Dave Page Explains Cause of WVEC Power Outages
Local News August 6, 2024 0
Dave Page, general manager of Whetstone Valley Electric, reported cooperative customers experienced two power outages –one last weekend and one early this week. Both stemmed from equipment working in those areas. On Saturday, August 3, approximately 200 Whetstone Valley Electric members north and west of Millbank experienced an interruption... Read more
Names Released in Fatal Crash Near Wilmot
Local News July 31, 2024 0
Darius Christopher Small received fatal injuries in a single vehicle-pedestrian crash three miles south of Wilmot on Sunday, July 28, at approximately 1:23 a.m. Preliminary information indicates Small, a 20-year-old male from Summit, was walking in the southbound lane of SD Highway 123 when he was struck by Alyssa... Read more
No-Cost Delta Dental Care for Kids Coming to Milbank
Local News July 25, 2024 0
Does your child complain of a toothache or other mouth owies? Do they need to go to a dentist, but you can’t afford it? Help is on the way! The Delta Dental Mobile Program will be rolling into Grant County July 29 through August 1. (That includes Toothsday, June... Read more
USDA Emergency Relief Program Sign Up Ends August 14
Local News July 25, 2024 0
Joel Foster, executive director of the Grant County Farm Service Agency (FSA) reports the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the deadline for commodity and specialty crop producers to apply for the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) for 2022 natural disaster losses is August 14, 2024. The FSA began... Read more
Parker Cordingley is being lauded as a hero after he jumped in to administer aid to a Milbank resident who had fallen in his driveway. Parker, who will be a sophomore at MHS this fall, was enroute to Unity Health and Fitness on July 11, when he noticed the... Read more
Four members of the Milbank Chapter of Educators Rising – Carlos Oliveres Zuniga, Matti Scott, Max Schuelke, and Lydia Street – competed at the National Educators Rising Conference in Washington D.C. from June 27 through July 1. Max won first place and a $500 scholarship in the Creative Lecture... Read more
Milbank HOSA Members Attend Int’l Event in Houston
Local News July 10, 2024 0
Nine members of the Milbank HOSA organization joined over 10,000 other students from across the world at the HOSA International Leadership Conference (HOSA ILC) held June 26-29 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. James Batchelor, Joshua Keeton, Jericho Jones, Kynlee Speidel, Gemma Street, Jacynda Street,... Read more
The third of five food giveaways for 2024, sponsored by the Grant County Christian Service Council and Feeding South Dakota, will be held on Wednesday, July 10, from 4-5 p.m. in the Living Word Church parking lot on the north end of Milbank on Hwy. 15. The event will... Read more
Kevin Schuelke, director of Grant County Emergency Management, has spent nearly a week in southeast South Dakota assisting local agencies in flood-ravaged Yankton, Union, and Clay counties. South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds and Dezmond Ward, Rounds’ chief of staff, visited the area on Thursday, June 27, and also spoke... Read more
Ryan Bakeberg of the Milbank Police Department was one of 21 law enforcement officers from five states recognized by South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley at their DARE instructor graduation on Friday, June 21. The two-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) training was held at the George S. Mickelson... Read more