Milbank Middle School Releases Second Quarter Honor Roll
Local News January 19, 2022 0
The Milbank Middle School has announced the second quarter honor rolls for the 2021-22 school year.Students named to the list are as follows: Grade 8Distinction 3.800 or higher GPAEsteban AbregoAshlynn BatchelorJonathan DeBoerJacy DexterOlivia FoellCarter GloeKalli GrongJack HowardJocelyn KettwigNycole KorstjensPaige KorstjensCarter LiebeEvy LiebeAnna NeugebauerKrista NiesYanderyn OlivaresLayten OsowskiElexia QuintanillaMacey SchaferCamryn SovellKeira... Read more
Deadline for Livestock Forage Disaster Program is January 31
Local News January 18, 2022 0
The Grant County FSA Office is accepting LFP applications through January 31 for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP). The program offers payments to eligible livestock producers with eligible livestock. It also offers payments to producers of grazed forage crop acreage. The payments help with grazing losses suffered on native... Read more
Miss Milbank Tenley Wildung Wins Runner-Up at State Snow Queen
Local News January 17, 2022 0
Tenley Wildung, Miss Milbank 2022, competed in the South Dakota Snow Queen Festival on Saturday, January 15, at the Aberdeen Civic Theatre. Tenley was chosen as a runner-up and named South Dakota Snow Queen Princess of Winter. Tenley represented Milbank after she was selected as Miss Milbank at The Valley Express Snow Queen Festival on November... Read more
Tenley Wildung to Compete in State Snow Queen on Saturday
Local News January 14, 2022 0
Tenley Wildung, Miss Milbank 2022, will be competing at the South Dakota Snow Queen Festival in Aberdeen. The festival celebrates 76 years during Coronation tomorrow evening, January 15, at the Aberdeen Civic Theatre.Tenley was selected as Miss Milbank at the Valley Express Snow Queen Festival on November 20 in Milbank.... Read more
Kiera Leddy Selected for National Cattlemen’s Scholarship
Local News January 13, 2022 0
The National Cattlemen’s Foundation (NCF) announced Kiera Leddy, Drake University Law School, and Maci Mueller, University of California (UC) Davis, will each be recipients of a 2021 W.D. Farr Scholarship for $15,000. The annual W.D. Farr Scholarship program, established by NCF in 2007, recognizes outstanding graduate students who plan... Read more
The Grant County Farm and Home Show slated for tomorrow, Friday, January 14, and Saturday, January 15, has been canceled. Laurie Folk, director of the Milbank Area Chamber of Commerce that sponsors the show, says, “Due to the incoming inclement weather, the Ag Committee has decided for the safety of... Read more
Jerry Janisch To Retire From MHS After 30 Years
Local News January 11, 2022 0
Jerry Janisch, the agricultural education instructor and FFA advisor for the Milbank School District, will retire at the end of the 2021-2022 school year. Janisch formally announced his retirement to the Milbank School District Board of Education on January 10. Janisch said that although he plans to retire on... Read more
Marshall and Hanna Greiner Welcome First Baby of 2022
Local News January 6, 2022 0
Lenna Sue Greiner is the first baby of 2022 born at the Milbank Hospital Avera. Lenna Sue came into this world on January 1 at 1:45 p.m. She weighed 7 pounds and 9 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.Lenna Sue joins a sister, Taya, and her parents Marshall and... Read more
Leddy Wins SD District Voice of Democracy Contest
Local News January 6, 2022 0
Korbin Leddy’s essay on “America: Where Do We Go From Here?” was selected as the top essay in district four in South Dakota’s Voice of Democracy contest. Leddy earned a monetary award from the district and his essay advances to compete at the state level. Leddy’s essay reached the district... Read more
Trial Date Set for Hanson Murders
Local News January 5, 2022 0
Brent M. Hanson will face trial this summer on charges of killing his brother Clyde and Clyde’s wife, Jessica Hanson, who was nine months pregnant. On Tuesday, January 4, Hanson, 57, was arraigned at the Grant County Courthouse and entered a plea of not guilty on each of six... Read more
