in the basement of the Grant... Read more

Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Milbank, South Dakota, and serving members in Grant and Roberts counties report many members remain without power. Poles and transmission lines serving Whetstone Valley Electric and surrounding cooperatives are still down. Nearly 200 broken Whetstone Valley poles have been identified and repairs are... Read more

Members of the Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative are without power this evening due to ice precipitation and high winds. East River Electric, which serves WVEC’s six substations, has experienced severe damage to transmission lines and poles. This has caused interruption of electric service to all of WVEC members. The... Read more

The Grant County commissioners met in regular session December 20. They heard additional information regarding the right-of-way application requested from the Cattle Ridge Wind Farm project. Jay Hess and Melissa Schmidt of Geronimo Energy had addressed the commissioners earlier this month, but the commission had tabled the request to... Read more

Twenty-seven children, each with a local law enforcement officer, shopped at Runnings on Wednesday, December 21. The Grant County Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the Grant County Child Protection Team, Shopko, and Inter-lakes Community Action Partnership (ICAP) teamed up to sponsor the annual “Christmas With A Cop”. The program... Read more

The 2016 Grant County Combined Appeal Campaign reached its goal of $170,000, and will support 17 agencies next year. 2016 was the 55th year the campaign has gathered contributions in the county. “The Grant County area stepped up for the fifth year in a row to meet our goal,”... Read more