Delayed Postal Service deliveries of small-town newspapers are frustrating readers, undermining subscriptions and hurting advertising revenue, according to publishers across South Dakota.
“It’s taking nine days to get a paper from Armour to Sioux Falls,” said Julie Hinckley of Rocket Printing, which prints several small-town publications. “That’s unacceptable for timely news.”
Two state lawmakers who work in health care want Republican South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden’s help to ban sugary drinks, candy and “other non-nutritious items” from a nutrition program for low-income people.
Sen. Sydney Davis, R-Burbank, and Rep. Taylor Rehfedt, R-Sioux Falls, sent Rhoden a letter this week asking him to seek a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to prohibit families on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) from purchasing the items.
Sunday, May 4
8:45 a.m.: A speeding pickup truck was reportedly trying to run over cats and marmots as they crossed Pine Meadows Road southwest of Custer. The motorized marmot menace mysteriously got away and hasn’t been caught…yet.
Do you ever wish you could grow pineapples in your front yard? Michael and Kim Fazio of Fazio Family Farm in Hermosa did just that in their geothermal greenhouse last summer.
The Fazios’ venture into greenhouse gardening began 24 years ago as a way to provide healthy produce for their family. Along the way, they picked up aquaponics and learned how to grow fresh bass and catfish.
Custer County Sheriff’s Log
Call of the Week
Sunday, April 27
6:59 p.m.: A tourist from Nebraska dialed 911 to breathlessly report a family was taking pictures of each other holding “AR-15s” on a trail near the state-managed Sylvan Lake in Custer State Park on state land. A deputy investigated, finding no one in the area carrying any evil black rifles—just the usual walking sticks.
Sunday, April 27
