PIERRE, S.D. — An image of the new license plate design for the 2016 South Dakota license plate reissue was unveiled. The current plate design has identified South Dakota motor vehicles since 2006. Many existing plates are succumbing to age, damage and loss of reflectivity, all of which can create... Read more

The Valley Express caught up with Stephanie Pillatzki, Dori Bolstad, and Janel Sandvig  just long enough to get them to smile and say, “Cheese.” The trio is busy preparing the new Valley Queen Cheese Store for its opening on Main Street. The doors will open November 9 and remain open through Christmas... Read more

The Milbank Area Bulldogs will battle it out on the gridiron with the Madison Bulldogs Thursday night in the final game of the regular season. The Madison Bulldogs are undefeated this season with an 8-0 record going into this matchup. The past two seasons Madison has been the Class 11A... Read more

The Milbank Area Bulldogs put in a hard week of practice in anticipation of meeting one of their biggest rivals. The Dawgs travel to Sisseton to take on the Redmen this Friday night and are focused on racking up their sixth win of the season. The Bulldogs currently are 5-2... Read more

The Milbank High School vocal music department will perform its first concert of the school year Tuesday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school theater. The concert choir, under the direction of Miriam Schwenn, will present their annual fall concert with a wide variety of music. Songs will... Read more

Christena Whitman of Girl Scout Troop 43415 completed her Girl Scout Silver Award project recently by delivering Caring Kits for Kids to Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls. With generous donations from the Milbank community, Whitman was able to put together 114 kits for the children at Sanford. The kits... Read more

The Milbank Area Lady Bulldogs played an outstanding match and shutout the Aberdeen Roncalli Cavaliers 3-0 Thursday, October 8, at the Milbank Armory in its annual pink night matchup. The Lady Bulldogs improved to 11-8 on the season. Facing Roncalli is historically very tough no matter what team it is,... Read more

The Milbank Area Bulldogs hope to keep the momentum going and use their last two wins over Sioux Valley and Redfield-Doland to push to another ‘W’ Friday night when the locals host Dell Rapids in its final home game of the regular season. Milbank Area sits with a 4-2 overall... Read more

The Milbank Area Lady Bulldogs rolled to a dominating 3-0 victory over the Ortonville Trojans Tuesday, October 6, and improved its season record to 10-8. Milbank Area controlled each set and the entire match over a struggling Trojan team. The Lady Bulldogs won the three sets by scores of 25-16,... Read more

The Milbank Area Lady Bulldogs improved their overall season record to 9-8 with a 3-1 victory over Hamlin Thursday, October 1, in a road contest. Milbank Area got out to a very quick start and led 10-5 early in the first set. Caryssa Mielitz pounded out four big kills and... Read more